Can a brickie or structural eng help with this. Removing corner bricks is it safe removing without struts. the ones highlighted in red need removing and the blue already removed. Around 1.5m above that to roof. Any help appreciated thanks
Removing corner brick
- Thread starter Jeffmac
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Well, I'm not a bricklayer, or Mech P Eng, but those bricks don't form the structure of your home. While they provide a façade (or curtain wall) for esthetic purposes, they don't bear roof/building loads. Structural loads are supported by the wall beneath/behind those brinks.
Notwithstanding this, the bricks will experience shear load, that is, the weight loads imposed by their own materials. So, removing a few bricks at a time, and re-mortering in new ones, permitting them to set, then start the process again with a few more bricks would be ideal. No one brick's removal will result in yielding (failing), but mutually (as an assembly) they form a wall sufficient to bear their own weight (shear load).
Notwithstanding this, the bricks will experience shear load, that is, the weight loads imposed by their own materials. So, removing a few bricks at a time, and re-mortering in new ones, permitting them to set, then start the process again with a few more bricks would be ideal. No one brick's removal will result in yielding (failing), but mutually (as an assembly) they form a wall sufficient to bear their own weight (shear load).
Thank you ac just wanted to be sure
