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THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE 



Fig. 44.— Three types of wall, the names suggesting their purposes 



an arch. Pointing is laying the wall up dry first and then filling the 

 spaces between the stones from the outside with mortar. A 1 to 2 

 mixture is usually used in pointing and the result is called a. flush joint. 

 Back pointing is keeping the mortar well back in the joints; this effect 

 is also called a raked joint. 



BRICK WORK 



Brick for wall building is usually divided into two classes — sand 

 brick and water struck brick. The latter results when the mold is 

 wet and the material is pressed in and burned. The best grade is 

 body brick; second grade brick is the common hard or bench brick, 

 and brings about half the price of the body brick. Sand brick costs 

 about the same as common hard. In measuring, five bricks are piled 



and measured. A carload 

 numbers 10,000 to 15,000. 

 Character may be given a 

 brick wall by paneling and 

 recessing. 



Bonding. When all bricks 

 run horizontally the result is 

 called a stretcher bond. Eng- 

 lish bond is made of alternate 



rows of headers and stretch- 

 Fig. 45. -Diagram of a corner of a brick wall ^'^- ^'^- ,'*^, s^«^^'^ ^ si^- 

 to show (in dotted lines) a quoin binder COUrse English bond. 



