Dictionary of Moisture Protection & Restoration

Brick = Rectangular masonry unit, with or without cores (holes) made by firing shaped clay in a kiln at an elevated temperature to harden it, so as to give it mechanical strength and to provide it with resistance to moisture. After coming out of the kiln, the brick is said to be burnt, hard-burnt, kiln-burnt, fired, or hard- fired.

Various types of bricks are available: acid- resistant, adobe, angle, arch, building, clinker, common, dry press, economy, engineered, facing, fire, floor, gaged, jumbo, modular, Norman, paving, Roman, salmon, SCR, sewer, soft-mud, and stiff-mud.

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