Bricklaying trade jargon
- Air brick
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A perforated brick that is built into a wall to increase ventilation.
- Bat
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A cut brick.
- Brickie
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Trade nickname for a bricklayer.
- Brick saw
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A power tool used for cutting concrete, bricks and other materials.
- Capstone
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A finishing stone that forms the top of a column or wall.
- Coping
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A flat stone used as a cap on walls or around the perimeter of patios, pools and ponds etc.
- Course
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A single layer of bricks.
- Header
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The end face of a brick.
- Lintel
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A horizontal beam supporting a wall above a door or window.
- Mortar
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Material used to bond bricks, made up of cement or lime, an aggregate such as sand, and water.
- Pointing
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Filling the joints of brickwork or masonry with mortar.
- Quoin
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Both the corner of a wall, and the particular blocks used to make up the corner, sometimes only there for decorative purposes.
- Stretcher
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The long face of a brick.
- Stretcher bond
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This simplest and most common form of bricklaying, where each course overlaps the one below with a single brick atop two others.
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