A treatise on architecture and building construction . 120 MASONRY HOI-L,OAV WALLS AVITH BRICK AVITIIE BONDS. 223. There is also a method of constructing hollow brickwalls with a 4-inch outer and inner facing, connected by solidbrick Avithes (as these short cross brick partitions are called).The air space may be either 4, 8, or 12 inches, according tothe height and character of the building. Fig, 89 shows anexample of this mode of construction, being a hollow wall20 inches thick and 12 inches between inside of a is shown the outer brick wall, while b shows the inner. Fig. 89. wall
A treatise on architecture and building construction . 120 MASONRY HOI-L,OAV WALLS AVITH BRICK AVITIIE BONDS. 223. There is also a method of constructing hollow brickwalls with a 4-inch outer and inner facing, connected by solidbrick Avithes (as these short cross brick partitions are called).The air space may be either 4, 8, or 12 inches, according tothe height and character of the building. Fig, 89 shows anexample of this mode of construction, being a hollow wall20 inches thick and 12 inches between inside of a is shown the outer brick wall, while b shows the inner. Fig. 89. wall; the withes, or connecting walls, are shown at r, bond is shown in two different ways; at d, the bricksare cut as shown on Fig. 86, and at e, the bond is made bywire bonders as shown in Fig. 82; / shows the manner ofplacing the floorbeams on the inner wall, and g, a 2 X \ X 20anchor, turned up at the end, to bond the floorbeam into thejoint of the cross-wall or withe. If such a wall is made of good quality of brick, such as aremade in most of the New England and Middle states, andwith perfect workmanship, it ought to have sufficient strengthfor an ordinary three or four story building, and would cer-tainly conduct less heat and moisture from and into a build-ing than a solid wall of one-half more brick. When the § 7 MASONRY. 121 brick and workmanship are both equally poor—as is foundin some parts of the country—walls built in this way shouldnot be used in the construction of any buildings higher thantwo stories. 324, In some sections of the country, dwellings
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