Ladies and Gents,

I have a question. I'm mid-way through sorting out the outside of my house, which is one of those 1930's jobbies with the squares of wood with a render infill. It was falling off when I got the place due to bad guttering, lack of care.

I took most of it off with a cunning plan of doing a PVA mix to fix the loose and then putting back the missing stuff (which I'm amazing at) and then using a rough textured paint to hide the lines, etc.

Well, I've painted the wood work, took off the loose, had a crack at putting it back and then went to paint.....the paint I got was "textured", but quite frankly I've seen bigger lumps in my milk. The "textured" paint is more like normal paint - I see nothing in there that would help it earn it's name.

Have I just totally wasted my time and effort trying to save what little cash I have left and DIY'ing or is there another paint out there that is actually TEXTURED and would do what I want?

I'm talking about mm thickness lumps and bumps, not giant crators here btw.....sanding would take forever too (although I have had a light go).

HELP!!

Tried mixing sand into the (un)textured paint??

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Verwood Handyman
I Know it says I'm On-line, but I might have just left myself logged in, whilst I'm out....

Aye, gave it a go with some some sand I was using but it was no good.

I'm down to a couple of choices I think:

1) Sand it down, I looked again and I was being a little mellowdramtic....it's not THAT bad
or
2) Buy some paint I've found that you trowl on and then rough roler for the affect I'm after (68 quid per 15l though)

I was just having a grump I think

Well, thought I'd update on this DIY task (see, I DO actually do DIY....not just share jokes and make stupid comments).

After much searching, found a place that sells the stuff I was after to texture the render.

Trowl 2-3mm of the stuff on and use a high build roller to texture - end result = MEGA!!!

Dead link removed - RichAndo

Scaff tower is still in the way atm and wood to paint, but I'll share some before and after pictures - possibly tomorrow. I'm a very happy bunny! :)

BG

Well, as promised here are some pics...... (if anyone wants to see, or I'm talking to myself :) )

To sum up:

- Tower up
- Old render off (back to brick in some places)
- Scratch coat / Finish coat of render (sand/cement with a PVA mix)
- Paint scim of 2-3mm
- High roller finish to texture
- Painted woodwork / soffets / facias
- Enjoy Beer

View of how it was when I started:



View of Finish (apologies for tower - guttering being replaced next weekend when I'm back):



Closeup of the finish:



Cheers BG

Glad you got it sorted ...

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I Know it says I'm On-line, but I might have just left myself logged in, whilst I'm out....

Cheers - I'm happy with the finish and so is the missis.

7 down, 3 more sides and another 23 to go.

I HAD to open my big mouth, didn't I.

When I finished, I said "shame the guttering looks so tatty", which means I've now got the ENTIRE houses worth of guttering arriving tommorrow.

*Sigh*

i wait for my wife to say stuff like that, then i say "yep it does up you go sort it out!" :)

then she makes me do it....

I think I just heard you wife say you've got to come and help me out.......

Render and paintjobs look good by the way! :)

Cheers Muchly :)

Last couple of pics....tower has now been moved to the other side, guttering has all been replaced - I'm well happy with the result, especially considering it's my first ever attempt at guttering/rendering/etc. 3 more sides to do!





Cheers,

BG

looking good and slick m8! re-pointing next?

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