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Laying bricks for beginners
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Laying bricks for beginners
funny isnt it, when you have done something so long and are extremely good like this, it is so hard to show somebody in slow motion or even at times explain how and what you do, you just do it lol but this was an excellent video and explained great!
You are spot on with your observation 👏👏👍
Could watch your video's all day as 45 years as a joiner one of the best brickies I've seen well done
I once had a mason tender he use to put marbels in my mud-but bricklayers are hard to find these days-but did me well when i retired from the bricklayers union in america-thanks for the video.
Little tip for you - you really should be using a wall starter on a job like this. I guess every day is a learning day, even for an experienced pro like you. Keep practicing, you’ll get there!
Good to see that actually rolling the mortar is still an important skill, to many people don't bother👍would be good to see a video on your tool kit budd
I like the idea, we'll see if we can do that in the future
Very nice and easy to follow ‘how-to’ video for beginners 👍🏻 I plan to build the mailbox out of bricks myself, so your video will be very handy :-) thanks for sharing your experience!
Excellent! Thanks for the feedback
Thanks Budd------you are good at masonry.
Hi Budd, thanks for the video. Helped me a lot… admittedly I was about 60 or more times slower and more messy but I made the conservatory step fairly well. Thanks again 👍🏽
Well done it’s not as easy as it looks, many thanks for watching our video, 👏👏👍
You are a real one gretings from the Netherlands 💪🏼
It’s a pleasure to watch you work. Thanks for the tips 👍😎
Thanks 👍
Hi budd, I came here looking how to lay down the mortar by moving the trowel side-to-side. You've nailed it for me, many thanks. Your mortar is lovely and fluid, mixing by hand I'm not getting quite that consistency, but then I think the 'building sand' I purchased is more toward sharp sand.
Try and buy a mixer and get some decent building sand, best of luck, thanks for watching the videos 😄👍
Just subscribed. Now that is how you perp a brick. Lovely stuff. 👍
Thats great perping that is. You see so many bricklayers who have never mastered the art of perping up. They chuck down bricks super quick and think they are super trowels, but can't get a full perp!
Well said 👍
What’s perping?
This is a better method of buttering the brick for me as a novice but still not mastered it. Laying the beds pretty easy in comparison. A brilliant video, great help
Keep at it and you will master it 🙏
Budd.. Just to say thanks.. Always struggled with my mix.. Tried your method with the little drop of magic in a bottle and WOW! it came out like soft butter, truly bootifull boy! Made everything so much easier .. So Thank you mte.. Now, “Have you gotta light boy.. ? “
That’s rite boi 👍👍
I can still hear my two old bricklaying colleague's telling me to "Stop fucking about with that mix, and get some bricks laid?" 😊
3 weeks I left after starting the worst job I ever had
Really good video - rolling the muck had to be done if your not using plasticiser or lime with gritty sand (render sand). The advantage is with gritty sand is you wont be repointing gables and chimneys for 100 years - however you still have to fill the perps - seen plenty of popped perps on supermarket builds high up 4 years old......keep up the good work Budd
Really good video from a experienced tradesman. Very friendly and informative.
This is painful.
“Do that, get that there and get that like that, and a bit of that”
Is there a reason you didn't use a tie system to tie the new wall with the existing?
Because he’s a cowboy
Great work, Budd. Ignore the trolls. Loving your vids mate. OLD BOY STYLE!
Good video bud I’m a new sis river. Enjoyed watching
Pleasure to behold!!
Would love to see you guys build an artisanal brick oven. Possibly even a pizza oven. Also, maybe even show us all how to make bricks themselves if you haven't already. 👍. Cheers
a very informative and useful video by a true craftsman. you make it look so easy! I think that getting the mix to the correct consistency is crucial but is something I can't seem to get right. it is either too sloppy that it falls off the trowel and slops down the brick wall face, or too stiff necessitating using a hammer to 'force' the brick level. then sometimes the mortar is setting too quick when laying the brick so I have to take the brick off, scrape the mortar off and do it again, very frustrating. can you share your tips on achieving the perfect mortar consistency please?
David thanks for watching, if you look through our videos we have one on how to mix mortar, remember you have to be very patience, many thanks for watching, hope this helps 👍👍👏
Great video and great information
Please make a video about what size the footings needs to be if the ground needs compaction or gravels know one ever talked about it
Great video.
Nice brickwork
You need to have the cavity at one end of the top of the brick slightly closed, because of the side cavity, and the intermittent bottom cavity too.
Any chance you could do a video showing some repair work, like for example if someone has knocked bricks out of the middle of a wall and you want to replace them. Is it just the same as this? How do you get the last brick in etc, also for repairing holes where a boiler flue has to be bricked back up when changing old boilers or water heaters with the square flues to a newer round flue for example. I have no idea how you would fill the gaps etc.
