Tag: bricks

Blocks are made in various thicknesses to suit most wall requirements and are laid in stretcher bond. Thin blocks, used for non-loadbearing partitions, are laid in running stretcher bond …

Hollow clay building blocks are made for use as a wall unit. The blocks are made from selected brick clays that are press moulded and burnt. These hard, dense …

As water dries out from precast {concrete blocks} shrinkage that occurs, particularly with lightweight blocks, may cause serious cracking of plaster and rendering applied to the surface of a …

Building blocks are wall units, larger in size than a brick, that can be handled by one man. Building blocks are made of concrete or clay. {Concrete blocks}

Walls, such as garden walls, that are to be finished fairface both sides and built 1 B thick are often built in one of the garden wall bonds. Because …

At the end of a wall at a stop end, at an angle or quoin and at jambs of openings the bonding of bricks has to be finished up …

In building a wall it is usual to lay bricks in regular, horizontal courses so that each brick bears on two bricks below. The bricks are said to be …

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 …

When brickwork is persistently wet, as in foundations, retaining walls, parapets and chimneys, sulphates in bricks and mortar may in time crystallise and expand and cause mortar and renderings …

Clay bricks contain soluble salts that migrate, in solution in water, to the surface of brickwork as water evaporates to outside air. These salts will collect on the face …