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Bowing house wall - tie rods?
Background - our house was built in the 30s, has a square
footprint around 8x8m, and has no foundations to speak of. It's made of stone + lime mortar, and the walls are between 50 and 60cm thick. When we bought it 2 years ago, we noticed that the back wall had at some point in the past bowed, so that while it's still attached to the outer walls, it's come away from the internal partition walls, causing a lot of cracks between the end wall and the partitions, and the end wall and the ground floor ceilings. We filled these cracks so that we may study future movement. Two years on, the wall seems to have shifted by another mm or so. The wall isn't sinking - there are no cracks at floor level downstairs. The cracks appear about 1m above floor level, and increase in size as you go upwards. Similarly, the wall is still firmly attached to the two exterior side walls. So it's only moving outwards in the middle. It's bowing. I know the traditional fix for this is to tie the two opposing walls together with steel tie rods, and spread the load on the outside of the walls using steel plates. I am considering doing this to our house. The obvious place to run the steel rods is between the floor and ceiling. This would be fine, since they'd run parallel to the joists. Has anyone done this before, and do you have any advice to offer? Is there anywhere when I could read up on this? Basic stuff - like how big the rods should be, how big the plates should be, how far apart, how many (two seems very common), that kind of thing. TIA -- Grunff |
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