• edric@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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).

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      1 year ago

      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.