BRICKLAYING MADE EASY 1 HOW TO LAY 240 BRICKS IN 1 HOUR!

This is what KZhead is meant to be about, not click bait and paid ads, proper old school tricks, shot by honest men, keep up the good work guys great honour to see the tips past down

Best dressed Bricklayer in town.

Decades ago I was a trained bricklayer in the US, but found an easier way to make money by selling products. The way I was trained, is the way they do it in the UK, where you have a big trowel and spread the mud in long swaths. I was taught to spread the mud the perfect height so that there was no tapping, only pressing slightly, then the excess that was squeezed out was used to butter the head joint on the brick you just laid. I could see where the German method would be better, because with the small trowel you are not lifting as much weight and getting your arm worn out. Putting the mud in the bucket to keep it from drying out is another good idea. It also saves time of having to put water on the mud board and constantly re hydrating the dried out mortar.

you legend you make that clobber look good ..this is pure class laying brick while the rs turbo sits outside waiting to take you home ⚒

The old masters are the real genius

When I was in my early 20's I worked in Bremen Germany with 3 other lads all from the uk. We were building houses. One Saturday 3 Dutch guys turned up they took the outside wall of one elevation whilst we were on the adjacent elevation. They used this method and they creamed us. They were finished an hour before us. Since then I've been using this method. Too much time waisted spreading muck the whole length. I've proved the point over and over to other lads, yet they still insist on spreading the whole length lol.

I love your method👌👍Your vid from From working in Germany is still my fave bricklaying vid of all time ! 😀👍

Wow not a bricklayer but been watching others like stu compton etc but your method makes sense and easy to grasp for most diy people like myself. Very impressive but I was more impressed that there was not even a single splatter on your white suite 😉😂

Enjoyed it. Funny because when I was an apprentice the brickie I worked with had worked Germany and this is how he used to lay bricks. Top video mate cheers

Excellent, best bricklaying video on youtube by a long way

Glenn you and me would have got on well I'm 65, you are spot on when you say about using a smaller trowel, you have much more control and it took me a while to realize this. I was working with a chap on the line for the first time and I remember thinking that's a small trowel you've got there, well I've never seen a bloke lay bricks as fast and neat he was using your method. The other blokes said don't be embarrassed he does it to all of us. Anyway I really enjoyed the video and the humour keep it up....

Best video I've seen , looking forward to the block work video. Good to hear old school bricklayers it's how I remember them when I worked as a hod carrier in Bournemouth in the 1980s.

thanks glenn, your right about the method can't understand long spreading seems a lot of walking, I started spreading for two bricks and one on blocks.

That's a nice height to work at-about 9-12 courses.Dip and pick is a good system too.I can see it's a cavity wall,so it's a course that doesn't need ties incorporated into the b/w.Nice video.I'm 64 and still laying 'em.

I love watching oldschool workers like you , nice job

I love how he Says “a couple of hundred bricks a day is good” & then he lays 40 in 15 minutes 😂😂😂

Walling in a white suit. Clean as a whistle... Ya can't buy class mate 😎👍🏻

16 an half years on site an ive never seen this method. So i tried it the other day (with spots and no hop ups), found it was quicker, cleaner and easier on my body aswell. Thanks for the tip mate. I owe u 1

Well done sir! And not a drop of muck on his suit. Love it!

Keith Richards in a suit laying bricks ROFL! Nice work good to see your still on the trowel :)

Hi Glen. I'm a Irish bricklayer built plenty of railway bridges for British rail. Great demonstration

Fantastic video ,iv always maintained a little bit of cop on and a eagerness to learn ,and you can do anything,the saying your always learning ,how very true ,great video ,great to be able to pass on knowledge like that .

Above all good quality brickwork is most important I've been laying for over 30 years so maybe I'm out of place commenting, I'm sure this post is very helpful for the people who want to learn. Thank you & show more it's done different over here & it is very interesting .

