Recent content by mickf9

Ok tie wallplates together, wasnt sure if you were suggesting going through walls themselves to pull them back plumb. How would you attach to the wall plates though? if i put eyebolts straight through the sides of the wall plates (looks like 2 × 4) and would i be safer taking the weight off the...

Thanks would steel rod / cable be used wall to wall, not to tie the rafters though in place of rafter ties? I wouldnt have space to leave cables wall to wall in place.

I have a detached garage with roof spread, no rafter ties but collar ties present up in the top third. The walls are hollow 9 inch block and the roof spread has caused vertical cracking on each of corner, side edge. The cracks are right through the blocks, maximum is 5mm, so ill need to put...

The op said the lower courses were fine, but the lower courses are highlighted in pic, it's too short on length and tall to be unsupported by a pillar or unstrapped. You could rebuild and then strap it to the garage and strap it to a concrete post on the gate side or tie it in to post on both ends.

Hard to visualise, but sounds like you should remove courses as far as it has failed, clean bricks and relay the brick. You could repoint, and brace the wall with straps and pillars but it's not going to look good.

Thanks Robinbanks, Internal is preferred, I hadn't thought of using the batten depth for a small void, loss of space there would be minimal and handy to run services as you say. Would there be any requirement to vapour barrier the wall or just foil back kingspan straight on the battens and...

Hi all, I am doing a detached garage conversion and trying to find wall insulation requirements. It is a single leaf cavity block wall, rendered inside and out. The general advice I can find is if it's single leaf, to create frame on inside creating cavity between wall and insulation. My...