BS 8215:1991
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Code of practice for design and installation of damp-proof courses in masonry construction
Hardcopy , PDF
English
02-28-1991
Committees responsible
Foreword
Code of practice
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Basic principles
4. Materials
5. Design
6. Sitework
Tables
1. British Standards for DPC materials
2. Structural considerations affecting the selection
of DPCs
3. Joints in DPCs
Figures
1. Examples of positions where DPCs may be required
2. Position of DPC above ground level
3. DPC beneath jointed copings
4. DPC in a parapet wall
5. DPCs in masonry chimney at roof penetration
6. Principles of cavity tray design
7. Sealed stop-ends to a cavity tray
8. Coordination of DPCs around an opening in a cavity
wall (diagrammatic representation of basic
principles)
9. Stepped cavity trays
10. DPC in a cavity parapet wall
11. DPCs at junction in concrete frame
12. Continuity of DPC
13. Detail of DPC overlap
14. Installation of a flexible DPC
15. Cavity tray with stop-ends
16. Cavity tray across piers
17. Formation of internal and external corners
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