face bricks below dpc

[Mikest]

Hi thankyou all for your reply's.
The majority of facing bricks below the ground are on the party side wall. Its a long run of bricks, and around 6 courses high. Everything below extenal ground level is concrete blocks and engineering bricks.

Its been on my mind all day yesterday, and am quite dissapointed. Say if i wanted to change them to engineering brick or even concrete blocks without taking down the wall, would this be a difficult job.

I could potentially do this my self at some stage, but would it be safe.

What are your thoughts...

 

[themiddleagedun]

If you want to change the bricks, don't even think about leaving the wall up. It'd be far easier, quicker and a better job to take it down and start again.
But my advise: stop worrying, and forget about it

 

[Mikest]

A couple of guys have suggested its a grave mistake, compounding my worrying. I wish to be building off this in a few years to make it a double storey and am quite worried whether or not i'd be ok.

I'm not a trained builder and have very little technical knowlegde of the building trade. I only know what ive been told or have read.

The wall being around 20 course high and around 18 meters in length i would be very very reluctant to knock it down unless i really had to.

Someone replied earlier that it'll be ok unless i plan on staying there for more than 20 years. Ideally i'd want the extension to last a longer than that. is that really the case?

sorry to sound so dumb i'm just a little worried

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

The worst that happens is in a decade or two the face of the bricks start crumbling and require replacement. So keep a few spare in the garage and get on with the build. It ain't gonna fall down.