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Front Wall Falling Over

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  • 17-04-2009 1:41pm
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    NickTellis
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭


    Over the last number of years and with the increase in heavy lorries and tractors driving by our front wall has started to fall over. The wall appears to have been constructed of 2 layers of concrete block (similar to cavity wall construction but minus the cavity). Over time the outer layer of blockwork has spilt and is slowly falling out towards the road, there's now a 2 inch gap and it's only going to get bigger.

    I'm assuming the reason for this is that the wall was built without a suitable (or any) foundation so, beyond completely rebuilding it, is it worth filling the void with concrete to hold it together in the short term as we're planning on knocking it when our new extension begins in a few years time.


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    liam300tm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭liam300tm


    no point in putting anything down there, your best and safest bet is to knock it now before an accicdent happens, may look crappy for a bit, but its better than somebody getting hurt.

    concrete will shrink as it sets so it will not provide and binding effect to the blocks,

    you could slowly and carefully dismantel the wall, spin up a bucket of mortar and rebuild it for the interm period.......


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