BRICK MASONARY

• Strecher
The Longer Face of the brick .

• Header
The Shorter Face of the Wall.
• Closer
The portion of the brick cut along its
Length is reffered as Closer.
• Bat
The Portion Of the brick cut along
its width is reffered as Bat.
• Quoin
The External face of the wall is
termed as Quoin.
General Angle:- 90°
Types Of Closer:
1. Queen Closer (Half)
When a brick is cut along its length,
making it two equal halves then it is
called queen closer. Thus a queen
closer is a broken brick portion whose
width is half as wide as the original
brick. This is also called as queen
closer half.
2. Queen Closer (Quarter)
If a queen closer half is broken into two
equal pieces then it is known as queen
closer quarter. Such a closer is thus a brick
piece which is one quarter of the brick size.
3. King Closer
If a brick is cut in such a way that the
width of one end becomes half that of a
full brick, while the width at the other
end is equal to the full width, then it is
called as king closer. It is obtained by
cutting out a triangular portion of the
brick between the centre of one end
(width side) and the centre of the other
end (lay side). Thus it has half header and
half stretcher face.
4. BEVELED CLOSER
It is a form of king closer in which the whole
length of the brick (i.e. stretcher face) is
chamfered or beveled in such a way that half
width is maintained at one end and full width
is maintained at the other end.
5. MITRED CLOSER
It is a portion of a brick whose one end is
cut splayed or mitred for full width. The
angle of splay may vary from 45°to 60°
Thus one longer face of the mitred closer
is of full length of the brick while the other
longer face is smaller in length.
Types Of Bat Bricks:

1. Half Bat
If the length of the bat is equal to half
the length of the original brick, it is
known as half bat
2. Three Quater Bat
It is a form of brick bat having its
length equal to three quarter of the
length of a full brick.
3. BEVELED BAT
A brick bat is called beveled bat,
when its width has beveled.
Different Types Of Bonding In Brick
Masonary:

1. English Bonding
• The Arrangement of bonding that
consist of Alternate Header and
Strecher placed one over each other.

• In Order to break alignment of vertical

joints to be in same straight line, queen
Closer is placed next to Quoin Header in
each Alternate Course.

• A lap of 1/4th Brick is Available for

each strecher over the header in the
course below it.
2. Flemish Bonding

• It is arrangnment of bonding that

consist of alternate header &
stretcher in each coarse.
• Header in each alternate coarse is
centered over the strecher in the
coarse below it.

• Every Alternate coarse in this

bonding starts with an header.

• In order to break the alignment

of vertical joints to being same
straight line, queen closer is place
next to Quoin Header.
• Flemish Bond is found to more
Economical than English bonding but
highly skilled Labour is required.

• Wastage in Flemish bonding is less

while number of joints in flemish
bonding are more.
3. Strecher Bonding
• It is the arrangment of bonding
that consist of strecher in each
Coarse.
• In order to break the alignment
of vertical joint to break the
alignment of vertical Joint to be
in same straigth line its each
alternate coarse started with half
bat.
• A lap of Half Brick is available for
each strecher in all the coarses.
• This Bond Is Provided when half
brick thick wall required.
4. Header Bonding
• It is the arrangment of bonding that
consist of Header in each Coarse.

• In order to break the alignment of

vertical joint to break the alignment of
vertical Joint to be in same straigth line
its each alternate coarse started with 3
Quater bat brick.
• A lap of Half Brick is available for each
Header in all the coarses.
• This Bond Is Provided in foundation
work.
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