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House Rendering
Today, when it comes to revitalizing your home and giving it a more refreshed look, house rendering is a great way to redecorate the exterior of your property in a way that gives your home a high quality, stylish and durable finish. Cement rendering is a great way to re-finish your home after installing an extension or even a garage as it can cover everything.
House rendering is actually something that most modern homes take advantage of. The fact is that house rendering provides an affordable way to give your home a clean finish, and from plain and simple renders to more elaborate styles, there are a number of different variations of the traditional cement render. From pebbledash to coloured cement, there are loads of things that have been done.
House rendering has been around in one way or another for hundreds of years. You may be surprised to learn that the ingredients haven't changed much either as today, the basic cement render that's often used is still 6 parts sharp sand, 1 part cement and also 1 part lime. With such a basic list of ingredients, one might be forgiven for thinking almost anyone can try house rendering! While they can, it has to be said that rendering is a trade just like any other.
Indeed, cement rendering has special tools and techniques which are used. It's closest 'relative' in the trades would have to be stucco, which is a similar process that has been used to good effect for generations as well. However as technology advances, traditional recipes for render are now being replaced with specialized pre-mixed packs of acrylic render.
That's a great thing for builders because traditional render was always difficult to apply in the UK due to the fact it takes so long to dry. With drying times of up to a month, the benefits of acrylic render are that it has additives to ensure that it's fungal resistant, moss resistant and also that it takes to brickwork easier, and the best part? Acrylic render has a drying time of just 2 days!
With acrylic render, it also gives homeowners a great deal of choice about what sort of house rendering they'd like. It's possible to choose all sorts of patterns, textures, colours and even a variety of stone effects such as sandstone, marble and the likes. Today, acrylic render is proving more and more popular; it's easy to see why too! As certain acrylic mixes of render can even be sprayed on – which must be perhaps the easiest way to apply render ever.
In the past few years, house rendering has come a long way and it's no longer something that's going to fall to pieces in winter. With many additives now available to ensure render is strong and sticks to the wall better than ever, if you apply render to your property, you can be almost guaranteed that it's going to stay there for a very long, long time. House rendering is affordable, effective and one of the best ways to give your home a new look.
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