Brick Work

Brick Arrangement and Characteristics

• In a Flemish bond, alternating courses of bricks are laid with headers ( bricks laid across the direction of the wall) and stretchers (bricks laid along the direction of the wall).
• Good bricks should have a uniform color, texture, and shape, with a low water absorption rate and high compressive strength.

Types of Kilns

• Clamp kilns are simple, open structures used for burning bricks in small quantities.
• Scotch kilns are rectangular, brick-lined kilns used for burning bricks on a large scale.
• Hoffman kilns are continuous, multi-chamber kilns used for burning bricks on a large, industrial scale.
• Bull's trench kilns are long, narrow kilns used for burning bricks in large quantities.

Test your knowledge of brick work with this quiz covering varieties, sizes, manufacturing, burning, kilns, special purpose and facing bricks, characteristics of good bricks, testing methods, and terms used in brick work such as stretched and header, closer, English bond, Flemish bond, and arrangement of bricks in different types of walls and intersections.