Lowe Concrete & Construction

Masonry blocks are sometimes designed with grooves or other surface features that are used to enhance their ability to interlock, allowing some dry set masonry structures to forgo mortar altogether.

Are you hoping that this will finally be the year that you add a bricked-in grill or cooktop to your outdoor kitchen? When you lack the time or patience to handle this important task on your own, we’re always happy to help.

Until 4,000 B.C., bricks were formed by hand. The next step in the manufacture of bricks began producing uniform shapes and moving from sun baking of the bricks to curing with fire.

Masonry walls are usually reinforced in order to better withstand tension forces and heavy compressive loads. This helps protect against future cracking and failure under heavy compressive loads or during an event like an earthquake.

You probably know sun baked bricks like adobe aren't as strong as kiln fire bricks. Care to guess when kiln firing of building materials like brick first began? If you guessed 4,000 years ago, you're right.