Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Brick work under window sills 2Feb 08, 2012 9:41 pm Building with Jandson Homes - Eclipse 18. http://adgnetworks.blogspot.com/ Re: Brick work under window sills 5Feb 10, 2012 12:25 pm Quote: Obviously if it was planned better and measured accurately you can avoid this but it's just simple laziness - which i reckon are most brickies. Yeah right. The windows would be standard sized as per 99% of all project homes which are worked out to brick length and height sizes - 4 bricks = 970mm opening , 4.5 bricks =1090mm opening etc Bricks turned on their edge for sills especially for narrow windows do not always work out for these same opening sizes - larger windows yes as the brickie can stretch or tighten up the size of the mortar joint without it being obvious. In this photo http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5 ... G_0625.jpg the only other thing he could have done would be to cut all the bricks to a similar width ( which none of the project home brickies do ) or use just four bricks and have big fat 20mm joins. Stewie Re: Brick work under window sills 6Feb 10, 2012 12:41 pm guys that is the correct way to do it!!!!. You cant do it any other way. Windows are built to brick measurements that is 235mm bricks. However they are layed on the side so they are 76mm. You brick layer done a good job there is no problem. Re: Brick work under window sills 9Apr 02, 2012 8:10 pm The narrow window would have had to have a cut, on the one that has 4 1/2 bricks I would have prefered to see 3 bricks and an even cut on each end. One of them I assume is a Sliding Door, even if it is only a 1500 door there's no reason they couldn't close up a couple of mm and keep full bricks. I know they will get a clean but if one of my brickies left a wall that grubby i'd make them clean it before I got the brick clean. Re: Brick work under window sills 10Apr 03, 2012 3:07 pm smart1 surely your kidding, there obviously has to be a part brick in there somewhere, if you wanted to be specific about it's location then you should have specified it and not just grizzled later. Please explain to me how "there obviously has to be a part brick in there somewhere"? As a layperson I don't see how this is obvious in any way. In the end there is no other way to do it and its been done the best way. Some brickies would have just made a single large mortar joint or made each mortar joint bigger but thats not the way it should be done. Yes it looks odd at the minute but in 6 months you won't notice it at all. Re: Brick work under window sills 11Apr 03, 2012 3:20 pm When a window doesn't work sill brick sizes and the bricklayer is bound by standards and tolerances and from an asthetics point of view ie: with all the surounding brickwork having similar joints it becomes necessary to cut one of the sill bricks, this is not only accepted building practice but the obvious method to achieve the best result Re: Brick work under window sills 12Apr 03, 2012 5:04 pm smart1 When a window doesn't work sill brick sizes and the bricklayer is bound by standards and tolerances and from an asthetics point of view ie: with all the surounding brickwork having similar joints it becomes necessary to cut one of the sill bricks, this is not only accepted building practice but the obvious method to achieve the best result Don't agree with you smart1, there is no reason in the world a SGD needs a cut in the sill. Out of interest I did a quick calculation and a 1500 door with 17 bricks and a 11.5mm joint works perfect. I then walked to my laundry door and this is exactly what my brickie has done. As for the smaller windows you are correct in saying its accepted practice, in all honesty would you be happy with that 4 1/2 brick sill? At least put the cut in the middle to even it up. Ugly is not a defect, but them sills were just thrown in with no thought given to where the cut should go. I've seen plenty of flush struck mortar jobs, never seen anything as grubby as that job. The lazy thinking with the sills and the tardy finsh go hand in hand IMO. Re: Brick work under window sills 14Apr 04, 2012 2:58 pm smart1 seriously dude your focus on the insignificant is mind numbing I call it attention to detail, I guess it's the difference between someone who still cares a bit about there trade or someone who just turns up and does a job. I guess your the latter. 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