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Don't know about in the US, but here in the UK engineering brick mostly died out after WW2. Pre-war lots of commercial buildings and housing were built with en
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Don't know about in the US, but here in the UK engineering brick mostly died out after WW2.
Pre-war lots of commercial buildings and housing were built with engineering brick. Iron hard and usually with a shiny face that's more like china. They were mostly impervious to water - enough to also be used as damp proofing - and chemical ingress. Only really used to restore and for a few industrial applications now.
Regular bricks can be damaged by frost, salt and pollutants surprisingly easily.
- peterclary 8y agoDid a building conservation course a few years back which covered damp proof courses and engineering bricks, showing pictures of how people had had to allow insurance company-approved damp-proof “experts” to drill a cavity into the face of each engineering brick, inject some treatment, and then seal it off. Ugly, expensive, and totally unnecessary.