poniedziałek, 19 lipca 2010

Facing tiles

Facing tiles is a building material, which can be found on sale for many companies involved in the manufacture and assembly of building materials. There are many companies that manufacture ceramic products for many decades, many of which are in Polish and neighboring European countries. In the factories of European producers created high-quality tiles and the facade, pavement clinker, clinker brick and clinker. The largest manufacturers of facade tiles and similar materials they release about 100 million pieces of clinker annually. Some of the better factories are Germany. This rustic companies are able to combine development and constant innovation combined with the traditional method of kneading the latest technology. Facing tiles enjoy very much appreciated. Clinker brick exterior and tiles are often used even in places where stone is available, and it is all because of the speed of the economy. Construction of the bricks came to life mainly in the coin of the industrial revolution in countries such as Great Britain or Germany. Rustic building a large extent based on masonry.

poniedziałek, 12 lipca 2010

Brick - History


Do you wondered what is the story of a brick, how much is already in progress? As for the European continent that emerged in the brick twelfth century in north-western Italy, and were introduced to northern Germany. It was then established so-called brick Gothic, a style that flourished in northern Europe, especially in the Baltic Sea regions, which have no natural resources of rocks. Gothic brick buildings which were built almost entirely of brick, located in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia. In the Renaissance and Baroque brick was unpopular, and the wall was often covered with plaster. Only in the middle of the eighteenth century brick regained a certain popularity, as evidenced, for example, Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. Transport of bulk construction materials such as bricks over long distances takes place before the development of networks rarely century canals, railways, roads and trucks. Until then, bricks were produced in the vicinity of their destination. In England in the eighteenth century, transport of the bricks were made by horse and cart at a distance ten miles (sixteen kilometers) along country roads.

poniedziałek, 5 lipca 2010

History of bricks

Brick is a block of ceramic material which is used in building walls. Bricks usually made by the mortar. Bricks as building material are already known in ancient times. The Romans used the brick and the Roman legions, which were supported by a number of furnaces phones, put a brick in many parts of the empire. Early descriptions of the production process and techniques used in the manufacture of bricks can be found in the Song dynasty, a carpenter from Yingzao Fashi in China. Historically, the manufacturing process of bricks look like this. An employee had to make sure that the temperature inside the furnace remained at a level that caused the transformation of clay to shine and the color of molten gold and silver. He also had to know when the boiler is to be extinguished with water until the enamel surface. Other workers have less job: mixing clay and water, trampling thick paste, smoothing the surface of the arch wire, removing them from the frames, printing of stamps, which indicate where the bricks came from and who is the contractor. The idea of signing the employee name and birth date on a brick and place where this has been done, is not new to the Ming Dynasty and had little or even nothing to do with vanity. As early Qin Dynasty (221 BC -206 BC) required from policy-makers and blacksmiths engraving their names on the arms to track the quality of weapons that remained the standard required by the government.