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I hope that wall is bang on now haha 😄 good effort
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Does anyone knows what kind of mortar I could use for building 5 levels high raised bed with pavers? Someone told me just normal mortar but to make it more dry then I would make for normal bricks that can take mousture in, because pavers don't take any moisture from mortar?
Use the excess to butter the end of the brick you just laid, not throw it into the top of the brick (waste). Also spread the mud, furrow it and go on. No need to play with it by flattening it out.
Lovely brickwork fella but why haven't you tied it to the existing?
Hey there. Loved the video. Can I use it for my upcoming compilation? Of course you will be credited in the description fully.
Yes of course!
@@BuildingwithBudd thank you so much!
Great demo. I am going to give it a go and build a short brick wall about 1m high x 2.5m long. What is the correct gap between the bricks horizontal and vertical. I’m guessing about 10mm. Is that about right?
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Plural of brick is BRICK
The art of bricklaying is not laying bricks, it's laying the bed.
@buildingwithbud When laying bricks against an existing wall (as you did in the video) is there anything I should be doing to connect the new wall to the existing one? Or will the cement between the new brick and existing wall suffice? Thanks!
You'll need to fit a 'wall starter kit' to the existing wall to tie the walls together.
@@illmitchjaxagreed. Exactly what’s missing from this video.
John fury went into bricklaying?
Damn he had a cat poop in his mud. Damn had thought his sandpile was a catbox
Proper Norfolk boy!!
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That’s right boy 😄
Good cavity
Do all the head joints first. Then the bed joints.
Where's your wall starters then ? That extension will be a detached extension in 2 years
Yeah but he’s been paid and disappeared by then 👍🏻
По моему он раньше в Дагестане жил ,навыки кладки и без перчаток с моей Родины!!!😊😊😊
Nice work 👍 did you tie in the old building into the new work ?? If so what did you use a wall starter key ?? Also can you explain the difference between breeze blocks ? Why some people lay Striaght onto a foundation others lay trench block first ?
Of course he didn’t tie it in. It won’t crack off the wall for about 2 years by which time this cowboy will be onto the next mug customer
Perfecto. Please what are the size og the throwl that u were using
Many thanks for watching, I don’t actually know what size trowel I was using on that day , but at some point I will have a look and let you know 👍👍
Two swipes for a full cross joints parallel with the face not 6 movements.
first time iv seen a brick end buttered like that, probably never would of if i didn't watch this
not a brickie im a roofer so not questioning you , very skilled man you are but didnt see you tie it to the white wall ? any reason to that im here to learn only reason im asking. liked and subbed
It is tied in I didn’t get it in the footage, I used owlets on that one, cheers for watching 👍👍
Why is the brickwork not tied into the abutment wall? Why is there no slot cut or blackjack to stop damp transference through the wall?
Because he has no idea what he’s doing.
Lovely old job
Cheers Andy, many thanks for watching 👍👍
I knew that was you mate the second I heard your voice! Hope your doing well. Daryl (spark from Cathedral Street)
All good , are you nice and busy, what are you doing these days , what are the chances of hearing me 😂😂👍
@@BuildingwithBudd I'm doing Solar work at the moment. I was looking at building a small wall on my driveway to step up the drive from the house, searched on here how to lay bricks and there you were!!
Daryl, I could do with talking to you about solar, if you email me your number to our email address I will give you a call in the new year, don’t put any numbers on here 👍
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Mark the gauge on the wall 👍
no profile line?
No furfix?
Pic & Dip, Lay the most brick with the least amount of moves
How is this a beginners video when you start the video when your half done? How do you start the first row? How do you set up line?
I want to know the secret of that mix, even with plasticiser I can't get it like that.
More mix less water Grasshopper 👍
4:40 you take at least 26 movements to lay one brick.
It would be quicker to mark the gauge on the wall and follow it,oh by the way i cant see any wall fixings or starters on the exsisting wall.
Amazing how these ‘experts’ have people drooling over their shoddy work isn’t it?
Out of interest, why no tie-in on the original wall? Asking as they were used on my small extension and the use of made complete sense to me, when it was explained. Otherwise if I could learn this skill, bricklaying, would definitely help with certain projects.
Because it’s expensive and time consuming and he is lazy
why do you lay your bricks with hollow facing up and not down?
That’s just how I was taught to lay them, been doing it that way for forty years👍
Take a long time to lay a brick..no starter ties on wall and no vertical damp..
As long as customer pays before problems happen, all good 👍🏻
STARTED OFF WITH RIDGES ON THE BRICK MORTAR AND ENDED WITH NO RIDGES ON THE BRICK MORTARMORAL OF THE STORY IS, RIDGES ARE OK IF YOU GOT TIME TO HORSE -PLAY
As you roll the mortar for ever I lay 6 bricks
Didn’t show us how to put the line
Good Man🏗️🏨🏨🏨🏨🏨🏨🏨🏨🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫
How have you got 150 cut brick in your wall .