M8 that’s a great mop of hair - seriously I watched & helped my dad lay bricks on 9in work he use to do it this way 40 years ago I did not know different then but when you work on your own a lot this works - great vid.

Really a contrasting job. The best I saw .

Nice work. Never seen this style before. Thanks.

Well done.plenty of great tips. Funny banter aswell

Suprisingly epic video with amazing info. The people picking on the fact he’s laying them upside down completely miss the genius of the laying technique, hop ups and buckets. Thanks boys funny and informative great video

Glen fancy a couple of weeks in Northern Ireland that was the best thing l have seen for a good while I,m 64 and buddy you give us all hope. Keep taking the bottled beer you know it makes sense all the best

Could watch this all day. Proper tradesman. Great work.

I do all my paint and plaster work dressed in black. Lovely show sir.

to be fair this technique looks so much easier on running in im going to have to give it a try , i was wandering though how you use this style wen working low? say the first 3 to 4 courses , would it be the same, just buckets and bricks on the floor?

Now that's clean work

Happy Retirement! Thank you for the video. Judging by the comments from experienced bricklayers, this is the video to learn from! ;) KUDOS

I thought it was Brian budonde from phone jacker

Imagine how much faster it would be if you eliminated a lot of those steps you are making by having more planks to put your bricks on. Great work and a much better way to lay bricks, thankyou.

Awesome. Video. Thanks. What size trowel and make is it you use you and your mate? Thanks

A couple of good tips there Glen about a tub to keep the gobbo in, and only putting enough on the wall for one brick each time. Good stuff.

The Tommy Cooper of Bricklaying , joking aside brilliant Video and an honest guy , not like the knobs who brag about laying a thousand a day

Well done Glenn good video.!!

It’s the Keith floyd of bricklaying , you only need a big glass of red and your there 😉

The having materials all up higher part has really opened my eyes! Although I will say you really *shouldn't* be tapping the bricks down anyway until you start getting around about chest height. The bed should be laid so that you can gently push the brick home with your finger tips, as you're doing here. If you're doing a load of taps on every brick at every height you are kinda doing it wrong.

great work, made to look so simple! fair play mate

This guy is class 🤟🏻

Pros always make it look easier than it is…but thx for this video! Question…. What is best practice for brick against wall? Just bought a house and my brick steps and patio are pulled away from wall of house. Should fasteners have been used or some type of adhesive or both? Be well!

What size is that trowel you use. What size would you say is best?

Legend thanks pal

My favorite bricklayer on KZhead!

This is how we do it in Finland. I was always curious about those mortar boards Anglo-Brickies love to use. What pros are there for using those as opposed to using big ol' bins?

Glenn Brilliant..KZhead has come to us all standard brickie that has earnt his monie. Time and advance is standard ..shame to some comments these are the guys that are chasing the £ If They had brains its not a race yet are making there life harder by being competitive? Race Shows your young keen no hrs served. Hit it up in 30yrs. See where you are backache had enough. Its not a sprint but doing yourselves injustice. Put your kid on the line no monie because you all want to look what the next is doing. The games gone if you want to compete. Grow up do your hrs. 😊

Glenn ,A much older bricklayer than you not my way but i like it Thank You.

Wow you like laying bricks in tux well we have lot in common I'll do yard digging dirt with my hair now done and my new skinny jeans😍😁💅

Awesome video! Very interesting method.

Join us next week for more fun on “How to lay bricks with Boris” 💪🏻

Love it great to see. It's guys like you who built Britain 👌

Great vid glen

I once new a bricklayer bold jimmy to his mates.They say he was a matelow trowl and allways worked for high stakes. He bent his back while laying some say while praying to the Goddess of the trowl sweeet lilly lake. No finner tradie held the trowl and his heart knew no persuasion. And He put them down with out a frown did bold Jimmy to his mates

good effort sir from a fellow bricklayer. I might well give that a whirl next week. liked and subscribed

Hannibal lecker had a suit like that Anthony Hopkins great idea lovely work.

Looking smart there glen! Great video, must do a video of me doing electrical work sometime lol Hope ur doing fine mate 👍 P Brett 👍

Well very good !!!

