Looking for someone to lime render my badly pebbledashed porch

[a1mark]

Hi

New here so please bear with me.

I own and live in a late Georgian detached property. Some time after it was built, a two storey front porch was added. Later still (I think) it has been pebble-dashed. It has subsequently been changed, patched, repaired etc and is currently a dog's dinner.

After much discussion and multiple different opinions we are now trying to get the cementitious (I think) pebble dash removed and then have it traditionally lime rendered.

I finally received planning approval (London Borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames) in mid-2017. I live near Kingston. No fewer than three different contractors have now let me down in my attempto to get the job done.

So my question is: does anyone know a competent contractor who might be able to undertake this work in 2018, preferrably by the summer? I can provide more details, photos, planning approval docs etc as necessary.

Many thanks for reading this far.

Happy New Year.

Cheers - Mark

 

[88v8]

Hello and welcome

Two storey porch. A porch, but not as we know it.

It sounds as if you couldn't make it much worse if you redid it yourself. Just a thought.

These chaps could do the job, I suspect.
http://plastering.putneyandsons.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw5nHnrfA2AIVAQvTCh3YogyfEAAYASAAEgIhRfD_BwE
One imagines that they will be reassuringly expensive.

The search 'lime plaster west london' throws up a few others.

Ivor

 

[a1mark]

Thanks Ivor, I think you're right, that they would be reassuringly expensive

Here's an image of the "porch", attached.

Thanks again, cheers - Mark

 

[plasticpigeon]

I think the pebbledash might be original to the porch even if it is cement. I don't think it would look better flat rendered, and the colour at least makes it blend in with the bricks on the rest of your house.

 

[Andys]

You could paint it cream? <runs away>

 

[a twig]

You could paint it cream? <runs away>

Limewash instead maybe?