Hello forum. I would like to ask for your help. During today’s site inspection, I noticed that a damaged (cracked) calcium silicate brick had been installed. The crack is visible from both sides and was only filled with white adhesive mortar. Is this considered proper practice, or should we insist on replacing the defective brick? Thank you in advance.
bleibt_alles schrieb:
The sand-lime brick with a crack is on the exterior wall. Is the load-bearing capacity still ensured despite the crack? What exactly are you expecting: that the brick will fall out and cause an avalanche, bringing the whole house down with it, and suddenly there’s a pile of bricks in the garden that just moments ago was your house?
bleibt_alles schrieb:
If the brick were to be replaced now, would that involve a lot of work? It would definitely be the most efficient way to earn the nickname “wimp” from the construction workers. In the building trades, lawyers are considered more pleasant clients than teachers. Just something to think about.
bleibt_alles schrieb:
and I haven’t found cracked sand-lime bricks in any other house. If you had X-ray vision and could see through the plaster... :-)
I think it was Bismarck who is said to have remarked that it’s better if people don’t know exactly how sausages and laws are made. I won’t comment further—I spent many years in local politics and come from a family of butchers *LOL*
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Bau-Schmidt10 Oct 2017 07:44If you are so worried about a cracking sand-lime brick... oh dear... just imagine what will happen with the rest of the house.
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toxicmolotof10 Oct 2017 08:14bleibt_alles schrieb:
A single brick isn’t that expensive.How much do you think? 10 euros? When you consider that the calcium silicate brick factory has your house plans and each wall was individually designed, and you received the exact number of bricks accordingly, your material cost still has at least an additional 60 euros or so for picking, shipping, and administration added on top.
What if your house had been built with bricks half as wide? Would you still have concerns?
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bleibt_alles10 Oct 2017 12:41Oh man, you are all so friendly here...
toxicmolotow schrieb:
What if your house had been built with bricks half as wide? Would you still have concerns? Since exterior walls have been built with large block bricks laid in pure stretcher bond without header bricks, meaning statistically each individual brick takes more overall structural load, it has remained true that "Einstürzende Neubauten" is still just the name of a band from my youth :-)
No problem at all, as they say on Melmac ;-)
bleibt_alles schrieb:
Oh man, you’re all so friendly here... Yes. Your bricklayers would simply respond to your concerns with the straightforward question, "Are you gay?"
I believe writers should generally not watch mechanics at work.
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toxicmolotof10 Oct 2017 13:16@TE:
I hope you’re not referring to me. If you are, please show me where I was being unfriendly.
I find the second-to-last sentence discriminatory, @ant11. There are definitely gay bricklayers as well.
I hope you’re not referring to me. If you are, please show me where I was being unfriendly.
I find the second-to-last sentence discriminatory, @ant11. There are definitely gay bricklayers as well.
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