External Wall Insulation (EWI) and Rendering Experts

Dating from the late seventeenth century, this old coaching inn stands in the heart of "Dickens country", just yards from the home where the celebrated author lived, and died. Steeped in Dickensian history, the Coaching Inn stood on the main highway from London to Dover, and having visited during his London years, Dickens fell in love with the area and purchased a home on the opposite side just yards from the Inn (and thus avoiding the grisly view of the gallows, a deterrent to the Highwaymen plying their trade of the coast road).

After passing into private hands and, courtesy of the required EPC finding the substantial building and outhouses to be leaking energy and very expensive to heat, the owners took the decision to upgrade the property, while still keeping it's conservation area appearance. Next door, the Inn that Dickens had frequented so often that he'd had a tunnel built from his house across the street and into the pub. (Now the Sir John Falstaff) So the "Findhorn" owners commissioned a BBA certified Insulated Render System with aesthetic finish to match the authors' favoured pub.

RDL Render specified a 90mm graphite Insulation board however; half a dozen different sizes of insulation were required in order to level the 300+ year old building. Once levelled, a reinforcing, anti-crack glass fibre mesh was imbedded into dual coatings of Enewall polymer modified Multi-Purpose Adhesive (MPA), and finally upwards 400m2 of Enewall silicone enhanced 1.5mm textured topcoat trowelled and floated on to create the desired aesthetic finish. Completed in Autumn 2016, the handover came just in time for the turn in weather to colder temperatures (and lower energy bills)... not to mention the Dickens-trail tourists who will now see a fresh new look to an old and cherished building.