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Every facade contractor,a rock-solid file.
Your facade is judged from the street, by eye, by everyone. And when a render cracks or blisters, the cause is often the wall moving, but you’re the one blamed. Here is the file that keeps the state of the wall before your render, and what you did.
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Software shouldn’t just help you run your business. It should strengthen your credibility with the best clients, and protect your interests the day a job gets tense.
Where a job tips over
On a facade, the risk isn’t in the quote.
It’s in the appearance and in the wall, and it shows from the street, long after. Four moments decide whether your facade ends as a recommendation or a dispute, and they settle in advance, while they’re still a photo in a file.
Judged from the street, by colour
A difference in shade, a visible join, a colour that disappoints: the dispute is aesthetic, even when the work is sound. On a floated render, variations are normal, especially in deep shades, but you still have to have said so and had it approved beforehand.
The render that cracks: you, or the wall?
Crazing, blistering, delamination. The cause is often the wall moving, not your application. But it’s up to you to check the substrate before rendering: without a written reservation on its state, the crack comes back to you.
External insulation and liability: not all covered
A render only falls under decennial liability if it has a waterproofing function: a crack that lets water through or weakens the insulation, yes; a purely aesthetic crack, no. Depending on the case, your liability isn’t the same, and you still need the file to place it.
The scaffold, the street, the neighbour
You work at height, on public space, above the neighbour’s property. A before-and-after survey saves you from paying for cracks that were already there, and kept permits avoid the fine.
None of these moments is fate. Each one becomes harmless the moment it’s photographed and dated at the right time.
Trust is won before the first pass of the float.
Trusting someone with their facade, for a client, is trusting the image of their home, seen by the whole neighbourhood. He can’t judge your render on a plan, so he judges what he can see: a clear quote, tidy past facades, a business you can find again. At a similar price, the contractor who shows his work and his seriousness comes before the one who’s a number at the bottom of a quote.
Your public page and your projects don’t manufacture that rigour. They make it visible, for the client hesitating to trust you with their facade.
The day the facade is contested, it’s all already there.
The rigour that wins you the job is the same that covers you when it’s contested. The state of the wall before rendering, the colour approved with the client, what you laid on the external insulation, the neighbourhood survey, the permits, the handover report: gathered and dated, from quote to handover.
When a disorder appears, the first question is simple: is it aesthetic, or does water get through? The answer decides your liability, and it’s your file that carries it. The day the expert arrives, you open the file, and it shows the before state and a facade done by the book.
One single way of working, two benefits: it wins you the job, then it covers you in a dispute.
Several facades, one clear head.
Your jobs, your teams, your hours and your margins sit in one place, up to date. You see whether a job is paying you while it runs, not at the end of the year.
And on the scaffold, everything is captured on the spot: wall photos, approved colour, checked points, even offline.
What we get asked
The questions you’re already asking.
Is a facade render covered by the decennial liability?
Not always. A facade render only falls under decennial liability if it has a waterproofing function (the Cour de cassation confirmed this in 2020): a crack that lets water through or weakens the insulation of external insulation is covered, a purely aesthetic crack is not. Depending on the render’s function and the severity, your liability isn’t the same.
A crack on my facade, is it my fault?
Often the cause is the wall moving (the substrate), not your application. But it’s up to you to check the state of the substrate before rendering: without a written reservation on its state, the crack comes back to you. Dated photos of the wall before your work make all the difference.
How do I defend a difference in colour?
On a floated render, variations in shade are normal, especially in deep colours, and joins can show: the standard acknowledges it. But you still have to have had the colour approved with the client before starting. A recorded approval beats a discussion of opinion.
Do I need a permit to render or externally insulate?
Often yes. A facade job or external insulation that changes the exterior appearance (colour, material, thickness) generally requires a prior declaration to the town hall, more in a protected area. And a scaffold on the pavement requires a public-space occupation permit. Keeping these permits in the file avoids the fine and the dispute.
Do I have to replace my quoting software?
The quote isn’t the end, it’s the first piece of your file. We start from the quote-contract and hold the thread through to handover, where the appearance and the durability of the facade play out.
I work alone, is it for me?
Yes. A lone facade contractor is judged from the street as fast as a big firm. When no one can vouch for you, your dated photos do.
The common ground
What secures your project doesn't depend on your trade.
The principle is the same across every job you take on: the agreement holds from the quote, the proof files itself as the work goes, the handover closes cleanly. That's what we call a Secure Contract.
See it on a key phase: Before the quote →
Your next facades deserve a rock-solid file.
You work in another trade? The file holds for all of them →
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