Painting your house

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classic33

Leg End Member
Agreed. It may stay on for 15 years,but it wont look nice in 15 years time.
I'e painted the same house four time in less than 15 years. Whatever is in the pebble dashing "leeches" through. With it being pebble dashed a stippling effect has to be used to make certain you've covered everything. Time consuming and when it comes to a plain, flat wall, you're left wondering "what have I missed?" the amount of time it takes.
 

screenman

Squire
I'e painted the same house four time in less than 15 years. Whatever is in the pebble dashing "leeches" through. With it being pebble dashed a stippling effect has to be used to make certain you've covered everything. Time consuming and when it comes to a plain, flat wall, you're left wondering "what have I missed?" the amount of time it takes.

Which is why I suggest spraying as it is a lot quicker.
 

screenman

Squire
None of the naysayers on this thread has ever tried to paint pebbledash, obviously!

I have, never again with a brush though. And that was on one that had been painted badly years before. I am starting to think that the quote for paint might not have been that far off, despite my ramblings earlier.
 

screenman

Squire
None of the naysayers on this thread has ever tried to paint pebbledash, obviously!

I have, never again with a brush though. And that was on one that had been painted badly years before. I am starting to think that the quote for paint might not have been that far off, despite my ramblings earlier.
 

I like Skol

A Minging Manc...
Re: the required paint estimate. Surely the way forward is to buy the suggested paint from somewhere that is willing to take back any unused product (this is common practice from most common retail suppliers). To make sure the contractor is not simply 'pocketing' a large quantity of YOUR paint for another job simply insist you get to keep all the empties. I doubt very much he will go to the trouble of decanting paint off in to alternative containers (but this is not an entirely unbelievable scenario :eek:).
 

classic33

Leg End Member
[QUOTE 4804006, member: 259"]Once you paint pebble dash, do you not have to resign yourself to repainting it every couple of years? That's what would put me off from doing it at all.[/QUOTE]
That's due to the "leeching" mentioned earlier.
 
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