Silicone render at night with lights on. Is this normal?

[Piggybagpop]

[Russdl]

That’s got to be a ‘no’. Down-lights do highlight the imperfections but that is extreme to put it mildly. An expert will be along soon to help, I’m sure. 

[ProDave]

I would go and have a poke at the sticking out bits to make sure they are still attached to the base coat and not delaminating.

[saveasteading]

That looks like my rendering skills. Except I know it is wobbly and make it rustic. My guess is that this is wobbly render rather than loose, but do what PD suggests....a light tapping with a hammer to listen for hollow sounds.

[SuperJohnG]

Very very wrong. 

 

Phone them back to sort. 

[Mr Punter]

It looks like it has been applied by a with the back of a shovel.  Was the substrate reasonably flat?

[Simplysimon]

9 hours ago, Mr Punter said:

Was the substrate reasonably flat?

it doesn't matter, it should still be flat, or at least flatter than that and the fact the question is being asked gives a clue to the answer.

[Nickfromwales]

Complete amateurs, or just careless tossers.

Either way, a terrible job. The walls should have been dubbed out and dragged straight before even considering applying the render, or it could have been an excellent candidate for external wall insulation which could have been applied and shaved nice and flat.

On a scale of 1-10, that jobs a 2 or 3 at a push.

If they said to you, before starting, "the walls are wonky so the finish will be poor" then that's a different story?

[PeterW]

Bellcast isn’t straight either … but that’s pretty poor - needs to come off and start again. 

[Piggybagpop]

Daytime viewing...not that much better. This is silicone render but I guess even silicone render shouldn't finish like this??

[Piggybagpop]

Another daytime pic

[Onoff]

Illuminate with daylight lamps? 😂

[Simplysimon]

obviously everyone else knows but me, what's the black pipe coming out the wall? i've an idea but....

[Radian]

2 hours ago, Simplysimon said:

obviously everyone else knows but me, what's the black pipe coming out the wall? i've an idea but....

Well, I gave it a couple of hours but nobody bit. Guess it's up to me. Balanced flue.

[Onoff]

30 minutes ago, Radian said:

nobody bit

 

Or cared! 😂

[Radian]

10 minutes ago, Onoff said:

Or cared! 😂

It's been just too hot to care about anything other than Iced Coffee.

[Onoff]

12 minutes ago, Radian said:

It's been just too hot to care about anything other than Iced Coffee.

 

Ginger beer with rhubarb here.

[Temp]

Those lights are illuminating the render at a very shallow angle. If the render is sound and you dont want to redo it perhaps just move the lights.

 

I get same effect when I mow the lawn. Looks awful in the evening when the sun is low but fine next day.

[TonyT]

7 hours ago, Simplysimon said:

obviously everyone else knows but me, what's the black pipe coming out the wall? i've an idea but....

Maybe a plume kit to manage the plume from the boiler

[Piggybagpop]

Renderer came back yesterday and told me if I wanted a proper finish I should have had it cement borded first!! 

I mean how can you say that after doing such a bad job! 

After further discussion he did say he would try and and come back and go over it on the walls where there are lights, to try and build it back up, but is that even possible??

He also said if we don't pay him for the job he has done  (polite way of threatening) he has every right to come and take his job back! In other words pull it all down!! 

We want to pay him but surely we have the right to a decent standard of workmanship??

 

Any comment would be grately appreciated as we are feeling bullied by this and is isn't a nice feeling

[markc]

Bordered or bonded?

No idea what cement border is but if he said bonded then that's a load of crap! It’s not falling off so bonding isn’t a problem, it’s just not flat or straight.

[Piggybagpop]

Cement board I meant. I think he is saying that is the only way, to put cement board first to have the perfect finish.

[ProDave]

17 minutes ago, Piggybagpop said:

Cement board I meant. I think he is saying that is the only way, to put cement board first to have the perfect finish.

So what was this render applied to?  Presumably direct to some form of external wall insulation?

 

If he is saying cement board is the only way to get it flat, then by implication he is also saying the surface that he was presented with to apply the render to was not flat to start with.

 

More information and pictures before the render went on?

[bassanclan]

3 hours ago, Piggybagpop said:

He also said if we don't pay him for the job he has done  (polite way of threatening) he has every right to come and take his job back! In other words pull it all down!! 

Ideal!

Save you hacking it off!

[Piggybagpop]

The guy who did the bad work is Go Plastering. He plastered a ceiling for us, and his plaster work is spot on. ...Unfortunately, his render workwork clearly not! 

 

We Had to get it totally redone and used a company called Silk Render, to fix the mess that Go Plastering had left.

Here are the before and after pics..