BRICKWORK
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ABINAYA, ANDREW NISHA, ASHWATHI, HARINI,
NIRUPA, SANDHIYA, SHRUTI, VEERALAKSHMI
TESTING BRICK QUALITY
Maintain the wet surface area
1 Soaking of the Bricks: 2 of the brickwork:
When Bricks are soaked into the clean water, it gets saturated, and Any surface before starting brickwork must be properly wetted in
the air particles, dust & dirt are removed. When we use these order to get a good bond between the old surfaces to the new
soaked Bricks it will not absorb the water from Mortar and enough course of brickwork. This must be done at least 10 mins before
strength from Mortar is obtained. Generally, the soaking period of starting of the brickwork. The water shall be sprayed on the
the bricks is 12 hours. surfaces for this purpose..
3 Proper Horizontal first bed course: 4 Proper Mortar mix proportions:
This would be done by filling enough Mortar to the bed course to The proportion of mortar shall be one portion of cement and six
even the undulations. parts of sand by volume.
Start the brick wall at the corners
Lay out the bricks at both ends of your wall where the pillars will start.
Lay the first course of bedding mortar
Lay a 1-2cm mortar bed along the string line before laying 1st course
Buttering
All subsequent blocks will require buttering, which means that you need to
spread 10mm of mortar onto the side end of the brick.
Subsequent brick courses
After the first course is laid, the usual practice is to build up both ends first.
This is done to ensure that the finished wall is straight and level. Never build
the ends up more Step 4 laying bricks pic 3than 1.2m before filling in the
middle. Use your spirit level very frequently to ensure that the wall stays
level and true, the last thing you want is to have to pull your wall down and
start again
Raking Joints of the Brick Masonry
The Mortar is removed up to 1 to 1.5 cm from the Brickwork which is termed
as raking joints. These raking joints help to bind the plasters to the
brickwork.
Curing of the Brick Masonry:
minimum 3 times in day water shall be sprayed on the Brickwork. Therefore,
before plastering the Brickwork shall be cured for a minimum of 10 days.
After plastering it may take a minimum of 7 days to attain enough strength.
BRICK LAYING
Breaking a Brick
Sprit level and Plumb-bob checkings
CURING
Workmanship
• The broken bricks shall not be used except as closers.
• All corners shall be truly in plumb and sides shall be in line and level.
• The mortar joints in bonding shall not exceed 10mm in thickness.
• Selected best shaped bricks shall be used for face work.
• Bricks shall be laid with frogs uppermost except in the topcourse
where frogs shall be placed downward .
• The brickwork shall not be carried out more than 1m height at a time.
• All joints shall be raked and faces of wall shall be cleaned at the end
of each day's work.
• The work shall be well-watred for atleast 15 days.
• All brickwork shall be carried out in such a way that no portion is
raised unduly above another.
Properties
• The brick shall be table-moulded, well-burnt in approved kiln, copper-
coloured, free from
• cracks and with sharp and square edges. The bricks shall be uniform
in shape and shall be of standard
• size and shall give clear ringing sound when struck with each other.
The bricks shall not absorb water
• more than 1/5th of their weight after one hour of soaking in water.
Bricks shall have crushing strength of
• 10.5 N/mm2
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