I've just started hacking off the existing render to the gable on this house as the majority is live and heavily cracked.
As you can see from the pictures below what I'm left with is a wall in poor condition with various different bricks, although mainly soft reds.
Because of this poor substrate I'm thinking of now putting EML over the wall rendering to that. I will of course also be raking out the brick joints and will damp the surface down to hopefully also gain a key directly to the brickwork as well as the EML.
I'm also thinking of going this route as the house is situated right in the North Norfolk coast and being a south facing wall is also subject to a lot of differing weather and heat.
Yours thoughts and opinions on this would be gratefully appreciated?
Thanks in advance.