...before laying, as mixing the mortar thin interferes with its setting, and still more with its adhesion to the brick. Watery mortar also contracts excessively in drying, (if it ever does dry) causing undue settlements and, possibly, cracks or distortion. Wetting the brick before laying also...

...Lime mortar is sometimes made very thin, so that the brick will not absorb all the water. This process interferes with the setting of the mortar, and particularly...undue settlement and, possibly, cracks or distortion. Wetting the brick before laying will also remove the dust from the surface, which otherwise would prevent...

...Lime mortar is sometimes made very thin, so that the brick will not absorb all the water. This process interferes with the setting of the mortar, and particularly...undue settlement and, possibly, cracks or distortion, Wetting the brick before laying will also remove the dust from the surface, which otherwise would prevent...

...Neglect in wetting the brick before use is the canse of most of the failures of brickwork. Bricks have a great avidity for water, and if the mortar is stiff...excessively in drying (if it ever does dry), which canses undue settlement and, possibly, cracks or distortion. The bricks should not be wetted to the...

...Keglect in wetting the brick before use is the cause of most of the failures of brickwork. Bricks have a great avidity for water, and if the mortar is stiff...will be weak. The common method of wetting brick by throwing water from buckets or spraying with a hose over a large pile is deceptive . the water reaches...

...thin that the brick will not absorb all the water. This practice is objectionable ; it interferes wjth the setting of the mortar, and particularly with the...will be weak. The common method of wetting brick by throwing water from buckets or spraying with a hose over a large pile is deceptive , the water reaches...

...Neglect in wetting the brick before use is the cause of most of the failures of brickwork. Bricks have a great avidity for water, and if the mortar is stiff...will be weak. The common method of wetting brick by throwing water from buckets or spraying with a hose over a large pile is deceptive, the water reaches...

...Neglect in wetting the brick before use is the cause of most of the failures of brickwork. Bricks have a great avidity for water, and if the mortar is stiff...will be incapable of absorbing any of the moisture fiom the mortar, and the adhesion between the brick and mortar will be weak. The common method of wetting...

...is objectionable; it interferes with the setting of the mortar, and particularly with the atlhesion of the mortar to the brick. Watery mortar also contracts...ever does dry), which causes undue settlement and, ]>ossibly, cracks or distortion. The bricks should not I>e wetted to the point of saturation, or they...

...setting of the mortar, and particularly with the adhesion of the mortar to the brick. Watery riiortar also contracts excessively in drying (if it ever does...will be weak. The common method of wetting brick by throwing water from buckets or spraying with a hose over a large pile is deceptive, the water reaches...