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Look at This Brick
By Edward Robinson | June 8, 2008
Table of contents for Look At This!
- Look at This Brick
- Corrsion of Fasteners in Treated Wood
- Creative Structural Repair
You gotta wonder what the builder is thinking when the do stuff like this. Not only does this create a potential for termites to gain access to the building unobserved, but it will shear off the brick as differential settlement occurs between the foundation and the concrete flat work supporting the brick siding. There is probably no real effective repair for this other than to change the brick to a stucco type application or support the brick to the structure with a steel frame. I was not inspecting this house, so the design for repair was not my problem. Just thought it was interesting.
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