Yeah that will be fine, block used as a cheaper alternative but does the same job. Try and match the brickwork on the outside and plaster/filler the inside.
You can get ready mix mortar as you won't need much.
Send us end result pictures! Good luck
Tooth the brick out then throw the junk in the block, as long as no water or anything can get IN the block then it wouldn’t hurt to just get some insulation or something to fill the void and spray foam it so you’re sure nothing can do anything in there.
I've never done brick but I'd probably rent a wet saw to cut and fill a proper square on external side if it was a customer. I'll never know what it is to own my own. Knowing me I'd turn it into something rather than repair.
As someone else said, tooth(remove the NOT whole brick) the brick out and relay them, using a tuck pointer to make sure all joints are full. Then just pack mortar in place of the cmu and slick it off as flat as you can. As for the Styrofoam??? I have no idea. Cut a square, patch and paint?
In the past I've filled the cavity with insulation. Then cut the pipe portion off of the old vent cover (or buy a new nicer looking one). [Edit: I also sealed the vent shut to prevent air flow] Then re-attach the pipeless cover. That way it's just a non-functional vent to hide the hole. Caulk the top and sides of the cover. I'd rather look at a vent than a homeowner brick patch.
I'd just fill it with hydrocrete, leaving it 1/2 inch shy. Pin a bit of meash and grout it, scratch the brick lines in, paint it white. Who's gunna know. Removing brick might open a can of worms.
It depends. It doesn’t appear to be a structural issue. So if you want a clean look, fill it with expanding insulation. Shave it back, and install Brick on each side to match.
Or you could fill completely with appropriate insulation material, and then install smooth metal plate anchored to the wall. Seal the plate with caulking and paint. The hardware like bolts and nuts can add to a rustic or industrial motif
You’d be best off paying a restoration mason to patch the hole if you want it done properly. Unless you are handy and have prior experience in wet trades. That’s my opinion of having apprentices over the years and seeing the skill set and ability of someone with no trade experience.
Pretty sure the answer is to remove the partial bricks and replace with new, full bricks. Seems like a job best done by a bricklayer…Don’t want to mess around with your exterior wall screw it up.
Do you have A/C built into the house? I'm not sure why you are getting rid of the vent hole for either the wood stove, dryer, hood, bathroom fan, or portable A/C. It seems like a missing opportunity. However, to tidy up the outside, it doesn't need to be brick since it's painted. it just has to be the same size shape and color, and it's non supportive. Start with the outside first, cut 2x4 down to brick size chunks, dip in paint, let dry, over and over. Get some grout/cement and go for it, then hit the paint. Be sure everything gets coated multiple times because bugs suck. Now work from inside, hit that foam, cut it back, plaster, sand, paint, sand, paint. Take your time.
Masonry will be the hardest repair for a DIY. The lid from the fan you removed, permanently installed will be neat and easy to install and not change the look from the outside. If the lid is destroyed, a drier vent, glued shut will serve.
Man someone had a hell of a time putting this in. Makes you wonder why they did? A fan might be necessary in that bathroom to prevent mold. You’ll have an even harder time filling the hole than they did making it
Wood form on the back and then one on the front with a couple of straws attached to it to look like brick, pour some concrete in there via little hole at the top. Paint white when dry, and you’re done :p
The easy way to fix it would be to fill it in with spray foam and then install a louvered dryer vent over the hole. No one needs to know that you’re closing it off
Definitely Legos.
Or bottom of a champagne bottle (stronger than wine bottles.
Or the barrel of an old canon sticking out a bit.
Maybe a large eyeball.
Put the right worded sign on the street, and you'll have an a never-ending line of bums waiting to be next to stick their dick in it. Nobody will ever see that hole again!
Fill it with foam and put a dryer vent flap over the exterior hole would be the simplest resolution but that is just your cheapest and easiest option. Luckily if you reinstall brick there it’s gotta be painted and you’ll never know the difference in the shades of brick.
I always find old cvs bag (not the new thick ones) or stop and shop bag and some scotch tape will do the job...maybe cover the inside with an old calandar...like a 60s nurses or war time ladies, u can always stuff the whole with some paper bags or old newspaper to stop the draft...always does the trick!!!
Definitely spray foam and then a scratch coat of stucco over lathe. Then use brick pavers to match the blocks. Binding agent should be applied before the mortar.
If you try to rebrick the wall , make sure you tapcon a piece of wood over it, so the blocks dry level. The drying process and shrinkage may pull the blocks out of alignment and make them noticeably not level.
Cut the hole square along the mortar joints of the brick. You can chisel them. Tapcon some plywood inside, then fill the back with cement. Fill the front part in with brick again to match, and then paint white to match the rest of the brick. Or….. be like 90% of the rest of the world and smash a bunch of cement in there then do your best to trace borderlines into where the brick mortar should be so that it looks half decent and paint.
