I have a difficult task at hand. I am the lead carpenter on a project in which we are adding on to a brick home built in 1937. The exterior walls are three courses thick, the middle layer is clay tile, the interior layer is brick and tile with plaster applied directly to the masonry surface. The challenge is that I need to remove the first story brick to expand the kitchen without affecting the second story of masonry construction. The second part of the challenge is that the new opening is 25′ long. I’m looking for suggestions on how to hold the second story brick in place while I create a channel to set my steel in place. The second floor load is wall and roof only, there is no floor load. Thanks for your input.
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You need to insert "needles" perpendicular to the wall above the hole, which can be 4x4's, or short pieces of steel, which then are supported by posts , which, need to be placed so you can move the new beam in , probably sliding it down parrallel to the wall. Space the needles 3' apart or so, more or less, I 'd drive a nail in to see how hard the morter is.
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I talked to the super today about your job. He said use needles , they went ever 4 foot and said they had no problems. The only thing was , the patch work afterwards. It depends how critical that will be . Also they said becareful when drilling thru on older brick
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