Folks,
I'm drawing up plans for my garage at the moment and have a question on vertical expansion joints. The garage will be constructed out of 215mm blocks and one side is acting as a retaining wall (it's going to be built against the boundary line with next doors ground level being higher as the house is on a hill)
As the garage FFL will be below next doors ground level I'd like to avoid an expansion joint if possible. Does anyone know if I can get away without it? The afore mentioned wall is 9.5m long and about 3.3-3.5m high, 215mm wide blocks, rendered externally.
I'm drawing up plans for my garage at the moment and have a question on vertical expansion joints. The garage will be constructed out of 215mm blocks and one side is acting as a retaining wall (it's going to be built against the boundary line with next doors ground level being higher as the house is on a hill)
As the garage FFL will be below next doors ground level I'd like to avoid an expansion joint if possible. Does anyone know if I can get away without it? The afore mentioned wall is 9.5m long and about 3.3-3.5m high, 215mm wide blocks, rendered externally.