There is a picture of a note one of the kids wrote about the honey bees vanishing. It is a major problem and it is caused by the pesticides that the gmo crows actually grow in their cells or some crap like that. If the honey bees die off pretty much all living things on earth die with the
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If I could buy those bricks for 30c a piece I'd never want to install anything else.
35k brick in 5 days with 6 installers, damn they're moving.
C'mon throw some numbers out, I wanna hear. Cavity walls or multi wythe brick walls?
Interesting house fjn. I've built quite a few walls that thick, but never used that type of bond. Normally headers and stretchers every course or Flemish. Seen a bond known as Clip bond on a really old property.
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Much of our Victorian housing stock is made up of solid 9 inch brick wall like those. The ones near the coast were prone to damp due to wind driven rain, so the cavity wall was introduced to some in the mid 1800's.The last such plant was closed by the EPA in 1981. Prior to its closing,American Brick Co. was burning around 2 million brick in each of its firings in an antiquated method calledChicago was built up predominately of stout 1 story brick homes with only a double wythe or 8" wall. The nature of those walls, with the usage of Lime mortar created a wall that easily took on rain in storms, the lime mortar allowed that water to "leave" the wall just as easily with no moisture problems incurred.
It may have been called many things, I have a reprint of a book from the 1920's that calls it the secret bond. Different areas have always had different terms for building styles.FJN,
Stuart/Fjn, What you are referring to as "clip" bond was actually called "half clipped RAKE bond" the half clip referring to the raked units being clipped on alternating sides to save some hammer time (one less clipped corner by not clipping a pocket into both face Wyths every course)
you reference one book, and say it was the book of literate masons coast to coast. Which coast? There are other countries, with much older terms as Stuart has pointed out. The book I'm referencing predates Audels by a decade. It actually calls it the diagonal secret bond to differentiate it from a header secret bond and says it's exact reason for being was aesthetic. Intereting that the buildings that I've worked on that have the same bond are 40 years older than Audel's book and use facing brick that is good 4 sides.Dom-mas, While many objects and methods are known locally with local vernacular-names and terms, For nearly everything though there exists a word that is used by all informed practitioners to describe the idea or object, Nomenclature.
As modern masons, we can use hundreds of products that weren't availiable and whole fields of masonry have been rendered economically obsolete by technology and massive regulatory burdens
I referrenced my grandpa's 1924 Audels' Masons and Builders Guide, Volume One, for the exact info on the rake bond. literate masons coast to coast would have known what a half clipped rake bond 3 wyth wall was, Secret Bond, not so much...
Imagine a contract that called out " and Secret bond to be used..."
I'd call it the "Carpal tunnel bond" if I had to clip almost every brick I laid...
None of this really affects what this bond has been called in the UK for hundreds of years. It's always been called Clip bond here. Monk bond wasn't invented by the Monks, but it's still called that.Stuart45, If I was to ask you what a three wyth wall with the interior and exterior wyths of brick clipped on both interior corners to receive the center wyth bonding brick laid at a 45 degree angle to the wall faces into the pockets created by the aforementioned clips? I'd call it a rake bond, every other rake would be laid at the opposite 45 degree angle to brace the wall against loads from both directions.
Second 3 wyth wall has a 45 degree angled bricks, but to save labor only 3 clips per unit are needed (two creating a pocket in one face wyth, the third clip off the raked unit allowing it to fit against the UNCLIPPED wyth... I'd call a half clipped rake bond.....which would have four different bonds before repeating...the first course right hand 45 angle, clipped raked brick end against the interior wall, second left hand 45 angle, again the interior, the third and fourth raked bricks clipped abutting the exterior wyth....
What does "more closely match reality" mean anyway? There is only one reality and that reality is that there are many names for many things
Question. Is it a Cougar, or a Puma or a Mountain Lion
That isn't limited to Chicago by any means either. The salmons which tend towards either pink or orange have been used as inner wythes all over the world. The clinkers are usually used in inner wythes as well because of their weird shape. I think it was Fundi who said though that a full 60% of his bricks were good hard face bricks, but hopefully he'll chime in as probably the only person here to fire bricks in a kiln regularly"Before irregularities became coveted architectural effects, common bricks were a cheap and abundant resource--a prosaic building material for places generally obscured from street traffic: side and back walls, for example, chimney flues, and structural support behind facades. People sank their money into the more decorative "face brick," which tended to have a cookie-cutter uniformity and was shipped in from other areas. "
From here:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1031.html
Back in the day they sorted the brick, either at the plant or at the site (most likely). I have seen too many pictures of wrecked walls with the exterior buff and the interiors pink for it to be a coincidence. And, as noted above, more expensive face brick were often used on the front of the building.
Fjn, I suggest you check your facts, I''m sure some poorly built or cheap skates used common brick on the street side of some buildings
FJN, going forwards, I'll know that you think you know everything regarding your posts and have no desire to learn otherwise, I'll avoid popping any of your bubbles. If you can show me my errors , please do so.
Neither, it's a tingle plate.:laughing:
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Got that from 4thgen's book.
so it must be right.