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How to lay bricks?

There are many ways of laying bricks, here the most commonly used way of laying bricks summed up, a **** is five ways:

Full Shun style also known as the strip masonry method, this masonry method of each skin is a group of smooth bricks, bricks of the strip exposed, the upper and lower skins of the left and right lap for the half-bricks, staggered seams of 120_, suitable for the construction of the half-brick wall with the modal porous bricks of the laying of the joints. In the corner part to add a matching brick (commonly known as seven-point brick), staggered seams. This masonry method is characterized by a good lap, no through-seam, strong integrity, and therefore more widely used.

Each layer of bricks are smooth with ding, the upper and lower layers and staggered with ding, each layer of ding bricks and smooth bricks apart, the upper layer of ding bricks sitting in the lower layer of smooth bricks, the upper and lower layers of vertical joints with each other staggered about 1/4 brick length, this decorative effect inside and outside the vertical joints of the top and bottom of each layer can be staggered, it is a better overall, neatly outlined, very beautiful, also known as the smooth ding interlacing type masonry method.

"Three Shun a Ding" masonry is three layers of Shun brick and a layer of Ding brick spaced apart from each other. The upper and lower layers of staggered joints 1/4 brick length. Applicable to one brick and more than one brick wall thickness.

"All Ding" masonry is all made of Ding brick masonry. The upper and lower layers are staggered 1/4 brick length. Only used for masonry arc-shaped masonry.