Rendering your home completely changes the appearance and character of your home.

It is a great opportunity for you to consider upgrading other surrounding elements of your home to balance out the impact the rendering will make for your home. Carefully consider all of your options to do with balustrading, handrails, guttering, roof, front door and windows.

Lighting, in particular wall lights make a huge impact on accentuating the best parts of a rendered home, as does landscaping. And of course getting your colour scheme right is what brings everything together.

When considering to render your home, your objective should be to maximise its overall impact, as in its street appeal. And to do this you need to treat the exercise as you would any other project.

So as you can see, the cost of rendering is simply not just about a square metre rate. Sure, the rendering component can be quoted as such, but this is very risky to you the consumer, as the emphasis for the contractor then becomes a race to finish the job as quickly as possible to maximise his profit, and more often than not the quality of the job suffers. This sadly happens all the time.

Another important factor in relation to the cost of rendering your home is that there are many different applications of render being used everyday in Sydney. Traditional cement render, polymer modified render, acrylic render, plaster and marble wall finishes etc, as well as new products emerging onto the market all of the time. These are often use in conjunction with each other to deliver a desired finish to a home.

So depending on what system you wish to have applied to your home, the cost varies greatly. We have rendered a home for as little as $4000, that being the most basic of all render systems, and have rendered a home for $580K dollars. It really depends on the size of your home, the system and the amount of details required.

For a more specific indication of the cost to render your home, please call Render My Home on 0405 278 369 today to arrange for a free, no obligation quote for your home.
 

The short answer is yes. Rendering your home does many things to the appearance of your home apart from dramatically changing it that will result in an increased sale price, assuming you were rendering your home specifically for this purpose.

Firstly, it conceals the material that your home is built from whether that be face brick, concrete or some other type of material, i.e. sheeting or cladding. This can be helpful if the brickwork of your home is unattractive, old  or out-dated. 

By rendering your home you have now concealed the real age of your home and have made the home appear more modern. Rendered homes are always in vogue. Driving through the more established and prestigious suburbs of any capital city in Australia will support that statement.

It provides to any home an elegant look that can be presented as either a traditional or heritage style look, or as a modern masterpiece, sleek and sharp. However it is often the other elements to your home that can really accentuate these themes, especially with things such as lighting, colour schemes, external fixtures and landscaping.

By rendering your home you can improve the street appeal of your home and in turn increase the value of your home. If a home is considered attractive and appealing, it will result in greater attention and demand. And this translates into increased value. 

I am still seeing so many people everyday making the same mistakes with their approach to building renovations to their homes.

Sadly we have really become a society so driven by ‘price’ that we  often fail to really understand what we are actually getting when renovating. This creates many problems as we think we are getting a better deal, but the reality is that something needs to give way, and this could be anything from a compromise in product quality selection, lesser performing products, shortcuts in methodology, inadequate insurances, site safety or business compliance, all of which are likely to cost you, the consumer.

The old-age phrase of ‘comparing apples with apples’ with building-related products and services, is really one area where consumers get it wrong more often than not.

The point to all of this is that over a long period of time, the cheaper deal often actually ends up costing you significantly more. It happens all of the time! But it shouldn’t.

I am dealing with a client that has been repairing her home constantly for the last 20 years! She happens to be quite price driven and unfortunately from the condition of her home, it is very apparent that poor decisions in the past have cost her greatly with a run-down looking home, i.e., cracked render, blistering paint, leaky roof and glass panels, etc. Over the duration of years of constant repairs, she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on work that has failed sooner than it should have. 

The challenge for me is to prove to my client that by carefully considering all of the possible options  related to the scope of works, a much better overall performance will be achieved for much longer, meaning less money thrown away in between. 

Providing honest information to a client when they are considering renovating, as unpalatable as it may come across and likely damage your chances of winning the job, is the right thing to do for the clients’ long term interests. 

The message to consumers really needs to be that there is no cheaper way out, other than doing the job properly the first time.

Unfortunately there are way too many builders and tradesmen alike who push the ‘cheaper, cheaper, cheaper’ mantra and consumers are taking it hook, line and sinker!  

A few years ago my dad thought it would be a good idea to see what kind of sale price his home could fetch on the property market. So we contacted a real estate agent and arranged for a meeting at the property.
 
The home was only ten years old, but even so it had significant areas of ‘wear and tear’ that the agent pointed out as being a ‘sore point’ from a sales perspective. Essentially, any prospective buyers would feel less attracted to a home that required significant upgrade and expenditure soon after they purchased and exchanged.
 
The agent continued pointing out these items to us…Blistering paint, cracked render, drummy tiles, out-dated balustrade, shabby garden, evidence of rust in areas, and the list goes on.
 
And it didn’t stop there! Salt efflorescence stains on walls, faded paint scheme, wrong paint scheme, cracked roof tile, etc, etc, etc!

And we hadn’t even noticed half of these things!!!
 
Now, the real estate agent had a point to all of this of which we were very grateful for. The cost to repair and restore these items to get the house again looking its best was valued at $60K. 
 
But, the overall increase in street appeal in turn increased the sale price by a whopping $130K, yielding him an additional profit of $70K.
 
I guess anyone looking to sell their home ideally does not want to be spending money on the property prior to selling it or placing it on auction. However, having the right advice could yield you a little reward that you otherwise may have missed out on. 
 
Not a bad little earner I say…