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Just found out a brick wall can hold 7,000 pounds per square foot and I've been underselling my work
I was flipping through an old masonry supply catalog at the shop in Dayton last month and there was a table in the back with load ratings on it. A standard clay brick wall at 8 inches thick can carry about 7,000 pounds per square foot when the mortar mix is right. I had no idea it was that high and I've been underselling what we can hang off these walls to clients for a while now. Anybody here ever had a structural engineer push back on those numbers or do they usually match up to what you see in the field?
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