Also, it might be worth getting a good "well regarded" plasterer who has significant external experience to take a look and offer a quote for refinish. Craked render can be a limited problem, but can also lead to moisutre ingress and penetrating damp, which is clearly less than ideal in any house.Īs others have suggested, a good surveyor will know what he's looking at, and should be able to advise appropriately. A good spread (plasterer) will know what mix to use in order to make the finish last without falling off or cracking into pieces so your house looks like a jigsaw puzzle.
Render should not crack, thermal expansion or not. Has any external render come away from the walls anywhere.?
Has there been recent redecoration internally where the cracking is evident externally.?Ĭan you tap it with your knuckles, to check if it sounds hollow underneath.? Has it got any signs of cracking internally.?.If so, it's perhaps more of a problem and would potentially need far more work than just finish alone.
Neither is great, but just the finish is less of an issue. I would want to know whether the render had been recently done or was old / original.Ĭracking could be just in the render finish or through to and including the brickwork / blockwork. Or get a mortgage valuation done first, then maybe a structural survey?ĭo experts exist who could do a specific survey for just this issue without doing the whole house? Would you trust a builder who does external rendering, or would it have to be a building surveyor?Ĭracking looks minor, to my uneducated eye.
Who would you get to do a survey? A Full structural survey? Would you make your offer first, contingent on some kind of survey? If there's a house you've seen that you quite like, but the external render, mostly pebbledash, has some cracking, where would you start getting this checked out?
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