Tag: brick

Types of brick

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 …

Stock brick

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 …

Brick damp-proof courses

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

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 …

Hardcore

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 …