Exterior Spray Painting in Dinnington

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 8,050 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Dinnington centre, only 13.9% were built before 1919, against an average of 21%, so most walls here are twentieth-century or later cavity construction: render or brick over blockwork, which suits a sprayed masonry finish once loose or chalky paint is dealt with. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 18.0%, 4.1 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.

A further 38.6% were built between 1919 and 1972 (10.6% between the wars and 28.0% from 1945 to 1972, close to the 42% average for that period), and postwar estates of the 1950s and 1960s often mixed brick with rendered or dashed panels; a few system-built houses of that time have concrete panels that need a survey before any coating. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 43.1%, 4.5 points higher than here, so dashed render is likely to be less of the work here than in neighbouring parts of the county.

Homes built from 1973 to 1999 make up 28.1% of properties here (above the 19% average), and houses of that era are mostly brick-faced, so the exterior work on them is usually rendered panels, timber cladding and roofline boards, where original timber or early uPVC soffits and fascias are often weathered, yellowed or chalky by now.

House type, access and what gets sprayed

Detached and semi-detached houses together make up 79.3% of homes here (50.3% semi-detached, 29.0% detached), and a semi usually has three elevations to spray: front, side and rear. The rest of the stock includes 15.0% terraced and 5.9% flats. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 26.9%, 2.1 points lower than here, so a job here is more likely to involve four elevations and work at gable height than in the rest of the county.

Owners, landlords and timing

Owner-occupiers make up 70.7%, above the 63% average for the towns we cover, so most exterior jobs here are long-term decisions about the house, which is why we would rather spend an extra day on render repairs than skip them. Of the other households, 16.2% rent privately and 12.7% rent from a council or housing association. Across the other 36 South Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 65.4%, 5.3 points lower than here, so decisions about the outside of the house rest with owners more often than in the rest of the county.

How Dinnington compares with nearby towns

The share of pre-1919 housing is broadly similar in the nearest towns (13.6% in Kiveton Park, 15.2% in Maltby and 4.4% in Wickersley). The biggest contrast in house type is with Kiveton Park, where 35.4% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Dinnington is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting also differs: 28.9% of households here rent, against 34.7% in Maltby, 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 40.8% in Maltby to 44.3% in Wickersley, and Dinnington sits below that range. Building since 2000 is at a similar level nearby, with Kiveton Park highest of the three at 21.5%.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Dinnington centre is a semi-detached house: roughly 3,700 of the 7,357 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 2,130 households, which are priced individually from the survey. The largest group of properties was built between 1973 and 1999 (the 43rd highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so roofline boards and cladding often join the walls in the same quote.