Building next to house wall

[leen...]

Hi All,

I am building my brick/ block built BBQ "against" my outside house wall. I am trying to decide whether to leave a slight gap between the back wall of the BBQ and the house or not. It will self supporting so doesn't need to be tied in to the wall for structural reasons and will be clad in cedar so doesn't matter from an aesthetics perspective. So.... I was wondering whether it makes a difference from a damp perspective? Is it best to leave a gap and therefore any damp that happens to go between will easily evaporate or whether I am better off trying to seal it along the top/ sides?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Lee.

[Andrew]

Are you mad ?.

When my neighbour fires up his BBQ, which is 3 metres from my external walls, I have to shut all the windows and even then the soffit vents allow stinking BBQ smoke to get into my loft because the hot south- facing walls create a natural updraft.

[williamwright]

A neighbour did that and the black marks up the wall and stink in the house put a stop to it.

Bill

[leen...]

At the moment, the BBQ is about 5m from the house and the chimney has the smoke coming out about 3m above the ground. The idea is that if I put it next to the house wall I can run a chimney up above the roof so hopefully the neighbours will be smoke free.

re: the black marks, the chimney will be "stand alone" (i.e. own back, sides, chimney etc.) so any staining (although the current one doesn't suffer from this) will be in the BBQ and shouldn't impact the house or neighbours. From my experience, the black shooty type smoke/ staining is usually caused by cooking with the coals too hot and causing lots of flame ups etc.

[Graham Harrison]

Here's a question...... If you build so that the BBQ touches the house will you "bridge" the damp proof course?