The first course of bricks laid on a shelf angle or lintel angle in a brick veneer wall are not laid on a bed of mortar. Why? Are the head joints mortared in the first course?

What will be an ideal response?


Not using the mortar in first bed joint of veneer allows the bricks and the steel angle below to move independently of each other. The head joints in the first brick course are mortared.

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