The bricks have spalled hence the rendering.
You may well be right but, if so, why this property and not next door?
I'm not sure what the answer to this whole this is but I'm doubtful you're going to get the brick finish that you're after without spending a ridiculous amount of money.
Think I'd be looking to see if there's another 'look' that you're happy with.
I have it in me to get scaffold up and just sds drill full on as much as poss but by the sounds of it time isn’t going to be on my side!
This is obviously your first child!! Frankly I'd be surprised if you're allowed to do anything louder than boil the kettle for the next 12 months!
Hahaha that made me laugh, I’m under no illusion that I won’t be able to do what I was saying as not naive enough to go “I know better”
We booked the pointers to work March 2023 around 1.5 years ago expecting it’d have been well untruly done by now, how can everyone on “Homes under the Hammer” get projects done so quickly!
We even tried to get a builder to take it on and weren’t interested as it wasn’t enough……
I’ll bring it up again with the Missus when baby’s here and I don’t put that in her head hours beforehand, I’m thoughtful like that 😆
Similar armchair expert here. I am in the I have done a limework course so am obviously at the a little knowledge is dangerous stage.
You say your neighbors had there house done? Was there render done at the same time? To the same method if not comparing results may give you false data.
Also when you say you tried a pressure washer do you mean full power industrial in one? Or a little karcher?
The bricks are probably softer than modern London bricks (yuk!) But not necessarily soft bricks, however removing the render will have a high chance of damaging the bricks.
I think one of best points made on page one was do a test area. It may be as I suspect going back to brick fully for athletics is not achievable and it may be worth removing as much as possible then perhaps some wood cladding or something else as a finish.
Also steam removal sounds worth looking into.
If it can't be removed and you want a back to brick look have you considered fitting brick slips over the top of existing?
Don't know if from your name you're based in York or whether that's just your name. But either way, I can highly recommend a local company Brick Slips Fitters
A lot of their work is interior but they also do full-house exterior work.
Or maybe go tile hung frontage.
If you could source enough reclaimed tiles from 1900s it could get close to the effect your after.
Be shedloads cheaper as, i think, you drill and screw batterns on and hand the tiles off the batterns.
Would slightly increase the weather proof of your house, maybe be a tiny bit warmer, and, if ypu can find something similar in colour to next door, kinda blend in.
Well I just thought I’d post an update to this….
So tomorrow we have a company coming down from Newcastle who seem very reputable, to do some test patches. It’s just the way the bricks have been smoothed over with a basecoat that makes us nervous it won’t work but for £600 for the day even if it doesn’t work we save a fortune and get to rethink. If it does work they’ll re-book the whole job for January and take the £600 off the whole job price!
More updates tomorrow as soon as I can… talk About suspense!!
Is there really no feasible way to kill two birds with one stone and get your solid walls externally insulated and use aged/tumbled brick slips to get it aesthetically back to your liking? Perhaps there were even be a grant to help, not looked into it myself as we already have cavity wall insulation.
Well….. we have a result! So it turns out their lightest media was enough to strip all the render as well as get into the tyrolean that had been covering the bricks to make them smooth.
Chuffed to bits and booked in to now get it all done January, didn’t even damage the mortar or the brick face by the looks and it’s come up exactly how we wanted!!
looks good, sometimes it pays to get people in who know what's what.
I agree, I mean he said they had £60k’s worth of kit there. Compared to the £700 I was thinking of spending…. No comparison 😂
That looks really promising, hope it all looks that good when they've finished
Thought I posted this on here, or maybe another thread but to repeat.
I heard somewhere/sometime that if you sandblast brick or stonework that you take the weathering off it and make the surface porous to the point it can absorb moisture(or something like that) and it can lead to damage, crumbling or dampness, and you need to seal it with something(no idea what) after you've cleaned it back to bare.
Anyone any info on this ?.
Your pic is funny.
Bloke with a message on his back saying "your safety is our safety" while balancing precariously on an old lichen covered wall 😆
Facade cream is what you want on the bricks if they are porous.
Just thought I’d provide an update…. Scaffold is up, sandblaster is coming from 9th Jan.
House threw us another curveball though when we went to destroy the old porch….. the main electricity cable comes up from the floor and up the porch wall into the house!
Obviously I aren’t touching that and looks like it’s going to cost at least £850 to get the powergrid to relocate it!!
