How to render over damp course?

[CastleDiy]

Hi 

I am looking to render my old house, I have watched vedios on bunnings website and youtube. I tried my hand on couple of the wall inside the garage and was able to get the satisfactory finish. However outside the home is a different ball game. It has windows and damp course.

My question is 

1. How you render over the damp course. I have a layer of brick which protuding a bit from the main wall, I am assuming its damp course layer. This layer of brick is atleast 15mm out from the main brick wall. Should i just render above this layer? what are my choices if i wish to render whole wall above damp course and below.

2. Most of the bunnings and youtube vedios shows the corner beads for windows but corner beads available in bunnning are with just 3.5mm Nib whereas most youtubers are using 10mm and also use this as marker of thickness of render. Can i use the 3.5mm nib and still render 10mm thickness,

[JacobZ]

Hi @Ivymantled,

I just googled "Sydney Red Brick" and found quite a few examples of houses and apartment blocks with this style where there is an obviously protruding row of bricks. It'd be brilliant if we could fine a brick layer who was around during this time to chat to. It's a bit of a niche topic that I'm not finding any real information on. It could just be an aesthetic thing, but I would love to understand the reasoning behind it.

Thank you for sharing the information that you have gotten from your plasterer, I hope that our other readers such as @CastleDiy might be able to use this info for their own projects.

Jacob