Exterior Spray Painting in Leeming Bar

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 3,130 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Leeming Bar centre, 18.2% pre-date 1919 (below 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 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 30.3%, 12.1 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.

A further 33.0% were built between 1919 and 1972 (2.6% between the wars and 30.4% from 1945 to 1972, below 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 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 28.0%, 5.0 points lower than here, so dashed and painted render is likely to be more of the work here than in neighbouring parts of the county.

Homes built from 1973 to 1999 make up 23.6% 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.

The 25.6% built since 2000 (well 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 homes make up 48.8%, well above the 20% average for the towns we cover, and a detached house usually means four elevations, gable ends at height and a tower or scaffold for the upper walls. The rest of the stock includes 35.4% semi-detached and 4.1% flats. Across the other 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 36.9%, 11.9 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.

Terraces are relatively rare here at 11.6% of homes, so most jobs involve at least one exposed side elevation as well as the front and back.

Owners, landlords and timing

Private renting is 23.1%, above the 19% average for the towns we cover, and because exterior spraying needs no access inside, landlords can have it done with tenants in place. A fixed quote also makes it easy to budget across several properties. Only 17 of the 203 towns we cover have a higher share of private renting. Owner-occupiers account for 64.7% of households and social renters for 11.0%. Across the other 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 69.2%, 4.5 points higher than here, so landlords make more of the exterior decisions here than in the rest of the county.

How Leeming Bar compares with nearby towns

The nearest towns have less pre-1919 housing (17.3% in Bedale, 11.0% in Northallerton and 10.0% in Catterick), so old solid walls are a bigger part of the work in Leeming Bar than around it. The biggest contrast in house type is with Northallerton, where only 26.6% of homes are detached, so more jobs in Leeming Bar involve four elevations and the access equipment that goes with them. Renting is at a similar level across the area, 34.1% of households here against 32.1% in Bedale, and on any 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 23.1% in Bedale to 43.0% in Catterick, and Leeming Bar sits within that range. Building since 2000 is at a similar level nearby, with Bedale highest of the three at 26.6%.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Leeming Bar centre is a detached house: roughly 1,330 of the 2,717 households live in detached houses. Because elevations, gable heights and access vary so much from one detached house to the next, these are priced from the survey rather than from the front-elevation starting figure of around £1,200. Next come semi-detached houses, roughly 960 households, where the side elevation is usually the main addition to the front. The largest group of properties was built between 1945 and 1972 (the 48th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so chalky old masonry paint and patched render are the likeliest extras.