Carport to brick garage conversion Novice
I'm busy trying :? to make up plans for the council to convert an existing carport to a closed in garage in Perth by bricking up the gaps with a single skin 28 bricks high. The existing carport is joined to the house with a continuous tiled roof and brick pillars and I'm far enough from the all the boundaries including the road. I'm a novice at this so I'm not sure on using brick ties, how frequent/spaced they need to be and what size as well as how to go about doing the piers. I've seen different examples from just a stack tied into the wall to the bricks tied in.What method is best. I've been told I need some sort of steel reinforcing up the centre of the piers :oo: what are they called and how do I put them in?
Attached hopefully are my plans so far - any other help or advice in laymans terms will be much apreciated:U