What are the different types of bricks?
Bricks are rectangular shaped blocks of hard material, usually clay, that are laid in rows and columns to build structures. There are different varieties of bricks depending on their role in the construction process. Firstly there are three ways that bricks can be shaped: Solid These are bricks that are flat on all sides, a perfect rectangle. Frogged These have an indented, smaller rectangle on the top. Frogged bricks should always be laid with the frog at the top so that the load is spread equally across the width of the brick, not just across the edges. Perforated A perforated brick has holes through from top to bottom. The photographs below show the 3 different types explained.
