Pebble-Dash
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I remember a few months ago there was a topic discussed on the forum regarding the proliferation of the use of red brick today.
Could I mention something more awful, a million times worse and which was so popular throughout twentieth century Ireland and our great days of architectural ignorance…… ‘pebble-dash’! The descendant of ‘harling’ was indeed rather a somewhat ugly old hoary antediluvian ‘unfinished ‘ finish to render ones building with.Whatever about it’s use in the suburbs or the countryside,(or some Normans lords castle) but it’s use in the centre of a city was surely grossly misplaced. It seemed to attract dirt and stains like a magnet and indeed was a curse to paint. Many a fine granite, limestone or red brick edifice suffered the fate of being covered by this builder’s muck all in the name of fashion or practicality and was usually applied by some poor soul with two left hands and the IQ of an amoeba. So heres to the death of this ungraceful unsightly render. Please may it never make such a forceful comeback again. -
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I live in the United States and have to admit that Pebble dash is a different finish. In the city I live in there are at least one hundred homes in the “historic areas. I am not familiar with any of these homes using this method to cover any other surfaces up bbut the homes are not over teo hundred years old. As a matter of fact all of the homes I have been involved wirh have had wood lath as a substrate. Evidently it was very popular at one time and I have been involved with numerous restoration projects as well as additions to many of these homes. I also have to agree that the finished product can be very bad if the applicator is not practiced or not willing to keep trying until they get it right.
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