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 August 21 by TheMitchells

[TheMitchells]

Job finished! We set to last week and I'm quite pleased with the result.  We used a slurry (water, SBR and cement) on the cleaned area, then applied a 4:1 mix of sand and cement with a glug of SBR.  It went in well and luckily, the scaffolding was very stable so I had no trouble working at height.  

Then 3 coats of fence paint on the woodwork.  Hopefully it will last another 50 years before needing to be done again.  

 

 

There are a few cracks in the garage roofline so I will plan to go over that too.  As we were quoted £10k for the work (including a little extra), we think we've saved ourselves at least £5k.  

[Oz07]

What sand did you use? I think you are supposed to use a bit of sharp sand in the mix but a lot of roofers ignore this. You can buy a dry readymix just add water product, think it comes with some kind of certificate.