Can you render over pebble dashing?

xxxpinkladyxxx

It's never occurred to me (ever) that you could do this until the other day, I saw a man up scaffolding on a house rendering over the top of pebble dashing. I assume as he had scaffolding and a van that he is a builder of some sort but can you do this? My house is pebble dashed and I absolutely hate it but the expense of having it all removed and then rendered has always made me think that it will probably cost thousands of pounds. I can't imagine it's a quick job either. So can you render on top of pebble dashing or is it likely this man doesn't really know what he's doing? I mean we do get a few dodgy people round here cold calling. I had a man knock at the door the other day (I strongly suspect a gypsy) asking if I wanted him to paint the facias on the front of my house. It would literally take 10 minutes. His quote was £250!!!!!!!

phil24_7

I wouldn't. You can't see if the current render is cracked or porous and I don't imagine the stones will be great to render to as they always fall off.

My instinct says it's a bodge job or a cheap fix and if I were to render my house I would do it properly.

lstar337

Since the pebbles are always falling off, I wouldn't think it would make a good surface to attach render to. It'll probably fall off in fairly large chunks.

I would avoid getting too close to that house if I were you.

dominoman

There are ways to render over pebblesdash, but to do it properly they sink in reinforcing bars into the wall and overlay a mesh.

Rendering straight over pebblesdash is just adding a lot of weight to a relatively weak wall surface. Not likely to last long.

fezster

The pebble dashing on my house is absolutely solid. My builder used a powered chisel to remove some, and it was taking a couple of hours just to remove small sections of it (less than a metre squared).

I had one part of my house rendered over the top, and this was almost 2 years ago. It's been absolutely fine. I'm now considering having the rest done, but even then it's a considerable expense.

I'd say it all depends on what the state of your existing pebble dashing is.