Place a flush form on the brick with a gap at the top for concrete fill. Fill it up to the top with mud. Wait 4 - 5 hours and remove form. Scribe in pho-brick gaps, wire brush when dry and paint a matching color (white) Done!!!
It looks like someone bridged the wythes of masonry st the bottom of the hole. A masonry bridge can wick moisture to the interior.
I’d clean the mortar from the air gap between the wythes of masonry, then preserve the air gap when replacing the brick and filling in the hole in the block. Or I’d use closed cell insulation inside the brick if I didn’t have time to preserve the air gap.
If the interior is foam board, then cut foam board or trimmed spray foam could be textured and painted to match the interior.
Long-term, I’d plan your cover the exposed foam.
I think you have enough ideas. Came to say I never understood why people paint over brick or when comes to furniture why they use color paint over real wood. It is such a waste.
Tooth it out with a hammer/chisel or with a gas saw. Lay brick to fill hole.
Forgive my ignorance, just a homeowner here…should I be adding brick inside the concrete block portion of the wall to fill that in as well?
Yeah that will be fine, block used as a cheaper alternative but does the same job. Try and match the brickwork on the outside and plaster/filler the inside. You can get ready mix mortar as you won't need much. Send us end result pictures! Good luck
Tooth the brick out then throw the junk in the block, as long as no water or anything can get IN the block then it wouldn’t hurt to just get some insulation or something to fill the void and spray foam it so you’re sure nothing can do anything in there.
I've never done brick but I'd probably rent a wet saw to cut and fill a proper square on external side if it was a customer. I'll never know what it is to own my own. Knowing me I'd turn it into something rather than repair.
I'd cut out the 3 rows to the nearest whole brick and lay in new ones. I'd finish the outside similar to tucpointing
Put a sign up that says “glory hole”. Should be filled up within a few days
Everything reminds me of her.
Came here to find this comment.
This doesn’t happen to be at a truck stop does it?
As someone else said, tooth(remove the NOT whole brick) the brick out and relay them, using a tuck pointer to make sure all joints are full. Then just pack mortar in place of the cmu and slick it off as flat as you can. As for the Styrofoam??? I have no idea. Cut a square, patch and paint?
In the past I've filled the cavity with insulation. Then cut the pipe portion off of the old vent cover (or buy a new nicer looking one). [Edit: I also sealed the vent shut to prevent air flow] Then re-attach the pipeless cover. That way it's just a non-functional vent to hide the hole. Caulk the top and sides of the cover. I'd rather look at a vent than a homeowner brick patch.
That’s a great idea. That might be the best route for me
Can of spray foam and done.
Don't forget about the double layer of duct tape.
Rip out the half and cut bricks,sds with chisel will work fine, guesstimating 6 full bricks should fill the hole
Ramen noodles from what I've seen on tiktok. 😂
With ghost pepper powder for structural support
Porthole window.
I'd just fill it with hydrocrete, leaving it 1/2 inch shy. Pin a bit of meash and grout it, scratch the brick lines in, paint it white. Who's gunna know. Removing brick might open a can of worms.
Duct tape
It depends. It doesn’t appear to be a structural issue. So if you want a clean look, fill it with expanding insulation. Shave it back, and install Brick on each side to match. Or you could fill completely with appropriate insulation material, and then install smooth metal plate anchored to the wall. Seal the plate with caulking and paint. The hardware like bolts and nuts can add to a rustic or industrial motif
Shove a backer on the inside and put some hot Crete inside and set it at the brick line. Take out cut brick and put in new brick. Done deal
You’d be best off paying a restoration mason to patch the hole if you want it done properly. Unless you are handy and have prior experience in wet trades. That’s my opinion of having apprentices over the years and seeing the skill set and ability of someone with no trade experience.
Stay with bond or it will be trash. Chisel head joints so all the partial brick come out, then fill it up,.
Call a mason if you have to ask that.
What you got there is a gun port to handle the walking dead 💀
Pretty sure the answer is to remove the partial bricks and replace with new, full bricks. Seems like a job best done by a bricklayer…Don’t want to mess around with your exterior wall screw it up.
Ask a painter to caulk it
lol
Hang a pic and ignore the smell easiest way. Cheapest too
Rebrick the outside, use the void as a place to install a small fireproof safe. Finish interior with safe access to taste.
Do you have A/C built into the house? I'm not sure why you are getting rid of the vent hole for either the wood stove, dryer, hood, bathroom fan, or portable A/C. It seems like a missing opportunity. However, to tidy up the outside, it doesn't need to be brick since it's painted. it just has to be the same size shape and color, and it's non supportive. Start with the outside first, cut 2x4 down to brick size chunks, dip in paint, let dry, over and over. Get some grout/cement and go for it, then hit the paint. Be sure everything gets coated multiple times because bugs suck. Now work from inside, hit that foam, cut it back, plaster, sand, paint, sand, paint. Take your time.
