What’s more interesting is how the hollow blocks are lined up. Shouldn’t they be placed in such a way that a block sits in the middle of the two blocks below it? I think it’s what the post is originally pointing at, not the necessarily the one layer thick wall (with the steal beams of course).
Yup, like I said, shoddy mason work. Not made by professionals. Perhaps not secure in an earthquake or anything. But, it’s a covering, that’s why they can get away with such incompetence. It still won’t fall easily. I know people who live in worse self-made homes constructed 30 years ago, and those houses are still standing.
EDIT: and forgot to mention that straight laying is a legitimate bricklaying pattern, it’s usually for decorative reasons, so that’s not what they were going for here. Apparently in English it’s called stack bond.
What’s more interesting is how the hollow blocks are lined up. Shouldn’t they be placed in such a way that a block sits in the middle of the two blocks below it? I think it’s what the post is originally pointing at, not the necessarily the one layer thick wall (with the steal beams of course).
Yup, like I said, shoddy mason work. Not made by professionals. Perhaps not secure in an earthquake or anything. But, it’s a covering, that’s why they can get away with such incompetence. It still won’t fall easily. I know people who live in worse self-made homes constructed 30 years ago, and those houses are still standing.
EDIT: and forgot to mention that straight laying is a legitimate bricklaying pattern, it’s usually for decorative reasons, so that’s not what they were going for here. Apparently in English it’s called stack bond.
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