{"id":4865,"date":"2021-04-25T17:13:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daily.construction\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2021-04-25T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:13:16","slug":"26-ways-to-prevent-cracks-in-brickwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/26-ways-to-prevent-cracks-in-brickwork\/","title":{"rendered":"26 ways to prevent cracks in brickwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tChanges in temperature or moisture can wreak havoc on building materials, and brick is no exception. Elastic deformation due to loads, creep, or changes in volume can cause movement, which can crack your project&#8217;s lovely brickwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThere are two basic ways to avoid cracks in brick work: 1) minimize the movement, or 2) accommodate movement between materials and assemblies, through a system of movement joints that allow for some give in your brickwork.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sharethis-buttons\">\n<div class=\"sharethis-wrapper\"><span class=\"st_facebook&amp;amp;amp;quot;_large\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"st_twitter&amp;amp;amp;quot;_large\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"st_linkedin&amp;amp;amp;quot;_large\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"st_pinterest&amp;amp;amp;quot;_large\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"st_plusone&amp;quot;_large\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"st_fblike&amp;quot;_large\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in temperature or moisture can wreak havoc on building materials, and brick is no exception. Elastic deformation due to &#8230; <a title=\"26 ways to prevent cracks in brickwork\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/26-ways-to-prevent-cracks-in-brickwork\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 26 ways to prevent cracks in brickwork\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bdc-network","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}