Category: Walls

Most loadbearing brick or blockwork walls over openings, where the cavity insulation is continued down to the head of the window or door frame, are supported by steel section …

The brickwork and blockwork over the head of openings in cavity walls has to be supported. Because of the bonding of brickwork and blockwork over the opening it is …

A cill is the horizontal finish to the wall below the lower edge of a window opening on to which wind driven rain will run from the hard, smooth, …

The practical guidance in Approved Document A in regard to openings in walls states that the number, size and position of openings should not impair the stability of a …

The spacing of wall ties built across the cavity of a cavity wall is usually 900 mm horizontally and 450 mm vertically, or 2.47 ties per square metre, and …

Iron ties which were used to tie the leaves of the early cavity walls were later replaced by mild steel ties that became standard for many years. In contact …

Resistance to weather Between 1920 and 1940 it became more usual for external walls of small buildings to be constructed as cavity walls with an outer leaf of Resistance …

To limit the effect of chases cut into walls in reducing strength or stability, vertical chases should not be deeper than one-third of the thickness of solid walls or …

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