Painting and Pointing.

[TheMitchells]

Our house is around 50 years old and we added a garage 25 years ago, to the side, which unfortunately meant it is extremely difficult to get to the roof for any maintenance.  But it has come to the point when we knew we had to bite the bullet and get it done.  After a quote for around 10k, and a scaffolding quote for £2.5k, we eventually found a company who has put up scaffolding for less than £1k.  We have it for 6 weeks to do the job ourselves.

  

 

The job is to paint the woodwork with 2 or 3 coats of dark brown, after making sure it is all secure and not rotting.  (we don't think it is)  Job should take an hour at most for 2 coats.

Then, the main job, is to sort out the pointing under the roof tiles, which have broken up and in places dropped out. 

  

 

The plan is to clean out any loose material, paint with PVA and water mix, to stabilise the cement.  Then point with 4 parts builders sand and 1 part cement mix.

Does this sound like a good plan or are there any better suggestions.  I've have done a fair bit of plastering and pointing while doing up houses, so think I can do a reasonable job.  But I am always keen to hear if the plan is sound. 😁

Edited 2 hours ago by TheMitchells