Stone cladding - paint over or remove

greengirl1968

I have stone cladding on the front of my house - very 70's andI would like to get it removed but I would image this would be a difficult job. Has anyone removed cladding like this or is it an option to paint over it? Thanks

bfclancy2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058353324/stone-cladding-paint-over-or-remove

chances are its concrete molded to look like stone, very popular in 70s and 80s, if you remove you will have no external leaf to your house and will need to be built in block and rendered, easy enough to paint

Rows Grower

If it is stone cladding it should be easy enough to remove, once you get the first one off (smack of a lump hammer in the middle of it should help) then use a small kango hammer or a lump hammer and bolster to remove the rest. It needn't be done to a very perfectly smooth finish if you are going to go over the area with a sand and cement plaster finish.

bfclancy2

if its from 70s or 80s i'll bet its this stuff, cork stone we used called it in the trade

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058353324/stone-cladding-paint-over-or-remove

Post up a photo if you can.

Mellor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188211#Comment_122188211

That's a very different situation to what OP described. Not impossible that there no outer leaf, but it wouldn't be typical.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188529#Comment_122188529

Case in point. There's an original leaf behind that colourful mock stone.

bfclancy2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122189208#Comment_122189208

Not different to what the OP described at all, only a picture will confirm, built many of them and the mock stone formed the outer leaf

Mellor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122189734#Comment_122189734

Oap said cladding. If it forms the outer leaf it’s not cladding. He may be mistaken, but mock stone forming the outer leaf is rare imo.

In the photo you posted. It’s not the outer leaf.

greengirl1968

Thanks, I'll do that