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I am tossing up the idea of renting a platform (cheap locally) and at least weatherproofing it myself. Might feel more appealing when this storm has moved on. The quote was based on a few mins observation at street level, and photos.
The porch is proper fucked in a couple of spots, long period of blocked gutters before we moved in. One of the uprights needs to be mostly/entirely replaced, one of the cills too.
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From my relatively small sample size, based on the work I see 1 year is not long enough for serious deterioration by 'normal' weather. You are either looking a problems that need cutting out and replacing or simple cracking paint and denatured wood.
I prefer to completely strip areas with a lot of cracking paint, especially if it's a lot of old layers. I use an IR stripper to make this practically possible to achieve relatively quickly but it could still take a couple of days. There's no other way to do it that guarantees a really durable paint finish.Otherwise you chip out the flaking paint, fill and paint over. It's acceptable but you'll probably see new problems emerging with the old paint within a few years.
Airhead
It would piss me off no end paying £3k for getting that done.
What saddens me is that it probably will cost £3k to get that done in London.
By the sea....eh I'd expect less tbh.
How long would it take you to earn £3k? If you can hire a platform it's basic but boring fucking work TBH, but at least that way if you fuck it up you've only yourself to blame, not scathing because you've paid folk good money to mess it up.
Where's the rot in the porch?