Roughcasting & Rendering

Traditional roughcast (harling) and modern render to protect your walls from the Scottish weather and give your home a smart, fresh finish. A hairline crack lets water behind the coat long before it's visible from the ground. Because of that, minor cracking is always worth fixing sooner.

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Weatherproof walls, done the Scottish way

Roughcast has protected Scottish homes for generations, and for good reason — that hard, textured coat sheds our driving rain and stands up to the freeze-thaw of winter. But when it cracks, blows or lets water behind it, damp soon follows on the inside.

We repair failing roughcast and re-coat whole elevations in traditional harling or modern render, so your walls look sharp and stay dry. And because we roof too, we can tackle the roof and walls together while the scaffold's up.

A roughcast or render job is usually priced by wall area. Cracked or failed sections get repaired before any new coat goes on, since patching over damage just traps the problem underneath. Scottish weather is harder on render than most of the UK, so we use mixes suited to that exposure. We also check window and door reveals closely, since that's where a coat most often fails first.

We keep a note of which mixes have worked well on similar properties nearby, which speeds up matching an existing finish.

Roughcasting & rendering work

Traditional roughcast / harling to full elevations
Smooth and textured modern render finishes
Thin-coat coloured silicone render systems
Cracked, blown and hollow roughcast cut out and repaired
Cracks raked out and made good before re-coating
Full house re-coats to refresh a tired exterior

Repair or re-coat

Honest advice on whether a patch will do or the wall needs re-coating.

Written quote

A fixed price for the finish you choose, no obligation.

Roof & walls together

Combine with roofing while the scaffolding is already up.

How it works

Free survey

We assess the wall, the existing finish and what's causing any failure.

Written quote

A fixed price for repair or a full re-coat in your chosen finish.

Prep & coat

Loose material removed, walls prepped, then harled or rendered to last.

Roughcasting FAQs

What is roughcasting (harling)? +

Roughcasting, or harling, is the traditional Scottish wall finish where a wet mix of aggregate and render is cast onto the wall to give a hard-wearing, textured, weatherproof coat. It's ideal for our climate and is what you'll see on most older Scottish homes.

What's the difference between roughcast and render? +

Roughcast has a rough, pebbled texture from the aggregate thrown onto it, while modern render can be finished smooth or with a thin-coat silicone finish in a range of colours. We offer both and will advise which suits your property and the existing finish.

Can you patch-repair roughcast or does the whole wall need doing? +

Small areas of cracked or blown roughcast can often be cut out and patched, though colour and texture matching is never perfect on an old wall. Where a whole elevation is failing, re-coating the full wall gives a far better, more uniform result. We'll tell you honestly which makes sense.

Do you roughcast as well as roof? +

Yes. Alongside our roofing work we take on roughcasting and rendering, so we can weatherproof both your roof and your walls in one go — handy when scaffolding is already up for roof work.

Roughcasting across the Forth Valley

We cover Falkirk and the surrounding towns of central Scotland. Since that's a wide area, chances are we already reach you. Choose your area or see everywhere we cover.

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Walls cracked or tired-looking?

Book a free survey for roughcasting or rendering across Falkirk and central Scotland. Since minor cracking only gets worse over winter, it's worth having it looked at while the fix is still small.

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