For the Want of a Horseshoe Nail: Identifying causes of tile failure

[ad_1] All photos courtesy Custom Building Products by Howard Jancy, CSI, CDTA folk rhyme often attributed to Benjamin Franklin describes the unintended outcome of simply omitting a horseshoe nail—namely, the loss of a kingdom: For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,For the want […]

Designing brick veneer for loadbearing exterior walls – Page 3 of 4

[ad_1] Significantly lifted/shifted coping stones and cracked/open bed joints at parapet wall abutting the main roof bulkhead south-facing wall. Movements in the loadbearing CMU backup wallChanges in moisture content and temperature cause expansion and contraction of concrete masonry walls. The magnitude of volume change depends on two factors—one an intrinsic property of the concrete masonry […]