BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork

Foreword; Training as a bricklayer; Glossary of terms; Preparation and protection: Reference and sample panels, Protection of newly built brickwork, Handling, storage and protection of materials, Estimating quantities of bricks and mortar; Bricklaying techniques: Setting-out facework -- stretcher half-bond, Gauge and storey rods Line, level and plumb, Vertical perpends, Cutting bricks, Keeping brickwork clean, Finishing mortar joints, Pointing and repointing, Bricks of special shapes and sizes; Good practice: Avoiding damage from extremes of temperature, Blending facing bricks on site, External cavity walls, Frog up or frog down?, Manholes and inspection chambers; Accessories: Mortars, Ties in cavity walls, Damp-proof courses, Insulated cavity walls, Vertical movement joints, Reinforced and post-tensioned brickwork, Brickwork on metal support systems; Specific constructions: Copings and cappings, Cavity parapet walls, Curved arches, Circular bull's-eyes, Soldier arches, Decorative brickwork, Curved brickwork, Corbelling, Tumbling-in courses, Fireplace openings, chimney breasts and flues, Chimney stacks for domestic fireplaces; Background topics: Efflorescence and lime staining, Frost attack and frost resistance, Sulfate attack on mortars, Durability of brickwork, Allowing for variations in brick sizes, Appearance, Rain resistance of cavity walls, Reading construction drawings, Bricklaying tools and equipment, Brick manufacture, Blockwork inner leaves, walls and partitions; Innovation: The individual unit 1, Innovation in components, Innovation in prefabrication systems, Innovation in technique, Innovation in construction systems, Index

BDA is the industry group representing the interests of UK and Irish manufacturers of clay bricks and pavers.

Praise for previous editions: "The hallmark of this book is its clarity. The text and illustrations provide crystal clear guidance on the science and art of brickwork. The book conveys a sense of the 'art of the possible' and illustrates some brickwork solutions that are inspirational, functional and elegant. Now that's success." Highly commended - Chartered Institute of Building's literary awards March 2001 "... definitive work on the art and practice of bricklaying" Building Employers Confederation. "The perfect answer for NVQ reference material ... no construction resource room should be without this" Guild of Bricklayers. "A successful brickwork manual" Architecture Today.