Are you as “Confused” about stuff as Dubya was?!

<<<<Ex USA president and warmonger, George W Bush enjoying a "senior moment.">>>>

Don’t worry it’s not rocket science. Let me explain.  Most textured coatings are an advanced paint film that undergoes a far more intensive manufacturing process than normal house paints and as such have certain chemicals, resins, dyes, polymers and all sorts of stuff (!) to ensure longevity after application. Basically advanced exterior paints are designed to be significantly more hard wearing and durable than normal masonry paint.

The things is, much of these exterior advanced paints or wall coatings cannot be applied by members of the public as they often require special tools and equipment. A good example would be 2 houses next to each other, one having a treatment of a good quality textured coating such as “Andura TMC textured coatings”, and the other having a coat of traditional masonry paint.

Its obvious the coating will last MUCH longer than the normal masonry paint, but applying the 2 systems is very different. The normal paint could be applied by the homeowner, if they know what they are doing, with a ladder and a brush etc. (which is another story entirely)……

However, the advanced exterior resin based textured masonry coating (phew!) must be applied in a specific way, with specific specialist spray applying equipment, a GRACO president spray machine being a prime example, although there are other spray machines on the market.

These high quality, precision engineered coating “pumps” or house spraying machines can sometimes be substituted for a cheaper and usually very effective “hopper” style spray gun, which are top fed from a small paint reservoir above the trigger, but the editor knows only too well from his own experiences,  the operator of a top fed wallcoatings spray machine has to be VERY strong in order to hold the exterior coating spray machine at the correct pitch and level in order for the paint spray to be introduced to the exterior wall surface is an even and timely manner, allowing for undulations in the building wall surface and also climatic conditions such as wind. ……however if the operator is lucky enough to have to arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s nothing to worry about anyway !!!!

These particular spray machines are operated usually from a small petrol powered generator and air compressor, which is pulled around on a trolley. Although not as effective and the heavy duty way of doing things, by spraying a house with a Graco president airless spray gun, wired up, via huge heavy hoses, to a large single tool diesel compressor on a trailer! The former can also be a more environmentally way of applying exterior wall coating to a house.

So basically the sort of exterior coatings that we use have any names, here are some that we know of and their variations…………

wallcoatings
wall coating
Advanced exterior coating
Textured coatings
Elastomeric coatings (USA)
Liquid Vinyl siding (USA)
Resin based flexible coatings
Weatherproof paint
Waterproof coatings
Spray applied exterior coatings
Trowel applied wall coatings

and so on……

<<<<A house in Plymouth, Devon, UK>>>>

Whilst a lot of people choose to give us brief instructions as to what they want doing to their house, from time to time we enjoy a nice chat with someone who has experienced getting quotes from other companies to have their house painted and here is one of them!

A site user writes………

Hello, hows it going? I saw you on the internet after seeing one of your teams working on a house here in Plymouth and I see you have an office here, so can you contact me for one of your free quotes please if you dont mind as i want wot they had on my house please!

I’ll tell you a bit about it. it is prob late victorian, has damp, mainly at the rear and lots of cracks that someone at some stage has put a load of gunk in it to seal the crack but its obvious looking at it, it needs far more repairs done and some mroe cracks have appeared to the front and the side after the winter we had, which was very cold.

I have had 3 quotes so far but i am to be honest not interested in any as the salesman from these companies ( guess you wont be able to print who they are yes?!?),

anyways, the 1st fella was about 18 years old (!), was selling some sort of coating that that trowel on and roll into a pattern and looked awful but he tried, badly, to convince us it would look grate on our Victorian house! By that time we knew he was a fool and showed him the door. Grate indeed, it is a bit like suggesting buying a vintage 1920s rolls Royce and shoving alloy wheels and a sports exhaust on it as some fool says it would look “nice”, where do some of these wallcoating firm,s get their staff from!? (sorry guys, i dont mean you!)

…..and anyway he read a script and we couldn’t wait for him to leave, and then the other 2 turned up in flash cars, the 1st one seemed in a hurry to leave, even before he gave us the stupid price he did, and the last one we had around was a fairly nice chap dont get me wrong, but the price he quoted was absolutely astronomical and he didnt have any houses already painted in Plymouth o show us which put us off a bit!

I have heard grate things about NPA, especially as I know my mate had you guys do his house in Glenholt and he was well chuffed with it, plus he said you have display houses we can see in Plymouth so i would like to see  a few also.

