Roughcasting and Wall Coating in Stirling

Stirling sits inland at the head of the Forth valley, and that is the thing that shapes the work. It is colder than the coast, it gets far more frost nights than Glasgow, and the Carse is open enough that wind-driven rain hits exposed elevations hard. The stock is a mix: Victorian villas up through Bridge of Allan and Causewayhead, post-war wet-dashed estates at Raploch, Cornton and Braehead, and newer housing out towards Dunblane and Bannockburn.

Freeze and thaw is the local problem. Water gets into a crack or a porous patch, expands as it freezes, and does it again on the next cold night. Inland Stirling gets many more of those cycles a year than the coast does, which is why a small defect here turns into a failed section faster than the same defect in Ayrshire.

Exposure on the Carse catches people out. A house that looks sheltered from the road can have one elevation taking everything coming down the valley, and that is usually the wall that has been patched three times already.

The Victorian villas need care. A lot of that stock is stone with lime detail, and the temptation is to wrap it in something modern and hard. That looks solved for about five years, then the wall starts telling you otherwise from the inside.