Exterior House Spraying in Yeadon: The Short Answer
ColourHaus spray paints house exteriors in Yeadon, 9 miles (about 21 minutes by road) from our workshop in Sheepscar, Leeds: rendered walls, pebbledash, brick and masonry, timber cladding, soffits, fascias, garages and garden buildings. Render and masonry jobs start from around £1,200 for a front elevation; whole houses, detached homes and jobs that mix surfaces are quoted at a fixed written price after a free survey, and the work carries a 5-year written guarantee.
The official figures shape how we would approach your house: Yeadon ranks 15th of the 203 towns we cover for homes built between 1919 and 1972, the era of pebbledash and roughcast that spraying covers far better than a roller, as our exterior spray painting service page explains.
uPVC windows and doors are a separate system, sprayed with Kolorbond-certified coatings under a 10-year guarantee: see uPVC spray painting in Yeadon.
Exterior spraying in Yeadon at a glance
| Price | From around £1,200 for a front elevation; whole houses quoted after a free survey |
|---|---|
| Surfaces | Render, pebbledash, masonry, cladding, soffits, fascias, outbuildings |
| Guarantee | 5 years, in writing, against peeling, flaking and adhesion failure |
| Colours | Full RAL range and major paint brands; sprayed samples at the site visit |
| Programme | Depends on the house and the weather; confirmed in your quote |
| Workshop | Unit 9 Taverners Walk, Sheepscar, Leeds LS7 1AH |
What We Spray on House Exteriors
- Rendered walls: smooth sand and cement, pebbledash, roughcast and K-Rend or Weber textured finishes, sprayed into every recess; dashed finishes are typical of houses built from 1919 to 1972, and roughly 5,500 properties here date from those years.
- Brick and masonry: breathable masonry coatings applied evenly over porous brick and block, and an honest view at the survey on whether old stone is better left unpainted; only about 1,790 properties here were built before 1919.
- Timber cladding: feather-edge, shiplap and tongue-and-groove boards in flexible exterior coatings that move with the timber.
- Soffits, fascias and bargeboards: roofline boards sprayed to match or contrast with the walls; on the roughly 1,940 properties here built from 1973 to 1999 they are often original and weathered.
- Garages, outbuildings and boundary walls: rendered, block or timber garages, summer houses, log cabins, sheds, garden offices and garden walls, which cost less sprayed in the same visit than on a return trip and come up most with detached and semi-detached homes, about 5,490 households here (garage doors are a separate job: see garage door spraying in Yeadon).
A commercial facade we resprayed in slate blue-green, from our gallery.
Yeadon Homes in Numbers
What the official figures say about the homes around Yeadon centre, and what that means for an exterior spray finish.
Yeadon at a glance
| Council | Leeds City Council |
|---|---|
| County | West Yorkshire |
| From our Leeds workshop | about 21 minutes by road (9 miles), to the north-west |
| Households counted | 9,791 in the 15 neighbourhoods nearest the centre |
| Owner-occupied | 71% (average across the towns we cover: 63%) |
| Privately rented | 13% (average 19%) |
Type of home
When the homes were built
What the age of the housing means for the walls
Of the 10,180 properties the Valuation Office Agency records around Yeadon centre, only 17.6% 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 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, pre-1919 housing averages 26.2%, 8.6 points higher than here, so cavity walls are more typical here than elsewhere in the county.
A further 54.0% were built between 1919 and 1972 (17.9% between the wars and 36.1% from 1945 to 1972, above 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 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, 1919 to 1972 housing averages 38.8%, 15.2 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.
Newer housing is a smaller part of the picture: 19.1% of properties date from 1973 to 1999 and 9.1% from 2000 onwards, 28.2% in all, against 36% on average.
House type, access and what gets sprayed
Detached and semi-detached houses together make up 56.1% of homes here (41.1% semi-detached, 15.0% detached), and a semi usually has three elevations to spray: front, side and rear. The rest of the stock includes 13.5% flats. Across the other 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, the detached share averages 23.9%, 8.9 points higher than here, so most jobs here involve fewer elevations than in the rest of the county.
Terraced homes are 30.0% of the total (above the 27% average), and on a mid-terrace we normally spray the front and rear only, with an end terrace adding its gable. We agree a clean finishing line where your wall meets the neighbour's, sheet adjoining walls, windows and cars against overspray, and check rear access at the survey because it often decides the programme.
Owners, landlords and timing
Owner-occupiers make up 70.6%, 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, 13.0% rent privately and 15.7% rent from a council or housing association. Across the other 83 West Yorkshire towns we cover, owner-occupation averages 70.5%, much the same as here.
