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Labor is pretty much directly proportional to number of bricks placed. If you save on bricks, you save on labor. If that was your point, sorry for misreading y
by devilbunny 3y ago
Labor is pretty much directly proportional to number of bricks placed. If you save on bricks, you save on labor.
If that was your point, sorry for misreading you.
In the era in which these were commonly used, bricks were largely made on-site or very nearby. So you saved on labor twice - once to make the bricks, and again to place them.
- pfdietz 3y agoI was thinking of a comment in the John Cook link, where someone was saying these are fiddly to build compared to a conventional brick wall.
- devilbunny 3y agoThey're certainly fiddly to plan out compared to a straight wall (where all you need is a long piece of twine anchored at each end), but I assume that those building them use some kind of forms to help keep the angles correct.