{"id":5746,"date":"2024-10-18T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:13:39","slug":"qualities-of-good-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/qualities-of-good-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0QUALITIES OF GOOD BRICKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The qualities of good bricks are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Bricks should have perfect edges, must be adequately burnt, should be uniform red or copper in colour and should be free from cracks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Bricks should have rectangular plane surfaces with parallel sides and sharp right-angled edges. The size of a standard brick is 190 mm \u00d7 90 mm \u00d7 90 mm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. It should be hard enough such that no impression is left when scratched with one\u2019s finger nails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Bricks when struck with each other should produce a ringing sound.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Bricks should not break when dropped flat from a height of 1 m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Bricks should be homogeneous and compact throughout, and the brick should not have any voids or grit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Bricks should have a percentage of absorption of water by weight less than 20%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Bricks should not show deposits of salts when immersed in water and dried.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Bricks should have less thermal conductivity and must be sound proof.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Brick should have a minimum crushing strength of 3.5 N\/mm2<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The qualities of good bricks are as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5bricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/brick.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5747,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/5747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}