part p

[thekingiam]

does building regs alow us to knock out the occasional brick?
just wondering i have in the past done it as when necessary.

 

[trev]

I can't recall a time when I've had to do it but common sense would say that because the building regs allow us to drill a hole in a joist they would allow a hole in a wall as long as the structural integrity was not compromised

 

[alarm man]

i know a few sparks who knock one out quite often..:wink_smile:

 

[trev]

i know a few sparks who knock one out quite often..:wink_smile:

You can always trust a Shields lad to lower the tone

 

[Top Cat]

Can you imagine a scenario when knocking a brick out would cause a house to fall down FFS!

 

[alarm man]

You can always trust a Shields lad to lower the tone

i was talking about bricks trev....how does your mind work!!,:13:

 

[trev]

i was talking about bricks trev....how does your mind work!!,:13:

As youknow I'm also a Shields lad so probably the same way as yours does

 

[Silly Sausage]

As youknow I'm also a Shields lad so probably the same way as yours does

It's an easy mistake to make at night, mixing up the p with the b on the keyboard.

 

[thekingiam]

got a rewire and sockets in conservatory being fed from under floorboards in bedroom.
they have all been put in the old cavity in the wall they have been cemented.
i have often removed bricks from under doorways or where no load, and ime sure removing one or two bricks as long as replaced after is fine.

 

[thekingiam]

ime a slow wrighter and watching comedy thingy

 

[Silly Sausage]

Unless you're really unlucky (and the wall collapses), the worst that happens, if you take a few out in a row, is that higher bricks fall out in a triangle, apex at the top.

 

[thekingiam]

it's 2 bricks about 2 metres apart it will be fine.
just wondering if any regs about it?

 

[Top Cat]

it's 2 bricks about 2 metres apart it will be fine.
just wondering if any regs about it?

Bound to be a reg somewhere! Just ignore it!

 

[Silly Sausage]

it's 2 bricks about 2 metres apart it will be fine.
just wondering if any regs about it?

Haha...probably, there's a reg for everything else, 90% of which can be ignored by the appliance of a bit of common sense.

Men get paid large amounts of money generating most of this nonsense.

 

[Rockingit]

I vaguely remember watching some documentary on some particular engineering crisis, and some boffins in a lab concluded that so long as the wall was built correctly to start with, you could remove nearly 50% of the alternate bricks before the thing would lose it's strength and collapse. Not sure I'd like to put it to the test!!!