Filling Deep Holes In Brick Walls

I m going to show you how to use expanding foam filler to fill deep holes or gaps in walls.

Filling deep holes in brick walls.

Fills holes up to 50mm deep. Just to confirm pino79 take a small piece of brick slightly smaller the the hole and make sure it does not protrude from the wall. Homeowners drill holes in brick walls for a variety of reasons including running cable electrical wires or pipes through the wall. How to fix big hole s in your plaster.

Take your off cut brick and coat it with the mortar as well and the fit it inside the hole. A deep puncture in your wall can be anything from a nail hole to a gaping space where drywall should be. This can be a harder task to resolve. They re usually at least 225mm thick the length of a standard brick and are often a brick and a half thick where the house is exposed to severe.

Ok so lets say you have a big deep area of damaged plaster. In houses built before the 1920s you ll usually find solid external walls are made of natural stone or brick. The polyfill expanding foam filler can expand to twice it s size. Go with pre mixed fillers for narrow deep holes.

If its a large area back to brick lathe then your general purpose filler won t cut it. Suitable for drilling screwing or nailing. Make up a some mortar and chuck a small amount of it in the hole so it coats the back and sides of the hole. High performance filler that gives a perfectly smooth finish.

Changing the location of the cable wire or pipe leaves a gaping hole through the brick wall where water dirt and debris enter the structure. Smaller holes can be easily remedied while larger holes require more supplies and labor. You may need to buy deep repair filler which is a ready mixed lightweight filler for holes up to 20mm deep. Since standard bricks are 3 inch wide and the required air cavity between the sheathing and the wall is one inch the total depth of weep holes is typically 4 inches.

The guys at home depot had a lot of fun lamenting the fact that the hole existed to begin with and then suggested that i build a mold on one side of the wall and fill it in with a pour of concrete. After hearing that i seriously considered just gluing a piece of plywood over it and calling it a day.