| Rat-Trap Bond: | Used to construct low cost walls by laying the bricks on edge where strength or appearance is not im... | |
| Reveals: | The vertical line of a Stopped-End in a wall to for door or window openings. Openings can be formed ... | |
| Reverse Bond: | A solution that can be used as an alternative to Broken Bond. When the dimensions of a wall require ... | |
| Sectional Bond: | When the transverse joints of the internal bonding, for a thick wall, coincide with the cross-joints... | |
| Sleeper Walls: | Dwarf walls built, off the site concrete, between the main walls to support ground floor joists. The... | |
| Squint Quoin: | A quoin, being other than a 90 deg. angle, built as an obtuse angle on the exterior of the building.... | |
| Stepped Foundations: | Used when building on a sloping site to save excessive excavation and the amount of brickwork below ... | |
| Stopped End: | The end of a wall built vertically (door opening) as opposed to the angle of a quoin; the bonding of... | |
| Stretcher Bond: | The bond widely used for Half B. walls consisting entirely of Stretchers laid with a half bond lap.... | |
| Struck Joint: | Suitable for internal fair face brickwork or blockwork. The joints are struck, with a pointing trowe... | |
| Tingle Brick: | When building a long wall, from quoin to quoin, the line must be prevented from sagging or errors wi... | |
| Tooled Joint: | A joint finish by using a Jointing Iron to form a rounded concave joint which is carried out as the ... | |
| Toothing: | If it becomes necessary to stop building a wall, to be completed at a later stage, this can be achie... | |
| Wall Plate: | A timber bedded along the top of an internal wall to provide fixing for floor joists or rafters. Gal... | |
| Water Bond: | Sometimes used for the construction of Inspection Chambers when the level of water is high in the su... | |
| Weather Pointing: | A finish to the joints formed by sloping back the bed joints and inclining the cross joints. This st... | |
| Weep Holes: | In some parts of an external wall water can collect behind the inner face (over window and door head... | |
