Before you read on.. join me in laughter at my awful attempt of a “drawing” obviously my architectural skills are flawless.
I hope this makes sense. It does in my head but that’s not always a helpful thing
Initially we were repairing a wall going down into the basement. The wall has a 2 inch bow/bulge so had a Structual guy come take a look to make sure we weren’t going to make the house cave in from that we were glad that our thinking was correct and what the surveyor told us was on track with what we thought. Happy days. BUT we have now hit another problem.
As per my wonderful doodle-
Behind the wall that’s being repaired/rebuilt it is filled with sand. Not an issue, we had hoped and prayed that there would be a supporting wall further back so we would only be dealing with a 3ft depth of sand. Yes that supporting wall is there and that’s fantastic. The issue we’re now facing is, there’s a gap in the wall (that lines up directly where our kitchen door is on the ground floor) our assumption is at some point this space would have been used and the lay out mimics the kitchen. That means that the more of the wall we take down and the sand comes out… it’s not just the under hallway 3ft void it’s the bloody whole underneath of the kitchen sand that would then start to pour out too. Which is obviously a no go.
Wanting to know of any realistic suggestions on how to brace that gap ultimately blocking off any sand movement from the under kitchen area, allowing us to just deal with the 3ft depth under the hallway so we can rebuild the wall.
My heads swimming with tons of ideas but each one’s met with a “no that won’t work”
So hit me with any words or wisdom, recommendation, options for me to explore and research. I doubt I’d be lucky enough to come across someone who’s had a similar problem in the past but who knows !
*for context, the basement space under the living room is open and useable, we have renovated the whole space and only need to do the cosmetic side now. the space under the kitchen (at the moment) is walled off. Absolute waste in my opinion but currently don’t have the funds to support a big job to open that up. The focus at the moment is rebuilding the wall which has the bulge (using more appropriate brick too) and then replacing the steps going down which again is not going to be an issue.
I hope this makes sense. It does in my head but that’s not always a helpful thing
Initially we were repairing a wall going down into the basement. The wall has a 2 inch bow/bulge so had a Structual guy come take a look to make sure we weren’t going to make the house cave in from that we were glad that our thinking was correct and what the surveyor told us was on track with what we thought. Happy days. BUT we have now hit another problem.
As per my wonderful doodle-
Behind the wall that’s being repaired/rebuilt it is filled with sand. Not an issue, we had hoped and prayed that there would be a supporting wall further back so we would only be dealing with a 3ft depth of sand. Yes that supporting wall is there and that’s fantastic. The issue we’re now facing is, there’s a gap in the wall (that lines up directly where our kitchen door is on the ground floor) our assumption is at some point this space would have been used and the lay out mimics the kitchen. That means that the more of the wall we take down and the sand comes out… it’s not just the under hallway 3ft void it’s the bloody whole underneath of the kitchen sand that would then start to pour out too. Which is obviously a no go.
Wanting to know of any realistic suggestions on how to brace that gap ultimately blocking off any sand movement from the under kitchen area, allowing us to just deal with the 3ft depth under the hallway so we can rebuild the wall.
My heads swimming with tons of ideas but each one’s met with a “no that won’t work”
So hit me with any words or wisdom, recommendation, options for me to explore and research. I doubt I’d be lucky enough to come across someone who’s had a similar problem in the past but who knows !
*for context, the basement space under the living room is open and useable, we have renovated the whole space and only need to do the cosmetic side now. the space under the kitchen (at the moment) is walled off. Absolute waste in my opinion but currently don’t have the funds to support a big job to open that up. The focus at the moment is rebuilding the wall which has the bulge (using more appropriate brick too) and then replacing the steps going down which again is not going to be an issue.
