Useful tips for Installing Interlocking Bricks
- toughie
- 6 Feb, 2023
Interlocking wall bricks can an aesthetic choice for walls in your house. They are durable as well as attractive apart from being cost-effective. The only design constraint is that the building plan should be rectangular and all wall dimensions and openings must be multiple of the width of the block type used.
Some useful tips for installing interlocking bricks:
The first course is to lay a bed of normal bricks on the foundation. Interlocking bricks must be laid dry around the entire building line on this bed of normal bricks. This is done to ensure that they fit exactly next to each other without any gaps and also that an exact number of full blocks are used. Or else, the interlocking system will not function. Care should be taken to align the blocks perfectly horizontally in a straight line, or at right angles at corners when laying the first course in the mortar bed. After the base course has hardened properly, the blocks are stacked dry, using a wooden or rubber hammer to knock the blocks gently into place. Up to 10 layers can be placed at a time.
Concrete Interlocking Bricks installation steps:
- A normal heavy basement must be laid down first.
- Place one layer of normal baked bricks on top of the basement in a mortar bed. The width should exactly match the thickness of the proposed interlocking brick wall
- Place interlocking bricks neatly over the bricklayer carefully.
- To ensure that rainwater does not flow through the walls, the edges of the roof should project out a little more than the wall.
- The corners of the wall should be plastered completely using cement so that sufficient pressure is there from the sides of the building for the bricks to bond together from all four boundaries.
- Fill the gaps with like-coloured cement and there is no need to paint external walls if built with interlocking blocks.
- Before plastering the internal walls, the surface should be made rough.
Interlocking blocks are good for load-bearing wall construction, even for two or more storey buildings. Contact us at toughie.in to know more about interlocking bricks in Ernakulam.
