how many courses of brick before the wood frame??

[flying haggis]

 

[Droogs]

Following MikeG's instructions to the letter

or how to lay bricks with a cold

Where did you get that pick, that must be deliberate

 

[Trevanion]

I've seen worse...

 

[Droogs]

I believe you Trev, I've been to Haverford West too

 

[Blister]

Wow , A bespoke brick wall

 

[MikeG.]

That's a very traditional style. You see it around here, often mixed with flint, and with broken tiles built in as well. Some people erroneously call it a clunch wall (clunch is a weird stone.....more on that if you're really bored). This is a bit "samey" to match that vernacular, but nonetheless, apart from the ghastly mortar, that will make an attractive wall.

 

[clogs]

just can't get the staff anymore......

 

[Woody2Shoes]

...(clunch is a weird stone.....more on that if you're really bored). ....

Chalk by another name! We've quite a bit of that round here - usually dressed rather than rough/random.
I hadn't realised that the term has been misused/expanded to describe not just the chalky stone material (whether dressed/shaped or not) to cover any wall made of inferior material - often in a rough/ragstone way, but not necessarily esp. "clunch-built" (which often as not, if Google is to be believed, has no clunch in it!).

 

[MikeG.]

Yes, chalk, but it's dug up from the ground wet, and doesn't dry into something hard for quite a while. This means it can be rough shaped with a spade/ adze/ axe/ froe, then set aside to harden. Around here it is sometimes used to build a whole building, and sometimes just used as quoins for a flint walled place.

 

[DBT85]

That how mine felt as I was doing it

 

[SamTheJarvis]

Find it hilarious that the course next to the string line is vaguely straight.

 

[MikeG.]

Well, I for one would rather see a wall like this any day of the week rather than a flat expanse of stretcher bond.

 

[Trevanion]

How would the strength compare Mike?

 

[MikeG.]

Stretcher bond is half a brick thick. This wall is a brick thick. So this one would be stronger.

 

[transatlantic]

If they were odd sized/shaped bricks it might look better. But the fact that they're regular sized/shaped bricks makes it just look messy. I'd also guess that this would actually take more effort and more forethought ... so no .. I don't see the point.

 

[Rorschach]

The fact it is so bad must make it intentional and they are keeping to quite a neat string line at the top it seems.

 

[sammy.se]

The funniest thing is that I can see a couple of string lines, to keep things straight :-D

 

[Rorschach]

 

[Droogs]

Where's that one taken rorschach?

 

[Trevanion]

Where's that one taken rorschach?

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