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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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