Hi
Appreciate some advice please
Side of a double length garage build 1920 ish, probably 15 metres long.
Wall is solid brick wall, but not really - never seen this type before, it is two courses bonded with a few odd headers every 7 or 8 courses with a 1-2cm cavity.
Due to weathering over the years bricks at bottom on outer skin have ruined and the top of the outer skin fallen away, so taken down some of it to footings.
The garden siding on has increased soil level over the years that meets the wall and laid a path and it's now above the bitumin type DPC that was laid on the footings on both the inner and outer courses.
Question is
a) Do we replace the DPC at the original level so it matches the one on the inner skin and then maybe paint on black jack above by 150mm
Or
b) Replace as in a) and then add a second DPC 150mm above the first - so having 2 DPC's in situ
Or
c) Replace as in b) and also add black jack between the two DPC's
Or
d) Ignore the existing DPC level, build up 150mm and add a new DPC and maybe also black jack below new DPC
We may not rebuild the entire side wall if the ends are in reasonable condition when inspected further, so if we went for (d) we would need to re joing the old DPC to new DPC height at the ends.
Wall 25 courses high so do not think two new DPC courses will make it less stable from what I have read the physics of the weight of bricks, but wondered best thing to do.
Cannot really dig out the soil to lower the ground level to give the 150mm height to the DPC but in conjunction with any of the above I might be able to make a gap of around 100-200mm and fill with gravel to keep the soil away from the wall. I suspect some of the brick damage over the years was caused by the high soil level.
thanks
Appreciate some advice please
Side of a double length garage build 1920 ish, probably 15 metres long.
Wall is solid brick wall, but not really - never seen this type before, it is two courses bonded with a few odd headers every 7 or 8 courses with a 1-2cm cavity.
Due to weathering over the years bricks at bottom on outer skin have ruined and the top of the outer skin fallen away, so taken down some of it to footings.
The garden siding on has increased soil level over the years that meets the wall and laid a path and it's now above the bitumin type DPC that was laid on the footings on both the inner and outer courses.
Question is
a) Do we replace the DPC at the original level so it matches the one on the inner skin and then maybe paint on black jack above by 150mm
Or
b) Replace as in a) and then add a second DPC 150mm above the first - so having 2 DPC's in situ
Or
c) Replace as in b) and also add black jack between the two DPC's
Or
d) Ignore the existing DPC level, build up 150mm and add a new DPC and maybe also black jack below new DPC
We may not rebuild the entire side wall if the ends are in reasonable condition when inspected further, so if we went for (d) we would need to re joing the old DPC to new DPC height at the ends.
Wall 25 courses high so do not think two new DPC courses will make it less stable from what I have read the physics of the weight of bricks, but wondered best thing to do.
Cannot really dig out the soil to lower the ground level to give the 150mm height to the DPC but in conjunction with any of the above I might be able to make a gap of around 100-200mm and fill with gravel to keep the soil away from the wall. I suspect some of the brick damage over the years was caused by the high soil level.
thanks
