Exterior Spray Painting in Maltby

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 8,010 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Maltby centre, only 15.2% 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 17.9%, 2.7 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.

A further 40.8% were built between 1919 and 1972 (17.2% between the wars and 23.6% 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%, 2.3 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 37.8% of properties here (well 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 68.0% of homes here (39.7% semi-detached, 28.3% detached), and a semi usually has three elevations to spray: front, side and rear. The rest of the stock includes 25.0% terraced and 6.9% 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: 64.9% owner-occupied, 17.6% privately rented and 17.1% 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%, much the same as here.

How Maltby compares with nearby towns

The share of pre-1919 housing is broadly similar in the nearest towns (4.4% in Wickersley, 13.9% in Dinnington and 12.4% in Tickhill). The biggest contrast in house type is with Tickhill, where 53.5% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Maltby is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting also differs: 34.7% of households here rent, against 19.7% in Tickhill, 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 38.6% in Dinnington to 44.3% in Wickersley, and Maltby sits within that range. Dinnington has the most recent building of the three, with 19.3% of homes dating from 2000 onwards, so through-coloured renders that may only need cleaning are more common there than in Maltby. Owner-occupation is lower here than in Tickhill, where 79.9% of households own their home, so more of the exterior decisions in Maltby rest with landlords.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Maltby centre is a semi-detached house: roughly 3,020 of the 7,603 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 2,150 households, which are priced individually from the survey. The largest group of properties was built between 1973 and 1999 (the 13th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so roofline boards and cladding often join the walls in the same quote.