Doorway bricked up correct?

[Monty_jon]

I had a kitchen doorway bricked up quite a few years ago, it was done using the high density concrete blocks (like very heavy breeze blocks)

The old door frame was removed and blocked up, but it was not tied into the existing brickwork, is this something I should be concerned about or am I just being over anxious?

Its been like that for 10+ years and it still seems solid, but it does have kitchen cupboards hanging on the one side!

 

[Tigercubrider]

I would have thought that something up for ten years would stay up?
If the doorframe was removed, presumably the exposed wall was "a bit rough"?
Are you sure the builder didn't use nails or something as ties and fill gaps with cement as he went?

Worst case I think you'd get warning.
A building that I worked in was a cast concrete thing like a car park, with concrete block walls as dividers for rooms, corridors etc.
They fitted massive spur shelving to one side of a wall as a document store and you could see daylight through the top. the wall seemed to move about an inch at the top but then jammed against the ceiling.
Where the concrete blocks finished near the ceiling, the builders had inserted something like hemp rope and used cement on both sides to fill the 1" gap.
AFAIK it was there from the early 70's until the site was cleared in the 2010's

 

[Monty_jon]

Yes, the brickwork was rough around the edges where the frame was removed. It was bricked up-to the concrete lintel that was over the door.

All the gaps where filled with cement but no ties if I remember correctly

Unfortunately it was not done by a builder, it was more a DIY job!

According to the wife it was more like 18 years ago, maybe I've left it a little too long to worry about it

 

[ktuludays]

18 years ago? I think you'll be OK

 

[DGCS]

I had a kitchen doorway bricked up quite a few years ago, it was done using the high density concrete blocks (like very heavy breeze blocks)

The old door frame was removed and blocked up, but it was not tied into the existing brickwork, is this something I should be concerned about or am I just being over anxious?

Its been like that for 10+ years and it still seems solid, but it does have kitchen cupboards hanging on the one side!

No problem whatsoever. as long as it shows no signed its unstable or blocks lose at all, its fine.. Think about the caravans out there with wall units screwed on hardboard.. or 1/8 ply.. crazy. but no one thinks of that when they load them up with plates seen some dodgy jobs..