Render Repairs in Exeter & Devon

Render doesn't fail all at once

It cracks, it blows, it lets water in behind, and the sooner it's patched, the smaller the job.

Render on Devon homes takes a beating: driving rain off the coast, frost getting into hairline cracks, and movement in older walls underneath. The usual signs are cracks spreading from corners and openings, patches that sound hollow when tapped, chunks coming away around cills and reveals, and staining where water is getting in behind. Left alone, water works in behind the render, frost does the rest, and a small patch becomes a whole elevation.

We repair rendered walls across Exeter and Devon: raking out and filling cracks properly, cutting out blown areas back to sound material and re-rendering them, and rebuilding damaged corners, beads and reveals. And when a patch won't do, we'll say so rather than take the job twice.

The honest bit about patch-matching

A patch in painted sand-and-cement render can be blended in and painted over so it disappears. Through-coloured silicone systems like K-Rend are a different story: the colour is in the render itself, and weathering means a patch will rarely be a perfect match. Sometimes the right answer is a repair you can live with; sometimes it's re-coating the elevation. We'll show you the options and give you a straight answer rather than promising an invisible patch that won't be.

If your render is cracking repeatedly in the same places, the cause is usually movement or water, not the render, and that's worth understanding before spending money on repairs. Our guide to render and damp covers what render can and can't do.

Rendering the whole house instead?

If the render is past patching, or you're weighing up systems, our comparison of render types and guide to rendering on the Devon coast cover what actually lasts down here.