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Default Big hole in wall but it doesn't fall down?

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:20:42 +0100, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

On 24/07/2020 00:14, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:10:22 +0100, NY wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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You'll have to watch this during daylight hours. Notice the enormous
hole
in the wall, yet there's a restaurant running above it?! What's holding
that up?

I wonder if it's only the outer rendering that's flaked off, and
there's a
solid breezeblock wall behind it which is providing the structural
strength.
Even so, it's amazing that the rendering is still supporting its own
weight.


I think you mean concrete block. Breezeblock is the stuff that weighs
virtually nothing and you can smash it with your fist. It's only used
for internal walls.

and it floats ...


But won't provide structural strength.