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A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)

International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 125

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ht be pushed away bodily from the rough brick. 114 MASONRY. §7 215. Fig. 80 shows a 12-inch wall with the face brickbonded to the common brick by what is known as diagonal,or herring-bone, bond. At a is shown the front brick cut atthe angles; at b, the bonding brick laid diagonally; at r,… … Fig. 80. The New York building laws require that where w^allsare faced with brick in running bond, every sixth courseshall be bonded into the backing by cutting the corners ofthe face brick, and putting in diagonal headers behind (asshown in Fig. 80), or by splitting the face brick in half…

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