External render for French house

[mikej]

Hi all, newbe here so be gentle with me.

I am looking for recommendations to render the external walls of a house in the Dordogne France, the walls are about 900mm thick solid stone, with corner feature stone work, so the render needs to be a max of 20mm to keep the feature stone proud, the existing West elevation render has blown in a big way and looks as though it will all fall off as soon as I hit it, leaving well alone at the moment, the biggest problem I foresee is the extremes of temperature this region gets, last February it was -22C (exceptional) this July it was +33C (typical)

All opinions gratefully received.

Mike

 

[superspread]

Hi all, newbe here so be gentle with me.

I am looking for recommendations to render the external walls of a house in the Dordogne France, the walls are about 900mm thick solid stone, with corner feature stone work, so the render needs to be a max of 20mm to keep the feature stone proud, the existing West elevation render has blown in a big way and looks as though it will all fall off as soon as I hit it, leaving well alone at the moment, the biggest problem I foresee is the extremes of temperature this region gets, last February it was -22C (exceptional) this July it was +33C (typical)

All opinions gratefully received.

Mike

Let someone else do it lol

 

[spunky]

Use hydraulic lime if you can if not whatever you want it's blown through years of abuse I imagine not the weather

 

[Gibbo]

Look on the parex website they do a lot of renders

 

[lucius]

Dont often disagree Gary but with walls .900wide i would guess the house is at least 150 years old and the only real render to use would be lime, finding someone to do it i dont know not familiar with that part of France but St Astier are French.

 

[Capital spread]

Hi mike
What type of render is on the house, I would be very surprised if its lime render because I can not see how you can get lime render over stone that thin, 20mm.
It may be either crepee or sand and cement. Both are the wrong product for a stone built property with .900mm walls.

Weber (France) do a pre mixed lime render called ancient that you may be able to use at 20mm thickness but at that thickness it will follow the shape of the stone work and you may not be happy with the finished job.

I would remove the existing render and point it up using weber ancient it looks beauiful when done bringing out the beauty of the stone work and allows the wall to breathe as it is designed to do.

I am currently in Haute Vienne pointing up a stone wall like yours on the inside of a hundred and fifty year old farmhouse. The wall was rendered in sand and cement that had blown due to damp from the ground. By pointing it in lime
the wall can breathe.

You can contact me at [email protected] or tel 07749 679980 if you want any further help or quote for the work.

 

[Capital spread]

weekend lime pointing course in France towards the end of April contact [email protected]

 

[sub55]

if the existing blown render is still on the wall how do you know that you've only got 20mm to play with

 

[Render Systems]

you want NHL 3.5 lime mortar give my mate Colin a call he will send it out to you
Conserv. Lime Mortar Suppliers & Stone Restoration Specialists

 

[LongstrokePlastering]

Id love a job like this fellas, any work in france or europe give us a shout for a free of charge highly skilled all rounder :RpS_thumbup:
No charge, beats working round here with a coat and hard hat on skimming inside lol i can just imagine working in shorts, shades on, having a siesta... i can only dream

 

[Capital spread]

Id love a job like this fellas, any work in france or europe give us a shout for a free of charge highly skilled all rounder :RpS_thumbup:
No charge, beats working round here with a coat and hard hat on skimming inside lol i can just imagine working in shorts, shades on, having a siesta... i can only dream

It will have to say a dream Longstroke there no work over there either this year.

 

[Render Systems]

Id love a job like this fellas, any work in france or europe give us a shout for a free of charge highly skilled all rounder :RpS_thumbup:
No charge, beats working round here with a coat and hard hat on skimming inside lol i can just imagine working in shorts, shades on, having a siesta... i can only dream

Gotta nice stint in Barbados coming up in a few months on another plantation house 840 M2 lime render similar to the one i did 2 years ago

The Barbados National Trust Awards