Problem with wall on New shed.

kildarelad

Basically im putting up a shed at the moment and im starting to lay the walls.The gap i have to fill is 68 inches high.Laying seven rows of blocks will bring me to 63 inches.My problem is a standard block is nine inches thick so i wont get another one in.Therfore to make up the 5 inches i was thinking of either putting together a jig and making my own blocks which are 5 inches thick or on the floor of the shed where the walls are going putting in a 5 inch layer off mass concrete first.What ideas have ye

.50 (MOA)

use a soap bar and plenty of bedding as your last row.

or

build the wall as far as you need can, clamp on some planks along its length on eiter side at the perfect height and fill in with concrete, this can also level oyut the top if the ground is uneven/ the building is a bit dodgy.

Dunedin

.50 (MOA) wrote: »

use a soap bar and plenty of bedding as your last row.

or

build the wall as far as you need can, clamp on some planks along its length on eiter side at the perfect height and fill in with concrete, this can also level oyut the top if the ground is uneven/ the building is a bit dodgy.

soap bar and bed heavy and you'll be grand. a sprinkling of dry cement will help keep the bed high under the soap bar also.

Shauny2010

at 68 inches that's 1.727 meters
Each course of block work is 0.225 meters (which is a bit less that 9 inches)
that gives 7 courses of blocks at 1.575 meters leaving 0.152 meters left
This can be made up using a 150mm (6 inch) soap as long as you keep all your block work beds at 10mm
This will give you a neater finish than trying to put a big bed of mortar under a 100mm (4 inch) soap

Dunedin

kildarelad wrote: »

Basically im putting up a shed at the moment and im starting to lay the walls.The gap i have to fill is 68 inches high.Laying seven rows of blocks will bring me to 63 inches.My problem is a standard block is nine inches thick so i wont get another one in.Therfore to make up the 5 inches i was thinking of either putting together a jig and making my own blocks which are 5 inches thick or on the floor of the shed where the walls are going putting in a 5 inch layer off mass concrete first.What ideas have ye

sorry didn't really read teh first post properly. if you bed generously from the start (make sure to keep the mortor on the dry side), you will prob have little to make up by the time you are at the top. If you are not too pushed on doing a fancy finish, either a soap bar or masonry bricks will do the job absolututely fine (a lot easier than doing a mass concrete finish or making your own 5 inch blocks)

If the wall is being plastered then it doesn't matter at all.

vincenzolorenzo

Is it a cattle shed or workshop? If cattle then would you consider mass concrete?

Jack C

I agree. Mass concrete is your only man if you'll be going anywhere near your wall with a loader.

kildarelad

Thanks for the replies got a 4 inch soap bar and bedded heavy between rows.Its a workshop and will be plastered