How it works  When a mason lays out the wall he/she establishes bond. There are various types of bond but the two most common are running and stacked.  Our product, along with the industries welded wire reinforcement,  maintains the bond chosen. As noted in our introduction, the wire industry moved to standardize the position of the cross piece members of the wire. Given those changes we are now able to position our spacers to match different bond scenarios to the point of controlling both horizontal and vertical joint thickness and spacing.  

Corner construction Typically skilled masons are the ones constructing corner leads as apposed to less qualified persons such as apprentices. Accuracy is very important. The trade off is that production rate per unit goes down. Mostly due to the mason constantly using a level and or tape measures to verify spacing and dimensions. Our product greatly reduces the need to verify this therefore production rate for this task would then be similar to running a wall.            

Running  a wall This task is usually the easiest for all masons. The complexity comes in when there are obstacles such as penetrations, structural steel members, conduits and piping. Otherwise production rates for straight walls with minimum obstacles is at its greatest. There are other factors that can reduce these rates such as the elements. Take wind speed for example. Long stretches of walls may require a team of masons to spot a block somewhere near the middle of a wall and twig the line at that location. The mason has to use similar techniques as corner construction to position that block. But for the most part the quality of filling in a section of wall comes down to aesthetics.  Do the joints align from course to course and is the wall face plumb with no shadow effects? Our spacer helps ensure this no matter if its a journeyman or apprentice building a corner of filling in.

Intersections/toothing One method of connecting two perpendicular walls together is by creating pockets in every other course in one of the walls to later accept blocks being tied into them. This technique is probably the most time consuming method.  As one could imagine, placing a block exactly above another, two courses down is a task in itself.   Toothing a section of wall is a method of building just a portion of wall with the intent of completing it down the road. There are various reasons for using this method. The point being that;  to tooth a wall takes time. As it does when laying pocket cuts for intersecting walls. Our spacer design speeds both process's up considerably. In fact, because we control the position of each block we can dramatically reduce the production time.   

Verify When we verify that with a level that the block are level and plumb;  the head joints are directly above each other no matter where on the wall one checks;  the block spacing is 16" horizontally and 8" vertically; and is the wire as near center in the mortar bed, we are asking for accuracy far beyond what is normally expected. With very little effort using our spacer will provide for all of the above.