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Thank you both for your posts. I feel at ease now and had a look at part A reg's out of interest as well (something else I'd never seen online before). You're safe to visit any cathederals, I doubt I'll ever renovate one! Mark

Now I know it's called lateral restraint, I've found plenty on the internet. So now I don't know whether to get some one in for advice or just to monitor the wall - which after a year still seems the same. All the joists rest on this wall so maybe they are doing the tying job.

Ok. Thankyou. My house is 1969ish so not too old.

Hi, I removed a downstairs non load bearing brick wall last year (wall ran in same direction as joists/ no wall directly above it but off set and it doesn't even rest on upstairs floorboards/ loose bricks ran along top of the removed wall and i think were only there to plaster onto and the...