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Why does nobody talk about foundation settlement around brick veneer
I've been laying brick for about 8 years now and I keep seeing the same mistake on jobs. Guys will tie the brick veneer directly to the foundation wall without any real expansion joints. Then 2 or 3 years later the veneer starts cracking at the corners because the foundation settles different than the brick. I just finished a repair job in Raleigh where a house built in 2021 had cracks big enough to stick a quarter in. The original crew used rigid ties every 16 inches and no soft joints near the grade beam. Anybody else run into this or do I just work in a weird area with bad soil?
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the_hugo17d ago
Yeah, I had a buddy in Charlotte who did brick work for a while, and he said the same thing about those rigid ties cracking everything up. He had this one job where the bricks were basically floating after a couple years because the foundation sunk a little and the veneer just couldn't move with it.
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