mortar bed

He sat down on the mortar bed and concentrated.

The church was built on ashlars and thin mortar beds.

Burnside began at once to bring up his artillery, which had the effect of making a perfect mortar bed.

But, he emphasized, they were to watch the mortar bed; they must not risk damaging their ships.

The "cartwheel" had the mortar bed resting on it.

Mortar beds and perpends of a uniform 10mm.

At the time, this was a new alternative to the thick, heavy mortar beds traditionally used by flooring contractors.

Ensure the existing mortar bed is smooth, then apply a dry mix of new mortar.

The stone is then lowered onto the mortar bed, and positioned with sharp taps from a rubber mallet.

Tiles that require a full mortar bed are the handcrafted ones like the Mexican terra cottas.

A loose chimney stone, sluiced from its mortar bed by the rain, might have rolled along the shingles.

Quarry tiles are usually laid in a mortar bed, although you can use thick-bed tile adhesive instead.

Typically, masonry refers to individual units that are placed in a mortar bed, making a distinction with panelized products.

The device used to satisfy this need is the insertion at regular intervals of wall ties into the cavity wall's mortar beds.

As the slurry coat dried it would bond the mortar bed to the concrete surface on which it was installed.

Improvements in thin-set adhesives have made it possible to bind tiles directly to existing surfaces without a mortar bed.

In this technique, alternate courses of brick are mounted behind the line of the wall, and are plunged into a mortar bed.

The process of placing a masonry unit in a mortar bed causes the mortar to be extruded between units.

Block cores are typically tapered so that the top surface of the block (as laid) has a greater surface on which to spread a mortar bed.

Bedding a stone using a lewis: The stone is placed on dunnage laid flat with enough clearance for a mortar bed to be placed beneath it.

Foundations of brick were being laid; everywhere were piles of brick and stacked lumber, and sand heaps and mortar beds.

From time to time Wagstaffe and Kenton were to go down below and inspect the under-deck stanchions and bracing supporting the mortar beds: he wanted no accidents.

Traditionally, tile setters bonded the tile to a sturdy mortar bed that consisted of a 1 1/4inch thick layer of cement troweled over wire lath nailed to the framing.

When experimenting with Throughwall, a thin, even layer of insulative mortar is laid along the foundation, then the logs are seated firmly in the mortar bed, in an even fashion, leaving only enough space between them to "point" the mortar.

Once structural problems are taken care of, or if the cracked tile is the result of an isolated circumstance (the tile may have been weak to begin with, or the mortar bed may have contained a large particle of grit), repairing the broken tile is easy.