Q–There is very little yard space around the old Princess Anne house I recently purchased. I wanted a bigger yard; so I ran a stockade fence through a concrete driveway, which also serves as a ...

The Gage System is a method of constructing a brick (or block) wall using a device that deposits mortar along edges of bricks and a set of removable alignment guides/inserts to enable increased ...

You seemingly can't throw a rock in 2017 without hitting some new walk of life where robots are being employed. The latest? A bricklaying robot called SAM100 (Semi-Automated Mason) that is capable of ...

A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to ...

(Roxanne McRoberts / Staff) More permanent than a dry-laid brick sidewalk is its mortar-set cousin. The idea: a regular concrete sidewalk is poured, then topped by mortar-setting and grouting bricks ...

If I couldn't be standing at the ocean's edge feeling the sand wash out from under my feet, playing in the sand laying brick pavers wasn't so bad. Well, actually, it was kind of brutal in the heat of ...

In the past they were used to employ those left jobless by the Great Depression. Today, brick pavers are used to enhance landscape settings, garden paths, driveways, and patios in both residential and ...