Stripped plaster off wall does this look normal?

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I've just removed the plaster off one of my bedroom walls in preparation for the plasterer to come and sort out. I was assuming that the wall would just be brick all the way top to bottom as this alis what the plasterer said. but it would seem it's been built with some type of black breeze block with a row of bricks then what I'm assuming it the joist on top? Does this look normal for a 1930s house. I no there wasn't much in the way of building regs etc back then but it all looks a bit bodged
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If it's been ok for the past 89 or so years, then there is no need to start worrying about it now.
 
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If it's been ok for the past 89 or so years, then there is no need to start worrying about it now.

Yep I'm not massively concerned, I was just wondering if this was a normal wal of building the walls, was more concerned about the exposed timer to be honest?
Thanks
 
Was this a normal way of building in the 30's then?

It's not a normal way these days. Cowboy builders, which is the majority of them, build cardboard walls. But in the old days when builders built houses properly that was onr of the normal ways to build them.
 
It's not a normal way these days. Cowboy builders, which is the majority of them, build cardboard walls. But in the old days when builders built houses properly that was onr of the normal ways to build them.

Thanks
 
Was this a normal way of building in the 30's then?
Yes. Later on the industry started using 3" ash block partitioning built off a rail of 3" x 2". Then God awful Paramount walling came into fashion for a few decades.

Builders now tend to go with block on a ground floor and 4" x 2" studs with sound insulation on subsequent floors.

Ignore Pete50. His old boyfriend that jilted him was a builder so he and a lot of his posts are very anti-tradesman. He knows very little about the building trade.
 
I may be wrong but I thought cinder blocks was an Americanism

It is, think it refers to the waste products of coal i.e. slag. But I suppose calling them "slag blocks" is a bit of a rubbish name.

The correct term is concrete block or something like that, us calling it breeze because they're lightweight and porous.
 

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