As I was driving along some rich suburbs with beautiful 2 storey houses with balconies, I noticed that the most attractive houses were rendered. Because we are putting a balcony on our future house, we are thinking of maybe chosing a rendered facade .
But from what I know and think, rendering are just not cost efficient or nice in the long term. Just some things I see around from older houses with rendered exteriors include
1. yellow water stains across the facade really looks bad
2. massive part of the render falling off
3. trying to apply fallen bits of render really doesn't look good which means i'll probably have to re-render the whole house
4. Maintenance is expensive
Could somebody educate me more about rendered exteriors and problems and issues that I should be aware of?