Double concrete block skin?

[fastneattrowel]

Another point.....If building with a porous stone on the facade how can damp possibly be an issue, this type of stone allows moisture to dissipate naturally, if there are any concerns about moisture being trapped within the stone of a pourous material then this is readily overcome by building in a traditional method replacing ordinary portland cements with traditional lime mixtures that also accomodate naturally the dissipation of moisture, though this is another argument again.

hey lugs keep to what you know best and it certainly isnt laying bricks or stones ,aircrafts id say with them ears

Slow trowell I do hope you are not making disparging comments about the portrait of me and my civil partner (husband) within my profile I am very sensitive to the issue of my ears and think they lend me an air of nobillity to what can only be described as chiselled good looks

lmao

 

[AndrewSchofield]

It seems a few have heard of wall construction with the method he describes but most concur with our office practice that it isn't necessary.

But you said no one in your office has direct experience of stone clad walls!

i posted the question on the forum to see if anyone has ever heard of it or if the builder is really talking out of his rear end

Frankly, I think I’d be doing a disservice to my clients, private or commercial, if they knew I’d taken advice from an Internet DIY Forum and not spoken directly with experts in the trade.

You still haven't explained why you feel the planning drawings should have allowed for thicker walls?

It’s the sign of a good planning application that takes account of the build method as well as the rest of the regs etc. It shows lack of forethought.

in the office (which has been running for nearly 30years)

Your practice website says 15 years BTW.

I don't think I did say that no-one in our office has direct experience of stone walls, did I???? - I think I said that most of the work we do is using limestone and gritstone?

I have taken advice from professionals in the trade, i have spoken to a structural engineer, an architectural technician, an architectural consultant and a couple of builders - all of whom hadn't heard of the method he advised of. Thats when i took my research further afield.

Not that its particularly relevant anyway but the planning drawings depicted walls with a thickness allowing for a block inner skin, a 100mm cavity and a 150mm outer limestone skin. They did not allow for an additional concrete block skin - and i see no reason why they should have.

 

[Shytalkz]

^^^^@ LAK

Or something done with a chisel. Badly.

 

[legs-akimbo]

Slowtrowell for a man who has a limited construction vocabulary limited to ....bucket ...bag.....water....money
I would not expect you to understand the intracasies of differing construction methods, we may as well be talking in tongues for someone like yourself all slack jawed and with eyes rolling around like wartime searchlights in an unfeasably large cranium to even begin to comprehend.

 

[legs-akimbo]

^^^^@ LAK

Or something done with a chisel. Badly.

How dare you cheeky monkey, let trhe people decide....how do you upload images

 

[hotrod]

Hmmmmmm. I seem to have entered a space time continuum where the builders have all transmogrified into that strange ego-stroking species known only as sparkies.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I have taken advice from professionals in the trade, i have spoken to a structural engineer, an architectural technician, an architectural consultant and a couple of builders - all of whom hadn't heard of the method he advised of. Thats when i took my research further afield.

Well if that's the case and you concur, advise your clients and their builder appropriately. If they go with a thicker wall its up to them. Job Done!

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