Exterior Spray Painting in Askern

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 4,170 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Askern centre, 24.0% pre-date 1919 (above the 21% average), so solid-walled stone or brick houses that must be able to breathe sit alongside later cavity-wall housing that can take a wider range of coatings, and we establish which you have before recommending a system. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 17.7%, 6.3 points lower than here, so solid walls that need breathable coatings are more of a feature here than elsewhere in the county.

A further 32.6% were built between 1919 and 1972 (19.4% between the wars and 13.2% from 1945 to 1972, below the 42% average for that period), and interwar semis are the classic home for pebbledash and roughcast, often with a smooth-rendered bay or band, which is where spraying gains most over a roller. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 43.3%, 10.7 points higher than here, so dashed render is likely to be less of the work here than in neighbouring parts of the county.

The 23.7% built since 2000 (above the 17% average) include many homes with through-coloured renders such as silicone or K-Rend type systems, which need compatible coatings and are sometimes designed to need only cleaning for years.

House type, access and what gets sprayed

Detached and semi-detached houses together make up 70.2% of homes here (42.5% semi-detached, 27.7% detached), and a semi usually has three elevations to spray: front, side and rear. The rest of the stock includes 24.1% terraced and 4.5% flats. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 26.9%, much the same as here.

Owners, landlords and timing

Tenure here is close to the average mix: 62.9% owner-occupied, 20.7% privately rented and 15.3% socially rented. Owners and landlords get the same fixed quote, and because exterior work needs no access indoors, a let house can be done with tenants in place. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 65.6%, 2.7 points higher than here, so landlords make more of the exterior decisions here than in the rest of the county.

How Askern compares with nearby towns

The nearest towns have less pre-1919 housing (21.2% in Bentley, 17.5% in South Elmsall and 13.3% in Doncaster), so old solid walls are a bigger part of the work in Askern than around it. The biggest contrast in house type is with Bentley, where only 12.5% of homes are detached, so more jobs in Askern involve four elevations and the access equipment that goes with them. Renting also differs: 36.0% of households here rent, against 42.2% in South Elmsall, and on a rented home the colour of the outside walls is normally the landlord's decision.

For housing built from 1919 to 1972, the main pebbledash and roughcast era, the three range from 47.0% in South Elmsall to 52.8% in Bentley, and Askern sits below that range. Askern has more homes built since 2000 than any of the three, the highest of which is South Elmsall at 16.3%, so newer through-coloured renders come up more often here than nearby.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Askern centre is a semi-detached house: roughly 1,580 of the 3,719 households live in semi-detached houses. Our starting figure of around £1,200 is for a front elevation, so on a typical semi the side and rear, plus any garage or render repairs, are what the survey adds. Next come detached houses, roughly 1,030 households, which are priced individually from the survey. The largest group of properties was built before 1919 (the 82nd highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so the survey also decides whether a wall should be coated at all, and with what.