You are getting ready to specify brick for your wonderful new home. You desire brick because it is durable, maintenance-free, good-looking, full of texture and waterproof. Whoa, try again! You got ...

Brick veneer offers a timeless, budget-friendly way to upgrade your home’s exterior or interior without the weight and cost of full brick. From modern cladding to rustic accents, it’s versatile enough ...

Remodeling an outdated fireplace with natural stone once was a hassle. For starters, it meant cutting through floor joists and building a new support system to hold up the additional weight of thick, ...

Masonry construction is one of the oldest methods of creating built structures. However, the brick wall has changed considerably since the first fired clay bricks were laid nearly 8,000 years ago. To ...

Masonry wasn’t my favourite homebuilding material when I got involved in building and renovation back in the mid-1980s. However, 30 years of dealing with reality has changed my mind. Brick veneer, in ...