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What do you need to know about salvaging old brick?
3-27-2020
Quite often we find specifications or owners requesting that we are to use historic salvaged brick to match the building that needs work. Recently I view a specification for salvaging brick from a 1910 Era building that was 4 wythes (4 bricks) thick and all of the brick were to be salvaged for re-use. They were to be re-used in mostly the outer wall of a building in my Michigan environment. Now that’s a mistake…
What is the meaning of the headless craftsman logo?
3-18-2020
Surprisingly, when asking masons in the field what they were using as a mortar, Their answer was a type N. They were repointing an early 1905 brick masonry structure. So, I asked why that type. Their answer “what the architect told the boss to use.” In my usual inquisitive way, I asked “what is the original mortar”?
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