Bungalow external walls - painted pebble dash damage

youth_leader

Hello, the top half of my 'new' bungalow is pebble dashed and painted.  I've just noticed a cracked area, about the size of a 10p on the porch wall (can only assume it got knocked when the timbers were coming in), and I've actually got a 'bald' spot about the same size around the side.

Can I buy something to 'fill' these or would I need someone to rake off and fix properly? I think the vendor left the masonry paint in the shed, will have to explore.

Bendy_House

Photo?

And how cleanly did it come away? Any chance it all isn't very well bonded?

FreeBear

Toupret exterior filler, and then slap a bit of paint over the top.

youth_leader

Thank you Bendy_House, it seems like a very sparse layer of lumps (is it gravel?) and the paint seems stretchy, at the moment it's just cracked and I can lift it in the porch.  Similar sized piece has fallen off round the side and I can see the red brick.  I'll photograph tomorrow. 

And thank you FreeBear, I'll get some of that, yet another job that I never thought I'd be doing! I don't have the money for it all to be redone after the floor replacement.  

FreeBear

youth_leader said: yet another job that I never thought I'd be doing! I don't have the money for it all to be redone after the floor replacement.  

I know the feeling. Got a bunch of stuff that needs doing, but I've blown the remainder of this years budget on windows.

youth_leader

Glad you'll be warm with new windows, great investment.  I've now got three rooms with draughty new floorboards, just had enough left to buy myself a pair of sheepskin slipper boots and a thermal vest, no carpets until SP next April!  

FreeBear

youth_leader said:

Glad you'll be warm with new windows, great investment.  I've now got three rooms with draughty new floorboards, just had enough left to buy myself a pair of sheepskin slipper boots and a thermal vest, no carpets until SP next April!  

Also have/had draughts coming up through floorboards here. My answer was to put down aluminium foil (extra wide tin foil as used for the Xmas roast), followed by a layer of 5mm woodfibre boards - https://www.screwfix.com/p/diall-wood-fibre-underlay-boards-7m-15-pack/7824r - Slightly cheaper than the Vitrex per m². The foil & woodfibre went wall to wall, and carpet gripper rods screwed down through the woodfibre to the floorboards underneath. Topped off with 11mm foam underlay and a reasonably thick carpet. Now have a room that is draught free, and a carpet rhat is nice & soft underfoot.

Also helped to go round the perimeter of the room with a gun and squirting a thin bead of expanding foam into the gap between skirting and floorboards.

Bendy_House

youth_leader said:

Glad you'll be warm with new windows, great investment.  I've now got three rooms with draughty new floorboards, just had enough left to buy myself a pair of sheepskin slipper boots and a thermal vest, no carpets until SP next April!  

Draught-proof these boards before the carpet goes down! Cheapest way I did this was with brown frame sealant - pretty sure you can pick up a box of 12 (will that be enough?!) for little. 

And, especially, around the perimeter.

Bendy_House

FreeBear said:

Toupret exterior filler, and then slap a bit of paint over the top.

I think it's textured, tho'.

We await photo, then folk can advise on a suitable bodge...

youth_leader

Hello, finally have a signal and can upload, sorry so large, I chose medium will go small next time.  Both areas are about the size of a 10p piece.  

FreeBear

I'd still go for Toupret filler. Find a few small pebbles, and press them in to the filler while it is still wet. The paint will fill any hairline cracks, so I wouldn't get hung up on those.