Out this way a house gets painted once and then left for a decade, so it matters a great deal that the coat goes onto a surface that will hold it. What is living in the render decides that, and it is dealt with before the painter arrives.
Nothing about the day it is painted tells you which of these you have. The following year does.
The organism in the render is now in the dark and out of the weather, which suits it. It keeps working at the back of the film, and the first anyone knows is a patch lifting on the shaded gable — usually blamed on the paint, occasionally on the painter, rarely on the actual cause.
The growth is killed in the surface rather than washed off it, the wall is given time to finish and dry, and only then does the coat go on. It bonds to a stable surface and does what the manufacturer intended, which on a house out here is the whole point.
First, and with enough time left after us for the wall to dry properly.
Say that the house is being painted when you ask for a price. It changes the sequence and it means we look at the existing coat as closely as the growth on it.
Low pressure, matched dilution, and enough dwell to reach what is living in the surface. Where the existing paint is already going we tell you, because a treatment shows that up rather than hides it.
You get a straight answer on how long to leave it, for your wall and that week's weather rather than a rule of thumb. Getting the gap right is most of what makes the coat last.
Set out straight, so there is nothing to wonder about later.
Whatever goes on a wall arrives at the ground beneath it, so that ground is prepared before anything else happens. Planting at the base is soaked or covered, drains are sealed off, and ponds, wells and open water are kept well clear of. Nothing is mixed anywhere on the property. You are told how long to keep children and pets off the ground below before we leave rather than after. The garden is part of the job, not an obstacle in it.
One check you can run today and one short read.
What preparation a decorator normally includes, what a biocide treatment adds that a wash-down does not, and how to tell which you are being quoted for.
The Render Check gives you a way to judge the surface from the ground before anybody quotes for painting it. Two minutes now against a coat that lifts in a year is a fair trade.
We cover Ballymurn along with Crossabeg, Ballykelly and Oilgate, through the village and out across the open farmland around it.
If the house is being painted, the roof and gutters are best dealt with before the new coat rather than after, so nothing lands on fresh paint.
Usually from somebody who has watched a coat fail early once already.
Yes, and it is one of the most useful things you can do for a paint job. Painting over active growth is a common reason exterior coats fail early. The organism carries on living underneath and pushes the new paint off the wall. Treating first gives the coat a clean, stable surface to bond to.
Far enough that the wall is ready rather than rushed, and we will tell you what that means once we have seen it. Booking us when you book the painter is the easiest way to get the sequence right.
A cleaning solution put on at low pressure and left to do the work, instead of force doing it. It kills the algae, moss and lichen down in the surface rather than skimming the top off them, so most of the difference is there the same day and what is left follows within a few days. It also holds far longer than a blast does.
Not necessarily. What we need is access around the outside and somewhere to set up, and that gets agreed with you beforehand. Plenty of people are at work when we call and come back to finished walls.
The main softwashing page has the treatment, the surfaces it is cleared for, and what happens to the run-off.
Tell us roughly when and we will work back from it, so the wall is ready rather than rushed.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
Send a photo and tell us when. Treating first is a small cost against repainting early, and out here a coat is expected to last.
Say when the painter is booked — the timing changes what we recommend.
