External cladding for new extension
Later in the year we are extending the front of our house to add a bedroom and small study. The house is a late 80s brick veneer, with weather board infills above windows.
We don't want to render the bricks afterwards and are intending to fully strip and clean the existing front of the house to reuse the bricks on the new front wall once it's built.
My dilemma relates to the short section of new wall that will exist along the front entry path - the front is moving out about 1.8m, which is more or less the full width of the garden bed in the picture (the new front wall of the house will line up with the existing car port). My concern relates to how well a new section of brick wall would blend with the existing wall - although we will be using the original bricks (no issues with colour matching etc), it will obviously be new mortar along a defined line. I'm worried that this will be really obvious (can they realistically colour match 30 year old mortar?!).
We will be adding a new enclosed porch at the end of that entry path, which will be clad, most probably in a vertical Weathertex painted in Woodland Grey (the colour of the trim currently). I'm wondering if we should make a bit of a feature of that front
corner by cladding the new 1.8m section of wall in the same board as the enclosed porch. Or would this just look a bit odd?!
Interested to hear thoughts or alternative ideas! Thanks!
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PRO10 years ago- 10 years agoWe've yet to look at the actual process for stripping and cleaning, but were hoping to do that part ourselves to help with the budget, so thanks for that warning! I'll ask our builder friend to have look and see what he thinks.
Yes, aware of the roof/ceiling height issue!!
- 10 years agoWe've yet to look at the actual process for stripping and cleaning, but were hoping to do that part ourselves to help with the budget, so thanks for that warning! I'll ask our builder friend to have look and see what he thinks.
Yes, aware of the roof/ceiling height issue!!
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- 9 years agoWe're actually underway!
We discovered that our bricks are rare as hen's teeth, so we have elected to go with Duragroove FC cladding (narrow profile) on the extension, and are reusing our bricks for infills etc (oh how i loathe cleaning bricks...).
And so it doesn't look out of place, we'll be recladding the rest of the weather board sections to match (much of it needs replacing anyway).
We're about a week away from windows and cladding - will post some updated photos once they're on.
(Oh and if you're wondering about the roof, the orange tiles are new - that was their original colour before we painted. They're just as hideous as we remember, so will be repainting.
- 9 years agoWe're actually underway!
We discovered that our bricks are rare as hen's teeth, so we have elected to go with Duragroove FC cladding (narrow profile) on the extension, and are reusing our bricks for infills etc (oh how i loathe cleaning bricks...).
And so it doesn't look out of place, we'll be recladding the rest of the weather board sections to match (much of it needs replacing anyway).
We're about a week away from windows and cladding - will post some updated photos once they're on.
(Oh and if you're wondering about the roof, the orange tiles are new - that was their original colour before we painted. They're just as hideous as we remember, so will be repainting.
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Hi Katrine,
The renovation went really well - thanks! It's been finished for more than a year now - hard to believe!! I could only find one pic of the cladding that was easy for me to upload - here it is.
We've been really happy with the FC cladding and how it looks. We replaced all the existing exterior weatherboards (which ran on an angle parallel to the roof) with the same Duragroove FC cladding that we covered the new extension in. Our builders said it is very easy to work with and it certainly went up very quickly. Their only comment was that you can end up with a fair bit of wastage as it often gets damaged in transit. The supplier they used said this is pretty common, however, and so they actually allow for it and oversupply somewhat to allow a proportion of damaged sheets - sorry I can't quantify this aspect for you.
The cladding was very easy and quick to paint and we're very happy with how it has come up. If you're interested in details, it's painted in a new Colourbond colour called Gully. The darker trim (fascias, gutters, downpipes etc) is Woodland Grey.
Good luck with your decision making. If you'd like more photos, let me know and I'll try to take and upload a few more.
Cheers,
Kate
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