Hi All,
Please help me with this bricklaying / finishing issue
I'd just finished my dwarf / retaining walls (sloped garden shed base) on which to put my wall/sill plate on for the rest of the shed.
I had a last row of blue bricks that I had put a DPC beneath (since the highest part of the surrounding land just got to 150mm clearing, but on other side is a 700mm). When I was laying it my inner voice was just telling me ' how can this be right it's never going go bond well enough'... but with speedy laying it appeared to set OK. However I decided to only DPC my outer cavity wall and skip the inner one.
Then I read a lot of conflicting advice we need to use chemical anchors in really and then that no wall straps are needed...so I decided to try both.
I put the a few anchors in but when I drilled the holes I wanted to do a test fit so put it on the couldn't get it off again so tried pulling it up and (obviously in retrospect) it pulled almost a whole row of bricks!
So I don't know what to do next I am not sure on the thinking/rationale for DPC layers now...I mean it seems to simply weaken the brick layer sooo much (I'm pretty sure the mortering was good) that I don't understand how the whole industry can justify it?
What should I do next?
My Options as i see it:-
- leave DPC in place, remortar on top to get lay bricks in same way.Then don't try chem anchors and use the umpteen wall straps I have.
OR
- remove DPM.. relay row with just mortar..put on DPM on top of lat brick instead and lay the sill/wall plate and then wall straps? (Although I have 3 more wall like this but not been broken by me yet).
I'm really pi**ed right now as I only had today left before I go away and I'm not going to get this wall plate fitted now
Please help me with this bricklaying / finishing issue
I'd just finished my dwarf / retaining walls (sloped garden shed base) on which to put my wall/sill plate on for the rest of the shed.
I had a last row of blue bricks that I had put a DPC beneath (since the highest part of the surrounding land just got to 150mm clearing, but on other side is a 700mm). When I was laying it my inner voice was just telling me ' how can this be right it's never going go bond well enough'... but with speedy laying it appeared to set OK. However I decided to only DPC my outer cavity wall and skip the inner one.
Then I read a lot of conflicting advice we need to use chemical anchors in really and then that no wall straps are needed...so I decided to try both.
I put the a few anchors in but when I drilled the holes I wanted to do a test fit so put it on the couldn't get it off again so tried pulling it up and (obviously in retrospect) it pulled almost a whole row of bricks!
So I don't know what to do next I am not sure on the thinking/rationale for DPC layers now...I mean it seems to simply weaken the brick layer sooo much (I'm pretty sure the mortering was good) that I don't understand how the whole industry can justify it?
What should I do next?
My Options as i see it:-
- leave DPC in place, remortar on top to get lay bricks in same way.Then don't try chem anchors and use the umpteen wall straps I have.
OR
- remove DPM.. relay row with just mortar..put on DPM on top of lat brick instead and lay the sill/wall plate and then wall straps? (Although I have 3 more wall like this but not been broken by me yet).
I'm really pi**ed right now as I only had today left before I go away and I'm not going to get this wall plate fitted now