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[tommyardin]

[quote author=tommyardin link=topic=23732.msg288575#msg288575 date=1544209370]
Yeah Metric gauge is tighter than Imperial by 1.2mm per course of bricks, that is why building an extension on a imperial gauged house with metric bricks when they were the standard was a bastard as you either, lost gauge again the main house or you ended up with large bed joint to keep up. Seeing as you new brickwork bonded/tied into the original you ended up with large bed joints , of course on a complete new build it was not a problem.

On an old building with new brick extension and if you are not bonding/tieing in which forces you to keep up. Which looks uglier - deeper beds to try and keep up or mismatched brick to brick. 
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First pic below is of toothed out brickwork, it could be the main wall of a house you are building an extension on, so as you can see to tie the new brickwork into old you have no choice with metric bricks but to put a larger bed joint on each course to keep in step with the original
The other option which I think looks terrible is to use a stainless steel tie in system, one of the most popular is the crocodile system (see picture 2).
With the Crocodile system you either use bigger joint to keep with the original gauge or you lay the bricks to the metric gauge with normal sized joints, but you can see what happens in my roughed out 3 pic.  :'( [size=78%]  [/size]