Hi All,
I have a 5ft high brick garden wall that is damp and has quite a lot of blown bricks. The house was built in the 1890's and I believe the wall to be original as all the other houses in the street have one.
I am guessing that some of the damp problem might be related to the poor pointing and blown bricks, which in turn will continue to make the damp worse, increasing the frost damage and blown bricks etc.......
I was going to repoint the wall, but it was never going to look anything special what with all the blown bricks etc... After visiting next door and seeing that their side of the wall is rendered and painted white I thought I may try the same thing.
I would basically like to know if this is possible on a damp wall such as this. I was planning on wire brushing and pvaing it first, but will the render stick, are there any special formulations to use? If it is possible to do this type of work would it be ok to do at this time of year (Im layed off for 2 weeks at christmas ) or do I need to wait until the summer, until it is a bit dryer (although it never seems to fully dry out). Obviously it has worked for next door, but they have the south facing side of the wall, I have the north, and I dont know what condition theirs was in when it was done (apparantly 10-15 yrs ago)
My reason for doing this work is that the wall appears to be structurally sound at the moment and I would like to keep it that way. Some walls further up the road have started to lean and eventually fallen over. They have cost their owners several thousand pounds to put right. I was hoping this work may protect the remaining brickwork and mean I get a good few years more out of the wall.
If for instance the rendering might just need a bit of touching up every couple of years I would see this as a reasonable project to persue. If it is likely that the whole lot will fall off after 6 months then I wont bother!
Any thoughts/advice welcome..... Thanks in advance!
I have a 5ft high brick garden wall that is damp and has quite a lot of blown bricks. The house was built in the 1890's and I believe the wall to be original as all the other houses in the street have one.
I am guessing that some of the damp problem might be related to the poor pointing and blown bricks, which in turn will continue to make the damp worse, increasing the frost damage and blown bricks etc.......
I was going to repoint the wall, but it was never going to look anything special what with all the blown bricks etc... After visiting next door and seeing that their side of the wall is rendered and painted white I thought I may try the same thing.
I would basically like to know if this is possible on a damp wall such as this. I was planning on wire brushing and pvaing it first, but will the render stick, are there any special formulations to use? If it is possible to do this type of work would it be ok to do at this time of year (Im layed off for 2 weeks at christmas ) or do I need to wait until the summer, until it is a bit dryer (although it never seems to fully dry out). Obviously it has worked for next door, but they have the south facing side of the wall, I have the north, and I dont know what condition theirs was in when it was done (apparantly 10-15 yrs ago)
My reason for doing this work is that the wall appears to be structurally sound at the moment and I would like to keep it that way. Some walls further up the road have started to lean and eventually fallen over. They have cost their owners several thousand pounds to put right. I was hoping this work may protect the remaining brickwork and mean I get a good few years more out of the wall.
If for instance the rendering might just need a bit of touching up every couple of years I would see this as a reasonable project to persue. If it is likely that the whole lot will fall off after 6 months then I wont bother!
Any thoughts/advice welcome..... Thanks in advance!