The Ontario Building Code | Wood Frame Walls Intersecting Masonry Walls

9.20.11.3. wood Frame walls Intersecting masonry Walls

(1) wood frame walls shall be tied to intersecting masonry walls with not less than 4.76 mm diam corrosion-resistant steel rods spaced not more than 900 mm o.c. vertically.

(2) Ties required in Sentence (1) shall be anchored to the wood framing at one end and shaped to provide a mechanical key at the other end to develop the strength of the tie.