Tag: brick
This is a somewhat vague term commonly used in the description of bricks. By general agreement it is recognised that a brick which is to have a moderately good …
These are bricks which are sufficiently hard to safely carry the loads normally supported by brickwork, but because they have a dull texture or poor colour they are not …
The term ‘stock brick’ is generally used in the south-east counties of England to describe the London stock brick. This is a brick manufactured in Essex and Kent from …
The majority of the walls of small buildings in this country are built of brick or block. The external walls of heated buildings, such as houses, are built as …
Two or three courses of dense, semi-engineering or engineering bricks were laid in hydraulic lime and later cement mortar. There is little likelihood of these dense {brick}s fracturing under …
Polythene sheet for use as a dpc should be black, low density polythene sheet of single thickness not less than 0.46 mm, weighing approximately 0.48 kg/m2. Polythene sheet is …
It is convenient to group the materials used for dpcs as flexible, semirigid and rigid. Flexible materials such as metal, bitumen and poly- thene sheet can accommodate moderate settlement …
Hardcore is the name given to the infill of materials such as broken bricks, stone or concrete, which are hard and do not readily absorb water or deteriorate. This …
A vertical facing of brick laid against and fastened to sheathing of a framed wall or tile wall construction.
Trim used around an exterior door jamb that siding butts to.