Plasterer & Roughcaster in Erskine

Work in Erskine

A town built mostly at once

Erskine expanded rapidly from the late sixties onwards as a new town development, and the result is street after street of houses built within a few years of each other, to a handful of house types, with the same wall build up behind the same finish.

That is genuinely useful. If we have done a house on your type a few streets over, we already know what is behind the finish, where the coat usually lets go first and what the gable does. Very little of it is a surprise.

What goes first here

Coats put on in the same decade reach the end together. Gables and exposed elevations first, then the rest. Where houses have had new windows in, the band round every opening is usually damaged and has often been patched with something that does not match.

A lot of the work here is therefore a full re-dash rather than a repair, because by the time one elevation has gone the others are not far behind.

Going to smooth render

Because the stock is uniform, changing to smooth render makes a bigger visual difference in Erskine than almost anywhere. One house in a row of identical dashed houses, taken to a flat white render with dark windows, no longer looks like the same house type.

That is the point for some people and exactly the wrong thing for others. Both are fine, it is worth deciding deliberately.