Unusual brick bonds.

[Aqua]

Rat trap bond ..or panels filled with knapped flints

You've lost me there

 

[noseall]

i think the emphasis is on how a wall is finished at the top these days particularly on walls of a metre high or so.

blue brick soldier headers with tile crease looks nice as does an edgeways-flatways alternate combination using solid blues.

 

[Thermo]

whatever you do dont oversize the piers in relation to the rest of the wall. it can look way out of scale and ahem.....crap!

 

[Nige F]

This might be one for noseall.

I am going to build a garden wall
is there a more unusual brick bond
:

rat trap must be a pic. somewhere on the net

 

[^woody^]

Rat trap is similar to flemish in appearance, only the bricks are laid on edge. The bricks need to be solid, and wall should be a brick and a quarter thick to get the bond accross the wall width.

As to the original question, more can be done by the pointing method, mortar colour or by adding feature bricks or courses, than by merely selecting a brick bond

 

[noseall]

This might be one for noseall.

I am going to build a garden wall
is there a more unusual brick bond
:

rat trap must be a pic. somewhere on the net

this

 

[Aqua]

Colour picture of rat trap bond.

As to the pointing, colour and feature bricks woody, i know what you mean, however i will need to decide which bond to use as a start point

I worked with a local builder for some years, but we only used standard bonds and a lot of stone work, hence the question about something different

 

[^woody^]

I must have been thinking of quetta rat-trap, which is 1 1/4 bricks thick

 

[Aqua]

panels filled with knapped flints

What does that mean