ᐅ Brick veneer facade without backup wall

Kaspatoo schrieb:

Do you already have a new construction company, or are you planning to do it yourselves now? Otherwise, the new company should be able to provide a proposal for this, right?

Are there construction drawings or execution plans where this might be visible?

We are still looking. If we go with a new general contractor, they will come up with a solution. If I hire contractors individually, I will have to instruct them on how it should be done.

There are no plans for this.

I just thought there might be a simple standard solution, for example roughly infilling the gable above the ring beam with calcium silicate bricks.

Filling the cavity may not hold well. It might be better to screw OSB panels in front of it and fix the anchors there.

Another question: Where is the base for the facing bricks? Is your house also in this kind of condition with an insolvent general contractor?

Knallkörper schrieb:
Filling in the cavity might not hold well. It’s better to screw OSB boards in front and attach the anchors there.

Another question, where is the base for the brick veneer? Is your house also in a similar condition with an insolvent general contractor?

And don’t the OSB boards move too much together with the roof structure?

Yeah, the house is also at the shell stage with the roof on.

DragonyxXL schrieb:
There are no plans available for this.

What do the building permit / planning permission documents say? Surely some plans should be possible to obtain, right?

Alternatively: Do not cover the gable with bricks, but use wooden cladding instead. (Details still need to be planned here, but from a structural point of view, it should not be critical, nothing will tip over.)

This is how I would do it now. A load-bearing structure decoupled from the roof frame can definitely be built, but it requires a lot of effort and is not necessarily essential. You can also separate the brick sections from each other. The question is whether structural engineering approval would be needed.

If the base for the bricks is missing, you will probably have to plaster the lower part or add a foundation underneath. However, I would not consider using wood at the bottom.

DragonyxXL schrieb:
And don’t the OSB boards and the roof frame have too much movement?

That was also my immediate thought yesterday—first boarding with wood-based panels, formwork boards, or something similar, and then anchoring into that. But I didn’t write it down because I dismissed it right away due to the different coefficients of expansion.

Two other ideas come to mind: there are angle profiles for the supports of facing walls, which were not considered in the basement construction. Something like that could be installed at the junction between the ring beam and the joists. Or: you could continue with brick veneer panels in the gable triangle; these panels are laid on battens. Similar panels are apparently also available with real brick slips. How far one could possibly do this oneself on cement fiberboards or something similar (i.e., laying the veneer on the panel and then installing the panel) I have not explored.

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