So the repairs to the repairs went ok, but to make them completely invisible I’d need to remove the render and do it again… or… cover them with a textured render finish, enter Dulux Texture Fine Cover. This stuff is brilliant. It gives the exact same finish as the render, but you have to be […]

I haven’t added to the blog for a few days, but I have been doing “stuff” pretty much every day. It’s a case of working around the house, cutting in primer, finish primer, cutting in top coat, finish top coat, and in between repair any bits before top coat. Today I pretty much finished primer […]

Finished cutting in the rest of the house (except for the very front face) this morning, and will prime all of those bits, probably over a couple of morning/afternoons, depending on where the sun is.

I’ll see how it looks in a couple of weeks, I may give the big wall a second top coat. Will see how I feel! It looks great, but another coat wouldn’t hurt.

Someone’s heart really wasn’t in this repair when it was done. There’s only a couple of wall/skirting/cornice repairs that I’ll have to do again, but this is a beauty. It looks slightly worse in the first pic because I had already sanded and chipped away some of the crap, but it wasn’t that much better, […]

Sunday, I started early to finish the cutting in, but there wasn’t enough time to hit the big wall with the roller before the sun was going to be a problem, so top coat to the big wall will have to wait until tomorrow.

Very happy with the new screens. I can leave windows and doors wide open and have fresh air through the house all night or day long. Will make the current heat wave a breeze (literally 🙂 ) All of the screens are the same colour as the windows (dark grey) except for the front doors […]

So, the old paint is a beige, the primer is white, and the new colour is very similar to the old one but a little lighter, I chose a colour called Bearfoot Beach. The only reason I’ll probably have to give the house two top coats is because I need to cover the white primer […]

The scaffolding was a little difficult to get around the corner and onto the grass, only because there is a slight drop off where the pavers finish. With the scaffold being so high, there was a real chance that it could topple outwards, so I built up the drop off with the welcome mat and […]

When you repair cracks in a rendered wall (textured render), any product you use to fill those cracks has to be textured OR you texture it so it matches the existing render… unless you want to do a truly dodgy bodgy job, which is unfortunately what the previous owner did. I’m not going to apologise […]