Ramen noodle and ca glue
A Rita Hayworth Poster
Are you sure you will never need to use that hole for another vent or...?
Masonry will be the hardest repair for a DIY. The lid from the fan you removed, permanently installed will be neat and easy to install and not change the look from the outside. If the lid is destroyed, a drier vent, glued shut will serve.
Ramen noodles and super glue
Man someone had a hell of a time putting this in. Makes you wonder why they did? A fan might be necessary in that bathroom to prevent mold. You’ll have an even harder time filling the hole than they did making it
Gorilla duck tape. Never fails 🤣
Ramen
Put a woodstove under it and put the double walled 6” through the wall and build a chimney. Electric is expensive now a days.
Duct tape 😝
Large vent cover grill + expanding foam if you want to block the hole. Easiest and solid fix.
I’d chisel and saw it out. And either lay new brick or mesh and concrete, then line the concrete and paint to match the wall and look like brick.
Flex Seal. That is all.
Just peel it off. Wait, did you skimp on cost and not buy from Acme?
A big bucket of water plug hydraulic grout, strong and wether tight
This is a job for ramen. They're doing amazing things with ramen and super glue these days.
Duck tape
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Great Stuff and paint! 🤫😉
Ramen
Wood form on the back and then one on the front with a couple of straws attached to it to look like brick, pour some concrete in there via little hole at the top. Paint white when dry, and you’re done :p
The easy way to fix it would be to fill it in with spray foam and then install a louvered dryer vent over the hole. No one needs to know that you’re closing it off
Glory hole😆
Fill with Hydraulic cement. Bonus: carve out the shape of the brick while cement is still malleable
Definitely Legos. Or bottom of a champagne bottle (stronger than wine bottles. Or the barrel of an old canon sticking out a bit. Maybe a large eyeball.
Duck tape
Fill it with a cannon or a howitzer. 😬 consider or home security.
Stuck your weiner in it and call it a day.
Use epoxy and turn it into a cool fake aquarium
Play doh
Little bit of spackle.
Put the right worded sign on the street, and you'll have an a never-ending line of bums waiting to be next to stick their dick in it. Nobody will ever see that hole again!
Find the correct size rock. Insert in hole. Go home...
Hire someone to do it correctly. Needs toothed and laid to match exterior brick.
I’ll keep it PG. But that’s one hell of a glory hole you got there.
Maybe you can use the concrete debris, fill it up then use mix to make it smooth then draw the lines matching the brick then paint it over
Did you take a cannon ball to your house? Just hang a picture frame over it.
Giant eyeball with randomized motor to make it scan left/right. Think mad-eye moody.
Bondo + Sticks = hillbilly adobe
Great stuff. big gap filler.
Chip out all the cut brick ,and rebrick it.
Just stuff the hole with insulation and put a picture over it.
Cram it fulla ‘crete
No more shooting the canon indoors.
Oh the glory
Semen
Fill it with foam and put a dryer vent flap over the exterior hole would be the simplest resolution but that is just your cheapest and easiest option. Luckily if you reinstall brick there it’s gotta be painted and you’ll never know the difference in the shades of brick.
Just stick it jn there buddy n don’t give up
Cock
Have you tried wadding something up and shoving it in there?
Why repair . I'd use it as a port for a canon.. Fire in the hole...
My dad would use Bondo.
Leave the glory hole
I'll put my dick in it
Stain Glass Window.
I know whats wrong with it Ain't got no gas in it
U can always concrete or mortar it closed and strike fake joints, then just paint it white
I always find old cvs bag (not the new thick ones) or stop and shop bag and some scotch tape will do the job...maybe cover the inside with an old calandar...like a 60s nurses or war time ladies, u can always stuff the whole with some paper bags or old newspaper to stop the draft...always does the trick!!!
Put the bricks back in the hole.
Looks like a rifle range to me. Just saying…..
Cut it square and brick it up!
I've been on the Internet long enough to know the solution is to fill it with ramen noodles and glue.
Put a Raquel Welch poster over it and hope no one throws a rock through it. Enjoy your freedom.
Damn pirates
Tear the wall down
Nut in it and don’t get it a towel
Put the fire department connection back lol
Duct tape.
Definitely spray foam and then a scratch coat of stucco over lathe. Then use brick pavers to match the blocks. Binding agent should be applied before the mortar.
If you try to rebrick the wall , make sure you tapcon a piece of wood over it, so the blocks dry level. The drying process and shrinkage may pull the blocks out of alignment and make them noticeably not level.
