The FEMA advisory offers a number of prescriptive recommendations for designing and building brick veneer walls to withstand hurricanes and other high-wind events: • To avoid the misalignment of brick ...

Brick veneer buildings lack this soft inner brick and the water can flow down the back of the single layer of brick. If the structural wood-frame walls are not covered with a water-proof membrane ...

Q: When we bought our 1942 house nine years ago, it came with a brick retaining wall 35 feet long and 4½-to-5½ feet tall. Holding up the stairs to our front door, it was already leaning to one ...