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Silicone Rendering in Southport
A full silicone render system: insulation or bare substrate, Atlas basecoat, alkali-resistant mesh, primer, then a breathable through-colour top coat that never needs painting.
- 15 years on the tools
- Based in Birkdale
- 4.7 on Google
- 5.0 from 35 on MyBuilder
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What customers said about this work
Anthony arrived at my property on time as arranged. My project was to thin coat render the front of my house onto render board. Anthony was well capable of doing the job and completed the task over 2 days as agreed. I am very happy with the finished job and would not hesitate to hire Anthony for any future work or recommend his service to others.
MyBuilderOn time. High quality plasterer... Also very compitant at render! Highly recommended!!
Anthony has done a fantastic job on our rendering. Excellent communication from start to finish and has always been responsive. He has turned up every day early and has left the place spotless. Couldn't fault the service and would use again and recommend to others. Thank you so much.
Silicone Rendering Systems
What silicone rendering systems cover
Silicone rendering is the system we fit most often along this stretch of coast, and for a simple reason: it is breathable, it is through-coloured, and it copes with salt-laden wind far better than the sand-and-cement render it usually replaces. The colour runs all the way through the top coat, so there is no paint film to blister, flake or need redoing every few years.
It suits solid-wall Victorian and Edwardian property, tired pebbledash, and anything where the existing finish has cracked, blown or gone patchy. It is equally at home over insulation board on a house that is cold and expensive to heat. Doing every elevation in one go is a full house re-render, which is the same system priced and sequenced for the whole building. Over thrown stone it starts with pebbledash removal.
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Basecoat, alkali-resistant mesh, primer and a through-colour top coat.
Sound render can be worked over. Blown or cracked render comes off first.
Bay returns, canopy undersides and reveals cut in by hand.
Often booked with external renderingPebbledash RemovalRender Repairs, house extensions and internal plasteringSkimmingArtex Removal.
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- 15 years on the tools
- Based in Birkdale
- 4.7 on Google
- 5.0 from 35 on MyBuilder
- Written price after a look at the job
- Sheeted, swept and cleared down daily
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Frequently asked questions
Questions people ask about silicone rendering systems
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How long does silicone render last?
A correctly installed silicone system on a sound, well-prepared wall should give you 20 years or more before it needs anything beyond a wash down. Because the colour is through the material rather than painted on, there is no paint film to fail, which is what usually dates a rendered house after five or six years.
Does silicone render stop damp?
It stops wind-driven rain soaking into the wall, which is the cause of a lot of damp on exposed coastal elevations. It will not fix rising damp, a failed damp course or a leaking gutter, and rendering over those problems hides them rather than solving them. We will tell you straight if that is what we find.
Can you render over existing pebbledash?
Sometimes. If the pebbledash is sound, well keyed and rings solid when tapped, it can be overclad. If it sounds hollow, is cracked or is lifting in patches, it comes off first. Putting a new system over a failing one just buys you a few years before the whole lot lets go together.
What time of year can rendering be done?
Most of the year. What matters is the forecast rather than the month: we need the temperature above about 5°C and rising, no frost, and a dry enough window for the top coat to cure. Winter work happens regularly here, it just needs more flexibility on start dates.
Will scaffolding be needed?
For anything above single storey, yes, and it is included in the written estimate rather than sprung on you later. Bungalows and single-storey extensions can often be done off towers. Scaffold usually goes up a day or two before we start and comes down once the finish has cured.
How much does silicone rendering cost in Southport?
It depends on the wall area, the access, whether insulation is going on and whether old render has to come off first, which is why we do not publish a square metre price. You get a free written estimate after we have actually looked at the walls, with the scaffold and the prep priced in.
We do this across the area: Southport and Liverpool, and everywhere else we work.
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About silicone rendering systems in Southport
What a silicone render system actually is
A silicone render is not one product, it is a build-up, and each layer has a job. Where insulation is going on, Atlas boards are fixed and pinned back to the substrate first. Then comes the Atlas basecoat, and while it is still green, alkali-resistant mesh is bedded into it so the wall has a reinforced skin that can move without cracking.
Once that has gone off, the wall is primed. The primer is what the top coat keys to and it also evens out suction across a patchy substrate. Last comes the silicone top coat, floated to an even texture in a single continuous pass across each elevation so there is no join line halfway up a wall.
Skip the mesh, skip the primer, or rush the basecoat and the system stops being a system. That is where most of the failed render we get called out to strip off went wrong in the first place.
Why it suits Southport and the Sefton coast
Salt air is relentless here. Wind coming in off the Irish Sea carries salt and moisture onto west and south-west elevations day after day, and it is brutal on a finish that cannot breathe. A cement render with paint over it traps moisture behind the paint film; the film lets go, and you get the blown, flaking, patchy walls you see all over the older stock near the front.
Silicone render is highly water-repellent but still vapour-open, so driving rain sits on the surface and runs off while moisture from inside the wall can still escape. It is also self-cleaning in the practical sense. Rain carries surface dirt off rather than soaking it in, which matters on a north-facing gable that never sees much sun.
Colours, textures and getting it right first time
Through-colour means the shade is in the material, so it is worth taking time over. We work in the standard white and off-white creams most people picture, and in the greys and anthracites that suit a modern rebuild or a house with dark grey windows.
Texture grade changes the look as much as the colour does. A finer grain reads sharper and more contemporary; a coarser one is more forgiving on a wall that has had a hard life. We will show you the difference on the actual wall before anything is mixed, because a colour chip in your hand and a whole elevation in flat coastal light are two different things.
Weather, timescales and how a job runs
Rendering is weather work and there is no honest way round it. We will not put a top coat on with frost or driving rain forecast, a finish that gets rained on before it has cured will craze or bloom, and no amount of goodwill afterwards fixes it. We would far rather move you a day than hand you a wall we already know is compromised.
As a rough guide, a typical three-bed semi is usually a one to two week job once scaffold is up, allowing curing time between the basecoat and the top coat. Bigger properties, full insulation systems and anything needing the old render hacked off first will take longer. You get a realistic date at estimate stage, not an optimistic one.
When people call us about this
- Painted render that blisters, flakes or needs redoing every couple of years
- Pebbledash that sounds hollow when you tap it, or is coming off in patches
- Cracking that keeps coming back however many times it is filled
- A cold, expensive-to-heat solid-wall property with no cavity to fill
- Damp patches inside on a wall that faces the prevailing weather
- A house that has been repainted so many times the detail has disappeared