Carpentry & Masonry Trade Knowledge — Practice
Masonry: bonds: practice questions
Our Carpentry & Masonry bank has 6 questions on this topic. Here are 4 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.
Question 1 · Masonry
What is Flemish bond?
- A header course every sixth course
- Headers and stretchers alternating within each course
- Alternating full courses of headers and full courses of stretchers
- All units on end
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B. Headers and stretchers alternating within each course — Common in historic walls.
Question 2 · Masonry
What is common (American) bond?
- Alternating headers and stretchers in each course
- Running bond with a header course every fifth to seventh course
- All units stacked
- Headers and stretchers alternating within every single course
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B. Running bond with a header course every fifth to seventh course — The header course ties wythes together.
Question 3 · Masonry
What is English bond?
- Alternating courses of all headers and all stretchers
- Headers and stretchers in the same course
- Headers and stretchers alternating within the same course
- Running bond only
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A. Alternating courses of all headers and all stretchers — Very strong traditional bond.
Question 4 · Masonry
What is a wythe?
- A horizontal row of units laid in one level layer of mortar
- A single vertical layer of masonry one unit thick
- A mortar joint
- A course of headers
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B. A single vertical layer of masonry one unit thick — Multi-wythe walls are tied together.