| Attached Pier: | A pier projecting from a wall face, which thickens it for the width of the pier, and is bonded into ... | |
| Battered Work: | A wall that is built with a backward slope on its face, e.g. a retaining wall or tall chimney.... | |
| Bevelled Closer: | The brick is bevelled, along its bed length, to reduce it to a 56mm closer on its face. Used in wall... | |
| Block Bonding: | A method of preparing an existing wall so that a future wall can be tied in at a later date. The exi... | |
| Block-Work: | Walls built of Blocks as opposed to Bricks; may be used externally, with a rendered finish, but more... | |
| Bonding: | The skill of the craftsman is to bond the wall in accordance with the designer's specification and m... | |
| Broken Bond: | This occurs when brick sizes will not fit the designed wall length. This is a common situation and r... | |
| Cavity Fill: | It is sometimes necessary, especially in housing, to set the top of the concrete foundation well bel... | |
| Cavity Tray: | Water can penetrate an external wall to run down the inner face and enter the building where door an... | |
| Cavity Wall: | Widely used in domestic construction as an external wall to prevent moisture from entering the build... | |
| Chasing: | The task of cutting a recess (usually vertically) in a completed internal wall, in brickwork or bloc... | |
| Common Work: | Brickwork that is built using common bricks (see Materials). The work is built using a cheap brick, ... | |
| Corbelling: | Projecting courses along the length of the wall to increase its thickness, or part of it, or as a de... | |
| Corner Profile: | Set up during the initial setting out of work and before excavation of foundations. Two adjacent pro... | |
| Damp Proof Course: | See Bricks and Materials.... | |
| Dead Man: | In some situations it becomes necessary to build a section of a wall ahead of the external corners. ... | |
| English Bond: | One of the Quarter Bonds (56mm lap) for walls 1B thick and over when maximum strength is required. T... | |
| English Garden Wall Bond: | A popular variation of E. B. that uses three, or sometimes five, courses of Stretchers (laid at half... | |
| Face Side: | That face of the wall, most widely seen, which controls the quality of its appearance and accuracy. ... | |
| Flemish Bond: | As with E. B. this is one of the Quarter Bonds for walls 1B thick and over. Widely used for decorati... | |
