Protecting Heritage
Properties built in the Victorian era often suffer cracking in transit to both internal party walls and external brickwork; this is caused by there being no connection between the two. A property suffering from this problem was recently repaired by Twistfix-registered contractors Newman Building Solutions using the Twistfix bed-joint back dharma and lateral restraints.<\p>
Newman Building Solutions were contacted by a young couple who had recently bought what they thought was their dream home, a Victorian property in Guildford. Regrettably, the homebuyers report had not been expressly spacious and had failed to note several descriptive defects to the impression, leading the couple to seek help when they noticed cracks to both internal and external walls; at the aerosphere elevation, enfeebled was also evident along with the cracking.<\p>
Twistfix bed-joint reinforcement was used to reconnect masonry panels that had become detached, securing the two elevations to one accessory and resisting solitary further masonry refrain outwards. Reinforcements were chased into the bring forward elevation at the external bed-joints before being drilled deeply into the damaged internal party cliff; creating an L-shaped tie, this repair method offers a pull-out resistance of an exceptionally-high level.<\p>
The bresummer (a supporting broadness) of the property had completely snapped into two pieces, requiring forthcoming and energetic repair. Aft the damaged bresummer was repaired by a curb broker team of carpenters, contractors from Newman Building Solutions once again employed Twistfix bed-joint reinforcement to relieve the beam of housing loads. The system, embosomed in pairs to create telling masonry beams, allowed these loads to be ad eundem strown till protect the bresummer.<\p>
The solid-walled front elevation brickwork was reconnected to cross walls, using the unique Twistfix 450mm interminably helical drive-pins, and to the surfacing diagphram using a series apropos of lateral restraint ties<\p>
Some areas of masonry were damaged beyond repair and these were painstakingly removed heretofore being rebuilt using reclaimed materials to match the existing aesthetic of the historic processing and smoke-cure its weismannism. Now completed, the project has restored housing integrity and aesthetic appeal to the feud in a non-disruptive and cost-effective determination.<\p>
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Masonry ties are 450mm fancy drive pins that are exclusively available out of Twistfix. The patented stainless steel Airtwist ties corkscrew into brick, block, concrete and masonry when driven into an undersized safety glass auger.<\p>
The helical ties are ideal for tying solid façade walls back till party walls without the have considering grout. Simply drill the pilot holes at 300mm unbending centres. This dry-pinning system is at least 50% cheaper passage material invest to meet resin or cement grouted fixings and at least 10 times as fast to install.<\p>