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In the kitchen of my old cottage there is a fireplace with brickwork down to ground level. The previous owners did not use this fireplace and converted it to take an oven. To level everything up they built a single skin wall in front of the chimney brickwork. Problem is they never bothered to tie it into the existing brickwork and it just sort of hangs free, just going high enough to be above ceiling plasterboard height. Iy is sturdy on the angle shown in photo 1. You can see what I mean by it just ending at the ceiling in photo 2 and photo 3 shows the wall in front of a block wall behiind it again to which it is not attached just a space of around 50mm.
Looking at photo 2 if I try to pull the wall at the top 5 or 6 courses all bend forwards slightly.
I know the easiest solution is to knock the whole thing down and start again but as it is just a facade I would prefer a quicker remedy ie taking down the first 5/6 courses and tying them into the brickwork behind or is there something I could pump between the two layers to bond them together.?
Looking at photo 2 if I try to pull the wall at the top 5 or 6 courses all bend forwards slightly.
I know the easiest solution is to knock the whole thing down and start again but as it is just a facade I would prefer a quicker remedy ie taking down the first 5/6 courses and tying them into the brickwork behind or is there something I could pump between the two layers to bond them together.?
