Happy New Year !
So I knocked out the old door frame completely, and now have a bare jagged brick opening, the sides of which are neither vertical nor square. There's plaster on each side of the wall, so it's 135mm thick.
SWMBO (She who must be obeyed) has decreed "Absolutely NO more dust !" so I can't take a disc-cutter to it, nor even a hammer & chisel.
I've got two pieces of p.a.r. the right height, 135mm wide x 20mm thick, but (naturally) these are neither plane nor straight - they are slightly twisted and slightly curved.
How much does this matter ?
Should I -
a) render up the openings with mortar first, to get them vertical and square (and if so, what's the best way ?), and then fix the timber to that ?
Or
b) fix the timber to the brick with rawlplugs & screws and thin wedges, and then fill the gap with mortar ? Or with expanding foam ?
Or
c) something else entirely ?
Help !
So I knocked out the old door frame completely, and now have a bare jagged brick opening, the sides of which are neither vertical nor square. There's plaster on each side of the wall, so it's 135mm thick.
SWMBO (She who must be obeyed) has decreed "Absolutely NO more dust !" so I can't take a disc-cutter to it, nor even a hammer & chisel.
I've got two pieces of p.a.r. the right height, 135mm wide x 20mm thick, but (naturally) these are neither plane nor straight - they are slightly twisted and slightly curved.
How much does this matter ?
Should I -
a) render up the openings with mortar first, to get them vertical and square (and if so, what's the best way ?), and then fix the timber to that ?
Or
b) fix the timber to the brick with rawlplugs & screws and thin wedges, and then fill the gap with mortar ? Or with expanding foam ?
Or
c) something else entirely ?
Help !