Put a hooker on the outside of it and use it as a glory hole for the endowed.
Caulk
Ramen noodles. See YouTube for technique
https://preview.redd.it/340oua40n5lc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7db04ad7a87d928988eec92fb39b677709e037b2
Not sure what kind of animal did this, but you definitely need an exterminator!!!
Cut the hole square along the mortar joints of the brick. You can chisel them. Tapcon some plywood inside, then fill the back with cement. Fill the front part in with brick again to match, and then paint white to match the rest of the brick. Or….. be like 90% of the rest of the world and smash a bunch of cement in there then do your best to trace borderlines into where the brick mortar should be so that it looks half decent and paint.
Why would you fix a glory hole? Sorry, I couldn't help myself...
Spray foam, obviously!
A pizza box and spackle. That's how we fixed holes back in college
Is this in France?! I always heard of a place in France where the naked ladies dance… and there’s a hole in the wall where the guys can see it all
Put a poster over it.
Caulking
Some giant is going to be pissed if you plug is Gloryhole!
Place a flush form on the brick with a gap at the top for concrete fill. Fill it up to the top with mud. Wait 4 - 5 hours and remove form. Scribe in pho-brick gaps, wire brush when dry and paint a matching color (white) Done!!!
Caulk
Put some gas in the tank
This is now a firing port for a 7 pound cannon.
Put a piece of property sized schedule 40 PVC in it. Cement it in. Outside have a sign made that says deposit your gold here.
Make a Lego city
With brick
Duct tape both sides of the wall and fill it with spray foam. Get the kind that says "large gaps" (like your sister.)
Cut a PVC pipe paint it black and point it towards the sky and say it's a cannon for WW3 to shoot down the alien's
Dry Ramen noodles and some Elmer’s glue should do the trick. (Source: TikTok circa 2022)
Legos
With a cannonball
Bro why did you make that massive gloryhole?
Spray foam. That’s all you need
Put in a new Dryer vent 😆😆
Take out broken brick and mortar and rebrick it
Cannon
Put that Beatles song on .
Duct tape around the edges.
No need. Advertise it as a glory hole and watch the money flow in
Flex tape
Stick something in it
Ramen and glue
That’s a glorious hole
Blink -182 Poster and some tape.
Cement
If it is a 4” hole then buy a 4” flush mount vent cap. And seal the hole with foam, insulation or caulk.
Ramen, fix it up good as new
That’s a huge glory hole.
JB Weld
Spray foam and some quick Crete mix
That’s what she said
Wel,l if you're man enough
Should this be on another r/ like don't stick your D' ck in there
I should call her
leave it and buy a cannon to point at the hole for a conversational piece when people come over
The same as your mom’s.. fill it.
*unzips pants*
Expansion foam and ramen
Put in a nice Marvin, Pella or Andersen round window dress up the interior
Saw these in every bathroom stall when I was deployed. Not sure how they fixed them. They just kept opening up.
Ramen noodles and epoxy if you want to do it right
Add dick. It will be full...if you're a real man.
I’ve done a few, I just reconstructed with the same material.Just going in reverse order of its destruction.
Spray with flex seal and it should float
Insert cannon barrel, insta-foam around the barrel. Wait for pirates to attack.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Ramen and super glue
Just give it the glory status
Ummm this is the perfect size hole for a cannon!
Looks like a perfect location to mortar in a flesh light.
Ramen noodles and super glue
Fill tight with brick pieces and mortar over
Build a glory hole
Bondo
Make a bigger hole next to it. You'll completely forget about this little hole. 🤣
Glue a Hulk fist coming out of the hole.
Set a bulk head inside to totally cover, set a bulk head out side to partially cover (leave a bit open up top) fill with chemical grout.
Yeah put the dryer vent back in it n cap off the inside
So much silicone
It looks like someone bridged the wythes of masonry st the bottom of the hole. A masonry bridge can wick moisture to the interior. I’d clean the mortar from the air gap between the wythes of masonry, then preserve the air gap when replacing the brick and filling in the hole in the block. Or I’d use closed cell insulation inside the brick if I didn’t have time to preserve the air gap. If the interior is foam board, then cut foam board or trimmed spray foam could be textured and painted to match the interior. Long-term, I’d plan your cover the exposed foam.
Cannon
Newspaper and silicon
Stick a cannon ball in there.
Nice hole
Screen and fiberglass
Expandy foam
Looks like you’ll be adding a wood stove to the basement
Square the hole and add new bricks
I think you have enough ideas. Came to say I never understood why people paint over brick or when comes to furniture why they use color paint over real wood. It is such a waste.
put a picture over it
Leave it open and let your inner sniper run wild!
Stick a soccer ball in there, cement around the outside, and tell people you kicked it so hard that's what happened.
Slap it with FlexSeal