Silicone Render in Formby
Formby. A detached house lifted out of tired brick into a white through-colour silicone render, with the brick kept on the ground floor, the bay and the porch.
What the customer wanted
A detached house in Formby, brick from the ground to the eaves, with dark stained frames and a tile roof. Nothing wrong with it. It just read as forty years old from the end of the drive, and the brick had gone patchy in the way brick does on an exposed plot near the coast.
What they did not want was the house turned into a white box. The brief was to lift it without losing the material it was built from.
What was done
The upper storey and the gable went into a white through-colour silicone render. The ground floor, the bay and the porch stayed as brick. That split is the whole idea: the render does the lifting, the brick keeps the house looking like a house, and the eye has somewhere to rest instead of a single flat plane from ground to roof.
The system is the one every silicone job here is built up with. The substrate is checked and anything unsound comes off first, then basecoat with alkali-resistant mesh bedded into it, primer, then the through-colour top coat. Through-colour matters on a house like this because the colour is in the render rather than painted on, so there is nothing to repaint in five years.
The frames were left exactly as they were. The mahogany against white render is a large part of why the house still looks like itself.
The finish
The detail that decides a job like this is the line where render meets brick, which is the second photograph. It stops on a bead, dead straight, with the brick clean up to it. Get that line wrong and it is the only thing anybody sees.
External render is weather work rather than calendar work. The top coat does not go on with frost or driving rain forecast, because a finish that gets rained on before it has cured will craze or bloom and nothing afterwards fixes it. A scaffolded house this size is measured in weeks rather than days, and some of those days are spent waiting.
The full build-up, and what it costs to do properly, is on the silicone renderingPlastering page. This job was in Formby.
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Questions people ask about this
Why leave the brick on the ground floor?
Because it stops the house reading as one flat plane. Rendering top to bottom on a detached house often flattens it. Keeping the brick on the bay and the porch gives the front some depth and keeps the material the house was built from.
Does through-colour render need painting?
No. The colour is in the top coat rather than on it, so there is no paint film to fail. It wants the gutters kept clear and a wash down every few years, and that is about it.
Can render be put straight onto brick?
On sound brick, yes, with the right breathable system. What it must not be is a hard cement render over soft brick, which traps water in the wall instead of keeping it out.
What customers said
4.7 out of 5 on Google and 5.0 from 35 reviews on MyBuilder, plus 100% recommended from 6 recommendations on Facebook. Every review below is verbatim from those profiles, and each one says which.
Pebbledash rendering to 3 bed semi-detached house and adjoining garage
Anthony did an outstanding job pebble-dashing our entire house. It was a challenging project but he handled every aspect with professionalism and care—nothing was ever too much trouble. He worked incredibly hard and maintained a clean and tidy worksite throughout. We couldn’t be happier with the result.
Rendering to pathway boundary wall
I received a first class service from Birkdale Plastering. Anthony always attended as arranged. He was invariably polite and hard-working and cleared any mess before leaving. I am very pleased with the finished job.
Rendering
Antony did a great job would highly recommend him
Rendering exterior wall
Render of an outside wall. Excellent job and finish Turned up when he said, cleaned up and took the time to protect the areas around the job. Would highly recommend to family and friends.
Kitchen ceiling repair after a leak
Anthony has done an excellent plastering job today for us in Formby. Repaired a hole on our kitchen ceiling after a leak whilst on holiday. Very good finish and so tidy too! Would Definitely recommend him!
Render 3 external walls on a bungalow
Outstanding work would highly recommend went above and behond with everything, if anyone needs rendering this is your man.
Areas we cover
Based on Liverpool Road in Southport. We work right along the Sefton coast, down into Liverpool, and inland across West Lancashire as far as Preston. Every town below has a page of its own.
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Birkdale Plastering and Rendering
546 Liverpool Road, Southport PR8 3BG - Opening hours Every day, 7am to 9pm