emjay68 This is a bad case of brickwork overhang.They have tried to put extra mortar and used a piece of angle steel that is dyna bolted to the slab to try and support the brickwork. Geezus. This is extremely worrying to see. It seems the workmanship shows lack of time and care to fix the problem p...

It ends up like this, very poor http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/jmfieldwork1/RECENT013_zps19a40c9b.jpg Hi insider, can you please elaborate on the picture? I'm not very well versed in this industry and just cannot tell what's happening there, my apologies ::sad:: If i were to guess, the pi...

I had a quick look for you in the BCA 2007, which is freely available as a pdf on the BCA website, since it is out of date. I couldn't see anything regarding your problem, but take a closer look for yourself. You can get the current BCA at public libraries. Good luck! Had a look at the 2008 documen...

emjay68, what State are you in. I'm guessing Victoria. I'm from SA.

I had a quick look for you in the BCA 2007, which is freely available as a pdf on the BCA website, since it is out of date. I couldn't see anything regarding your problem, but take a closer look for yourself. You can get the current BCA at public libraries. Good luck! Thanks akapacker. I'll see if ...

If the builder doesn't take any action, i'll definitely seek the services of an expert inspector. There are few issues here 1 Frame overhang will also mean brick wall overhang (because brick cavity must be maintained) 2 How do you know it will be fixed correctly? 3 If your builder has no quality co...

Thanks for the link SaveH2O. It's quite disconcerting to discover the number of building professionals that don't have official copies of the NCC. Although $400 is a rather steep fee for such a document, you'd think that it would be a critical part of business and the cost would be greatly justified...

Does anyone know how things like this are fixed? Do they dowel into the old concrete and add more concrete?

Thanks SaveH2O. Yeah i kinda figured those guidelines would hold no argument with the builder. It's just that i've seen so many instances here on H1 that says any overhang of greater than 10mm is considered defective. That word "defective" alone suggests something needs to be done, be it d...

Hi all, I apologize if this is yet another "frame overhang" thread but i thought that instead of continuing other people's thread with my problem, i could create another one which isolates my issue itself. Anyways... I'm currently building with at small volume builder and we are at the fra...