About Lesson
For 1 storey brick wall building in 1:6 cement mortar
a) Earthwork: excavation of soil and refilling is called earthwork. Its unit is m3., and height is around is 2 feet.
b) Brick soling: if the soil of foundation is bad, one layer of dry brick or stone pad is applied is known as sole. Its unit is m2 and third class bricks are used for brick soling. It may be of flat brick soling and upright brick soling.
c) PCC (Plain Cement Concrete): the capacity to compressed l pad ( cement: sand:gravel = 1:4:8 or 1:5:10). Thickness is 20 -45 cm and generally applied thickness is 12 inch or 30 cm. and width of PCC or earthwork is 75cm.