Practice Makes Perfect
Brick, brick, brick, brick, brick, brick, brick, brick… The north wall was the easiest of them all. Perhaps it was the experience from laying the south wall. Perhaps it was because I didn’t go off level, like with the east wall, and didn’t have to account for it in each course, little by little until the course was level from one end to the next. Perhaps it was just plain luck. Either way, the north wall was much easier to lay than the south and east wall.
That being said, there are still many imperfections in the wall – particularly if you plumb the corners. But, it will hold and at a glance, it looks as good as any brick wall any of us pass on any given day.
Trying to achieve a transition between the brick and the next material, a soldier course seemed like a good aesthetic choice. However, because the metal siding above would be running vertically, running a top row of vertically oriented bricks didn’t seem like a good transition after all. Thus, after evaluating a “dry” soldier course I vetoed the change in brick bond.
SHED 
