Comments on: Pebbledash visions

By: Av

Av — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:09:21 +0000

Ivy, it’s nice but a curse. We had Ivy roots grow right through the exterior render into the house…in through the roof and under the suspended floor. It took us 3 hard days labour to remove it. It will find it’s way in in time… The walls of our house are over 2 feet thick and it was scary seeing all the roots inside when we took the lath down. The wall was wet and damp. With the Ivy gone the house can breath again :)

By: Ian Daitz

Ian Daitz — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:33:47 +0000

Ivy digs in to lime mortar with its little hooks for stability but only to a shallow depth and its weight is spread over a broad surface
so I don’t think it should damage pebbledash. Rather it seems like a great armature for a vertical vegetative wall.

By: Jemima

Jemima — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:36:00 +0000

I have NO idea. Perhaps Ian will come back and give us the answer. I’m not going to ask Sarah in case it gets her started again…

By: Angela Daley

Angela Daley — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:20:49 +0000

We have ivy growing over the front of a1930′s pebbledash house.Will it damage the pebbledash? Should it be removed.It is attractive but we are concerned about damage.It has bee there about 10 years.
Angela

By: Ian Daitz

Ian Daitz — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:09:09 +0000

I am a plasterer and landscape Architecture student involved in a
student projects which requires the treatment of a bare cynderblock
wall which about 5meters tall that forms part of a residential square.
The wall stands out against the ocher earth-toned plaster of the couryard housing, which forms the East and West ends of the square.
My thought was to apply a pebbledash treatment to the North wall section with a lime rich cement render. the texture I am thinking will allow Ivy to easily climb the wall. Pebble dash is highly uncommon here in New
Mexico as is ivy growing up walls.

By: Jemima

Jemima — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“When I think of pebbledashed walls…” Now, there’s a sentence to set the alarm bells ringing.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In the little village where I grew up there was a pebbledashed house on the main road, and I always thought it was really ugly, particularly as most other houses were made from Cotswold stone. Well, one day, I saw they were starting building work on it, and to my surprise it turned out they were building a Cotswold stone house around the pebbledashed house. Presumably when they had finished they went inside and knocked down the old pabbledashed walls inside, so were left with a new house without having had to remove the old house first. Very clever. I don’t know why they did it, I always assumed it was because the pebbledash was so ugly they couldn’t bear it, and so I held these unknown owners in great regard for some years whenever I passed the house.

Not a lot happened in our village.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Message really for Jemima not Sarah,

Get Out Quick, I fear for your safety, Sarah may try to practice her pebbledashing on you!!!!!
Otherwise, I reccommend taking her to a padded white cell where she can be put under constant supervision.