English bond: Has alternate courses of headers and stretchers in which the headers are centered on stretchers and the joints between stretchers line up vertically in all courses
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English bond - A particularly strong method of building walls by laying bricks together in staggered alternating courses using headers and stretchers.
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English Bond Brickwork with alternating courses of headers and stretchers.
Fascia A board fixed to the rafter ends along the roof eaves.
English bond A pattern of brickwork with alternate courses of headers and stretchers.
ENGLISH BOND: a method of bonding bricks in which courses of headers and stretchers are laid alternately. ENTABLATURE: the combined assembly of horizontal members supported by a row of columns in classical architecture.
English Bond - a traditional form of solid wall construction with brick courses (layers) laid with headers (the short end) laid alternately with stretchers (the long side).
English bond - a bond consisting of alternate courses of headers and stretchers.
Engineering brick - a dense, robust brick, suitable for use in heavy duty structures, ie viaducts.
English bond: with alternate courses of headers and stretchers exposed. English garden wall bond: with one course of headers for every three or more courses of stretchers. Flemish bond: with alternating stretchers and headers showing.
Brick Wall Patterns: Common Bond, Running Bond, Flemish Bond, English Bond, Herringbone, Stack Bond
Brick Paving Patterns: Basket Weave, Half Basket, Herringbone, Basket on Edge
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BONDING - Method of laying bricks, i.e. English Bond, Flemish Bond.
BORROWED LIGHT - Window in interior wall transferring light from outer window.
English Bond: method of laying bricks so that alternate courses or layers on the face of the wall are composed of headers or stretchers only.
[Middle English bende (from Old English bend and from Old French bande, bende, of Germanic origin) and Middle English bond, band (from Old Norse, band); see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]
band 2 (bnd)
n.
English bond, for example, has been in use for 400 years, and is based on a mix of bricks laid end on, and side on, in such a way that the cross joints are regularly spaced. Other patterns include Flemish bond, heading, stretching, and American.
 See also: Brick, Bond, Header, Stretcher, Flemish bond
  
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