How much to get rid of stone cladding?

holes_in_my_socks

I'm thinking of buying a Victorian terraced house in South London which is covered in stone cladding. The next door neighbours on both sides have pebble dash. How much realistically is it going to be for me to remove the stone cladding? Is it something that can be done as a DIY job or is that not going to be cost effective?

vaio

Hard to say, depends on how it was attached and what damage it does when removed

wallbash

Difficult one this is ,

This is only a guess

Should be easy to knock the cladding off , but what are you going to find underneath Neighbours have got pebble dash , not a job for an amateur, harder to get right than it looks .A pro will require 'scaffolding ' ...... which would have made removal of cladding easier.


Gets some quotes :rotfl:


ps don't ask me . I don't know.

holes_in_my_socks

Yes quotes must be the best way to go. thanks

ormus

youre probably looking at least 400 quid, plus scaffolding costs. plus maybe a skip.
and thats just to remove the cr ap.
pebbledashing is a lot more.

knowloads

Pebbledash both sides, cladding on yours ???? what is it hiding.
Removal depends on what it has been stick on with. In most cases the brick faces come off with the glue.
If you have a reasonable budget look at Decopierre Uk who can reface the surface to look like the original bricks (which has got to be better than pebbledash). There coating is breathable and lime based.

Pebbledash is a pro-job and so 70's though quite cheap.

Good look and luck.

cyclonebri1

Probably covering porous or perished bricks. Sounds like an old terraced property with 9"solid walls, very susceptible to penetrtion be driving rain, hence some form of coating applied.

Whatever you do don't attemp the job of a ladder. Scaffold tower as a minimum. That stuff is dam heavy and likely to come off in big chunks, quite capable of fetching you off a ladder. There was a tale off a Barrat house that had had the gable end stone(concrete in actual fact) cladded. It tore out all the brick ties and collaped the end of the house.:eek::eek: