Archive for November, 2008

Never Paint Again! Exterior Wall coatings and painting

The NPA exterior home system eliminates all exterior maintenance on your home, no matter how old it is and no matter what time of year! Quite simply, no more DIY exterior painting is needed!

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Ideal homes don’t have stone cladding! Wall coatings to the rescue!

This article was written by the author of NPA (me!) and was published in Ideal Homes Magazine in the “ask an expert section”, sometime in 2005. Reproduced here in full with additional comments.

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Gardens for pebble-dashed houses.

Are the gardens of houses with pebbledash on the walls identifiable as a special kind? Do owners of pebbledash houses have any garden interests in common? What are the latest trends?

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Patching render advice

Hi, I just wanted to share this tip with everyone. (If you dont me, Im A “limey”, here in the UK (!!!) but I have a great interest in the USA and wish I lived there instead of England which is awful! anyway…………………)

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Fabfaux: manufactured stone offers unique looks for exterior walls

From Building Products (March-April 2006) by Monica Soladay With lighter weights, lower material costs, and potentially easier applications than the real McCoy, manufactured stone is an increasingly popular choice for building pros.

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