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Originally Posted by slowsnake
Geez it's sheared the wire connectors/ties in the mortar joints!..I can see one at the top, 3 courses down is intact, the others have just snapped under tension, wow!
Lucky it dident topple over on someone  |
It’s not engaged masonry, and relying on pretty marginal ties. Probably added soon after original construction.
BCA is alright, but it’s poor in tanking for basements - UK code is far superior - and we’re not designing for catastrophic (and frequent!) enough extreme events; bushfires, heat, cyclones/tornadoes.