1200mm wide block wall layout query

[Capable Noob]

Hopefully attached images will help describe it - as part of a rear extension there are two adjacent rooms each with sliding patio doors and between the doors is 1200mm wide wall (with padstones at the top to support steels above the patio doors).   Construction is 440mm blocks.  So, 440+440+300 (plus mortar joints) would be the 1200mm, but the next course would then leave a 70mm piece at the end (220+440+440+70 plus mortar joints = 1200mm).  My question is, is it ok to have a 70mm piece at the end, or is there a better layout? 

 

Many thanks for any input! 

[Radian]

21 minutes ago, Capable Noob said:

but the next course would then leave a 70mm piece at the end (220+440+440+70 plus mortar joints = 1200mm).

What about alternating 440.300.440 with 150.440.440.150? In practice, splitting a 440 into 3 and using those pieces would, with the extra mortar gap, just make 1200.

[Temp]

Think I'd just do this. 

 

 

Since you have steels both sides.. What's the loading like? Would they need to be something other than the lightest of lightweight blocks? 

 

 

[Capable Noob]

Thanks Radian and Temp, both look a better layout than my diagram. 

 

The only observation I have on Temp's layout would be that a 440 padstone would then sit directly on top of a 440 block (ie not staggered) - is it ok to do that?

 

Cheers

[Canski]

I’d do the top one

[Miek]

55 minutes ago, Canski said:

I’d do the top one

+1

[Capable Noob]

So like this then?  Looks good to me!  Thanks all. 

 

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