sarah.in.liverpool
Aiming for that warm dry home.
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Can anyone help me as to understanding how a former doorway should be bricked up?
It looks like our doorway has not been bonded into the next door neighbours party wall at all? It looks as though they’ve just slapped cement down the side of the former doorway where the gap was and not ‘toothed’ out the bricks properly into the wall next door in order to bond the wall correctly?
1) What type of bond is on the back wall of the house, a Flemish Bond?
2) What’s the correct way of doing this? How should the bricks be bonded?
3) Also, should the blocking up of the doorway also be done with lime mortar – the rest of the house is lime-pointed but this section isn’t? Could this be causing damp in that area?
4) Is the abutting breeze block garden wall creating / storing damp in that section, how would be fix this? Cut a gap between the wall and the house?
There is damp coming through that corner of the kitchen (see picture), we are removing the damp plaster and re-plastering in lime but want to ensure the bricked up doorway is correct first.
Any help on this one really appreciated, I’m stumped!
House details: Built approx. late 1890s, Victorian mid-terraced house. Solid wall construction in lime. Neighbours said that the former doorway used to be a sliding door (their parents used to own the house). Breeze block wall has been in the garden for around 10 years or so.
It looks like our doorway has not been bonded into the next door neighbours party wall at all? It looks as though they’ve just slapped cement down the side of the former doorway where the gap was and not ‘toothed’ out the bricks properly into the wall next door in order to bond the wall correctly?
1) What type of bond is on the back wall of the house, a Flemish Bond?
2) What’s the correct way of doing this? How should the bricks be bonded?
3) Also, should the blocking up of the doorway also be done with lime mortar – the rest of the house is lime-pointed but this section isn’t? Could this be causing damp in that area?
4) Is the abutting breeze block garden wall creating / storing damp in that section, how would be fix this? Cut a gap between the wall and the house?
There is damp coming through that corner of the kitchen (see picture), we are removing the damp plaster and re-plastering in lime but want to ensure the bricked up doorway is correct first.
Any help on this one really appreciated, I’m stumped!
House details: Built approx. late 1890s, Victorian mid-terraced house. Solid wall construction in lime. Neighbours said that the former doorway used to be a sliding door (their parents used to own the house). Breeze block wall has been in the garden for around 10 years or so.