Dear fellow builders and experts,
I would like to ask for your advice, opinion, or experience.
Tomorrow, our brick veneer is going to be installed, and now we have to decide whether to include an expansion joint or not.
Our builder, whom I respect greatly and consider very experienced, says we don't need one but is leaving the decision up to us. As laypersons, we are now faced with this choice. What do you think?
For your information, the house measures 10.20 x 9 meters (33.5 x 29.5 feet), and our bricks are ABC Hamburg coal-fired bricks. There were previously other buildings and trees on the construction site!
I look forward to constructive responses.
Best regards, symen
I would like to ask for your advice, opinion, or experience.
Tomorrow, our brick veneer is going to be installed, and now we have to decide whether to include an expansion joint or not.
Our builder, whom I respect greatly and consider very experienced, says we don't need one but is leaving the decision up to us. As laypersons, we are now faced with this choice. What do you think?
For your information, the house measures 10.20 x 9 meters (33.5 x 29.5 feet), and our bricks are ABC Hamburg coal-fired bricks. There were previously other buildings and trees on the construction site!
I look forward to constructive responses.
Best regards, symen
BeHaElJa schrieb:
Make sure the joints are not placed where you have a clear view of the garden
.. for example, east-west, and not on the north or south walls.Okay, and how many of these do you need if you decide to include them?
Does each wall need to be separated from the others (= 4 joints), or does just one wall need to be separated from the rest (= U-shape, 2 joints)?
Or is a single joint enough?
We have a north side where there is only a carport and a shed, and no windows, so I wouldn’t mind there.
Also, you could hide it there behind the rainwater downpipe.
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