Farmhouses out this way tend to have more wall than a town house and far more room to work around them. The first pushes a price up and the second pulls it back down. Here is roughly where they land.
Where each job starts. Enough to give you the shape of it before you pick up the phone.
Starting points only — not what you will pay. A softwash is priced on what it is being applied to, and render, pebble dash, K-Rend, painted masonry and paving all behave differently under treatment. Surface area, depth of growth and access do the rest. Photographs turn all of this into one real figure, which is what we would rather talk about.
No mystery to it — these three, and very little else.
The substrate decides everything downstream. Dash and textured finishes hold growth deep in the texture; K-Rend and painted walls need the lightest possible touch. That is the reason a per-square-metre rate would be misleading rather than helpful.
Early on, the growth comes off with one treatment. After years of it, you need a longer dwell time and sometimes a second application, and that is most of the difference between a low figure and a high one.
Total surface area, whether it is all workable from the ground, and whether anything else is booked for the same visit. Jobs that share a set-up share the cost of it.
From photographs of your own walls, not a rate per square metre.
A picture of each elevation that concerns you, plus your Eircode. From those we take the finish, the area and how established the growth is.
Then access, and this is where a country house often gains. Room to set up and reach everything from the ground takes real money off a quote, and we will say when that applies.
One figure, what it includes and roughly how long we will be there. If anything on site would change it, we tell you before we carry on.
Two things worth a minute first.
That usually means they are not describing the same job — one is washing the surface, the other is treating what is in it. The guide sets out what a fair quote covers.
The Render Check runs through what to look for from the ground in about a minute. It is free, and it has told plenty of people their walls have another year in them.
Once we are set up at the house, adding the outbuilding walls or the entrance pillars costs a fraction of a separate visit.
The first thing anyone wants to know, and rightly.
In most cases yes. Photographs show us the substrate and the state of it, which is the bulk of what a softwash quote turns on. Anything we cannot see from them we ask about rather than guess at.
Because the metre is not the thing that varies. The same area of smooth render, pebble dash and K-Rend are three different jobs with three different dwell times, and the depth of growth changes it again. A rate per metre would look precise and be misleading.
Very rarely. What stops a job is failing render or lifting paint rather than heavy growth — growth we can deal with. If yours is one of the exceptions you will be told plainly.
Top down, always. Roof, then gutters, then walls, then the ground. Anything else means cleaning something twice, and we would rather not charge you for that.
The main softwashing page carries the method, what goes on the wall and why treating outlasts washing.
Photographs and an Eircode gets you a real figure rather than a starting point, and it costs nothing to ask.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
Send photographs and we will price it properly. Farmhouses often come in lower than people expect once the access is taken into account.
One shot per elevation you are concerned about, and your Eircode.
