Brick quantities for various bonds

Jun 12, 2011 1 Replies

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page 13 it shows various bonds. Every one except one is a brick thick. Bottom right gives quantities of bricks for one square meter of brickwork, a half brick thick.



Question: Why have they quoted quantities for a half brick thick, when I presume, in practice, nobody would build those bonds a half brick thick, (except stretcher bond)?



Would it not have been better to give figures for a brick thick wall? Thanks.


A full brick would be a 9" thick wall as built pre cavities. A half brick is 4.5" as per a single leaf of a cavity wall.

Its easy enough to remember 50 bricks per sq yard and double it for a double wall.

(all sizes tend to be metric now and are a little bit smaller)

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