Good stuff.

Not the way I do it but it works for him. Fair play geeza.

OK!!!!!!!!!Beatiful work!!!

Old timer thanks for the knowledge I agree with the keeping your mud in a bucket but stop walking so far away from mud keep it near you lol thanks for your years of brick work

Wet the boards up good and don’t put loads of mortar on them and they do good. The problem comes when you don’t use the mortar fast enough and the new mortar gets put on top of the old.Did you go to work in that suit?

The only person who puts the frog down the proper direction

Hastings finest laying them in style...

Nice one Glenn. The economy of effort is so obvious in this method (as you saw in Germany).1/2 the number of trips to the wall, mortar can squeeze out on 3 sides of the bed etc. so no tapping required. If the long bed merchants want their bodies f#@k3d up in no time due to excessive motion it's their call, Muppets😩 You Sir, just won KZhead bricklaying, end of.👍

ihad some clothes like that when i went on a cruise lol but i can tell your acompetent tradesman

Every brick upside down 😂😂

That was highly entertaining bricklayer myself 👍

Makes me want to watch Back to the future

this guy would make a good teacher .. and pass his skill set on

Retired bar the odd casher here and there 😉

And this is better than Top Gear!

Glenn great video mate, do you work out of the bins when laying blocks mate?👍

Love the frog down method

Nice suit.

Excellent tutorial.

Glenn where R you these days, hope your well Malcs formally of Brighton Sussex now in Perth WA since 2001

Made it look easy with minimal effort, happy retirement mate 👍

Love your work, thanks for the advice, I will take it on board. In our country down under on sites they do not drink alcohol while working. It's against the law, customers have noticed a few crooked walls. It would not be a good time to get tipsy. What if brick layers are on high rise buildings? Could this be a risk? I don't drink- I dare say that's a good thing. Therefore I rest my case.

Отлично, мужик!

It's a beautiful suit～～

How doe's it work if you lay them the right way up?

This Guy is brilliant proper old skool would love to have been on the trowel with him in the day

Just saying you want those big green plastic spot boards, the pug doesn’t go dry and stays moist whilst water doesn’t drip off the sides. Top video mate

If you can't find an Ark to raid, get Harrison Ford to come along and build you one, he'll even build it upside down, if you ask him nicely. Big hand for the cameraman.

How do you get full muck joints please

50 years practicing to get one take. Bless

two thumbs down!!! prob chris Longhurst and stu Crompton ;)

To all those that don't know laying frog down is a acceptable way to lay a brick on non load bearing walls and in fact increases the u value on house walls because it traps air and when i did my time it was aways called pug

What an absolute fucking legend

The reason he doesn't need to tap the bricks is because he's laying them frog down, this actually is not good practice because you can't ensure the frog is full of pug. However, I am not going to argue with a great character like that, each to his own and he's obviously a great bricklayer.

I was a top level bricklayer qualified in 1976 after an almost 4 year apprenticeship and could lay an average of 650 bricks a day laying bricks the conventional way. building a standard building with no internal corners. doing my own very neat pointing {much neater than you see here.} that's 93 bricks an hour over 7 hours of work. 23 bricks in 15 mins including building corners. Glen has some good points in what he says, but having bricks up that high and working out of a bucket has some advantages and some disadvantages. at the end of the day I think I would of laid as many if not more bricks than Glen did. I did have my spots on two concrete blocks to save on the bending down, but sorry no way is laying mortar for one brick quicker than laying for a few at a time.

Geezer looks like he’s had a night on the tiles

You'd have a problem working with a left handed bricky as we tend to work forwards - no bum fights in the middle. And those bricks are designed to be laid frog up. But I'm with you on the Dutch method. Best used with a rounded Dutch trowel.

Loved watching an old master. Just one question, weren't the bricks upside down?

Reminds me of my old man. He hated the work, hard starve trowels and said there was woodpeckers on the job if he heard continual tapping.😅😅