. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. 42 THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE. Fig. 44.—Three types of wall, the names suggesting their purposes an arch. Pointing is laying the wall up dry first and then filling the spaces between the stones from the outside with mortar. A 1 to 2 mixture is usually used in pointing and the result is called a. flush joint. Back pointing is keeping the mortar well back in the joints; this effect is also called a raked joint. BRICK WORK Brick for wall building is usually divided into two classes—sand brick and water struck brick. The latter results
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. 42 THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE. Fig. 44.—Three types of wall, the names suggesting their purposes an arch. Pointing is laying the wall up dry first and then filling the spaces between the stones from the outside with mortar. A 1 to 2 mixture is usually used in pointing and the result is called a. flush joint. Back pointing is keeping the mortar well back in the joints; this effect is also called a raked joint. BRICK WORK Brick for wall building is usually divided into two classes—sand brick and water struck brick. The latter results when the mold is wet and the material is pressed in and burned. The best grade is body brick; second grade brick is the common hard or bench brick, and brings about half the price of the body brick. Sand brick costs about the same as common hard. In measuring, five bricks are piled and measured. A carload numbers 10,000 to 15,000. Character may be given a brick wall by paneling and recessing. Bonding. When all bricks run horizontally the result is called a stretcher bond. Eng- lish bond is made of alternate rows of headers and stretch- Fig. of a corner of a brick wall ^'^- ^'^- ,'*^, s^«^^'^ ^ si^- to show (in dotted lines) a quoin binder COUrse English Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jennings, Arthur J; Johnson, Leonard H. New York, A. T. De La Mare
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