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House Rendering Melbourne
House rendering in Melbourne adds additional value to your property. If your home looks like the Industrial Revolution factory then house rendering is a valid choice. In some cases house rendering can offer additional colours and forms, which bricks cannot.
House Rendering Prices
Generally, tradesman or professional handyman can render your house for $25 per square meter. This is just the labour cost.
The bigger companies may easily go twice the above figure.
However, some house rendering jobs may require scaffolding, therefore more expensive options will safeguard against accidents and law suites.
You can attempt to DIY cement house rendering or plastering but the process is not so simple. It will become very expensive to have the rendering job redone.
It is better to spend $25-$35 per square meter on the professional plasterer to render your home. Only then you could attempt to paint it yourself.
House Rendering Materials
House rendering process will require building materials including (on average):
- 1 bag of cement render
- 12 shovels of plastered sand
- 2 table spoons of BYCOL
- 20 litres of clean water
House Rendering Tools
House rendering process will require following tools:
- Cement mixer
- Terralene gun (wish list but improves bonding)
- L and T bars
- Water Brush
- Trowel (the most important tool)
House Rendering Steps
There are number of steps to complete in house rendering process:
- You should clean all surfaces (you can use a high pressure hose but be carefull not to damage the mortar in between bricks).
- Next, prepare the cement render mixture according to manufacturer's instructions.
- Apply the render to the surfaces with a trowel (+/- 1 centimetre thickness).
- You should straighten the render once the drying process begins.
- Finally smooth the surface with the sponge and then paint the wall.
House Rendering Application Procedure
House rendering should be done in good weather. Cloudy but not rainy day is ideal.
As with other concrete and cement products, the surface of the render needs to be moist for a while.
Quickly drying render is prone to cracking and cavities.
You may wish to apply 2 coats of rendering for quality assurance.
The first coat should be +/- 1 cm, the second a bit thinner.
The drying process should be slow. Ideally house rendering should take 28 days during which the render must be kept moist but not soaking wet.
House Rendering Providers and Plasterers in Melbourne
There is variety of plasterers and house rendering providers in Melbourne. For bigger jobs use registered or licensed tradesmen.
Some house rendering Melbourne services:
- Pete's Render - provides rendering services in Melbourne in all areas.
Service includes:
- render,
- acrylic coatings and
- light weight cladding systems.
- AJS Rendering - rendering service using:
- acrylic,
- cement rendering,
- lightweight cladding and
- texture coatings.
- AJS does thick - up to 10cm -rendering with a good quality and the service.
- Panel House and Rendering - rendering service
- (Acrylic and Fibrelite),
- texture coatings,
- bluboard and polystyrene,
- hard plaster and
- architectural mouldings.