Lanarkshire

Rendering in East Kilbride

Render, repair, pebbledash removal and external wall insulation for East Kilbride homes — with a free survey before any price is quoted.

Lanarkshire is characterised by sandstone tenements, Victorian terraces and large postwar estates, with tenement harling repair and failed cement render on sandstone the recurring theme on the properties we survey.

With wet with cold winters and frost cycling, specification matters more in this part of the country than a national price list suggests. Glasgow's sandstone tenements were harled traditionally, and the cement repairs applied in the twentieth century are now the main source of failure.

How we approach a job in East Kilbride

Every East Kilbride enquiry starts the same way: we come out, tap-test the existing coat, check the substrate behind it and look for the reason anything has failed. Blown render is nearly always a symptom — of a leaking gutter, a bridged damp course, a cracked sill or an over-strong mix — and re-rendering over an unresolved cause simply buys a couple of years.

If a cheaper specification would do the job, we will say so. If it would not, we will tell you why.

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