Q. We recently purchased an older home with brick on the front that’s been painted white. The siding is white also, so it looks somewhat boring. I would like to “age” or “distress” the brick, but I ...

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 ...

As a result, the cumulative expansion of all of the brick masonry over the entire four-story building led to substantial differential movement, particularly at the top floor, where the brick had ...