The measurement of a return is taken as the total length of the wall rather than treating the wall as two separate panels.Īn internal corner should mirror an external corner as closely as possible. If the wall or panel turns (usually 90°) then this is usually referred to as a return. Section 9.2.3 of E2/AS1 advises that no length of veneer wall or panel can be less than 230mm. The practice of brick cutting should comply with the Master Brick and Blocklayer Practice Advisory –Brick and Block cutting: To achieve a stretcher or runner bond and meet industry aesthetic standards, the minimum size a masonry unit should be cut to is the greater of: ¼ the length of the units or the width of the units. To maintain a running or stretcher bond, bricks of each course must overlap the previous course by between 25% and 75% of the length of the bricks (NZS4210:2001 Section 1.3 Definitions).Ī bond pattern should be consistent throughout the veneer.
Section 9.2.2 of E2/AS1 requires that bricks are laid with a ‘running bond’ (also referred to as Stay tuned! Until then, check out the Brick Industry Association’s Technical Note, Bonds and Patterns in Brickwork.The way that bricks are arranged affects a veneers stability and strength and is referred to as a You’ll also notice that creative designers have combined tried and true bond patterns with brick’s myriad colors, shapes, and textures to achieve something entirely new - a feat that is only possible with brick.Ĭoming soon…contemporary bonds and patterns that defy tradition. In the gallery below you’ll find that a given bond pattern does not necessarily indicate a particular style or hearken to a particular era. And yet, many historic bond patterns find their way into new structures simply because of their beauty. Today, most brick construction is single-wythe, so integrating brick to make the structural bond is no longer necessary. Flemish bond alternates headers and stretchers at regular intervals in the same course. English bond places these headers in continuous courses (rows) with uninterrupted courses of stretchers above and below. The result, though serving a practical purpose, also created a distinct aesthetic pattern. Regularly orienting some individual units so their ends were exposed (called “headers”) rather than their widths (“stretchers”) allowed the long dimension of the brick to extend backward into the wall, tying into the interior wythes (layers) of brick, structurally bonding the wythes together. Historically, the term “bond” referred to more than just the cosmetic appearance made by the pattern of brick in the wall. Throughout the many centuries that humans have been stacking brick and mortar together to create structures, some bond patterns and course types emerged so frequently that they were given names: running bond, half bond, Flemish bond, English bond, common bond, etc. Each individual unit can be placed in any of several orientations, and multiple units can be organized together into patterns of a particular orientation. Because brick masonry is a combination of many small units installed with mortar in-between, brick offers an incredible degree of design flexibility for architects.
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