Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Holes in bricks when building 3Jun 13, 2020 8:23 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Holes in bricks when building 7Jun 13, 2020 9:38 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Holes in bricks when building 8Jun 13, 2020 9:39 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Holes in bricks when building 10Jun 13, 2020 10:33 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Holes in bricks when building 11Jun 14, 2020 1:31 pm chippy Mortar and clay bricks are extremely porous, water doesn't just run down it, it soaks it up. If water is routinely bridging the cavity the inner leaf will get soaked. Have you ever seen the other side of a brick wall of a shower recess where the waterproofing has failed. Even it's a pin hole the bricks just soak up the water and the hard plaster starts flaking off. If you routinely have water bridging the cavity the same thing will start happening to your internal plaster. The OP doesn't need to fill the holes to prevent moisture otherwise they are going to have a problem anyway. Your comment about preventing vermin is more relevant (although if that was really an issue they can get in from the top) but I don't imagine even that being an issue. Yes, bricks will be absorbing up to 15% of its weight, but this will certainly depend on the volume of water. Once water is adsorbed, if the quantities are not huge, it will be released/dried out later. Depending on the number of mortar bridges, double brick is never a panacea unless they have a layer of rigid of insulation between the layers. The perfectly clad wall certainly won't have any issues by design, however, the problem is that design and implementation are generally two different things. https://www.building.co.uk/focus/building-pathology-water-ingress/3152011.article it depends on the natural ground level, if they excavated their boundary wall needed to be built as a retaining wall. If you filled, which sounds like the case then you… 1 7074 I know foam has been around since the 90's and CSR started manufacturing Hebel in 1989, so it's definitely possible 5 5420 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place - Iām new to the property/building journey (trying to buy my first home) so not sure where/who to go with these sorts of… 0 19134 |