There's still a lot to do on this front wall, but its interesting to compare with how it looked when we arrived. You can also see the "done" part of the house exterior gradually working its way around, we're up to front door now.
Brian took the last of the render off the front of the house this week. There were six different layers of render on this, the oldest part of the house. Originally it had been lime-washed annually over many years, before a thin lime render was added (and lime-washed again). Unfortunately they didn't stop there, later five separate layers of cement render were added eventually achieving the perfect "concrete bungalow" look and quite effectively locking moisture into the wall. All the different layers of cement render built up to a final depth of about 4 inches, the same thickness as a brick. Now the cement render is off the wall can breathe again and any remaining damp should dry out nicely over the summer. There's still a lot to do on this front wall, but its interesting to compare with how it looked when we arrived. You can also see the "done" part of the house exterior gradually working its way around, we're up to front door now. As you can see we have removed the (very ugly) concrete porch and installed a new front door. The next step - weather permitting - is to continue repairing the wall, in particular the in-fill where the original doorway was changed to a window and the wall top where the wall was raised with concrete when the roof was added. Some sections will need to be taken down and rebuilt.
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