Cover pebble dash · County Antrim
Covering pebble dash in Antrim
If you're planning pebble dash covering in Antrim, start with a free survey: we measure, check the walls and confirm planning and building control for your address. If you're covering pebble dash in Antrim, we price both a render-over and an insulate-over option.
- Free survey in BT41 and nearby
- Guide price from £72 per m² + scaffold, inc VAT
- Fixed written price before work starts
Free survey in Antrim
Postcode, service and a phone number is all we need.
What you get
- Removing dash entirely is noisy and can damage soft brick
- Render-over uses a bonding coat and mesh to level the stones
- Combining with insulation adds warmth as well as a new look
- Tap-testing finds hollow, loose areas before anything is decided
Antrim: walls, weather and approvals
Surveys in Antrim also cover the surrounding BT41 district and towns such as Ballymena and Newtownabbey. Antrim sits around 14 miles from Belfast. Northern Ireland has many rendered and pebble-dashed homes, older solid-walled rural houses, and estates built by the Housing Executive.
Parts of County Antrim fall in the higher wind-driven rain exposure bands, especially coastal and upland sites, so render specification, movement joints and detailing at cills, verges and the base of the wall matter more than usual.
If your house in Antrim is pebble-dashed, covering the dash is usually simpler than removing it.
- Postcode district
- BT41
- County or area
- County Antrim
- Nation
- Northern Ireland
- Nearby
- Ballymena, Newtownabbey, Belfast, Lisburn
Permissions in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, permitted development is set by the 2015 Order; in Antrim, changing a house's external appearance, and any work on flats or listed buildings, may need permission, so we check with the council.
Council building control in Northern Ireland checks insulation work of this kind; the quote says how the application is handled.
Is it better to insulate over pebble dash?
If you're paying for scaffolding and a new finish anyway, adding insulation costs more but improves comfort considerably on solid or non-traditional walls. On cavity walls, check whether the cavity is filled first.
Covering pebble dash prices in Antrim
| Item | Guide price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Render over sound pebble dash | £72–£114 per m²inc VAT | Excluding scaffold |
| Insulate over pebble dash (EWI) | £110–£175 per m²0% VAT | |
| Pebble dash removal | £24–£48 per m²inc VAT | Where needed |
Confirmed by a fixed written quote after survey. Prices include VAT at 20%. 0% VAT: installing insulation in a home is zero-rated until 31 March 2027, so these figures are the total; 5% applies from 1 April 2027.
What happens next
Get a guide price
Try the online quote tool for a ballpark figure.
Book the survey
A visit at a time that suits you.
Agree the quote
Nothing starts until you've signed the written price.
We do the work
Planned around weather, with you kept informed.
Cover pebble dash in Antrim: questions
Is it cheaper to cover pebble dash or remove it?
Covering is usually cheaper and less disruptive, as long as the dash is sound.
Will the stones show through?
No. A levelling base coat with mesh fills over the stones before the finish goes on.
Can I paint pebble dash instead?
You can, but it doesn't fix hollow areas or cracks, and paint on dash often needs redoing every few years.
Do you cover Antrim?
Yes — we survey and quote pebble dash covering in Antrim (BT41) and nearby Ballymena, Newtownabbey and Belfast, with a fixed written price before any work starts.