As you may or may not know, building a single storey side kitchen extension. Bit of a novice and finding my way with some great help from here.
The build has 3 levels of DPC. 2 levels are original. The main house DPC is 1 brick below the extension DPC. The garage DPC is 3 bricks below extension DPC. As I discovered on here and my building control guy informed me, the way to tie them all in is to cut a channel in the original DPCs, mortar the new DPC in, run it vertically up the wall and then continue this on to the new brickwork.
The other day in preparation for my bricklaying, I duly cut channels into the old DPCs. Next day got cracking nice and early starting laying bricks. Spent an age setting out then got into my groove. Chuffed to bits to finish the outer skin to DPC level and pointed up all nice. Next day go to inspect my handy work and see I have forgotten to insert the DPC into the old DPC.
Just outer skin done so far and I wonder how much of a balls up this is? What can be done? Does anything need to be done? Can I just lay DPC on top of my new outer skin bricks? Will it be OK just to do the inner skin properly? FYI the bricks are old imperials that have the appearance of engineering bricks (hard as nails and slightly shiny outer face) and I guess should be pretty water resistant and frost resistant
The build has 3 levels of DPC. 2 levels are original. The main house DPC is 1 brick below the extension DPC. The garage DPC is 3 bricks below extension DPC. As I discovered on here and my building control guy informed me, the way to tie them all in is to cut a channel in the original DPCs, mortar the new DPC in, run it vertically up the wall and then continue this on to the new brickwork.
The other day in preparation for my bricklaying, I duly cut channels into the old DPCs. Next day got cracking nice and early starting laying bricks. Spent an age setting out then got into my groove. Chuffed to bits to finish the outer skin to DPC level and pointed up all nice. Next day go to inspect my handy work and see I have forgotten to insert the DPC into the old DPC.
Just outer skin done so far and I wonder how much of a balls up this is? What can be done? Does anything need to be done? Can I just lay DPC on top of my new outer skin bricks? Will it be OK just to do the inner skin properly? FYI the bricks are old imperials that have the appearance of engineering bricks (hard as nails and slightly shiny outer face) and I guess should be pretty water resistant and frost resistant