Cutting bricks

A range of standard cutting bricks can be produced by cutting a whole brick to filled in or closed the bonds


Faces of a bricks

• The 4 faces of brick , which may be exposed in fairface brickwork , are the 2 long strecher faces and the 2 header faces
• The face on which the brick is laid is the bed
• Some bricks have no indent or frog
• Some brick have an indent or frog formed in one of the bed faces
• The purpose of the frog or indent is to assist in compressing the wet clay during moulding
• The frog also serves as a reservoir of mortar on to which bricks in the course aboce may more easily be bedded .