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A leaf is as thick as the width of one brick, but a wall is said to be one brick thick if it as wide as the length of a brick. Accordingly, a single-leaf wall is a half brick thickness; a wall with the simplest possible masonry transverse bond [definition needed] is said to be one brick thick, and so on. [21]
The headers tie the wall together over its width. In fact, this wall is built in a variation of English bond called English cross bond where the successive layers of stretchers are displaced horizontally from each other by half a brick length. In true English bond, the perpendicular lines of the stretcher courses are in line with each other.
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.
Commonly used to bond one brick walls at right-angled quoins. Kings closer: A brick that has been cut diagonally over its length to show a half-bat at one end and nothing at the other. Coralent: A brick or block pattern that exhibits a unique interlocking pattern. Corbel: A brick, block, or stone that oversails the main wall.
Flemish bond is a decorative form of brickwork pattern, as distinct from functional bonds such as English bond. [2] Bricks known as stretchers are laid lengthwise and are alternated adjacent on the same horizontal plane ( courses ) with bricks known as headers that are laid with their shorter ends exposed. [ 3 ]
A wall that is one brick thick will include stretcher bricks with their long, narrow side exposed and header bricks crossing from side to side. There are various brickwork "bonds", or patterns of stretchers and headers, including the English, Dutch and Flemish bonds. [47]
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.
The bond stones seen on the end of the right wall extend across the width of this tall, battered, dry-stone wall. A perpend stone, perpend (parpen, parpend, perpin, and other spellings), [1] through stone, bond stone, or tie stone is a stone that extends through an entire wall's width, from the outer to the inner wall.