pebble dash removal

[PaulD]

Can anyone recommend somebody good to remove pebble dash from the front of my house and re point. Thanks

[jrthomas_uk]

I've used Doug Mahon before: http://www.mahonbrickwork.co.uk/

It's an expensive business, but absolutely no complaints and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

[hels]

how expensive? we're looking at painting ver our pebbledash but apparently that's a very tricky job...?

[Pickle]

Mahon took the pebbledash off the front of our house, the best money we have ever spent, it transformed our house. We had been led to believe it was a difficult process, but it was remarkably straight forward (about 3 weeks from beginning to end of the process, including complete repointing).

They have worked on a number of houses in the area, all look great.

[Jeremy]

hels, what do you mean do "very tricky"? How come?

We're about to buy a house which has been pebbledashed, and I just assumed that the best solution would be to spend 1-2K on painting it over. Certainly sounds a lot more palatable than a 3 week(!) removal and repointing job.

[jrthomas_uk]

The last pebbledash-fronted house I had, I rendered over it and painted it. Probs cost about ?2k all in. Painting over pebbledash could cost half as much (guessing?), but you obviously wouldn't get the smooth rendered finish.

I'm not a fan of the pebbledash look, especially if there are some red/yellow London stock bricks hiding underneath.

The only slight concern by taking off the pebbledash is that you might uncover the reason why it was pebbledashed over in the first place, but I doubt it'd be anything brick restoration guys couldn't sort out.

Pebbledash removal & cleaning up whatever lies beneath can set you back in the region of ?2k - ?2.5k

Repointing the brickwork can be anything between ?2.5k-4k depending on whether you go for decorative or standard pointing (or a mixture of both)

Then painting whatever needs painting can cost another ?1k.

[Pickle]

Ours was painted pebbledash - we too thought it was generally applied to hide something, but apparently a lot of the time it was done purely because it was fashionable. Once ours was off, there were only about 4 or 5 bricks in total that needed replaced.

[Sue]

hels Wrote:

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> how expensive? we're looking at painting ver our

> pebbledash but apparently that's a very tricky

> job...?

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It's not tricky at all!

I've been in my house twenty years, which has painted pebbledash at the front, and it's been painted two or three times during that period, it's quite straightforward!

I personally hate unpainted pebbledash, but I don't mind it too much when it's painted. I would prefer brick, but I'm not willing to pay to have the pebbledash removed.

[hels]

I think the trickiness for us (as we're doing it ourselves) is that we'll need to prepare the pebbledash first - stabilising solution, etc. but it certainly sounds like the cheapest solution!

Anyone else have some trick/advice s to share for novices about to paint pebbledash?