Gauged Brickwork.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Gauged Brickwork -- Introduction -- The construction of gauged brickwork -- Suppliers of limes and lime putty -- 2 Historical Perspective -- 3 Manufacture of Rubbing Bricks -- Geology of the clay -- Distinguishing between brickearth and brick clay -- Case hardening -- Making modern rubbing bricks -- Suppliers of rubbing bricks -- 4 Equipment and Tools -- Types of equipment and their uses -- 5 Carved Gauged Brickwork -- 6 Main Architectural Uses -- Aprons -- Arches -- Columns and piers -- Cornices -- Dentil courses -- Domes -- Mouldings used in gauged brickwork -- Niches -- Oriel windows -- Pediments -- Pilasters -- Platt bands -- Reveals and architraves -- Spheres or globes -- Splayed/circle to square -- Tumbling-in -- Moulded tracery to windows -- Vases -- Vaults -- Volutes and scrolls -- 7 Repair, Restoration and Maintenance -- Introduction -- Reasons for repair and restoration -- Correct approach to renovation and restoration -- Cleaning historic brickwork -- Replacement or patching-in of ashlar work -- Replacing spalled cut-moulded bricks within an enrichment -- Repairing arches and niches -- Repointing -- Repairing for recarving -- 8 Tuck Pointing -- Introduction -- Tools for tuck pointing -- Methods -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Gauged brickwork is a term used to describe the superior finish required in the details of an important brickwork elevation. This book combines diagrams and photographs to describe each stage of the process, from rubbing, cutting and shaping the bricks to laying and carving them.

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