Sentence examples for bed of mortar from inspiring English sources

Blocks are laid in a full bed of mortar.

Yet another possibility, Mr. Sedovic said, is to install quarry tiles -- 6 inch by 9 inch clay-fired tiles -- in a bed of mortar instead of sand.

He placed the buttered brick neatly in place, explaining that one never slid it around because that thinned the bed of mortar too much.

The stones were usually laid with a bed of mortar made of gypsum, sand, and water, which perhaps acted more as a lubricant to push the stone into place than as a bonding agent.

If you see lines of mortar on the back of your tile when you pull it up, then your mortar is too dry or the bed of mortar is too thin.

Set a brick down in this "bed" of mortar, and tap it down with the handle of your trowel, until it is level, parallel to the line of your wall, and the edge is plumb.

Each cricket must be kept in its own clay pot on a bed of sand-and-clay mortar, and diets can include ground shrimp, red beans and goat liver.

The masonry was constructed using multi-perforated concrete units, and the bed joints consisted of two types of mortar, in situ elaborated (type M) and industrialized pre-mixed mortar.

In Roman floors, two to three layers of mortar preceded the setting bed that was to carry a tesserae facing.

Cores were extracted from OCT as described by Ellis and colleages [ 19] and pulverised using a pestle and mortar on a bed of dry ice and subsequently in 1 ml of Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) with a 'Polytron' homogenizer.

How can someone be psychologically healthy when they're going to bed with the sound of mortars ringing in their ears and waking up to the sound of bullets?" There is an almost equal ratio of male to female patients in the hospital.