Andrew Gabriel wrote in message ...
If the walls are just slightly damp, what you can do is to have a
scratch coat of sand/cement/waterproofer, which is more damp
resistant than a plaster scratch coat (make that sand/cement/lime/
waterproofer if the walls are lime mortar). Where I've replastered
external 9" brick walls, I've often used sand/cement/lime/waterproofer
as the scratch coat within 2-3 feet of ground level.
The house on last night's Property Ladder looked like a typical example of
9" lime mortar brickwork. No demolition required, just take the bricks off
one by one and sweep away the mortar. They could have probably got 20p each
for those in Richmond, which might have left them slightly less broke.