monkeyhead
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Hi all,
first time post here.
I have a 200 yr old stone cottage in Bristol that someone in their infinite wisdom decided to render with sand and cement down one side before we moved in (20 yrs ago). Unsurprisingly this has failed and we are getting water ingress above the patio doors in the wall.
I've bitten the bullet and had all the external rendering hacked off, hoping to find a stone surface that we could have repointed, but expecting to find some gremlins underneath, which has been the reality. With the render off, it's clear that the property has been remodelled at various times (usually not very well), and some of the original stonework has been removed in the process. The sand and cement was clearly intended to cover all this up. We have an original window that has been infilled with cement blocks, odd bricks instead of stone, brickwork sitting below a concrete lintel above a window, what looks like a filled in doorway, and only a small concrete lintel above the patio doors and what can only be described as a debris field of loose matter down the side of these doors. If we want to have bare stone, there is some significant masonry work needed.
So would appreciate some advice on our options. Is it doable to replace the brick and blockwork with stone, or would we be better getting brickwork and lintel repaired/replaced by a competent brickie and then have a lime render applied to that wall?
Any advice or recommendations on people/companies to quote for the work would also be really appreciated. I've done a google search and have some enquiries with some local companies but this is a specialist field and I don't think it would harm to have a few more views and opinions on this.
Any help/advice gratefully received. I can post photos if that helps.
Thanks
Rob
first time post here.
I have a 200 yr old stone cottage in Bristol that someone in their infinite wisdom decided to render with sand and cement down one side before we moved in (20 yrs ago). Unsurprisingly this has failed and we are getting water ingress above the patio doors in the wall.
I've bitten the bullet and had all the external rendering hacked off, hoping to find a stone surface that we could have repointed, but expecting to find some gremlins underneath, which has been the reality. With the render off, it's clear that the property has been remodelled at various times (usually not very well), and some of the original stonework has been removed in the process. The sand and cement was clearly intended to cover all this up. We have an original window that has been infilled with cement blocks, odd bricks instead of stone, brickwork sitting below a concrete lintel above a window, what looks like a filled in doorway, and only a small concrete lintel above the patio doors and what can only be described as a debris field of loose matter down the side of these doors. If we want to have bare stone, there is some significant masonry work needed.
So would appreciate some advice on our options. Is it doable to replace the brick and blockwork with stone, or would we be better getting brickwork and lintel repaired/replaced by a competent brickie and then have a lime render applied to that wall?
Any advice or recommendations on people/companies to quote for the work would also be really appreciated. I've done a google search and have some enquiries with some local companies but this is a specialist field and I don't think it would harm to have a few more views and opinions on this.
Any help/advice gratefully received. I can post photos if that helps.
Thanks
Rob