Content Page: 5 Masonry and Walling

  • Empirically Constructed Brick Bearing-Walls 100 Millimetres In Thickness

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    (1) Empirically constructed brick bearing-walls shall have a thickness of not less than 100 millimetres, and shall be constructed to comply with the requirements of the following subsections. (2) external walls of a thickness of 100 millimetres shall be permitted to be constructed for use in any veranda, loggia, garage to a dwelling-house, greenhouse, servant’s…

  • Empirically Constructed Brick Foundation-Walls And Basement Walls

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    (1) Empirically constructed brick foundation-walls, sleeper-walls or basement-walls shall coply with the requirements of the following subsections. (2) The effective of such walls shall be not less than 215 millimetres, measured exclusive of skin-walls which protect damp-proof treatment. (3) Fill placed between such walls shall not be placed before the periods set out in section…

  • Permissible “Storey” Dimensions For Empirically Constructed Brick Bearing-Walls

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    (1) For empirically constructed solid-brick bearing walls, the total height of the wall, including the height of the foundation-wall, shall not exceed the following, when laid in class A, B or C mortar- a) for single-storey buildings, 5,4 metres; b) for two-storey building, 9 metres; c) for three-storey buildings, 12 metres; d) for four-storey buildings,…

  • Minimum Requirements For Materials For Empirical Construction

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    (1) Except where otherwise specifically permitted in this Chapter, the compressive strength of building-units and the class of mortar used in the erection of empirically constructed masonry walls which are not heavily veneered shall be not inferior to that shown in Table VI and VII for the type of wall and construction, and for the…

  • Bearings For Beams Other Than Timber In Empirical Construction

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    (1) Beans and girders, other than lintels referred to in subsection (3), which support only a floor carrying a superimposed load not exceeding 250 kilograms per square metre, and which rest on empirically constructed walls or piers, shall have a bearing-area at each end of each opening bridged by such a beam or girder of…

  • Wall-Sections Between Openings In Empirically Constructed Walls

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    (1) The number size or position of openings in a wall, including chases or recesses regarded as openings in terms of subsection (20 or (30 of sections 17, shall not be such as to impair the stability of the wall or any part of it. (2) The distance between any part of an opening made…

  • Floors, Roofs, Chases, Recesses And Panel-Walls In Empirical Construction

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    (1) The provisions of this section shall apply in empirically constructed buildings of masonry. (2) Suspended floors other than of timber, or structural units comprising such floors, shall not exceed in span the figure set out column 3 of Table V for the superimposed load per square metrefor which the floor is designed set out…

  • General Requirements For No-Fines Concrete

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    (1) The use of no-fines concrete for walling shall be subject to the requirements of the following subsections. (2) No0-fines concrete shall be used only in the bearing-walls not exceeding two storeys in height, in which the superimposed loads on suspended floors do not exceed 250 kilograms per square metre or of dwelling-houses of not…

  • General Requirements For Hollow Glass Blocks

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    (1) Hollow glass blocks used in masonry walls shall be regarded as forming non-load bearing panels in such walls, which, for the purposes of section 1 shall be regarded as openings, and shall comply with the requirements of the following subsections. (2) If the panel of hollow glass blocks exceed six metres in height or…

  • General Requirements For Gypsum Blocks

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    (1) Gypsum blocks shall be used only in non-loading-bearing, interior walls which are not, in the opinion of the local authority, exposed to continuous dampness. (2) Gypsum blocks shall not be laid in any mortar other than gypsum mortar, and shall not be allowed to come into contact with Portland cement and Portland cement products…