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Easi Form homes and wall tie corrosion
“Oh no, you don’t need to bother, these houses don’t have wall ties, they’re Easi Form non-traditional”. So said the estate agent when we
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Easi-Fix wall ties for Leeds Housing Estate
Brick-Tie recently repaired a post-war estate of timber frame houses using Easi-fix wall ties. These dwellings are modern looking but they were hiding a serious
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Rusty wall ties in timber-frame houses
Rusty wall ties in post war timber frame houses. Here are a couple of myths: Wall tie corrosion only happens in older traditionally built
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Sudden wind induced gable collapse
Sudden wind induced gable collapses Over the past thirty years there has been a steady increase in sudden and catastrophic wall collapses. Virtually all these
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Job well done
24 year old wall tie replacement – a Job Well Done. This past week, one of our Yorkshire based surveyors, David Gill, attended a
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Masonry stabilisation video
Brick-Tie share our surveying skills on behalf of the Property Care Association. The Property Care Association (PCA), are the UK’s leading authority of specialist property
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Evolution of Wall Tie Corrosion
Wall Tie Corrosion first hit the news in 1985 and within a year Brick-Tie was born. Our housing stock changes with age, which means that
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Boroscope avoids brick removal
Here is one method which Brick-Tie can use when using a boroscope during a wall tie corrosion survey. It’s different because the wall is