Brick Laying

[Tilly2]

I thought about this when lying in bed last night gazing out of the window.

When bricklayers do the windows of a house, how do they do the course of bricks above the window opening? There is nothing for the bricks to lie on is there? Is it a magic trick?

[ummmm]

They put in a lintel.

[sandyRoe]

Lintels, Tilly

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[EcclesCake]

Lintel?

[tonyav]

All brickies can do magic, you should know that, Yilly.

[Clanad]

Don't believe that malarky... they just balance there, held together by 1/2 inch of mortar... Lintels? Now I've heard everything!

[Tilly2]

Ah, I thought lintels were just decorative. I know nothing. Thanks everyone.

Just been outside to check my lintels!

[tonyav]

And were they Catnic lintels, Yilly ?.

[Tilly2]

Er...er...er...Yes! I hope that's the right answer. If not, No!

[gness]

This a new venture, Tilly?......Get a nice tan brick laying this weather....☺

[Svejk]

you're a right thicko sometimes, till. ;o)

[Tilly2]

I'm not thick, sweety. I just ask daft questions.

Gness, I'm not building anything. I was just wondering,like.

[Tilly2]

Sandy, thank you for all those lovely pictures. Which one's a catnip one?

[tonyav]

Maybe you and Yilly should start up as brickies, gness. I'll do the hod carrying !.

[Svejk]

did you miss my fao, cariad?

[tonyav]

Catnic is a make, Yilly.

[Tilly2]

I think I must have missed it, sweety. Where is it?

[Svejk]

you'd have to wear 2 helmets, tony.

[The Builder]

Couldn't resist this, Tilly. It's not every day that you get bricklaying in Chatterbank :o)

Actually, if the bricks were up on end, you don't need a lintel at all. They just stay there.
It's called a "soldier arch" then. Now you can bore your friends with that piece of trivia ;o)

[tonyav]

Why's that, sweaty.

[Tilly2]

My lintels have bricks standing up, not lying down, so to speak.