Our house design has courses of bricks that won't be just regular stretcher bond. At about head height for example we have two courses that protrude 25mm to form a band around the house.

We'll be using professional bricklayers to build the house but I'm interested to know how these are usually constructed. eg...

Do normally you use solid bricks for these with no frog? or regular bricks with Frog up/down perhaps?

What happens at the corners? I mean the length of these courses is 50mm longer than the ones below - so are there special long bricks for the corners or ??

Anything we should look out for? eg to help us work out if the bricklayers gets scotch or just beer for Christmas!