Technical Terms used in brick work.

COURSE

This is a term applied to the row of bricks laid between bed or horzontal joints.
The thackness of each course is taken as 100 mm i.e., 90 + 10 = 100 mm (thickness of brick and
thickness of jount). 

BED JOINT
These are mortar joints normal to the pressure.

QUOINS
The external corner joints of walls are called quoins. Bricks or stone used to form such joints are known as quoins.

PERPENDS
The vertical Joints on the face of wall are called perpends.

STRETCHER
These are bricks laid on the face of walls with their length parallel to the face. A course in which the face brick are stretcher us known as stretcher course

HEADERS
These are bricks laid on the face of the walls with their widih parallel to the face. A course in which the face bricks are headers is known as header course

BATS
Pieces of bricks ate called bats. 1/2 brick is called half bat end 3/4 brick is known as bat.

QUEEN CLOSER
A brick cut length wise into half is known as queen closer. It is used next to quoin header io get is proper bond.

KING CLOSER
These are bricks cut in such a way that one end is half the width of a brick and other and is full width. These are used for lambs and reveals of doors and windows. These are also used as drip course