How Yeadon compares with nearby towns
The share of pre-1919 housing is broadly similar in the nearest towns (23.0% in Rawdon, 13.8% in Guiseley and 20.4% in Horsforth). The biggest contrast in house type is with Guiseley, where 22.1% of homes are detached, a higher share than here, so a typical job in Yeadon is more likely to be a semi or terrace with fewer elevations to spray. Renting also differs: 28.7% of households here rent, against 23.4% in Horsforth, 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 39.4% in Rawdon to 56.5% in Horsforth, and Yeadon sits within that range. Guiseley has the most recent building of the three, with 20.5% of homes dating from 2000 onwards, so through-coloured renders that may only need cleaning are more common there than in Yeadon.
What the figures suggest about a quote
The most common home around Yeadon centre is a semi-detached house: roughly 4,020 of the 9,791 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 terraced houses, roughly 2,940 households, where the front and rear are usually the whole job. The largest group of properties was built between 1945 and 1972 (the 24th highest share for that period of the 203 towns we cover), so chalky old masonry paint and patched render are the likeliest extras.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, tables TS044 (accommodation type) and TS054 (tenure), via Nomis, aggregated over the LSOAs nearest each town centre; Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025 (CTSOP4.1, build period, 31 March 2025); OS Open Names and ONS Postcode Directory via postcodes.io; OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap data, from LS7 1AH. "Average" is the household-weighted average across the 203 towns and villages on our areas page. Figures compiled 2026-10-19.
How We Prepare and Spray an Exterior
On interwar and 1950s to 1970s houses most preparation is on older painted render and pebbledash: we expect chalky paint that needs a stabilising primer, hollow patches of render to cut out and repair, and loose dashing to fix back before anything is sprayed. Layers of paint on houses built before the 1960s can contain lead, and 35.5% of homes here were built before 1940, so on older houses we test old paint before any dry sanding.
- Free survey and fixed written quote
- Wash, treat algae, strip loose paint
- Fill cracks, repair render, prime
- Mask windows, paths and planting
- Spray, walk round, written guarantee
Each stage is explained on our exterior spraying page; what the written cover includes is on our guarantee page, and exact shade matching is covered by our colour matching service.
Exterior Spraying Around Yeadon
Getting to Yeadon
Yeadon is 9 miles and about 21 minutes by road from our workshop in Sheepscar, Leeds, so getting to you is straightforward: we can usually fit a free consultation in at short notice, and on multi-day jobs we are back on site early each morning.
Exterior Spraying near Yeadon
- Exterior Spraying Rawdon 1 mi
- Exterior Spraying Guiseley 1 mi
- Exterior Spraying Horsforth 3 mi
- Exterior Spraying Otley 3 mi
- Exterior Spraying Idle 3 mi
- Exterior Spraying Bramhope 3 mi
Distances are straight-line from Yeadon centre. See every area we cover.
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Exterior Spraying in Yeadon: Questions
How much does exterior spray painting cost in Yeadon?
Render and masonry spraying starts from around £1,200 for a front elevation, while whole houses, detached properties and jobs that mix render, timber and outbuildings are quoted individually after a free site visit, as a fixed written price with no day-rate charges. Semi-detached houses are the most common home in Yeadon (Yeadon has the 54th highest share of semi-detached homes of the 203 towns we cover), and a semi usually adds side and rear elevations to the front.
How long does a sprayed exterior finish last?
That depends on how exposed the walls are, the substrate and how well the wall was prepared; in Yeadon, where 54.0% of homes were built from 1919 to 1972, the biggest factor is usually the state of the old render and dashing underneath. All our exterior coating work carries a 5-year written guarantee against peeling, flaking and adhesion failure caused by our workmanship; the full terms are on our guarantee page.
Can you spray pebbledash and textured render in Yeadon?
Yes. Spraying is the best method for pebbledash, roughcast and textured render because the coating reaches every recess a roller skips. Yeadon ranks 44th of the 203 towns we cover for homes built between the wars, when those finishes were most widely used, and any loose dashing or hollow render is repaired before spraying.
When is the best time of year to spray a house exterior in Yeadon?
Spring to early autumn gives the most reliable drying conditions, but the forecast decides, not the calendar: Yeadon is about 21 minutes from our workshop, so short dry spells can often be used; if a planned day turns out wet, windy or below the coating manufacturer's minimum temperature, we reschedule free of charge.
How far is Yeadon from ColourHaus?
Our workshop is at Unit 9 Taverners Walk, Sheepscar, Leeds LS7 1AH. Yeadon is about 9 miles by road, roughly 21 minutes away, to the north-west. We confirm visit dates and anything distance-related in your fixed-price quote before you commit.
Do I need permission to change exterior colours in Yeadon?
Usually not for an ordinary house, but listed buildings, conservation areas and Article 4 areas can need consent from Leeds City Council. If your home is in one, check with the council first; we can give you the exact RAL or BS colour reference for the application.