External walls - bricklaying and rendering when weather may be bad
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Failures: frost damage; mortar washed out of joints by driving rain; weakened mortar; stained brickwork; detachment of rendering; walls blown down
Defects: bricklaying in frost; no protection of new brickwork against frost; new work not protected from driving rain; rendering applied to saturated walls; walls built when strong winds prevail; unstable new work not propped when strong wind forecast