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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He was just moaning about how things used to be built to endure (like in greek times or the old days of rome). Some drywallers still shove offcuts in the wall cavities...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Abrams<br><b>Sent:</b> March-13-13 1:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> archilogic@yahoo.ca; Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Circa 1766 (terra cotta) roof shingles<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>I think that I have a vague memory of Mr. Sloane talking about<br>brick-infilled half-timber structures (perhaps the very same of which Jake<br>speaks today) and I seem to recall something about the builders using the<br>brick for infill simply because it was a convenient place to dispose of<br>their garbage bricks. Wattle & daub would have been the traditional infill<br>but that'd be more labour-intensive than just chucking junk bricks and<br>mortar into the space.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Vitruvius describes at length various means of filling the core of masonry walls. He notes the failure of monuments with rubble filled cores because "the mortar lost its strength, which has been sucked out of it by the porousness of the rubble; and so the monuments are tumbling down and going to pieces, with their joints loosened by the settling of the material that bound them together..."<br><br>"To avoid such a disaster," Vitruvius prescribes inner wythes of coursed masonry of "red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava" bound to the facings with iron clamps and lead. <br><br>"For thus his work, being no mere heap of materials but regularly laid in courses, will be strong enough to last forever..."<br><br>Somewhere in his books he describes how buildings are assessed and insured, based on the method of wall construction--can't find it now, but you can look it up if you have time...<br><br>AA<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>