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What Is Interlocking Bricks? How It’s Useful For Residential Building Construction?
Interlock Bricks /Interlocking Bricks are the enhanced form of conventional clay bricks. Each brick is constructively designed to lock itself to the other bricks around without the use of mortar. The self-locking is achieved using shear-key and lock mechanism. Based on the design, the shape of shear-key will vary and a complimentary lock is provided on the opposite side of the brick. Load transfer is achieved by shear transfer and gravity. Typically, the construction process and masonry can be tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. To overcome the hardships and issues encountered during construction, varied methods of construction are being considered and developed.
Simultaneously, materials and equipment used for construction are also being fabricated to enhance the quality of construction and furthermore minimize the time and cost. Interlocking/interlock bricks are one such advancement in the construction industry. Usually the wire cut bricks or extruded bricks are made using a modern method of manufacturing whereas interlocking bricks are made to reduce the construction cost.
Let us tell you more about interlocking/ interlock bricks which can save construction cost up to 30% to 40%.
For those of you wanting to build a dream home without spending out your entire life’s savings, interlock houses will prove to be a revelation.
The amount of cement and sand used can be kept to a minimum when you opt for an interlock brick house. As the cement and sand usage is less the savings will be about 30% of the total costs.
- How Are Interlocking Bricks Made Interlock Bricks or Interlocking blocks are like 2 adjoining pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Each block has a projection at one end and a depression at the other. The projection of one block fits in to the depression of the next so that they always align perfectly. High quality interlocking bricks are made of cement, sand and Stone dust mixed together in appropriate proportions. The required materials are batched and mixed proportionately. Once the required mix is prepared, it is then compressed to form bricks with desirable interlocking patterns. The compression is achieved by using hydraulic compression system. The bricks are then subjected to curing for about 7 days.
Once the curing is done, the cement sets and bonds with sand adding to the stability of the brick. Whereas the soil compression adds strength and density to the brick. The interlocking bricks come in different designs, finishes and patterns.
Interlock bricks are made by mixing laterite stone powder, cement and gravel. 50 kilograms of cement can help you make around 50 interlocking bricks. The making of these are completely eco-friendly. The bricks are made with a 4000 kilograms of compressive strength and hence there need not be any apprehensions regarding the strength and sturdiness of these bricks.
The Interlocking soil compressed bricks mainly used as environment friendly materials and most modern building technologies. The room temperature is kept cool as they are thermally radiant. In the Kerala market, which is getting in two forms are,
- Soil (MUD) Interlocking Bricks
- Concrete Interlocking Bricks
Benefits Of Interlocking Bricks
While discussing about the advantages in a wide sense, we can pointed like,
- Cost-Effect
- Environmental Friendly
- Durable
- Low Maintenance
- Fast Construction
- High Strength
- Customized Designs
- Reliable
- Customized Dimensions & Designs
No more Plaster Work: Plastering can be time consuming and costly in case of conventional wall construction. Plastering of walls can be completely eliminated by using fair faced bricks of your choice available in the market. If required the walls can be given a smooth finish by applying a thin layer of paint. Since these bricks are self-designed that gives a neat finish, the maintenance cost is minimized.
Provides cooler Interior: High compacted bricks generally result in higher density, which in turn converts itself into the high thermal mass. Henceforth, the walls made of high compacted bricks typically furnish warm interiors. Interlocking bricks are less heat-intensive. The tests have shown that interlocking bricks provides a much cooler interior (3oC – 5oC). This enables lesser or no use of air conditioners resulting in minimized energy consumption and more cost-saving.
Unskilled/Fewer Labour required: In case of Conventional brick laying, skilled labour is required for checking water level, spirit level and various other operations. Therefore a layman or an unskilled labour may find it difficult to learn the conventional methods of construction. Whereas interlocking bricks construction enables an unskilled labour to easily follow up on the construction procedure. It also provides various opportunities for an entrepreneur.
Minimizes COST: Since there is no use of mortar in the construction process, the cost of buying cement, sand, mortar and stone dust can be neglected. Also the cost for transportation can also be immensely reduced along with the cost on skilled labour. It does not require plasterwork, minor bar bending work, lesser cement and fewer labourers hence contributing to the overall cost reduction of the construction project.
Time Efficient: It is proved as the most time efficient way of construction. The normal conventional bricks has to be cured for about 21 days whereas the self-locking bricks require only 7 days of curing. In addition to that, time required for setting and curing of the structure can be diminished completely. By eliminating all the time consuming tasks, the project can be completed faster.
Disadvantages Of Inter-Locking Masonry
There are a few disadvantages as well to this method of construction. Since there is no plasterwork provided, rain water might into the lines making it a hostage for insects and other undesired things. Due to the action of weather, disintegration of the bricks might also occur (especially in the corners). The colour of the brick changes if the rain water enters through the gaps.
As the interlocking bricks alone are not enough to hold all the forces acting on the structure, it is not advised for building having more than two storeys.
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