The final stage of building a house is to give it an aesthetic appearance. For this, brick cladding is often used. Old buildings also need decoration, the walls of which are made of unattractive and cheap material. It must be taken into account, however, that in order to give the building a satisfactory appearance and maintain the necessary operational qualities of the walls, brick cladding must be done at a high professional level.
It is better to entrust the masonry process to an experienced bricklayer, because it is difficult to achieve the desired result on your own, without having the appropriate education and experience. Brick cladding involves wiring ventilation and insulation of the building.
In order to avoid the “greenhouse effect” inside the brickwork , ventilation holes are left in the walls, which increases the life of the entire building. To do this, purges are left in the lower and upper parts, which provide the necessary ventilation.
Brick cladding. Process technology
1. Calculation of the required amount of material. This must be done with maximum accuracy, because with a lack of bricks it will be difficult to pick up an identical shade from another batch. An additional 10% should be added to the result in case of breakage of a certain amount during masonry.
2. Test masonry. It is made with an area of 1 m2 to control the texture of the mortar and determine the method of filling the joints.
3. Before the end of the cladding process, it is necessary to use the same method of laying bricks, and the solution should not be changed.
4. Special attention should be paid to the preparation of the solution, experiments here can only harm the process, it is better to strictly follow the manufacturer's recommendations. Using all kinds of frost-resistant additives will only harm the quality of the product, it is better to stop laying at temperatures below 0 degrees.
5. In order to achieve uniformity of the color scheme of the walls, it is better to simultaneously produce brickwork from several pallets.
6. Before laying, the brick should be briefly placed in water, which will increase the drying time of the mortar. If you use a dry product, it absorbs water from the solution instantly, as a result of which it crumbles, while the quality of the masonry deteriorates.
7. Do not be lazy and ignore the frequent check of the verticality of the seams of the cladding with a plumb.
8. Small breaks during operation will allow you to evaluate the result from the outside, which will help to timely detect and correct defects that have arisen.
Clinker brick cladding
In modern construction, more attention is paid to improving the materials used. In this regard, such a method of decorating buildings as clinker brick cladding has more often been used.
The use of clinker as a building cladding material is due to the high quality of the product itself. Clinker has high water absorption, low thermal conductivity, which, along with the frost resistance of the material, allows for the preservation of a large amount of heat indoors.
The excellent technological characteristics of the clinker make this material especially popular when carrying out such a building process as brick lining the walls of a new or dilapidated building. Today this product is produced not only abroad, domestic manufacturers have also learned how to produce excellent quality material and many varieties.
A single brick is widely used in wall cladding, such forms as double, one-and-a-half and non-standard clinkers have proven themselves well.
There is also a classification of clinker bricks by grades, which is based on the strength of the material. The brand of brick corresponds to a certain number, for example, 50, 100, 200. The pattern is that the higher the number, the stronger and better the brick.
The great popularity of clinker is due to the wide color spectrum of its production, which is important in such a process as decorating and bricking buildings. A few years ago, only two color schemes were provided - red and white. Modern clinker can have pink and yellow, burgundy and cream shades. If there are many brick textures, this increases the number of possible cladding options.