Block laying

[JackieVivas]

Hey again,

I've just had two windows I'm my kitchen bricked up today, outside skin only, leaving me to to the block work on the inside tomorrow. The smaller of the two windows is only 410mm wide but the breeze blocks are about 460 wide so I can cut then down no problem but can I just sit them on top of each other or do I Still have to stagger them between coarses, it'll only be about4 blocks high.......

The larger window is 1200mm X 800mm so I should be ok with that one, normal staggered effect....


Any tips or pitfalls I should take inboard for this job? Gonna tie it in every other coarse, it's for a kitchen wall so it'll all be getting covered up the block work......

Thanks guys

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• JackieVivas
• 23 Apr 2013
• 1

 

[pinenot]

Staggering (bond) helps strengthen the wall but your small infill can be configured however you like as it needs no strength as such,,,pinenot

 

[tony1851]

However you do it, remember to either bond the new work into the existing or (perhaps easier) build-in steel angle ties screwed to the sides of the existing opening.

 

[JackieVivas]

Excellent that's the ties I got, screw in then they fork open into the mortar.

Cheers

 

[JackieVivas]

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• JackieVivas
• 24 Apr 2013
• 1

Done

 

[noseall]

Why have you laid the blocks end-on and why have you got wooden walls and why are those plug sockets on their side?

 

[JackieVivas]

That's just the way we do things round these here parts

 

[pinenot]

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