removing texacote???????????

hezb

does anyone know if you can remove the stuff????????? we have bought a great house that is covered in it and would like to get it back to brick if possible??

any advice much welcomed :A

Doozergirl

The only solution I have found for houses covered in rubbish is a nice new render

The problem is that these coatings often hide even less pretty brickwork.

Poppycat

My MIL next door neighbour had this on there house and it was taken off and the brickwork is horrible after that, so Doozergirl may have a point.

Can you not paint it to brighten the house up.

We had some nasty textured rendering on our house a musty colour with cracks, we applied waterproof filler (polycell) on the cracks and repainted with Dulux weather shield a nice creamy colour, boy odes it now stand out, one of the ebst houses on street

Doozergirl

We had stone cladding on our present house. Nothing could have prepared me for wat was underneth - not even the damage by removing the cladding, but the scars left by cowboy window fitters - there were HUGE gaps filled with newspaper and they hadn't put in any new lintels when they widened the downstairs windows so the windows themselves were holding up the brickwork! :eek:

It's all gone, been bricked up again, with lintels taking the windows back to where they were originally; the walls have a lovely smooth render now, painted magnolia and it's an absolute stunner. I thought it would never be as nice as the original brickwork, but it is certainly one pretty house now! I'm as proud as punch

hezb

thank you for all your advice I think I will have to paint it!!!!!