Internal brick wall straight onto concrete floor?

[andylu]

I am going to build a ground floor recessed shower out of brick, is it OK to build straight onto the concrete floor? I assume the floor is 150mm concrete, it has been there for 60 years and no signs of sinking or anything.

I am using brick, not block, as I want practice on bricks which are going to be plastered/tiled over before I get let loose on my self build garage!

Any advice welcome.

Thanks

Andy

 

[noseall]

Brick, are you bonkers!

Are you building a single panel of bricks using the existing walls to form the other two sides or are you building a complete 'U' shape entirely out of brick?

 

[andylu]

Yes bonkers

I am building 2 sides of the shower, the third being an existing (block) wall.

Both "leaves" of my wall will be tied into existing walls so I am not worried about stability, my worry is subsidence into the floor.

 

[stuart45]

Non load bearing partition walls can be built off a concrete floor, as long as its not half an inch thick.