Can a lean to greenhouse damage house bricks/cause problems?

[DIYNotIan]

Hi all

I'm looking to get a greenhouse for the garden and am hoping to get a lean-to style one and put it on the side of the house.

What I'm not sure about though is whether this might cause damage to the bricks of the house and/or cause any other problems.... I've tried looking on line and have found nothing so far, so it is to you folks that I turn!

One other thing, there is an air-brick in the house wall (it's the back end of the open fire). Could that complicate things?

Happy to take some pics if that would help. Just let me know....

Many thanks

Max

[Sorry if I should have posted this into a more specific forum, I just wasn't sure which was most appropriate. Please move if it would be better off somewhere else]

 

[ntb]

Unlikely to cause damage I think. I've certainly never heard of any issues. One thing it will do though is make the wall very hot in summer so if your house gets stifling hot already on the few fine summer days we get then it can only make it worse.

 

[KenGMac]

MaxDread, Hi

One shall I call it an off the wall [no pun] is that depending on how large the Greenhouse is, it could, I stress the word, COULD cause the area of wall inside the greenhouse to heat up to an extent that is well above the ambient wall temperature of the wall outside the greenhouse. If the greenhouse occupies a large area then the build up of heat in the area of wall contained within the greenhouse could, I say again COULD? have an adverse effect on the entire wall, Thermal Cracking COULD?? occur??

Sorry if I am being perverse but? the above is highly dependant on wall type? Age of property? dimension's of Greenhouse? Etc. Etc

I love my Greenhouse a stand alone one, and from time to time, even up here in the far frozen north, Temperatures in direct sunlight reaches very high numbers?

I take it that the Air brick does not feed air direct to the fire?

Ken.