Talk:Bond (masonry)

What is scottish bond? It is identical to American bond. I changed the name in the light house picture to American bond since I have never heard of Scottish Bond. Is this an alternate name for the more commonly used American? Or is is specific to curved versions of American bond? If so this should be discussed in the article. David D. (Talk) 17:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The difference if I recall correctly is the number of courses of stretchers between headers. Otherwise identical. Mr Weeble  Talk Brit tv 18:40, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Any idea how many? The picture has five and I had thought that was American bond. Do you have any idea if Scottish bond has more or less stretchers than five? David D. (Talk) 20:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A quick google suggests that scottish bond has exactly 5 courses of stretchers whereas american bond is where the number of stretcher courses can be anything


 * This means that scottish bond is a specific form of american bond, so the image would in fact be correctly labeled with either. Personally, I would go with scottish as it is more specific. Mr Weeble  Talk Brit tv 22:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

=Stretcher Bond vs Running Bond= I have changed the name of this bond back to stretcher and given running bond (have not heard of that one) as an alternate name, plus the more formal definition 'monotonous stretcher bond'. The protocol, as I understand it, is to leave regional names for things in place as described by the original author and to list other regional variations as 'also known as', rather than just replacing it with what you think is right. SilentC 03:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)