Four different houses, four different specifications
The lake does not have one housing type, it has four, and they are often on the same street. Post-war hardwood weatherboard, 1960s and 1970s fibro, brick veneer from the 1980s, and rendered homes from the last twenty years. Each takes a different primer, a different amount of prep, and a different number of hours. Pricing them at one rate per square metre either overcharges the simple ones or underquotes the hard ones, and the second is worse because that is where variations come from later. We specify by surface and put it in writing before we start.
Where the prep time actually goes
On weatherboard it is board ends, nail pops, and lap joints. On fibro it is checking the sheeting is sound and never sanding it. On render it is hairline cracking. On brick veneer it is usually just the trim and the fascia. Knowing which one you have tells you most of what the job will cost.
Renovated houses with mixed cladding
Extensions mean a lot of lake homes are two or three materials at once. That is fine, but the junctions between them move at different rates and are the first place a coating splits. We detail those joints properly rather than running a bead of filler over them.
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