Nice Brickwork

Tscarborough

Saw this yesterday in my travels. I have seen it done before in a somewhat wavy fashion, but not like this. I like it!

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mickeyco

Wow, that is cool. How much trouble is it to do it that way, looks like it would be a real pain. Is this a real brick house or is that a veneer? And if it is a true brick facade wouldn't that affect the strength? Finally is there is a second wythe (sic) of bricks and would they be done in a standard running bond and therefore make up the strength?

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Tscarborough

It is real brick, but it is a veneer, so the strength of the wall doesn't really matter. I would think it would be about the same as a herringbone to lay.

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Project_Pat

A lot of the new construction custom homes in the Chicago area are using brick techniques like that and incorporating natural stone with the brick in arches above doors windows and garages.......i like the look.

CJKarl

Cool, never seen anything like that.

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concretemasonry

Can you imagine setting up the scaffolding and pulling lines for that? - LOL

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Tscarborough

Yeah. The fence on the left is what caught my eye first. It looked very nice too.

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neolitic

There is a house that I work on
sometimes, that has a center gabled bump out like that.
Either side angles up toward the center,
and the bump out is herringbone.
You'd enjoy some of our
older neighborhoods.
At the turn of the last century
Indianapolis was 70% German,
and I swear 70% of them were
masons.

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Tommy C

I'm with CJKarl....we don't see that in NYC Metro area.

Hmmm, not so sure that I like it! For one, if they ever try to sell the house, your limiting your pool of buyers by having something radical like that (goes for any radical designs).

I guess it looks kind of cool, but it's not my taste! I've never done full veneer in herringbone OR obviously this style...how the HELL would one go about doing so?

6stringmason

Way to busy for my taste.

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neolitic

Guess you guys would hate this then.
http://www.athenaeumfoundation.com/t...m?CategoryID=2
(Kurt Vonnegut's grandpa was the architect.)

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6stringmason

No. That is more traditional type brick work and works well.

It doesnt have joints running at 45 degrees coming into standard running bond joints.

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Bill

i like it, different for sure

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bobcaygeonjon

It works well with that house.

I wonder if they had 2 masons working above each other?

jaymasonry

its only on the house front. couldn't have been that bad. lot of angle cuts on the ends. meat of the wall is above the door and windows so it wouldn't be that tough getting to the top. plus they hit another window above. something like this just takes some patience and a boss that isn't screaming down your neck.

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