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Masonry Joints:
Weathered joints
Concave Joints
Racked Joints
Types of Brick Bonds:
Stretcher Bond
Header Bond
English Bond
Flemish Bond
Flemish Garden Wall Bond
Herringbone Bond
Stretcher Bond:
Easiest bond to lay & it minimizes the amount of cutting required.
Originally used for single brick walls.
It is used for cavity walls as less cutting is required.
Walls are half brick wide.
No two adjacent vertical joints should be in line
Header Bond:
When all the bricks are placed as headers on the faces of the walls, the
bond formed is called “Header Bond”.
Stretcher bond is used for the construction of walls of half brick thickness
whereas header bond is used for the construction of walls with full brick
thickness which measures 18cm.
Header bond is also known as heading bond. The overlap is kept equal
to half width of the brick. To achieve this, three quarter brick bats are used
in alternate courses as quoins.
Header bond is useful when the design demands curved surfaces to be
constructed. In such cases, stretcher bond cannot be used. Apart from
using it for curved surface, it can also be used for the brickwork in
foundations.
English Bond:
Alternative courses of headers and stretchers.
One header placed centrally above each stretcher.
This is a very strong bond when the wall is 1 brick thick (or thicker).
One of the strongest brickwork patterns.
Flemish Bond:
Alternate bricks are placed as header and stretcher in every course.
Each header is placed centrally between the stretchers immediately
above and below. This is not as strong as the English bond at 1 brick
thick.
It can be successfully applied in cavity wall.
Flemish Garden Wall Bond:
In this variant of Flemish bond, one header is placed at every third
stretcher.
Herringbone Bond:
It is a purely decorative bond. It is used in floor and wall panels.