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Need a bricklayer look no further johns brickwork ltd are specialists in all types of brickwork to building you a simple garden wall to complete new house if you take a look at this picture you see the construction of a new extension to the rear of the property.
This type of brickwork is being carried out it in half bond with Queen closures the closure is there to take up the remaining area in between the head of the brickwork and the face of the preceding brick.
If you take a close look at this picture you are fine the first break on the corner there is slightly showing in a blue colour is called the header next to the header is the Queen closure followed by the header again this time the brickwork is called Flemish bond this particular type of bond is many hundreds of years old and we used used it castles it is constructing of a 9 inch solid brickwork.
This particular corner bricks that we are using on this project are called half-board knows due to the fact that they have no corners the purpose of this would have been in the old days when our castle was under fire And that was fired by the enemy would have bounced off the circular turrets before the circular ones we would have used square turrets which would have been badly damaged event of fire.
There are many many types of brickwork bonds there are only three we mainly use nowadays the other half bond which is where the next brick is placed halfway above the next brick fence half bond.
It is also English bond issue is one of the strongest bonds available due to the fact that it has less internal joints in any other bond. It comprises of header Queen closure header header header on one course the preceding course above this would be three-quarter then face face ice.
We would say that over 90% of the brickwork is used nowadays would be half bond Nero excessive over 10 to 15 bonds are no longer even accused existence in the building industry.
