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 […]
Two or three courses of dense, semi-engineering or engineering bricks were laid in hydraulic lime and later cement mortar. There […]
Flint-lime bricks are manufactured from hydrated lime and crushed flint and are moulded and hardened as are sand-lime {brick}s. They
A range of special bricks is made for specific uses in fairface brickwork. These bricks are made from fine clays
These are bricks which are sufficiently hard to safely carry the loads normally supported by brickwork, but because they have
When brickwork is persistently wet, as in foundations, retaining walls, parapets and chimneys, sulphates in bricks and mortar may in
This is a property of bricks which can be determined accurately. The compressive strength of bricks is found by crushing
In building a wall it is usual to lay bricks in regular, horizontal courses so that each brick bears on
At the end of a wall at a stop end, at an angle or quoin and at jambs of openings
Walls, such as garden walls, that are to be finished fairface both sides and built 1 B thick are often