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BRICKWORKING FROM "A-Z" . . .FOR NOVICES TO EXPERIENCED PROS
Whether you're a homeowner wanting to do your own repairs, a trade apprentice seeking to sharpen your skills, or a veteran craftsman or contractor with years of experience, you'll turn to this complete guide to bricklaying again and again. There is no more comprehensive or up-to-date reference available on the subject.
Written by a pro with over 25 years in the field, Bricklaying features:
* Over 560 technical drawings and diagrams illustrating technique and clear text that guides you every step of the way
* Skill-building projects with start-to-finish instructions
* Electricity and plumbing integration in brick construction
* Solutions and preventive methods for high-wind concerns in cavity brickwork
* Table for calculating how many bricks are needed for a job
* Brick design for handicapped
* Engineering properties
* Essential topics such as damp-proofing, repairing and carcking mortor, window and door cutting, cleaning brick, and much more
An insider's guide to every facet of the world of brickwork.
Author Notes
PETER CARTWRIGHT of Queensland, Australia, completed a two-year apprenticeship program in 1975 that required residential, high-rise, ornamental, arch and church, and commercial construction mastery. He earned the title Apprentice of the Year in 1975 and upon completion of the program began his own business which continues to this day.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Part I Brickwork -- The Basics |
| Chapter 1 Introduction |
| Electricity Bricks Mortar Tools Bond |
| Cutting Bricks with a Bolster or Saw |
| Poor Bonding |
| Chapter 2 Introductory |
| Skills Holding the Trowel |
| Knocking Up a Mortar Board |
| Picking Up Mortar from the Board |
| Throwing Out a Mortar |
| Bed Grasping the Brick |
| Buttering the Perpend |
| Buttering the Back Perpend |
| Laying Bricks |
| Laying Bricks |
| Working Forward |
| Finding the Bond Vertically |
| Gauging Brickwork for Length |
| Gauging Brickwork for Height |
| Chapter 3 Setting Out the Job Introduction |
| Construction Site |
| Set Out Corners |
| Internal Corners Moving up in Stepping |
| Foundations Working |
| Out Window and Door Heights |
| Brickwork and Meeting upwith Soffits |
| Window Heights Brickwork in Difficult Situations |
| Gauging Windows in Difficult Positions |
| Window and Door Sills Tricks of the Trade |
| Making Sure Doors are Plumb, Level, and Square Laying of the SillBrick Veneer Sills) |
| Buttering of Sill |
| Bricks Gauging |
| Difficult Sills |
| Justifying a Gauge |
| Toothing Corners |
| Bonding Internal Walls |
| Tingle Piers |
| Bonding Engaged Piers with Queen and King Closures |
| Chapter 4 Scaffolding Introduction Using the Brick Elevator |
| Chapter 5 Cavity Brickwork |
| Introduction |
| Construction of a Cavity |
| Brick Base Laying Cavity |
| Brickwork Structurally |
| Bond Beams on Cavity |
| Brickwork Cavity Brickwork--Used to Retain |
| Using Blocks as Beams |
| Inside Replacing Cleaning Eyes with Closures |
| Chapter 6 Full Brickwork Fitting a Power Meter Box into 8" (200 mm) |
| Brick Wall Bricking Up to Installed Boxes |
| Using a Meter Box Bracket |
| Fitting Plumbing and Electrical into Full Brick Construction |
| Chapter 7 Miscellaneous Applications |
| Curved Walls |
| Squint Corners |
| Laying Hard Up Underneath Ant Cap From the Outside Removal of Chipped or Cracked Bricks from Existing Brickwork |
| Chapter 8 Damp Proof Courses |
| Introduction |
| Fitting DPC into Raked Ceilings |
| Fitting DPC into Single-Skin and Brick Veneer |
| Fitting DPC over Windows and Doors |
| Replacing Damp Course in Brickwork Weep Holes |
| Chapter 9 Blocklaying |
| Introduction |
| Laying the Bed Joint for Blocks |
| Laying Concrete Blocks |
| Block Window Sills |
| Fitting DPC at Floor |
| Height or Below Setting up |
| Profiles on Clay or Concrete Blockwork Working from the Inside |
| Set out Vertical Steel Fittings and Clay Blocks |
| Fitting of Steel Fitting Windows KO Beam over Openings Window and Door Heads of Clay or Concrete Block Fitting Steel Door Frames in Concrete or Clay Blockwork |
| Constructing Block Retaining Walls Rebating to Allow Wall Drainage |
| Part II Advanced Construction |
| Chapter 10 Introduction to Advanced Construction |
| Lintel Construction Arch Supports Cutting Brickwork on the Rake Brick Ramp and Adjoining Steps |
| Brick Miter Box Miter Corners Brick Cap for 11 1/4" (350 mm) |
| Piers Fitting Ant Capping Working Out a Brick, Block, or Clayblock |
| Gable Without Trusses in Place Setting Up for Uneven or Sloping Sites Using a Calculator |
| Chapter 11 Arches Setting Up Arch Forms |
| Chapter 12 Bay Windows Introduction External Brick Corners on Bay Windows |
| Chapter 13 Setting up Profiles Running Back to a Door Frame in a Veneer Situation |
| Chapter 14 Suspended Slab Using Brickwork for Formwork |
| Chapter 15 Fireplace Construction |
| Setting Out Forming the Throat |
| Smoke Box Constructing the Flue |
| Position of the Fireplace in a Dwelling Fireplace without Splayed Sides |
| Internally Fitting a Damper Brick |
| Hearth Chimney Stack Woodbox |
| Two-Story Fireplace Construction |
| Back-to-Back Fireplace Fireplace Size |
| Fireplace Opening Fireplace Problems--Too Much Smoke |
| Chapter 16 Repairing and Replacing Repairing Cracks in Brickwork Cracking Above Doors and Windows Soldier Courses |
