End to end
What we did:
- Remove the rendered / painted archway walls
- Repair underlying damage
- Render the entrance way
- Paint the entrance way
How it started
This house had clearly suffered some abuse throughout the years. The paint job on the entrance was cheap and nasty, covering lumpy render.
What we did
We decided to remove the paint and restore this brickwork too. This is how it looked at the start, even in this picture you can see how lumpy the paint job is compared to next door where the original bricks are discernable through the paint:
This involved stripping back the badly done paintwork on the arches to see what damage was underneath. There were some knocks in the brickwork which must have taken a beating at some point but on the whole not too bad considering the rest of the house. However what had gone on to make the column in that state! It seemed to be paint over render, over some other render, over yellow paint, over white paint… hard to tell with the mess going on.
This all got stripped back and a section weather struck pointed to see what it would look like:
Frankly it looked a hell of a lot better so decided to run with it and repair the front back to it’s original look.
The other piece we did was to rerender and paint the inner entrance way having moved the front door back to it’s original location. The most recent installation was a nasty uPVC door that they had moved forward so there was no shelter from the weather to gain a few cms of an already long and narrow corridor. The dark green was really old so it’s unclear whether the door was moved a long time ago, there used to be 2 doors or the paint continued to the outside.
Conclusion
If you’re doing the brickwork anyway, definietly worth considering the additional piece to take the entrance back to its former glory too.