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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...