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Thanks for the help. I appreciate how bonding is better but in this case its really not going to be possible. There is nothing to tie in to. The load should be passed vertically down and that wall is bonded into the rest of the house. Its on the first floor.

whilst the engineer specifically ruled out furfix (and demanded bonded brickwork) it would seem to me that furfix was now the way to go in light of exposing the structure

Hope that helps, you can see where I tried to cut in to make the cavities for teeth and the whole section fell away leaving the "broom cupboard"

Ill try to get some photos up... Imagine the corner of a room, you re looking at the rear wall and theres another room beyond that. The side wall is the outside of the house. All walls are double thickness. Ive removed a 400mm section, full height, from that rear wall - the bit which was...

Hi All, Ive been using the answers from this forum for some time and its invaluable. Q I am to remove (done) a 400mm column of existing brickwork, internal wall but was previously external and is certainly load bearing, and replace with 330mm minimum of new engineering brick pier. The problem...