Cement render, sand finish
from $2,200$55/m²
Two-coat sand-and-cement over face brick, floated to a fine sand finish. It needs paint — add our topcoat or hand it to your painter.
Balcatta · Est. 2011 · Registered building contractor
Cement render & texture coating across Perth — your brick, our float.
Face-brick to smooth render, acrylic texture or bag-and-paint — priced by the elevation before we've knocked on the door. Single-storey homes finished in four to six working days, weather permitting.
7-year workmanship warranty on render, 10 on texture
$20M public liability
Fixed price after the site measure
One-eighty square metres, floated smooth
Colours are illustrative — the real job is priced and colour-matched at the site measure.
The Render Elevation
Price your elevation before we visit
Pick the scope, the finish and the wall area. Supply and apply, GST included, confirmed at the site measure.
Scope
Finish
Wall area
Square metres of wall20–400 m² in tens · 40 m² minimum billed
180 m²
Extras
Paint topcoatTwo coats exterior acrylic · +$18/m²
Reveals & quoins detailReveals dressed, quoins struck · +$450
ScaffoldTwo-storey access · +$1,200
Services & prices
Three finishes, two details, one honest repair line
Supply and apply per square metre of wall, GST included. Every job is fixed-price after the site measure — no square-metre surprises when the scaffold comes down.
Acrylic texture systems
from $3,400$85/m²
Base coat, mesh at the movement joints, acrylic texture with the colour through it. Flexes with the wall and never needs painting.
Bag-and-paint
from $1,920$48/m²
Sand-cement slurry bagged into the brick so the coursing still shows softly, then two coats of exterior paint — included.
Paint topcoat over render
$18/m²
Two coats of exterior acrylic over cured cement render, your colour. Priced on the same billed area as the render.
Reveals & quoins detail
$450
Window and door reveals dressed square and true, quoins struck at the corners. The detail that makes render read as designed, not applied.
Render crack repair & re-coats
Quoted on inspection
We rake out, mesh and patch cracked render, then re-coat the whole elevation so you can't find the join. Tired texture coats re-coated the same way.
Est. 2011, Balcatta
ABN 00 000 000 336
Registered building contractor BC 00000
$20M public liability
Dulux AcraTex-trained applicators
7-yr workmanship warranty on render · 10-yr on texture systems
What owners say
Brick homes that stopped looking their age
★★★★★
“Double-brick 1994 place in Dianella, acrylic texture in a warm grey. Listed the week after the scaffold came down and it sold in nine days. The agent said the render photos did the work.”
Priya M. — Dianella
★★★★★
“Just the front elevation before the auction photos. Measured Monday, rendered and painted by Thursday, photographer Friday. Nobody would guess the sides are still brick.”
Glenn & Sue T. — Carine
★★★★★
“Our 1990s render had cracked right down the north wall. They raked it out, meshed it, patched it and re-coated the whole side. I've stood there looking for the join. Can't find it.”
Mark D. — Karrinyup
Service area
Based in Balcatta, rendering metro-wide
Most of our week is the northern suburbs — the brick belt from Karrinyup and Dianella out to Wanneroo — but the scaffold truck goes wherever the brick is, Two Rocks to Rockingham and out to Midland.
- Northern suburbs: Balcatta, Karrinyup, Dianella, Morley, Hillarys, Joondalup, Wanneroo
- Inner and western: Perth, Scarborough, Subiaco, Fremantle
- Eastern and southern: Midland, Ellenbrook, Cannington, Armadale, Rockingham
- Site measures Monday to Saturday — no travel charge inside the metro
Questions we get on the driveway
Straight answers on render
Cement render or acrylic texture — which one?
Cement render is cheaper per metre and gives you the classic smooth, floated look — but it's rigid, so we control-joint it, and it needs paint (ours or your painter's). Acrylic texture costs more, but it flexes with the wall as the bricks move through summer, carries the colour through the coat, and never needs painting. If you're selling, cement plus a topcoat is the value play; if you're staying twenty years, the texture system usually costs less over the life of the wall.
How long does it take?
A single-storey full exterior takes four to six working days, weather permitting — render doesn't like a 40°C easterly or a wet week. A front elevation is usually two to three days including paint. Double-storey adds a day for the scaffold each end. We'll give you the dates at the site measure.
Can you render over painted brick?
Yes — with a bonding agent or a keyed base coat first, depending on what's on the wall and how well it's stuck. Painted brick and old texture coats are quoted on inspection, because the prep is the job.
Will the render crack?
Hairlines can appear anywhere a brick wall moves, which is why we cut control joints at the same lines the brickie did, mesh over lintels and openings, and cure the render properly. Structural movement is the wall's business, not the render's — but our 7-year workmanship warranty (10 on texture systems) covers our work: drummy render, delamination and cracks that come from application, not from the house.
Do I need to move out?
No. We work outside, keep the power on and the doors clear, and mask windows and paths. There's a bit of noise from the mixer and a couple of days of scaffold on a double-storey. The dog might prefer to visit the neighbours.
Book a site measure
We'll measure the walls and hold the price
Send your details and the scope from the Render Elevation. Rob or Kylie will call to book a 30-minute site measure, tape the elevations, check the brick and give you a fixed price on the spot.
We call back within one working day — usually the same afternoon.