tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post3054163482687999948..comments2024-03-23T05:35:06.468-04:00Comments on ancestral roofs: Row row rowAncestral Roofshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755249835071665091noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post-61721025168917631732013-02-02T18:39:38.764-05:002013-02-02T18:39:38.764-05:00Thanks for making this post, I really learned some...Thanks for making this post, I really learned something here. Its kinda interesting to lay it on edge, since doing so would seem to lessen stability and strength when compared to common bond. I'd love to see a profile of one of those walls, to see if they somehow stabilized it behind the facing. Perhaps the headers tucked into another wall behind the outside one, to create a double wall. Thats common for most brickwork anyway, isn't it ???<br /><br />BTW, the link given for "picton connection" doesn;t seem to be working, unless the idea is to actually log in.....<br /><br />I was always amazed at seeing these massive houses in the mid-Atlantic states from 1720, 1730 or so, many of them in Flemish bond. Its easy to see where the money was at that time. And when you look at the historical populations, you can also see that these states flourished wrt to settlement and economic activity. Whereas the Maritimes and New England built in wood, and NY & PA did in stone(quite often), states like Md. and Vir. had no qualms about using brick.<br /><br />Speaking of building materials, here's an incredible breakdown of building materials used in NS. AS you can see it's overwhelmingly frame construction (99.4%):<br /><br />http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/builtheritage/results.asp?Search=&SearchList1=2<br /><br />One of the rare brick houses in the province is the c.1775 Chapman H. in Flemish Bond w/ black headers. Its the oldest brick house in Canada, unless there's an older one in Quebec.:<br /><br />http://journals.hil.unb.ca/journalimages/MCR/2007/Vol_65/mcr65art03_fig10.jpgMarknoreply@blogger.com