Method of making a transportable brick panel

A method of making a transportable brick panel, said method comprising the steps of:

• setting out a mold on which a brick panel is to be formed, said mold including a substantially flat bottom surface;
• laying a soft deformable membrane, for preventing contamination by particles of the overall surface areas of rough-surfaced brick faces, over said bottom surface, wherein said membrane restricts particles from passing therethrough and being such as to form a seal around face edges of bricks placed on said membrane to thereby prevent fine cementitious particles in mortar placed between said bricks from contaminating said overall surface areas of said rough-surfaced faces of said bricks and to thereby inhibit movement of bricks placed on said membrane;
• arranging courses of brickwork in said mold on said membrane to have the weights of said bricks supported by said soft deformable membrane so that portions of said brick faces in contact with said membrane exert pressure on said membrane to thereby cause a deformation in deform said membrane due to a sudden release of pressure beyond the edges of said bricks, said deformed membrane rotating around said edges of said bricks in a hinge action so as to stabilize said bricks relative to said mold and to seal the face edges of said bricks with said deformed membrane, individual bricks being substantially evenly spaced apart with spaces between them for receiving liquid mortar in said spaces;
• arranging reinforcing bars to pass through aligned holes in columns of said bricks so as to structurally extend through to the top and bottom courses of said bricks;
• pouring liquid mortar to fill said spaces between said individual bricks and penetrate holes in said bricks;
• allowing said mortar to set thereby forming said brick panel;
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• lifting said brick panel so formed from said mold.