Thanks Ralph,  Now I know why I don't lay bricks,  it would make me
cross-eyed in no time.  Ruth




At 10:56 PM -0500 10/27/03, [log in to unmask] wrote:
In a message dated 10/27/2003 10:10:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

OK, get ready, here it comes---the BEEEEG question.  What the hell is
Flemish bond?  I don't want to watch a whole damn movie that I don't even
like just to find out.  Thanks,  Ruth

Ruth,

It's a way of laying brick to make a pretty pattern nowadays; when it was
done for real in The Olden Days, it made for a better-bonded wall, since
the short header brick tie both wythes together.  Because of all the
fooling around that's necessary, the labor to lay a wall in Flemish Bond is
more expensive than the more common running bond.  Common Bond used header
courses every 5 or 7 courses to tie the wythes together; use of metal
anchors in running bond now accomplishes the same thing more cheaply, and
less interestingly.

Running bond:  |___________| |____________| |____________| |_____________|
               |__________| |____________| |____________| |_____________|
|____________|
                          |___________| |____________| |____________|
|_____________|

Common Bond: |__________| |____________| |____________| |_____________|
                 |_________| |___________| |____________| |_____________|
|____________|
                          |__________| |____________| |____________|
|_____________|
               |_____| |____| |____|  |_____| |_____| |_____| |______|
|______| |______|
                          |__________| |____________| |____________|
|_____________|

Flemish Bond:   |___________| |_____| |___________| |_____| |___________|
|_____| |__
                          __| |_____| |___________| |_____| |___________|
|_____| |___________|
                          |___________| |_____| |___________| |_____|
|___________| |_____| |__
                          __| |_____| |___________| |_____| |___________|
|_____| |___________|

I regret that my computer skills are inadequate to represent either James
or Israel Bond.

Ralph

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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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