Can i brick up my back door

Thanks for any help you can give me. Perfectly acceptable, as long as it is just a utility room. Thanks x 1. Thanks Tony.

I assume it wouldn't be acceptable if it was going to be a bedroom or something? Is that correct? It would only potentially be an issue if the property was a house three storeys or higher, or a flat.

Ok, that's great. Do I need to tell anyone I'm doing it? Request permission from anyone etc?? We own the house but didn't know if I needed planning permission etc? That's brilliant Tony. Ahhhh right, just different builder speak. There are some different ones at the foot of the back door that are not bricks at all and are rounded. I'll get a picture up for you. Oh right I see, sorry for my confusion.

I'll give that a check then. Thanks for all yours and DPacks help. I should have said Vertical dampcourse,up against the outside skin of bricks,the ones you have removed the halves from,the vertical damp course should be on the inside of these near you door frame.

Yes that picture will be interesting. Have you noticed the makers name on these bricks? Is it Manchester area you are or above Liverpool? There were so many brickworks around in them days. Ahhhh I see, yes there was something black behind the bricks. It was really quite hard as well. I'll try and get a picture of that for you also. We're in Stockport. I'll have a look on the bricks I've taken out and report back.

There used to be lots of brickworks as you say Ty Gwyn. Our first house was built of local bricks which is now about 10 miles west of us, there was a brickworks about 2 miles down the road from us and another a couple of miles off to the east. Here you go Ty, the pictures as promised. I forgot to check the bricks for a name last night but I'll do it tonight. The damp proof around the door is like a hard set bitumen sheet, as far as I can tell from looking at it.

Bull nose bricks,also used on window sills,also were available with a double nose for use as copping on a 9 inch wall,and of the quality of engineering bricks for hard wearing. When I started doing my apprenticeship as a brickie in it was only felt damp course we used then,but when I moved to a bigger firm on building sites in late 73 to finish my apprenticeship it was all plastic then.

History of bricks is interesting,the old colliery in Merthyr my butty and myself were trying to re-open had a retaining wall of Stourbridge bricks,which I thought strange regarding the huge number of brickworks in South Wales considering a lot of the old collieries had its own brickworks for use of its fireclay waste,doing a bit of searching found out that the Stourbridge brick company in the West Midlands had purchased a block of land if I remember correctly near Pontypool for its fireclay source for this type of brick,in-fact they were more blocks than bricks.

Thanks for that Ty. I will be removing any reveals that there is around the doorway. It's a shame bricks aren't made locally any more and it gave them character to the place they were local to. Thanks for that DPack. It's always good to get advice from experienced peeps, especially when you've never done it yourself before. Thanks for all that kind sir. Our builder is a bit behind so I'm unable to do what I wanted to this weekend. So I will be out there practising my mixes and so forth. I have the lightweight glasses and some goggles and dust mask for when I'm cutting my stones and blocks.

I don't have a vacuum that blows but I don't have a couple of cans of compressed air. I pick the last of my supplies up tonight, now including a water bottle and so once people have stopped stopping me I'll be good to go.

Ty Gwyn, are your bricks creamy coloured if they are made of fire clay? All ours in this area are red, or occasionally black where they are burnt. I have found the most alterations to the rear or a property or internally do not need planning permission but building control will need to be notified under a building notice and they will call at milestones to check the builders quality and method.

Solid brick walls, concrete floor and roof. Internal size 16'x8'. Already has damp proofing, a toilet which has its own mains I'm buying a mid terrace with a loft conversion with a dormer. Hi i have a front door on my house but also a side door next to it just a little bit back into a type of porch area and was We have an attached double garage with bedrooms above, looking to block up one of the garage doors with brick and add a window Ask a tradesman. Thanks in advance.

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