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s@piefed.world to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Crinkle crankle wall (also known as a crinkum crankum, sinusoidal, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of structural or garden wall)

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Crinkle crankle wall (also known as a crinkum crankum, sinusoidal, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of structural or garden wall)

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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    It uses fewer bricks

    It’s not about cosmetics, it’s just cheaper

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      While originally designed for efficiency, it can be both.

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      Of note: Only applicable if you compare single brick thickness serpentine wall to a standard wall that uses double thickness (and therefore double the bricks)

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    Ah. I have seen that page before, via the “types of wall” category when I looked up ha-ha.

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    That seems really dangerous next to a road. Any car that wanders off will have a hard collision against those folds instead of glancing off a flat wall.

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      The wall is older than the existence of cars.

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        Yeah have we considered that maybe the cars are the dangerous part of the equation?

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      You are really overestimating the strength of an old single row brick wall, in relation to a car. The trees behind the wall are much more dangerous…

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      fuck that car then.

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