I'm building a single skin (half brick) wall where there used to be a door in my attached garage. It's only about 1m long, but 2m high so it ends with piers.
The foundations and first few courses are in place etc but once I got to the right height for a plastic dpc I feel like it's a big mistake putting it in. It just seems to me it's going to make the wall so much less secure, having a sheet of plastic between courses.
I put a thin layer of mortar under the dpc and tried to bed it in a bit, with the intention of adding more mortar above it before the next course of bricks.
Would blue engineering bricks for two courses be a better way to block damp? My concern there is that the damp comes up through the mortar instead. I'm not worried about cost as it's only about 6 bricks per course.
Cheers!
turnpike
The foundations and first few courses are in place etc but once I got to the right height for a plastic dpc I feel like it's a big mistake putting it in. It just seems to me it's going to make the wall so much less secure, having a sheet of plastic between courses.
I put a thin layer of mortar under the dpc and tried to bed it in a bit, with the intention of adding more mortar above it before the next course of bricks.
Would blue engineering bricks for two courses be a better way to block damp? My concern there is that the damp comes up through the mortar instead. I'm not worried about cost as it's only about 6 bricks per course.
Cheers!
turnpike