Brick



The bricks are usually made of clay, concrete or shaped from quarried stone. However, “true” bricks are usually ceramic, created by the action of heating and cooling.

They are frequently used as construction materials because is one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials. It was the principal construction material in masonry, and nowadays, they are even used in pavement and block paving.

The bricks are divided in two general categories, these are: Pressed bricks and the wire cut bricks.

The pressed bricks usually have a deep frog in one bedding surface and a shallow frog in the other. The wire-cut bricks usually have 3 or 4 holes through them. Some of these ‘perforated’ bricks have many smaller holes in their header or stretcher.

The “bricklaying techniques” are the manners or ways of distributing them in a construction following certain rules that ensure the safety and the stability of the construction.

For example we have the running and the stack bond. The running bond consists of all stretchers, and because the bond doesn’t have any headers, metal ties usually form the structural bond between them, it is intended to give strength to the construction rather than giving it a dramatic look.

The stack bond is usually described as and decorative bricklaying method, they’re bricks stacked on top of the other. Because the joints form a line from the top to the bottom of the wall there is no strength in it and it needs some structural support to stand.