Thick mortar under padstone

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Under the padstone I have 37 MM. of mortar? Is it bad practice? Picture attached
 

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Not ideal - the thinner the mortar the better. Doesn't necessarily mean it will fail, though.
 
Blimey the smudgers are in town.

Will the mortar fail before that rusty beam is the question?

No, 37mm is bad practice. It should be packed with something such as tile, slate or steel. Or better still, the brickwork built up properly.
 
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I've seen some pretty hefty, make-up muck spreading when setting out a building on dodgy (out of level) foundations, so no, it is unlikely to fail. Especially as there is plenty of bearing. It is frowned upon by those naïve blokes who have letters after their name.
 
Does fail on this forum mean regulation or just in general risk of not functioning?

I should be OK to get this through a certification from building control?

There was some slate to back the mortar not the mortar.

The pad stone is large and its 2.4metres opening.

Is it worth redoing this
 
But those blokes might also ask, "well if the padstones are crap and are crap for everyone to see, what else are they doing crap, including what is not immediately easy to see?"

The less nieve know that it is rarely a single thing that makes a crap job, but the sum of several things. And the crucial thing is whether the OP is paying good job money for crap job results

Woody, NiEVE (Hons) :p
 
Strictly speaking, there shouldn't be any mortar between the padstone and the underside of the steel.

But that's just being anal - the inspector is unlikely to fail it (at least the ones we use wouldn't)
 

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