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August 12, 2017 18:08

Red brick - all the secrets of the most popular building material

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Who are you, a red brick?

reliably nobody knows the date of the official "birth" of an ordinary red brick, it is known that in Russia it is the first time began to be used only in the 15th century, although the simplest examples of "man-made" stone is still in the era of the great Egyptian pyramids of the pharaohs.It is believed that even prehistoric man, propped his hearth petrified brown clay, spotted her wonderful transformation and began to use the material for its modest construction needs.

Brick Red is an ordinary stone-tetrahedron, cobbled together from a special clay (with additives) and past the finish roasting in the oven.It is also often referred to as a ceramic.

It is now building material manufacturing process is fully automated, before it is molded by hand, adding a mixture of clay additives thermal efficiency (straw, sawdust, etc.).And in the oven harvesting did not fall, and roasted himself in the sun for 10-14 days.This brick was called "raw."

now must pass the material hardened by fire, and in the modern brick plants produce two types of building materials, differing in appearance:

  • Red building (private) brick. This rough pattern in the body that has a noticeable defects (cracks, chips).Presentable appearance he did not need, since it is completely closed during the finishing topcoat.
  • red facing brick. This "handsome stone" with a smooth surface and a perfectly shaped, used for decorative finishes of the building.

Size red brick is strictly regulated and depends on the type of sample:

  1. 250 mm / 120 mm / 65 mm (length, width, height) - single.
  2. 250 mm / 120 mm / 88 mm (length, width, height) - Bastard.
  3. 250 mm / 120 mm / 138 mm (length, width, height) - double.

Weight brick red is not constant constant in the roof of the building regulations and standards GOST stated only that one sample can not weigh more than 4.3 kg.Consequently, the course has a heavy and "light" variation of stone:

  • Brick red full-bodied, which has no holes.
  • sample with through holes of different shapes and thickness.

The latter is particularly useful because it is much lighter than its corpulent "brother", and due to the presence of air "pockets", yet offers advanced features teplosberegatelnymi.How heavy is the red brick of a certain type can be found in the documents accompanying each batch of material.

The useful boasts a brick?

  1. long service life. Stories known brick building, whose age is estimated by several centuries, so the material belongs to the category of "long-lived".
  2. Fortress. stone is a stone, so it perfectly keeps hitting, perfectly brings all kinds of loads (up to 15 MPa).Due to high densities (up to 1950 kg / m3), the material exhibits excellent load carrying capacity.
  3. natural. mixture for making bricks consists exclusively of the gifts of nature, there is no harmful chemical additives.
  4. Durability. Stone easily carries all the disaster (frost, snow, rain, etc.).Moreover, the recipe customize the material under different operating conditions, giving it a higher resistance to compression, bending (the characteristic M) and frost (characteristic F).
  5. Ease of use. Using the bricks of different types and sizes, it is possible to construct a building of any complexity;ordinary stones instead of facing enable reduce the cost of construction, and hollow stones instead of full-bodied - to facilitate the construction weight.

There are special types of building materials, other than certain unique characteristics.For example, refractory bricks of chamotte clay, which is used for the construction of furnaces and fireplaces.

Where bricks are used in construction?

First bricks used for the construction of the building shell.Laying is performed using different techniques by hand, it is quite time-consuming and unproductive construction phase, because one day the wall "grow" only 1.5-2 meters.

Knowing approximately how much weight standard stone, you can easily calculate the foundation of the house.The latter can also be built from this material, but only if the base depth of no more than 1.5-1.8 m.

addition to the construction of multi-storey buildings, "classic" is used in the regeneration of small buildings (construction of fences,wells, stoves and fireplaces made of bricks with their hands).

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