Hi
Sorry about the silly question; we are first-home buyers looking to buy our first property and learning a lot.
One property we are interested in has a lot of external wall cracks outside (double brick), and the current owner seems to have done a lot of self-patching (?)
We spoke with two builders; one builder said it is all good and nothing urgent since there is no internal cracking it is nothing urgent the outside brick is just a facade as the interior brick is holding all the weight (?)
Another builder said we should consider doing brick rendering/ join and resolve it sooner than later.
We are planning to repaint the external brick in the futre and thinking of fixing it then (3-5 years). Or is this something we should get fixed ASAP?
Thank you in advance (photos below)
Regards
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