Posts tagged with brick means that you can see the repair process we carry out with brick walls
Do you live in a home with unpainted bricks on the outside walls? It is important to keep an unpainted brick built house in good condition, to keep it looking its best and to prevent damage by time and by the weather. There are a few ways to keep it in good condition, including re-pointing,...Continue reading
BRICKS! In the better weather, many home owners often think seriously about updating or refreshing the external appearance of their homes with a coat of fresh paint but what if you have bare brick walls and you want to paint them? The most important word to remember about painting exterior brick walls: permanence. It’s a...Continue reading
We often get asked questions and advice, but we cannot respond to every email we get, whether it is relevant or not, and here is an email from someone wanting interior brick wall sealing advice.
If the exterior walls of your property have cracks, how can you tell if they are easily repairable ones, or are an indicator of something far more serious, such as subsidence? Subsidence is when the ground the property sits on starts to sink, undermining the very stability of the house and often causing major damage...Continue reading
When your terraced house needs repainting, it is worth going to the experts at this sort of thing, instead of a local painter and decorator. We specialise in renovating, repairing and weatherproofing the outsides of terraced houses up and down the country and we want to show you one of our projects, a mid terraced...Continue reading
Efflorescence in external walls of buildings is often wrongly attributed to a decorative issue, however this is not always the case and not dealing with brick wall problems like efflorescence can have serious consequences.
If you live in a house of unpainted brick but you are considering having it painted, you will be aware that once you paint a house with a brick exterior, you cannot ever change your mind, it’s done and that’s it! The problem is once you paint brick with masonry paint, it will have to...Continue reading
Here’s a case study of a property in Hull, East Yorkshire, which was in a sorry state and would have reduced any normal painter and decorator to tears, but not so for our wall coating installation contractors. When a house needs a LOT more than just a lick of paint, you know who to call...Continue reading
Stone cladding on the exterior of a house? YUK! How awful, vulgar and tacky, but back in the 1970’s, many people went for that look. Here’s how to get rid of it This article was written by the author of NPA (me!) and was published in Ideal Homes Magazine in the “ask an expert section”...Continue reading
Over time, the weather can take its toll on the exterior walls of your house, causing problems such as blown bricks, loose pebbledash or hollow rendering, all of which can be costly to fix, and even more costly to keep it from coming back again. This high build wall coating system is ideal for homes...Continue reading
Despite your fireplace being largely forgotten about during the summer, just like my own family, you will all welcome a healthy hearth come winter time. Today we are going to tell you a few tips how to clean and maintain your chimney, how to spot problems with it, both internally and externally, and offer a...Continue reading
If your home is less than 15 years old it shouldn’t have damp but many newer properties do suffer from damp and mould. Our damp proof house coating system is used by major UK house builders homes specifically to treat newer homes that have succumbed to damp damage.