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Quizzical Pursuit
The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #409
Question
Could you use a bluestone as bondstone in a brownstone wall?
Answer
You could, but you probably wouldn’t want to. Brownstone is sandstone often used in walls. A bondstone is a stone used to anchor or bond a stone veneer to its backing material. Bluestone is dense, hard feldspatic sandstone that readily splits along its bedding planes to form thin slabs. It is most typically used for flagging (flagstone floor finish).
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2009, Dave Guadagni.
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