Terolene Dropping Off Garden Wall. What Would You Suggest Is The Best Way To Repair My Gdn Wall …?
The wall is huge, it is rendered and terolened over the top. It is also a retaining wall, and holds back quite a lot of soil. This is why there is a problem cos of the damp in the ground, I think, and has caused the terolene to drop off in large patches.
What I would like to know is how to sort out the problem. Would it be best that I scrape all the loose off and terolene over the patches again, or is there some sort of tool/machine I can buy or hire to remove all the terolene easily and will leave only the render showing, it could then just be painted.
Or is there anything decorative like (stone cladding) that could cover the wall so i wouldn’t need to remove the remaining terolene.
I just want the wall to look as smart as it did as when it was new.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thank you. : )
There is no machine that will remove tyrolene.
You’d have to hack it off with an SDS chisel, it would leave a mess and you’d have to render it.
You can buy tyrolene applciators for about £15 so repairing it is not a real problem.
However, you’ve the damp to consider and i guess you’ve main concern is it falling off again.
Well, it might fall off again, but not for 30 years so that might not be a real problem.
Personally, i’d consider 3 choices.
1 – chisel off the loose stuff, wait for dry weather and apply new tyrolene to the gaps.
2 – bite the bullet, rip it all off and have the wall sandblasted. That way it will breath and let out the damp in the future. It depends on whats underneath. If its old brick stock, maybe do this ?
3 – bite the bullet part deux
Have a brick skin built up the front of the wall from something like “Devonshire cottage mix” brick by Phoenix Heritage. They look like old english stock. You’ tie this into the existing retainer and leave draining slots in the mortal near the base. Brickies cost about £90/day. Get them to do a garden wall bond, or maybe dutch or chinese (they’ll know what these are ) and it’ll look like a English Cottage garden wall – a real feature. You’d also need a footing for it. To make it look even more authentic, use imperial bricks – they are slightly larger.
My prefered option is 3. It gives you a permanent damp-free solution.
How big is “huge” ? sand blasting costs about £400 a day and they can get through an area about 2 metres high by 15 metres. But you’d have to get the bulk off first.