Pitman's Vol 12 - Copings

Front Cover of Volume 12

Building Educator
Volume 12

by R Greenhalgh (Ed)

Published by Pitman & Sons Ltd
19th March 1927

No ISBN number

The tops of all walls exposed to the weather have to be protected by some form of covering, to prevent the penetration of rainwater, which would otherwise soak down through the wall into the interior of the building

Some of the methods are shown below

Brick-on-Edge with Oversailing Course
Fig. 49a - Volume 12, page 547

Finishing the top of the wall with a course of bricks bedded on edge,
in cement mortar, with
a projecting course of bricks underneath

Brick-on-Edge with Oversailing Course
Fig. 49b - Volume 12, page 547

Two courses of roofing tiles, half-bonded in cement mortar, laid underneath the bricks

The top edges of these tiles are finished with a splayed cement fillet

Saddle-back Copings
Fig. 49c - Volume 12, page 547

Another method is to use a saddle-back coping of cut bricks

Terra-cotta Copings, weathered & throated
Fig. 49d - Volume 12, page 547

Special impervious coping are manufactured for this purpose.

They have sloping or weathered surfaces for the top, and grooves or throats underneath, which form a drip to stop the water from running back