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A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that is an active structural element of a building — that is, it bears the weight of the elements above said wall, resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure. [1] The materials most often used to construct load-bearing walls in large buildings are concrete, block, or brick.
A bricklayer under ideal conditions can lay as many as 500 bricks a day; [3] if the hod carrier is serving a team of two then he must move 1,000 bricks although it is not uncommon for experienced hod carriers to serve three bricklayers. The World Record for moving 500 bricks by hod is 12 minutes and was set by Daren Whitmore on 12 February 2011.
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 beds (horizontal) and perpends (vertical) of a uniform 10 mm.
Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "a crazy effort in blue brick." [1] Viaduct carrying the line and platforms of Birmingham Snow Hill station. Staffordshire blue brick is a strong type of construction brick, originally made in Staffordshire, England. Brick made by H Doulton & Co. of Rowley Regis, displayed in the Black Country Living Museum
Fabric "weight" is often specified as mass per unit area, grams per square meter (gsm) or ounces per square yard. It is also sometimes specified in ounces per yard in a standard width for the particular cloth. One gram per square meter equals 0.0295 ounces per square yard; one ounce per square yard equals 33.9 grams per square meter.
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Accrington bricks, or Nori, [1] are a type of iron-hard engineering brick, produced in Altham near Accrington, Lancashire, England from 1887 to 2008 and again from ...
Megan Fox and her Subservience costar Michele Morrone are not dating amid her split from Machine Gun Kelly. "Any accusations beyond a work friendship are simply untrue. They filmed a movie ...