A manual of face brick construction

No man has more reason to feel pride and satisfaction in his art than the builder. From the time when men wove together branches of trees or piled up loose stones and mud for sh...

Taking it all in all, you can tell your clients that in building a face brick house, they get more completely than in case of any other material the structural values of permane...

All brick foundation walls should be water-proofed on the outside except in gravelly, sandy, or very dry soil. In case there is danger of moisture rising in the wall by capillar...

The inside of all exterior brick walls should be furred, except in climatic conditions where it has proved unnecessary, in order to form an air space between the brickwork and t...

The ideal form of a fireplace would be a cone with all sides tapering to the apex for the escape of smoke. Therefore, to approach this ideal in practice, the sides of the firepl...

When slaking is completed, the lime is reduced to what is called "putty", which should be of uniform consistency throughout, containing no unslaked lumps. The sand should now be...

Simple in design, this bungalow requires nothing more than the color and texture of face brick for its success. The arrangement of the plan is excellent and all the rooms are la...

The dimensions of the standard size face brick adopted by the American Face Brick Association are 8" × 2-1/4" × 3-3/4"; but sometimes, due to special conditions in the clay or t...

_Buttered Joint._ A very thin mortar joint made by scraping a small quantity of mortar with the trowel on all edges of the brick and laying it without the usual mortar bed.

Percentages, of brick added for bonds 105 of difference in costs 12 Pergola Posts, face brick 31 Persia 6 Peru 7 Pitch for waterproofing 18, 108 Plans and Specifications, prices...