Brick

The bricks are made of clay, ceramic, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete or shaped from quarried stone. Bricks are used for construction and building, usually they’re used to make walls, with a lot of them placed in the right way you have a house or building or simply just a construction, are usually laid using mortar.

There are seven types of bricks: stock, engineering, fletton, handmade, re-pressed, special shapes and wirecut. We call “bricklaying” to the technique or practice of laying bricks; it involves the putting up walls and other structures. There’re various types or techniques of bricklaying, two of them are: stretcher bond (is the easiest way to lay the bricks. Can be used for single skin walls), and the English bond (consist in alternate courses of stretchers and headers; this is one of the strongest brickwork).

The advantages of using bricks are a lot, bricks are waterproofing, also are fireproof and termite resistant. Bricks are really stables and don’t requires maintenance. Some of the disadvantages stems from the quality of the materials. There’re bricks made poorly like clinkers, recycled and they might be pitted, irregularly shaped, worn or prone to chipping.in humid climates, porous bricks invites mold. They can expand and contract in contact with water and ice. It can be damaged by vines.