Exterior Render and beading fix

[Dvdp]

Hi all. Hope you’re all well.

I’m totally new to this forum so please forgive me for any mistakes!

Anyway, I have just moved into a house and the exterior rendering is falling to bits quite literally. (See pics). Is this something I can patch fix myself or do I need to get someone in? Do I need to just cut out the old stuff and replace?

Any help and or experience very welcome and most definitely appreciated!

Thanks, Dan

 

[JohnD]

Stand back and take some wider pics to show where on the house that vertical crack is.

 

[Dvdp]

Hi John. Hope this helps. Cheers.

 

[JohnD]

Does that vertical crack extend into the exposed brickwork?

Have there been internal alterations, especially removing walls or loft timbers?

 

[Dvdp]

There is a small hairline crack into the brick below the fender but nothing major. Not sure about alterations but I don’t think anything was changed as it didn’t come up in the purchase. Rendering is flaking away all around the horizontal and vertical lines though. Plus the stuff you can see in the pic. Probably a fair amount of work?

 

[JohnD]

I'm not sure about the crack. It looks to me like a crack in the brickwork showing through, rather than a crack in the render where perhaps there's a joint between two sections done on different days.

Is the wall, behind the render, built of cavity brickwork? Are there similar houses nearby with similar cracks?