I need to paint my house after an idiot drove in to it and put a hole in the living room. The whole thing is looking a bit scruffy, so figured I might as well do it all. Anybody have recommendations for a good paint for rough render? Is it insanely expensive to get a professional to do it? House is a semi detached corner property so only two walls to do.
Picture of wall/render type if that helps
I use the local trade place, johnstone/leyland, although sandtex seems to get a decent name too.
Buy the biggest, deepest rollers you can find, and big troughs.
And don’t paint it vigorously in light wind as you may get a fine paint mist on the neighbours car 😬.
A black bin bag on the floor near his car made a good indicator to stop that happening again.
Get a ginormous roller extension handle then you can do it from the ground and they do work pretty well.
That render is horrible to paint and will take a lot of paint, but the finish is less critical. Go with whatever you can get on special. Sandtex was a decent price in toolstation when I did mine and seems pretty good.
Cheers guys. Next is what colour to go for. White seems ridiculous for a house that’s on the corner of a pretty busy road. Just gets caked in shite and looks knackered within months. Might go for brown 😂
We managed to pick up 4no. 5l tins of Farrow and Ball exterior paint when Homebase was slowly imploding - at £10 a tin!
I've painted two of five walls on ground floor, ours was combination of old rough render, old rough painted render and fresh new rough render of a different colour.
Utter pain of a job - and needed two coats. I found the roller just didn't work well enough. I hand brushed it all.
Tape plastic over windows, gutters and 2m out onto floor. Buy some glasses or goggles, it goes everywhere with a roller. It takes a huge volume of paint to cover fresh render - both the surface area is huge and the concrete is like a sponge.
We're talking about getting the whole house done at some point in the future - and I'm going to pay a company!
I found the roller just didn’t work well enough. I hand brushed it all.
Big deep roller, biggest you can get at a trade place, covers it very well. My neighbour declined my offer of a loaner roller recently, he then went with a brush. Took him an age.
Big deep roller, biggest you can get at a trade place, covers it very well.
Did that, The Paint Shed pulled a huge long pile roller out the back. It just didn't get into every nook and cranny.
Our render is more akin to an anti-personel coating, with a couple of E1 rock climbs and contour lines marked on the individual pebbles of razor sharp marble that's in there.
Presably insurance is involved here, why aren't you just getting someone else to make it good? Or have they done a bare minimum job?
Personally I'd be getting another coat of roughcast and be done with it.
Cheers everyone,
Insurance didn’t cover repainting the whole house. Seemed like an opportunity to make the house look a bit more appealing. Reading the above (and being naturally lazy) I’m leaning towards getting somebody in to do it or just painting the bit that’s getting repaired. I’ll use a big brush if I do it all as it’s a small house and only two walls. I make enough mess with a normal roller inside the house!
Still covered with wood and expanding foam at the moment as builder will need to come in the house for some of the work.
If you can roll it (and it looks very possible) then it'll probably only take a decorator a couple of days as long as there's not a hideous amount of cutting in to do. £300ish.
You can get Sandtex tinted to a wide range of colours but it'll cost about double what you'd pay for white or magnolia. Might be worth going darker if you get a lot of traffic film on it.
