[roKWiz]

CB wrote.......Another answer to that would be laying bricks to the correct number of courses, not X+2. Which today has been reverting to X.


Years ago on the central Coast NSW I had the cut 64 dog leg quoin stones due to a new house build having so many corners and bay windows.
Using recycled Sydney Sandstone blocks, every stone was hand dressed and splayed to this angle ready for a bricklayer to lay as they did the walls using old sandstock bricks.
Problem was this guy (who just happened to be Irish, reminded me of Albert the builder in Fawlty Towers) didn't bother measuring the stone height (12 inches standard in the day) which allows 4 courses of sandstocks to one quoin. He lays a whole front wall with 3 bricks per 12 in, mortar beds varied between 20 - 22mm high. !!!

On returning days later, the owner builder, building inspector and myself were absolutely gobsmacked that some on would be so dumb to just keep laying it this way, thinking it would be OK.