Category: Walls

WALLS OF BRICK AND BLOCK

Strength and Stability Up to the middle of the twentieth century the design and construction of small buildings, such as houses, was based on tried, traditional forms of construction. There were …

Lime mortar

Lime is manufactured by burning limestone or chalk and the result of this burning is a dirty white, lumpy material known as quicklime. When this quicklime is mixed with …

Cement mortar

Cement is made by heating a finely ground mixture of clay and limestone, and water, to a temperature at which the clay and lime¬stone fuse into a clinker. The …

Ready mixed mortar

Of recent years ready mixed mortars have come into use particularly on sites where extensive areas of brickwork are laid. The wet material is delivered to site, ready mixed, …

‘Compo’ mortar

During the last 50 years it has been considered good practice to use a mortar in which the advantages of lime and cement are combined. This combination or ‘compo’ mortar …

Matrix for mortar

The material that was used for many centuries before the advent of Portland cement as the matrix (binding agent) for mortar was lime. Lime, which mixes freely with water …