08-12-18, 04:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-18, 04:09 PM by tommyardin.)
(08-12-18, 01:24 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: Me to - love construction. About 30 years ago I did a night course on bricklaying, it was for big diyers like myself who wanted to learn some basics and since then have done loads and loads of brick projects, the first one was demolishing and rebuilding some out houses at the back of a terrace house to go from a loo/ coal shed/shed to one large shed.
Interesting about the DPM between the new and old, a few years ago we had an extension built and were made to have the front of it 1/2 brick back which then made it as you describe so that 1/2 original brick then becomes the internal wall further on and we did not have any cut and DPM as you describe. I would of worried that the front of the house would fall off if it was cut :lol It was signed off with regs all along the way and I was there every time.
I chose size bricks that matched the original and they were toothed in. But because it was set back 1/2 brick maybe we could of got away with miss matching heights (don't know)
[color=rgb(255, 0, 0)]The nasty bricks in the picture are from the previous Lord of Sharp Halls extension effort which are now hidden by the new stable block.[/color]
The bricks you mention above are a LBC (London Brick Company) brick, They were very popular in the 60's right up to the last 10 years or so but have fallen out of vogue recently, they are cheap and nasty to be honest, they do several patterns and finishes but are all the same brick (Used to be called Flettons) but with different sand faces on them and then fired.
They were OK in houses where there is an overhang (Soffit) to protect the brickwork, but in garden wall they just soak up rain until they are saturated, it then freezes and the bricks spall. See picture of spalled bricks.