steveg22 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Hi,The gable end of our house (pierre & terre) has some alarmingly large holes in it (the owls love them) and it needs to be re-rendered with chaux. One of the more worrying holes is at the corner of the gable and just under the roof!This work I intend to do myself when we move over. However, in the meantime, what's the correct way to fill the holes. On a previous house the macon used pieces of terracotta brick to block large holes and then chucked the chaux on top - is the correct way? ThanksSteve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Our builder used bits of (in our case lime-)stone, found by digging in our garden! Happily, there's loads of it lying about. What's more just over our fence is a very large hole - quite obviously years ago the former contents of which were used to build the house itself - which has supplied several pieces of stone which match the fabric of the house. Not much wrong with terracotta though, I guess but I'd be inclined, if you can, to find stone which matches that already used to build the house. But then I'm no builder - I just watch what they do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandaz Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 If you want it to look good then get some matching stones ,the stones are very easy to come by...Filling it with tiles and render does the job but it is not very pretty.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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