Spacing of brick ties in brick veneer constrction

[Compleat Amateu]

As many of you'd be aware from other posts, I'm stripping off plasterboard to wrap and insulate brick veneer construction walls in a 70s house.

Foumd a bit of ex-whiteant activity, but that's another story.

This question is about the required spacing of brick ties. There are a helluva lot of them in the brickwork, but not that many actually connected to the timber framing .... very odd. As I'm doing the slide-foilwrap-into-gaps game, fewer brick ties mean less cutting, tearing and swearing. And my 11 year-old assistant knows too many of those words as it is already!

So what governs whether or not I can cut away or attach these currently unattached ties? The external wall is single story, engaged piers supporting the floor, end brick wall is triangular, and very few attached ties up high.

Cheers

[PeteV]

maximum spacing for ties is 600mm vertically, and 600mm horizontally. that being said, i like to keep my spacings to 450 centres vertically and horizontally. hope this helps!

[Compleat Amateu]

Thanks PeteV, that'll do nicely.

The spacing and frequency of these ties suggests that late design changes were made!

cHEERS

[PeteV]

your best bet really is to get as many of them in as possible. hope this helps!