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• Introduction
• Types
• Details of cavity wall
• Types according to material
• Hollow blocks
• Insulation
• construction
What is cavity wall
• A cavity wall or hollow wall is the one which consists of
two separate walls, called leaves or skins, with a cavity or
gap in between.
Solid wall Cavity wall • It is constructed for thermal & sound insulation by
creating buffer zone between two leaves.
•Cavity tray and cavity gutter :- A cavity tray is a damp-proof course (DPC) that crosses the cavity of
a cavity wall in order to prevent dampness from permeating the internal skin of a wall. A cavity tray
steps up between the outer and inner leaves, to form a gutter which leads to a weep hole in the
outer leaf.
•Foundation wall :- The masonry or concrete walls below ground level that serve as the main
support for a structure. Foundation walls also form the sides of a basement area.
ADVANTAGES OF CAVITY WALLS
1)The external moisture (dampness) cannot travel inside the building as there is no direct contact between the
inner and outer leaves.
2)The cavity between, the two leaves is full of air which is bad conductor of heat.
Hence transmission of heat from external face to the inside the room is very much
reduced.
Enables heat transfer
3)The cavity wall have 25% greater heat insulating value than
the solid walls.
1)Filling the cavity with insulation will always hold the risk
that moisture will be able to find its way across to then
inside, whatever the insulation material.
•Accordingly to I.S recommendation the lower part is of cavity may be filled lean
concrete upto a few centimeters above existing G.L .
•The top of the filling should be sloped with weep holes at the 1m intervals along
the outer leaf of the Wall any designed kind of facing brick or it may also be
common bricks finished with rendering.
•Bond for cavity wall construction should consist of of stretcher bond for half
brick leaves and any ordinay bond such as english bond or Flemish bond for
leaves which are one brick or more thick
•Where solid wall are joining cavity wall , bonding of former into latter should
conform to the principle .
Construction of cavity wall
•Stretcher in the solid bond should extend half brick into the inner leaf of the
cavity wall and closer as shall be used for good bonding
Pic tie plan
•Brick should be laid very carefully to leave the cavity free form mortar
dropping
•The cavity should be made free form rubbish and mortar dropping by
means of a timber batten 25mm thick and width about 12 mm less than
cavity, resting over tie
•The batten is supported on wall ties and the brick work is carried out on
either side of the batten ,to height where next row of wall ties are
provided.