different brick sizes - tie-in to house ?

[sm_jamieson]

What is the usual way to tie in new brickwork when old and new have different sized bricks. For example when building a house extension ? Simon.

[garyquigley]

Use connector bars to the existing brickwork and then altering the mortar depth to match new to existing.

[Chris Bacon]

It's true that an extension badly tied-in look awful. You can get Imperial sizes - try:

Google for "Imperial brick" or something. You could use Furfix, or similar, but the joints still wouldn't match.

some information, the organisations there may be of some use.

[Weatherlawyer]

You tie in every other three courses so that three courses -or to the nearest brick, go into an hole dug out of the existing wall three courses or so high. Then you miss three courses then cut out another three bricks.

Modern brickwork has wider cement bonding than older stuff, perhaps using imperial bricks, which were put in with narrower gaps between the bricks.

It should all work out OK. Don't try to get matching bricks unless they are perfect matches but go for a contrasting colour.

[Cordless Crazy]

Go to Ancon website and look at their wall starter systems. You dril and fix a channel to the old brickwork, then build your new brickwor in front of it, placing ties at every couple of courses. The ties allo for vertical movement (sliding up and down the channel) but resist an lateral movement. Perfic

-- Cordless Crazy