Exterior Spray Painting in Skelmanthorpe

What the age of the housing means for the walls

Of the 3,960 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Skelmanthorpe centre, 29.8% pre-date 1919 (above 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 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 26.0%, 3.8 points lower than here, so solid walls that need breathable coatings are more of a feature here than elsewhere in the county.

The interwar and postwar decades account for just 28.3% of homes here, against 42% on average, so heavy pebbledash and roughcast are less common than in many Yorkshire towns. Across the other 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 39.1%, 10.8 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 21.2% of properties here (close to 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 homes make up 37.9%, 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 33.7% semi-detached, 25.0% terraced and 3.2% flats. Across the other 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 23.6%, 14.3 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 79.2%, 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, 13.4% rent privately and 6.7% rent from a council or housing association. Across the other 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 70.4%, 8.8 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 Skelmanthorpe compares with nearby towns

The share of pre-1919 housing is broadly similar in the nearest towns (30.8% in Denby Dale, 31.8% in Clayton West and 33.3% in Shepley). The biggest contrast in house type is with Denby Dale, where 44.3% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Skelmanthorpe is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting is at a similar level across the area, 20.1% of households here against 16.0% in Shepley, 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 22.2% in Clayton West to 31.8% in Denby Dale, and Skelmanthorpe sits within that range. Building since 2000 is at a similar level nearby, with Clayton West highest of the three at 22.8%.

What the figures suggest about a quote

The most common home around Skelmanthorpe centre is a detached house: roughly 1,380 of the 3,630 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 1,220 households, where the side elevation is usually the main addition to the front. The largest group of properties was built before 1919 (the 59th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so the survey also decides whether a wall should be coated at all, and with what.