Render the external walls of your property

HaMuch is Excellent
By Emily Rivers
Last updated 18th July 2022

Rendering costs in 2023

Rendering takes a little bit longer than plastering and the weather conditions play a roll as well. Expect it to take between 2 to 3 weeks to render a 4 bedroom detached property. This will also depend on what type of finish you are after and if they are using a 1 or 2 coat system of application. Traditional lime rendering on older buildings is a more specialist job and may cost more depending on your plasterer.

If you are applying render for the first time on your house you need to make sure that you are adding value to the property and it fits well with the surrounding properties. Render is usually applied to brick work that is deemed unsightly and also offers a protection against the elements that some brickwork requires. Also it is best to inform your building insurance company that you are about to render the house, and they will be able to advise you accordingly.

You will need to additionally hire scaffolding. Depending on where you live in the UK costs start from around £400 a week. 


Estimates for common plasterer jobs;

JobEstimate
Skim a room£490
Rendering a 4-bed detached home (no scaffolding)£9,000
Rendering an external wall per sqm£50 per sqr metre
Plastering a medium sized room (walls only)£700
Skim a 10m2 ceiling£230
Plasterboarding£750
Cost to fit coving£85
Replace a ceiling£700
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Rates for other trades

Rendering a 4 bedroom house cost in the UK
Rendering a 4 bedroom house cost in the UK (excluding VAT or callout charges)
Location in UKRendering a 4 bedroom house cost
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near London£8,570
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Birmingham£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Leeds£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Glasgow£8,390
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Sheffield£7,850
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bradford£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Liverpool£7,400
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Edinburgh£7,940
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Manchester£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bristol£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Kirklees£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Fife£8,150
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wirral£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Lanarkshire£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wakefield£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Cardiff£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Dudley£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wigan£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Riding£7,280
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Lanarkshire£7,880
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Coventry£7,460
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Belfast£6,590
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Leicester£7,310
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Sunderland£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Sandwell£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Doncaster£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stockport£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Sefton£7,430
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Nottingham£7,730
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Newcastle Upon Tyne£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Kingston-upon-Hull£7,370
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bolton£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Walsall£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Plymouth£8,030
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Rotherham£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stoke-on-Trent£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wolverhampton£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Rhondda, Cynon, Taff£7,430
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Gloucestershire£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Derby£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Swansea£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Salford£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Barnsley£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Tameside£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Oldham£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Trafford£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Aberdeen£8,150
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Southampton£7,970
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Highland£7,130
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Rochdale£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Solihull£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Gateshead£7,550
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Milton Keynes£8,360
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Tyneside£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Calderdale£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Northampton£7,880
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Portsmouth£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Warrington£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Somerset£8,060
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bury£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Luton£8,510
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near St Helens£7,490
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stockton-on-Tees£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Renfrewshire£8,690
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near York£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Thamesdown£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Southend-on-Sea£8,120
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near New Forest£8,000
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Caerphilly£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Carmarthenshire£6,590
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bath£8,210
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wycombe£8,660
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Basildon£8,330
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bournemouth£8,090
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Peterborough£9,530
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North East Lincolnshire£7,370
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Chelmsford£8,210
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Brighton£8,030
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Tyneside£7,580
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Charnwood£7,400
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Aylesbury Vale£8,510
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Colchester£7,460
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Knowsley£7,430
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Lincolnshire£7,490
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Huntingdonshire£9,050
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Macclesfield£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Blackpool£7,250
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near West Lothian£8,000
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Somerset£7,850
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Dundee£7,190
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Basingstoke & Deane£8,420
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Harrogate£7,520
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Dumfries & Galloway£7,370
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Middlesbrough£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Flintshire£7,190
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near The Wrekin£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Newbury£8,390
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Falkirk£7,640
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Reading£8,570
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wokingham£8,720
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Windsor & Maidenhead£8,690
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Maidstone£7,910
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Redcar & Cleveland£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Ayrshire£7,970
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Blackburn£7,550
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Neath Port Talbot£7,550
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Poole£8,150
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wealden£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Arun£8,000
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bedford£8,240
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Oxford£8,330
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Lancaster£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Newport£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Canterbury£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Preston£7,400
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Dacorum£8,570
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Cherwell£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Perth & Kinross£12,200
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Thurrock£8,390
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Tendring£7,460
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Kings Lynn & West Norfolk£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near St Albans£8,540
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bridgend£7,490
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Cambridgeshire£8,360
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Braintree£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Norwich£7,070
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Thanet£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Isle of Wight£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Mid Sussex£7,940
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Oxfordshire£8,420
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Guildford£8,690
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Elmbridge£8,630
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stafford£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Powys£6,800
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Hertfordshire£8,390
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Torbay£7,370
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wrexham Maelor£7,160
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Devon£7,340
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Lindsey£7,010
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Halton£7,400
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Warwick£7,400
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Ayrshire£7,520
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Newcastle-under-Lyme£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Wiltshire£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Kesteven£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Epping Forest£8,540
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Vale of Glamorgan£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Reigate & Banstead£8,510
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Chester£7,220
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Mid Bedfordshire£8,450
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Suffolk Coastal£7,280
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Horsham£8,090
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Nuneaton & Bedworth£7,460
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Gwynedd£7,010
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Swale£8,300
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Havant & Waterloo£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Teignbridge£7,250
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Cambridge£8,360
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Vale Royal£7,250
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Amber Valley£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near North Hertfordshire£8,480
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Ayrshire£7,970
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Waverley£8,720
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Broadland£6,950
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Crewe & Nantwich£7,610
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Breckland£7,160
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Ipswich£7,520
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Vale of White Horse£8,180
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Salisbury£8,090
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Gedling£7,730
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Eastleigh£8,030
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Broxtowe£7,760
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stratford-on-Avon£7,430
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near South Bedfordshire£8,240
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Angus£9,200
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Hampshire£8,060
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near East Dunbartonshire£8,450
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Conway£7,010
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Sevenoaks£8,240
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Slough£8,660
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bracknell Forest£8,690
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near West Lancashire£7,520
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near West Wiltshire£7,820
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Ashfield£7,880
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Lisburn£6,650
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Scarborough£7,970
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Stroud£8,090
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Wychavon£7,670
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Waveney£7,130
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Exeter£7,370
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Dover£7,550
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Test Valley£7,970
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Gloucester£8,000
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Erewash£7,700
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Cheltenham£8,000
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Bassetlaw£7,790
Rendering a 4 bedroom house near Scottish Borders£7,760