Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Aug 15, 2021 3:51 pm Hi, I have had a window removed and replaced with brick. Due to the workmanship (massive variation in perpend thickness, bricks are more than 2mm out of step and the colour) I'm getting it redone, but I want to know if I can get them to do it without the expansion joint, preferably toothed. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The wall is 5m long in total and has a couple of windows in it. I've tried reading AS 3700, AS 4773.2 and the Victorian guide to standard and tolerances but cant see how this work conforms to any of them or is required by any of them. The only possibility is there is a requirement that expansion joints be placed "at junctions of walls constructed of different masonry materials", the old and new work are both non-reinforced single leaf so does that apply in this case? And if so, why doesn't it need to be the entire height of the masonry? Not expansion foam, but a expansion joint foam. Two very different products. And it should be installed and wrapped around your storm water penetrations where the… 1 3301 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Also an expansion joint. It will probably be better to silicon it? What I don't like is that joints between panels are not properly rendered and look ugly. 1 24752 Evening, Had my 3 month maintance done on my new place. Most things are fixed to ok standards, but im not sure about the visible joins in my plaster wall. There was 2… 0 4424 |