Now I am sure you know, being from Plymouth yourself (!), that people generally dont have a lot of dough down here and as we only bought the house last year, it skinted us, so I would be very keen to get a quote s can you send someone around to see my house as i am very keen to get the cheapest price you can to have my house painted, thanks in Anticipation from John, Plymouth.

THANKS JOHN AND THANKS FOR GIVING US PERMISSION TO POST YOUR EMAIL, I HOPE IT HELPS OTHERS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR A PRICE FOR WORK TO THEIR HOUSE.

EDITORS NOTE: We never print peoples details unless they give us permission. We will update this post at a later stage if “john” decides to go ahead with us………….

Another great Textured coatings installation video, from the USA

This video is shared from youtube and was posted originally by Magic One Construction: Serving the Southern California Region USA. tel: 1-877-292-9456

This video is for information and research only.

How to paint an exterior wall.

This video is from “expert village”

BLOG USER QUESTION (copied from recent chat window) :

Hello npa, i see you have a spanish side to your operations, do you have anyone in the javea (costa blanca north) area?

Spanish villa

NPA: Hi, thanks for your question, yes we do have a sub office around the javea area (which also deals with painting jobs and contracts south of valencia city), how can we help you today?

USER: We have a villa on the edge of javea, and we had it painted a few yearsa go but as its a bit exposed to the sea and wind and all that it has cracked, quite badly in fact, can you help us?

NPA: Of course. When you say cracked, what is cracked exactly, the paint or the rendering?

USER: I think you need to come and look at it really…, the crack in the outside wall is quite bad. it starts at rear and goes around lhs side…. Theres a few other stuff too like some damp in the underbuild, or the cellar as some call it, we have a leak in the rear terrace by the upper balcony, and as we had 2 new doors put in last year, they didnot repair the rendering very well around where they put the doors in. Is this something that you lot can do also?

NPA: Yes, again, no problem, if you give us a call on my mobile on 659 354759 (spain only) (or call us free if you are in the Uk on 0800 970 4928) and i’ll take some more details and get someone to take a look, no obligation of course, but we need to take a look to give you a price.

USER: A price for repairing the walls and putting your special wall painting stuff on yes? Cool, how do i do that, phone you yep??????

NPA: Yes thats right, our NPA exterior wall system.  Bes thing 2 do amigo is to take a look at out site which is specifically related to exterior villa and house painting in Spain. You can see it at www.neverpaintagain.es

Thanks for chatting today, speak to you shortly

GB

How much?!!

We LOVE  hearing from our customers all year round, both old and new, and time after time, we get asked the following questions…….

“I want my house painted! How much?”

“how much would it cost to paint my house?”

“What do you charge for painting a factory?”

“How much do terraced houses cost to paint?”

Hi NPA, I have a house, a semi detached house in Liverpool that I have owned for the past 10 years. In that time we have to have it painted 6 times, five times by a local painter and decorator until he retired recently and then the final time I bought some good quality masonry paint from B and Q, although i THOUGHT it was good anyway (!) and painted it myself and we’re embarrassed to say it looks awful!!!!!!!!

Without going into massive detail, how much would it cost to paint my house?

Hi and thank you for your email today. Well, you may have guessed that we cannot give an exact price as to be honest we have to see the house in question as there are lots of different factors related to pricing up a house that needs painting. They are typically……………..

• The size of the exterior wall area to be painted (which can differ from the actual size of the house, for example a house may have large areas of cladding or windows etc, and despite it being a large property, the actual area of wall may not be that large.)
• The present condition of the house, or at least the condition of whatever exterior wall covering (if any) is currently on the outside of the house: Are there cracks, hollow or loose render, bald or loose pebbledash or tyrolean, spalled bricks, loose stones and a host of other things.
• Damp. If the house you want a price for, has damp, this also needs to be sorted before we can paint it. There are two types of damp in houses but instead of repeating myself (!), here’s a link to an article that explains about damp in the home. DAMP IN HOMES.
• Access to the house: Is the property very tall? Is it up several flights of stairs? Is it on a narrow lane where we need to apply to your council to close the road? This is also a factor, i.e., how easy is it for us to work on your house?
• Additional work: Many homeowners are suprised that we can do additional work to our normal rendering and painting service, such as fitting UPVC replacement windows, installing a new door, fixing your roof for example………………

…………..so as you can see there are many things we have to consider in priving up your house to be painted etc, but if you call us on 0800 970 4928 or fill out our simple and confidential client enquiry form, we are happy to discuss your requirements and give you a price to have your house painted, so without further ado, we will wait for you to contact us and supply more details and then a surveyor will visit your house, measure up and survey and give you a competitive price to have your house painted!

I hope that is of some help