Brick

Bricks can be made from different materials, they are clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate or concrete, they can also be shaped form stones.
 * What are they made of? **

They are used for construction, usually in masonry and they are laid using mortar.
 * What are they used for? **

There are six types of brick, and they are made of six different materials which are clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete and stone. That means that there are different ways for laying bricks.
 * How many types of brick are there? **
 * What is the meaning of //brick laying techniques//? **

The most used technique is the brick laid using mortar and they should be piled on planks, never on a uneven or soft ground.
 * Describe 2 brick laying techniques **

Using bricks have advantages and disadvantages. An advantage is that they are easy to be placed and they have holes on their inside, that means they are resistant but at the same time lighter than other construction material. By the other hand, they also have disadvantages, and one of them is that they can fall out.
 * What are their advantages and disadvantages? **

Brick is a material easy to be handled, transported and produced because of its shape and size. Although, they are to light and too small, so it is necessary using mortar to stabilize them. They have been used since the 4th millennium b. C., they got popularity from the 16th century and now they are used very often.
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Brick compares favorably with stone as a structural material for its fire-and-weather resisting qualities. The size of bricks is limited by the need for efficient drying, firing, and handling, but shapes, along with the techniques of bricklaying, have varied widely throughout history.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Regular bricks are bonded either as headers (short side out) or stretchers (long side out). The commonest ancient Roman bricks were cut into triangles and laid with the base out and the apex set into a concrete filling that provided additional strength.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For example, wedge-shaped bricks are sometimes employed in arch construction and bricks with rounded faces in columns <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bricks may be used in construction only in conjunction with mortar, since the unit is too small, too light, and too irregular to be stabilized by weight. Employed throughout the Middle Ages, brick grained greater popularity from the 16 th century.
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