Larger detached houses and one-off builds mean sizeable render areas, and more wall to cover costs more to do. Here is where it starts, what moves it, and why the figure is not simply area times a rate.
The entry point for each kind of job, so nobody has to ring around guessing.
Treat every figure here as a floor rather than a quote. The substrate is what moves it — smooth render, dry dash, K-Rend and painted blockwork each need a different approach and a different amount of time — along with the area involved, how established the growth is and how we reach it. Your own number comes from a photograph, and it is the only figure worth planning around.
Open each of these, and together they cover almost the whole spread.
What is actually on the wall. Textured finishes shelter growth in a way flat ones do not, polymer renders want the gentlest handling of the lot, and painted masonry is priced around protecting the coat. We pick the method to suit the finish, and the method is what sets the hours.
It is not how much of the wall is green that matters, but how deep the growth has gone. A film across a whole gable can be quicker work than a deeply established band along one shaded corner.
Whether everything can be worked from ground level, and what else you want doing while we are there. A wall added to a roof or gutter visit costs a fraction of the same wall booked on its own.
From photographs of your own walls, not from a rate per square metre.
Front and rear photographs plus your Eircode. From those we read the finish, the area, the elevations involved and how far the growth has gone.
Then the honest part — whether it needs the full house or one bad gable. On a big house that distinction is worth a great deal, and plenty of them need less than the owner assumed.
One figure, what it covers, and how long we will be on site. It holds unless you add something to the job yourself.
Two things worth a minute of your time first.
On a large render area that gap is usually about method rather than greed. The guide sets out what a fair quote should cover so you can tell which is which.
The Render Check walks you through assessing each elevation from the ground. On a big house it often turns out that one side needs treating and the rest can wait.
We cover Barntown along with Glynn, Murrintown and Taghmon, through the one-off builds and larger houses either side of the road.
On a house this size the set-up is a real share of the cost, so anything added to the same visit is a fraction of what a separate call would be.
The first thing anybody asks, and fairly.
Compare what is being done rather than what it costs per metre. Ask each company whether they are washing the surface or treating the organism, and what they do about the ground below. Those two answers explain most gaps between quotes.
Substrate, depth of growth and access, in that order. Textured finishes hold growth in a way flat ones do not, five years of colony takes longer than one season of film, and a wall reachable from the ground costs less than one that is not.
Your Eircode and a photograph or two of the walls in question. From those we can see the finish, the extent of the growth and roughly how much surface there is, and that is enough for a real figure rather than a starting point.
You are covered. We are fully insured, the paperwork is there to see before any work starts, and anything we damage is dealt with through that cover rather than argued about on the day.
The method, what goes on the wall, and why treating outlasts washing, set out in full on the main softwashing page.
Front and rear photographs and an Eircode, and you will have a real figure rather than a starting point.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
Send photographs and we will price it properly. On a big house it is worth knowing which elevations actually need doing before you commit to all four.
Front and rear, and a word about how we would get around the house.
