[MassHistPres] Brick nogging

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In later 19th century houses one sometimes finds "back plastering" where there is a layer of lath and plaster inside exterior walls (especially north side).  This practice appears to be designed to create a double air space for insulation purposes.  I'm guessing that it started after cut nails and sawn lath decreased the price of plastering and that it was a logical improvement over brick nogging.

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James Garvin's Building History of Northern New England has a good photograph and brief discussion of brick nogging on p. 53.  When a north wall of my house (c 1725) was opened for a sill repair we discovered nogging of bricks (whole and broken) and clay.  In addition to the reasons already raised (insulation, fire retarding) I have wondered if the practice might have been simply a vestige of English building practice.  It seems more deliberate than simply a means to dispose of construction refuse.

Rebecca Mitchell 200 Portsmouth Ave. 
Stratham, NH 03885 
(603) PRimrose 8-7979





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