DIY bricklaying

Vafam
1 min readNov 18, 2022

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Although a brick wall is made up of many small elements, it should work as a monolith. To provide increased strength, the seams, which are the weak point in this system, are made with an offset. Experts call this technique “dressing”. It seems to connect different elements into a single whole, allowing you to redistribute the load on large surfaces.

Alternate alternation of such rows gives a very good result. This type of ligation is called single-row or chain ligation. It is practiced on walls that are not planned to be finished: it looks neat. According to such a system, both external and load-bearing walls can be folded.

With multi-row dressing, several spoon rows — 6 (for a single brick) or 5 (for a one and a half) — are interspersed with one bonder. The first and last are also placed with pokes. This method is also suitable for laying exterior and interior walls. Only they are usually planned for insulation or decoration.

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