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Bricklaying

Bricklaying
Item #: 280-2394-02
Author: Peter Cartwright
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:0071392394
Format: Paperback
Your Price: $24.95
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Bricklaying is an indispensable reference for beginners, veterans, and homeowners
Whether you're a trade apprentice seeking to sharpen your skills, a veteran craftsman or contractor with years of experience, or a homeowner wanting to try your hand, you'll find all the information you need in this complete guide to bricklaying. Written by a pro with over 25 years in the field, Bricklaying features:
  • Over 560 technical drawings and diagrams illustrating technique and clear text to guide 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 handicap access.
  • Engineering properties.
  • Essential topics such as damp-proofing, repairing and cracking, mortar, window and door cutting, cleaning brick, and much more.
All measurements featured in metric and imperial (US) standards. 320 pp.

Bricklaying - Table of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Brickwork -- The Basics
  • Introduction
    • Electricity
    • Bricks
    • Mortar
    • Tools
    • Bond
    • Cutting Bricks with a Bolster or Saw
    • Poor Bonding
  • 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
  • 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 Sill (Brick 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
  • Scaffolding
    • Introduction
    • Using the Brick Elevator
  • 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
  • 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
  • Miscellaneous Applications
    • Curved Walls
    • Squint Corners
    • Laying Hard Up Underneath Ant Cap From the Outside
    • Removal of Chipped or Cracked Bricks from Existing Brickwork
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arches
    • Setting Up
    • Arch Forms
  • Bay Windows
    • Introduction
    • External Brick Corners on Bay Windows
  • Setting up Profiles
    • Running Back to a Door Frame in a Veneer Situation
  • Suspended Slab
    • Using Brickwork for Formwork
  • 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
  • Repairing and Replacing
    • Repairing Cracks in Brickwork
    • Cracking Above Doors and Windows
    • Soldier Courses
  • Part III: Brickwork--Special Effects and Projects
  • Construction of a Brick Kitchen
  • Bars
  • Barbeques
    • Conventional Brick Barbeque--560 bricks
    • Alternative Barbeque Design
  • Construction of a Combined Brick Letterbox and Planterbox
  • Honeycomb Brickwork
  • Glass Bricks
  • Brick Steps
  • Using a Trammel
  • Bricking in a Round Window
  • Bulleye Arch
  • Spiral Piers
  • Inverted Arch
  • Construction of Wood-Fuel Hot-Water System in Brick
  • Brick Compost Bin Construction
  • Spiral Arch Waterfall
  • Mandala (Spiritual Circle)
  • Part IV: Brickwork--Tips and Tricks
  • Finishing Off
  • Quoting and Calculating the Number of Bricks in a Construction
  • Contracting for a Living
  • Employing Staff
  • Eliminating Waste of Time
  • Cleaning Brick and Blockwork
    • Timber Stains
    • Mortar Stains
    • Vanadium Stain
    • Acid Burn
  • Experiments
  • Further Reading
  • Calculations
    • Using Tables for Calculation
  • Appendix A: Table of Brick Sizes
  • Appendix B: Brick Gauge
  • Glossary
  • Index

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