Originally Posted by
frog
Did you find out what was behind ? Decent joists in a stud wall should be well up to the job, maybe requiring a little strengthening. Unless you use very good fixings in the brick wall, I'd sooner have 2" screws in wood than a dodgy wall plug in a brick that's not completely filled with concrete
Yes, a poorly bricked and cemented up chimney that started to crumble the more we hit it with a chisel. Then we got to the concrete vent bricks, followed by the old lime plaster wasnt boned to the brick anymore.
All in all, it looks like if we hammer at it much more we are going to have to remove and re-plaster that wall completely, as opposed to teh simple room re-skim we have booked for tomorrow. Tiem beat me, but i will revisit the plan when we re-decoate next year.
