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Flemish stretcher bond separates courses of alternately laid stretchers and headers, with a number of courses of stretchers alone. Brickwork in this bond may have between one and four courses of stretchers to one course after the Flemish manner. [36] [55] The courses of stretchers are often but not always staggered in a raking pattern.
Bond course: This is a course of headers that bond the facing masonry to the backing masonry. [1] Plinth: The bottom course of a wall. String course (Belt course or Band course): A decorative horizontal row of masonry, narrower than the other courses, that extends across the façade of a structure or wraps around decorative elements like columns.
Saw tooth: A course of headers laid at a 45-degree angle to the main face. Shear wall: A wall designed to give way in the event of structural failure in order to preserve the integrity of the remaining building. Shiner: A brick laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed
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English cross bond has courses of stretchers and headers, but with the alternating stretcher courses offset by half a brick. Flemish bond consists of alternating stretchers and headers in each course. Header bond has courses of headers offset by half a brick. Stack bond consists of bricks laid directly on top of one another with joints aligned.
The 2:1 ratio of modular bricks means that when they turn corners, a 1/2 running bond is formed without needing to cut the brick down or fill the gap with a cut brick; and the height of modular bricks means that a soldier course matches the height of three modular running courses, or one standard CMU course.
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