Exterior Spray Painting in Northallerton

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 9,250 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Northallerton centre, only 11.0% 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 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 30.4%, 19.4 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.

A further 40.4% were built between 1919 and 1972 (7.1% between the wars and 33.3% 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 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 27.9%, 12.5 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 26.1% 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.

The 21.8% 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 61.9% of homes here (35.3% semi-detached, 26.6% detached), and a semi usually has three elevations to spray: front, side and rear. The rest of the stock includes 25.5% terraced and 12.4% flats. Across the other 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 37.4%, 10.8 points higher than here, so most jobs here involve fewer elevations than in the rest of the county.

Owners, landlords and timing

Tenure here is close to the average mix: 63.2% owner-occupied, 15.6% privately rented and 20.4% 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 50 North Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 69.2%, 6.0 points higher than here, so landlords make more of the exterior decisions here than in the rest of the county.

How Northallerton compares with nearby towns

The nearest towns have more pre-1919 housing (57.5% in Osmotherley, 18.2% in Leeming Bar and 17.3% in Bedale), so Northallerton has a younger housing stock than its neighbours and fewer solid-walled houses. The biggest contrast in house type is with Osmotherley, where 56.6% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Northallerton is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting also differs: 36.0% of households here rent, against 26.4% in Osmotherley, 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 22.6% in Osmotherley to 33.0% in Leeming Bar, and Northallerton sits above that range. Building since 2000 is at a similar level nearby, with Bedale highest of the three at 26.6%. Owner-occupation is lower here than in Osmotherley, where 72.5% of households own their home, so more of the exterior decisions in Northallerton rest with landlords.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Northallerton centre is a semi-detached house: roughly 2,980 of the 8,432 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 2,240 households, which are priced individually from the survey. The largest group of properties was built between 1945 and 1972 (the 35th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so chalky old masonry paint and patched render are the likeliest extras.