Well spotted. We should have placed the cut against the exsisting... bad hair day
Ok tidy work though. 👍🏼
3/4 is allowed in middle of wall as broken bond.. Very neat finished at the end of the day.
Yes just wondering, your work very tidy mate . 👍🏼🏴
@@topcatcoolio8807 it might be but I would have made my building bigger to get rid of it.no one knows and no one will ever check ha.ha.ive never seen a building inspector check the length of a building.unless it's going to intrude into someone's property.some shit architect who not been taght to draw walls brick size I couldn't be bothered cutting bricks on my domestic extentions I would always try take cut bricks out.but if it's critical the cuts must go up the end against the existing old work not the middle of the wall.
Stringline?
Wall starter? 🤷😂
Where’s the vertical damp budd and the fir fixings to tie those buildings together 🤔you’ll be changing your name to building with woody 🤠🤠yeh ar there’s a snake in my mixer
Putting brick in at the end not double butter and making 23 movements to fill it and then two movements to point it is not efficient at all.
Pushing you mortar on the trowel is not a good move for a bricklayer.
He sounds like hes from naarrrfolk, norwich?
That’s right boi 👍
…and the line appears as if by magic.
Ever heard of starter bars?
No, he has not
Where’s the ties ?
Still in the shop, although the customer probably still got charged for them
What you’ve got to do is roll the muck, then roll the muck .... roll the muck some more, then put a very very small trowel full on the wall, lay a brick and tap it about for 10 mins 🤦🏼♂️
It s for beginners m8 - brick vulture cock ups can be seen on Deano’s channel with quoins 10 mm out of plumb....
Exactly.... it’s for beginners! So why not teach them the right way from the off. Bad habits stick! His method just wouldn’t cut it on a site. I done site work for 10 years... seen too many get the boot for bad habits. His trowel skills need attention.
He’s gotta go slow so people can observe
@@simonlidbetter175 I'm confused, are you saying what's shown in this video is wrong / a bad method?
And I have just finished laying brick 1 .😃.nice work .fast enough and clean ..Good helpful tutorial..
No vertical dpc or wall starters 😂😂
He hasn’t got time to fit wall starters but he’s got time to run a KZhead channel on how to be an expert bricky. Joker
Urgent help, I noticed that one side of the brick is flat and the other side is concave. When laying bricks, the concave side must be up, right?
Tapping bricks for beginners
You know it makes sense, tap tap , Thanks for watching 👍
Otlichno.
Thank you 👏👏
Way to many movements!! Keep it simple an clean, efficient.
3/4 in the middle of the wall, poor
Well spotted I'm an internet troll too
Want to play a game ~ spot the zippers in brickwork on buildings ~ there will be loads
What , no profiles ??? You must be a cowboy , or a proper bricklayer . I think the latter . ☺
Your finished brickwork is nice but you'd never hold a job in a lot of places.
Omg How do you make any money to pay your help and bills? That's way too slow and it takes you to long just to spread mud.
Put marks on the wall don't measure each course.
You never done a trade give builder's a bad name
Why does he give builders a bad name,,everyone have their own methods I've actually seen some of the houses he's built himself and the brickwork is spot on,,,you must be some kind of ninja Jedi builder 😂😂
Or a KZhead watching armchair builder😂
No wall ties cut middle of wall
You have obviously never worked in the real world, giving it all the verbal, sounds like another armchair bricklayer, get real
Ties are in every 3 course and the cut looks better in middle rather than up against your wall start,,,,budd is a decent all round tradesman he's not to good at making tea tho,,,if he give builders a bad name why don't you do a vid and show us how it's done,,,bellend...👍😂
Very slow technic
To much messing around and to much wrist action there
Hi Liam those of us who spent a lifetime working around London for every animal sub contractor there ever was.and worked with hundreds of bricklayers from all over the u.k.and learnt every quick method and trick there was.we can see the difference between those who have played in the premier league and those who are quite decent bricklayers but wouldn't have lasted to long on these high pace high pressure sites. used to sack the slowest bricklayer every day.another one was freely available.doing domestic extentions for unsuspecting members of the public is nothing like a big site where you have to produce high volumes of high standard brickwork every day.every body watches you and susses you out if you don't perform and compete you will soon be gone.but I loved this competitive environment it brought the best out of me I used to thrive.bricklaying can become a compulsive magnificent obsession.like those who play music and get every note right.bricklaying is the same you have to get every aspect of it right.
Alot of messing around like your making a cake
Taking mortar off you hand to fill a joint is bad for your hand and for your wallet and looks like an amateur.
BULSHIT!!!!
Frog up yet again, the wrong way to lay London bricks
He useless I,m not a bricky but that was crap..no wonder builders got a bad name..!!
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