What to do with a tiled window bay?

Bluefusion

We have a 1930's house which has a curved window bay at the front of the house. During the lifetime of the house someone thought it would look good to cover the front of the bay in tiny bright coloured ceramic tiles.

Every other house down the road has theirs rendered smooth or with the pebble dash look painted white.

We have knock the tiles off, but underneath we have been left with the white tile bond with small amounts of the original brickwork showing through in places.

I want to render the front of this bay so it matches the rest of the street. I'm not sure if its a good idea to render straight over the tile bond thats been left under the tiles?

Someone suggested fixing a wireframe over the tile bond and rendering to that, but if possible I would rather remove it completely. Is there a chemical or something that I can use to remove the old white tile bond left stuck to the brickwork?

If anyone can help, thank you.

tawnyowls

If it's come off with the removal of the tiles, it suggests it's quite loose. You might be able to just use a bolster to get underneath and knock it off the bricks.

somefriendlyuk

Hello, You don't say hay big the tile addesive bits are, but as the other reply suggests it may be best to try to remove them with a hammer and chisel. However, as you are going to have it dashed, you could ask the plasterers to do this for you saving you alot of hard graft and of course you may not have the ladders or scaffold (and knowledge)that they have.
If the addesive bits are very hard and chiselling them of is taking the face of the bricks then it may be possible to render over them if there not to big. All pebble dashing and render is put on in two coats and the first coat(key coat) may level out around and over the addesvise bits (if not to large) and have no detrimental effects. Also note that its quite difficult to paint pebble dashing and if it ties in with the other properties ok, it would be easier to 'flat' render. Leave this to dry for a good few months before painting though and don't do this work in freezing weather.