<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="ncc-clause" ?><clause id="_4fce11eb-3d03-4707-a797-697139fd3f64" outputclass="ncc-clause"><meta><facet building="Class 2"/><facet building="Class 3"/><facet building="Class 4"/><facet building="Class 5"/><facet building="Class 6"/><facet building="Class 7a"/><facet building="Class 7b"/><facet building="Class 8"/><facet building="Class 9a"/><facet building="Class 9b"/><facet building="Class 9c"/><facet building="Class 10b"/></meta><sptc>5.7.5</sptc><title id="_7a66ffcf-06af-437f-87af-b127b0e64526">Weepholes</title><archive-num>2019: 3.3.5.9</archive-num><subclause id="_f8463944-d42b-4532-838a-ccfd485b7c6d" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_b53716d9-e5b3-4ee0-8971-d673b86e1f26">SubClause</title><num>1</num><p>Except where excluded by (2), open perpend joints (weepholes) must be created in the course immediately above any <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1305_0.15.0.xml#_f3cdd6b2-0801-4750-ac8b-515dde29def5" id="_8c09382e-ce4f-42a1-a07a-e88649582703" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">flashing</xref> (including above any <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1235_0.7.0.xml#_0d21b1c5-7e4f-446c-99a0-4c7564ed7952" id="_e6bb644c-4d68-4c35-966d-0f54fd386eb5" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">damp-proof course</xref> acting as a <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1305_0.15.0.xml#_f3cdd6b2-0801-4750-ac8b-515dde29def5" id="_180604f7-e064-4246-8742-1efbc4baf6fc" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">flashing</xref>) and be—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_808529ab-ada5-4fa2-961f-6f02aeb15b43">a minimum of 50 mm in height, by the width of the vertical mortar joint; and</li><li id="_ec048664-1dac-4076-bf6d-85e97e983f41">at not more than 1.2 m centres; and</li></ol></subclause><subclause id="_77b03b5b-1457-43bc-99c0-2f46311cb50a" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_88b3fb8b-850e-47dd-a104-89974fa98807">SubClause</title><num>2</num><p>Weepholes are not <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_ed8b2562-4cce-48e6-8e42-77d87f81b93d" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> in the following locations:</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_66353450-6491-41b7-81c3-a424ebd17046">Where head openings are less than 1.2 m wide.</li><li id="_606d4231-0baa-4740-82aa-ec138949f582">Beneath <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1525_29.1.0.xml#_48631093-d96b-4a40-a86d-7ffae028f24d" id="_40fee148-5079-412e-a7c9-fab209d2a2d1" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">window</xref> and door sills.</li><li id="_9ae36b41-7cd1-4404-af3f-33d2a49342e1">Where the level of the external impervious surface is elevated for the purpose of providing step-free access <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_d551666d-97b5-45da-9d5c-79f608558366" referencetype="Text" scope="local" synctargettext="false" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> by <xref format="dita" href="qpp://assets/4933#_798b0efb-305e-47b4-9206-3e146fe28df6" id="_3d2a91e3-71de-4f8e-a64b-39643b8cf48d" publishing-id="vol2" referencetype="Text" scope="external" synctargettext="false" type="ncc-clause">H8P1</xref>.</li></ol></subclause></clause>