External wall rendering in Bishop's Waltham

• Taller scaffold on a Bishop's Waltham wall moves the price, because the poles have to reach the upper brick.
• One gable in Bishop's Waltham is priced alone. A gable is the outside wall under the roof slopes. A garden wall is priced alone. The whole house is priced alone.
• Paint after the coat has hardened sits outside this price. Mending the gutters, the roof or the windows sits outside it too.
• We start the Bishop's Waltham coat on time. The price named before the mix is made stays the price for that wall.

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• Access frame for a Bishop's Waltham houseWe raise an access frame on a Bishop's Waltham house before any sand and cement is mixed. The frame is scaffold, meaning poles and boards stood against the wall. We mask the glass. We mask the doors. We lay sheets on the soil and on the paving. We have put scaffold across the front of a house for this coat. We have put scaffold along a side wall for this coat.
• Opening layer on Bishop's Waltham masonryThe opening layer on Bishop's Waltham masonry is a scratch coat. A scratch coat is sand and cement combed while it is still soft. Those grooves let the next layer lock on. We check the brick or the block is firm. We then wash it so the mix can grip. We have combed part of an opening layer on the side wall of an extension that has a flat roof. We have put a grey coat on the base of a cream wall, with a gravel strip along the foot.
• Body coat and corners in Bishop's WalthamWe spread the body coat of sand and cement over the combed layer on a Bishop's Waltham wall. We pull a long bar, called a straight edge, across the wet mix to take out the waves. A bead is a slim metal angle. We bed a bead on each outer corner. We bed a bead along the base. A reveal is the return at the side of a window or a door. We form each reveal true. We have rendered the return around a black six panel door between red brick pillars. We have rendered a two storey house with white surrounds at the windows.
• Face finish on a Bishop's Waltham wallThe face on a Bishop's Waltham wall is smooth or textured. That choice is fixed before the last pass. A float is the flat blade that rubs a smooth face until it shuts. A texture keeps the blade marks in the coat. Pebbledash is tiny stones pushed into the wet mix. We have put a brown coat on a rear garden extension while the window and the door stayed covered. We have rendered a house whose French doors open onto a paved patio. We then leave the coat until it hardens. That hardening is called curing. We leave painting until after curing, as its own visit. We take the tools away. We leave the ground clear.

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