Radford's brick houses and how to build them... (1912)
William A. Radord · William A. Radford · leaf 34
the weight imposedon the bricks; and an effective distribu-tion of a concentrated weight is thusmade over an ever-increasing area.This is accomplished by means of headers and stretchers, as in stonemasonry. It is generally accepted thata perfect bond in brickwork can be se-cured where two headers… … Fig. 25. English Bond. m the face of the course a are headers.In the face of the course below, all arestretchers. It is usual to have one rowof headers to every half-dozen rows orso of stretchers, although the true bondof this type has them in alternate layers.This method is really known as…
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