Exterior Spray Painting in Market Weighton

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 4,170 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Market Weighton centre, only 9.8% 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. Only 20 of the 203 towns we cover have a lower share of pre-1919 homes. Across the other 29 East Riding of Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 17.3%, 7.5 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.

The interwar and postwar decades account for just 24.2% of homes here, against 42% on average, so heavy pebbledash and roughcast are less common than in many Yorkshire towns. Across the other 29 East Riding of Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 36.4%, 12.2 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 32.6% 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. Only 24 of the 203 towns we cover have a higher share of homes from 1973 to 1999.

The 34.5% 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 42.8%, 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 33.6% semi-detached, 15.6% terraced and 8.0% flats. Across the other 29 East Riding of Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 38.9%, 3.9 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.

Owners, landlords and timing

Owner-occupiers make up 71.9%, 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, 16.7% rent privately and 10.3% rent from a council or housing association. Across the other 29 East Riding of Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 75.2%, 3.3 points higher than here, so landlords make more of the exterior decisions here than in the rest of the county.

How Market Weighton compares with nearby towns

The nearest towns have more pre-1919 housing (17.4% in Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor, 7.1% in Pocklington and 31.0% in Middleton on the Wolds), so Market Weighton has a younger housing stock than its neighbours and fewer solid-walled houses. The biggest contrast in house type is with Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor, where 57.4% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Market Weighton is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting also differs: 27.0% of households here rent, against 19.3% in Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor, 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 20.4% in Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor to 21.1% in Middleton on the Wolds, and Market Weighton sits above that range. Building since 2000 is at a similar level nearby, with Pocklington highest of the three at 37.1%.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Market Weighton centre is a detached house: roughly 1,610 of the 3,763 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 1,260 households, where the side elevation is usually the main addition to the front. The largest group of properties was built since 2000 (the 6th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so the first question is often whether the render needs a coating or just a clean.