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A clay pit owned by the company at Ibstock. The company was founded in 1899 at Ibstock in Leicestershire as a coal mining business. [2] It bought Redland's brick manufacturing business in 1996. [3] CRH bought a majority stake in the business in 1998 and the balance of the shares in October 2011. [4]
Stronger and less porous engineering bricks (UK Class A) are usually blue due to the higher firing temperature [3] whilst class B bricks are usually red. Class A bricks have a strength of 125 N/mm 2 (18,100 lb f /sq in) and water absorption of less than 4.5%; Class B bricks have a strength greater than 75 N/mm 2 (10,900 lb f /sq in) and water ...
Working dimensions is the size of a manufactured brick. It is also called the nominal size of a brick. Brick size may be slightly different due to shrinkage or distortion due to firing, etc. An example of a co-ordinating metric commonly used for bricks in the UK is as follows: [4] [5] [6] Bricks of dimensions 215 mm × 102.5 mm × 65 mm; Mortar ...
The Cattybrook Brick Company was established in 1864. [2] In 1903 Cattybrook also acquired the nearby Shortwood Brickworks. [2] From 1972, they were taken over by the Ibstock Group. [2] [3] The brickworks are located immediately to the North of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, then under construction through the Severn Tunnel. By the ...
London stock brick is the type of handmade brick which was used for the majority of building work in London and South East England until the increase in the use of Flettons and other machine-made bricks in the early 20th century. Its distinctive yellow colour is due to the addition of chalk.
These structures were made up of the first bricks with dimension 400x150x100 mm. [7] Between 5000 and 4500 BC, Mesopotamia had discovered fired brick. [7] The standard brick sizes in Mesopotamia followed a general rule: the width of the dried or burned brick would be twice its thickness, and its length would be double its width. [8]
A single wythe of brick that is not structural in nature is referred to as a masonry veneer. A multiple-wythe masonry wall may be composed of a single type of masonry unit layered to increase its thickness and structural strength, or different masonry units chosen by function, such as an economical concrete block serving a structural purpose ...
Dimensions User Comment; current: 13:18, 28 April 2013: 13,985 × 4,348 (8 KB) Jonathanriley {{Information |Description ={{en|1=This is a file of colour coded plan and elevation views for a wall in Flemish Bond of one brick’s thickness. All bricks depicted in the elevation diagram are accounted for in like colours in the plan diagrams. ...