Fake tudor beams

Belenus

outtatune said:

Bendy_House said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Bendy_House said:

Are you up for some DIY, rubble?

Unless it's really badly rotted, any rotted edges and ends (the usual parts to go first) can be cut out, the whole caboodle soaked in timber preserver (like Everbuild Lumberjack), the missing bits filled in with 2-part epoxy filler, and almost certainly can be roughly textured to blend in, and then the whole lot given a couple of coats of something Bedec barn paint in black or very dark brown (whatever is currently there).

I'd leave this until Summer, after a couple of weeks of warm and dry weather - and then the preservative should soak in really well.

I wouldn't consider having it rendered, as I suspect the Tudor look will be in demand by future folk looking to buy.

Really depends on how extensive the rot is.

In a house from the noughties? I think not. By the time it draws oohs and aahs (positive ones) from prospective buyers, the OP will be long gone.

Ha-ha!

Yes, it can be truly naff, but that's the style it is, and an attractive style it is/was. Many folk are attracted to it, so will side-step yours if you've obliterated the 'beams' whilst your neighbs have not.

There's a whole 'close' near us (I think it's even called Tudor Close!) where every house has been built with faux-TBs. Nothing on this planet would possess me to live there (I can just imagine what the residents are like - let's just say I suspect not only the beams are influenced by the Tudor period), but I can also see a huge devaluation (followed by rapid by eviction) should one resident fill in their faux. :-)

If I had the £ I'd be tempted to buy one of those and paint bright colours in the gaps between the beams Mondrian style, just to annoy the neighbours.

Was this you?

outtatune

Belenus said:

outtatune said:

Bendy_House said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Bendy_House said:

Are you up for some DIY, rubble?

Unless it's really badly rotted, any rotted edges and ends (the usual parts to go first) can be cut out, the whole caboodle soaked in timber preserver (like Everbuild Lumberjack), the missing bits filled in with 2-part epoxy filler, and almost certainly can be roughly textured to blend in, and then the whole lot given a couple of coats of something Bedec barn paint in black or very dark brown (whatever is currently there).

I'd leave this until Summer, after a couple of weeks of warm and dry weather - and then the preservative should soak in really well.

I wouldn't consider having it rendered, as I suspect the Tudor look will be in demand by future folk looking to buy.

Really depends on how extensive the rot is.

In a house from the noughties? I think not. By the time it draws oohs and aahs (positive ones) from prospective buyers, the OP will be long gone.

Ha-ha!

Yes, it can be truly naff, but that's the style it is, and an attractive style it is/was. Many folk are attracted to it, so will side-step yours if you've obliterated the 'beams' whilst your neighbs have not.

There's a whole 'close' near us (I think it's even called Tudor Close!) where every house has been built with faux-TBs. Nothing on this planet would possess me to live there (I can just imagine what the residents are like - let's just say I suspect not only the beams are influenced by the Tudor period), but I can also see a huge devaluation (followed by rapid by eviction) should one resident fill in their faux. :-)

If I had the £ I'd be tempted to buy one of those and paint bright colours in the gaps between the beams Mondrian style, just to annoy the neighbours.

Was this you?

No, those stripes are far too elegant.