Professional external rendering for homes across Collier Row, Chase Cross, Gidea Park and the surrounding RM postcodes — delivered by a contractor with 30 years of experience.
Collier Row runs north out of Romford in RM5, a residential district of long, regular streets with open land behind it towards Havering-atte-Bower. Almost everything here is interwar or post-war semi-detached and terraced housing, built out in runs rather than one house at a time. That makes rendering a slightly different decision than it is in a town of mixed stock.
This is what owners in RM5 actually worry about, and it is a fair worry. Where twenty houses on a road share the same frontage, a single rendered elevation gets read against its neighbours whether you want it to or not. It can look deliberate and well done, or it can look like the odd one out, and the difference is nearly always colour and finish rather than whether rendering was the right idea in the first place. Better to have that conversation at the quote stage than after the scaffold comes down.
Strong colours photograph well and live badly on a long uniform road. The safer route on this kind of street is a tone that sits with the brick and the roof tiles either side, letting the house look sharper than its neighbours rather than louder than them. A self-coloured silicone finish helps, because the colour is in the material: it will not fade into something you did not choose, and keeping it that shade never depends on getting a painter back.
Interwar Havering housing carries a lot of original pebble dash and Collier Row is no exception. Taking it off is dusty, slow and adds cost, and in most cases it can be avoided. Mesh fixed mechanically through into the wall lets a new system be built over sound existing dash, and anything blown or loose is cut out and made good before that happens. Our page on what happens when render goes over pebble dash sets out the build-up.
Thirty years of rendering behind us. SPS, Enviraul, Balmet and Atlas: manufacturer approved systems, with nothing cheaper substituted once a job starts. Pinned mesh as standard, on every property we render. The quote is fixed and itemised up front, and nothing is added to it later. Scaffolding is arranged for you. Fully insured. Call 07534 738068 to talk about a Collier Row house.
RM5 lies directly north of Romford, with Chadwell Heath over in RM6, Harold Hill across to the east, and Havering-atte-Bower and open country at the top end. There is no station here, so Romford is the one people use and the A12 to the south is the road they join. For a house further in towards the town, the range of housing we render across Romford is worth a look, because the mix there is far wider than it is on these streets.
Access is worth a mention too, since it matters on Collier Row roads in a way it does not everywhere. Streets are residential, frequently parked both sides, with frontages close to the pavement. The scaffold is ours to organise, and the practicalities get worked out before a start date is agreed rather than on the morning. It stays up in full view of the whole road while the job runs, so the site is kept tidy and the work is done with the houses either side in mind.
It will be noticed. There is no point pretending otherwise on a road of matching frontages. Whether it stands out well comes down to the colour and the finish. A tone taken from the brick and tile around it tends to read as the best-kept house on the street; a colour chosen in isolation from the neighbours tends to read as the odd one. You will get an honest view from us on which way yours is likely to land.
Colours come from the ranges the system manufacturers supply, so how close a match is achievable depends on what was used up the road and how long ago it went on. An older render that has weathered will not be the shade it started as either.
Nearly always, yes. It is the normal situation on these streets rather than an exception. Organising the scaffold is our job, and the access is looked at when we come out to quote, so anything awkward is known about before the work is booked instead of being discovered on day one.
In most cases, no. Sound dash is rendered over using mechanically fixed mesh, which avoids the removal, the mess and the cost of hacking a wall back to brick. Loose or blown areas are a different matter and are dealt with first, because a new finish is only ever as stable as whatever sits underneath it.
If you’re planning a rendering project in Essex and want a contractor you can trust to do it properly — get in touch today. We’ll be happy to discuss your requirements, visit your property, and provide a clear, honest, no-obligation quote.
