Walls

A wall is a continuous, usually vertical structure, thin in proportion to its length and height, built to provide shelter as an external wall or divide buildings into rooms or compartments as an internal wall.

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Efflorescence of bricks

Clay bricks contain soluble salts that migrate, in solution in water, to the surface of brickwork as water evaporates to […]

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Matrix for mortar

The material that was used for many centuries before the advent of Portland cement as the matrix (binding agent) for

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Mortar plasticiser

As an alternative to the use of lime it has become practice to use a mortar plasticiser with cement in the

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‘Compo’ mortar

During the last 50 years it has been considered good practice to use a mortar in which the advantages of lime

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Ready mixed mortar

Of recent years ready mixed mortars have come into use particularly on sites where extensive areas of brickwork are laid.

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Cement mortar

Cement is made by heating a finely ground mixture of clay and limestone, and water, to a temperature at which

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Lime mortar

Lime is manufactured by burning limestone or chalk and the result of this burning is a dirty white, lumpy material

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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,

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