Imagine a wall of this, lit at
an angle with sound system
turned up while getting ready
for that night out ... or Fun
Bathing the kids!
Why paper over the cracks?
An old house brings lots of character and possibly headaches.
Interesting history - and unwelcome surprises.
What you have to remember is the older the house, the more residents that have lived there, the more inevitable it is that tired and fed up new owners over what could be centuries will have "bodged" something somewhere (or everywhere) and things not serious enough to be picked up on surveys, even structural surveys, can take a lot of work and compromises to fix - or bodge.
We suggest a full long lasting solution should be aimed for, maybe list your priorities and do them in an order you can live with.
Then, when the underlying issue is dealt with, clad over the lot and forget about it.
