Cuyler,

Your explanation makes perfect sense.
I like the rubber band too.

I like it when you get carried away.

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Cuyler Page wrote:
>> They must have felt there was some force in that area that required a
> tensile treatment. What were they trying to hold together?
>
>
> Sorry, I got carried away.
>
> In distant historic times, when drawing that detail for brick veneer 
> walls, I assumed the designers thought they had to work against the 
> thin veneer bulging or bowing, not stretching.   There were always two 
> rods spaced well apart, not placed in the centre of the brick, as 
> though to work against flex.
>
> The detail was just like what we did all the time with concrete 
> block.   The recent grad guys I worked for at the beginning of life 
> here had little experience with brick until later when giant brick 
> became fashionable.
>
> On the other hand, I love your rubber band image for Ken's windowed wall.
>
>
> cp in mbc
> (mbc = modern brick crap)
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