Templates / Masonry
Wall tie and cavity tray check
Checklist · Each lift, before it is covered
Checks wall ties at their spacings (closer at openings and movement joints), sloping down to the outside, and cavity trays with stop ends and weep holes over openings.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- Approved Document A, Section 2C
- BS 8000-3
- The project specification and drawings
The questions
Where and when
- Plot, elevation
- Date
Checks
- Ties at the specified spacing (900 mm across, 450 mm up in general walling)
- Extra ties within 225 mm of openings and movement joints, at 300 mm up
- Ties fall to the outside leaf, embedded at least 50 mm
- Cavity trays over openings with stop ends
- Weep holes over trays as specified
- Photos
Sign-off
- Inspected by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.