Bricklaying- Brick repair job 

Thanks for watching mate👍🏽

No problem 👍

Thanks Danny👍🏽🧱

The old trusty dusty👌🏽😂 can never go wrong mate along with knee pads in trousers👍🏽 thanks for watching mate

Cheers Craig👍🏽 thanks for watching🔨

Thanks del! Cheers for watching👍🏽🧱

Yes maybe I suppose mate! Always open to new ideas👍🏽 Thankyou for watching John🧱

Agreed mate very fiddly! Thanks for watching James👌🏽🧱

Best of luck to you, it can be tricky! Thanks for watching mate!👍🏽🧱

Yepp that’s the downside for sure! Always have knee pads in my trousers!!🤞🏽👍🏽

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Yes I assume that was the reason mate👌🏽👍🏽

Yes mate I do get that feeling it could come quite regular lol!

@@ConstructionwithKieren 😂👍

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It’s dpc, damp proof course! Stops the damp rising into the house

I’ll be honest mate, I’m not sure! I thought it was very odd aswell👍🏽🧱

I was doing this same job 30 years ago to houses that were at that time only 25 years old! Monotonous job , take a metre out ,miss a metre , no breaker just hammer and bolster ,absolute ball ache.

They tend to go for the bigger jobs I'm afraid mate, thats where the profit it! Id be happy to help if I lived close to you.

@@ConstructionwithKieren with regard to spalling bricks. I've decided to do the repairs myself. If I have to replace some bricks do they have to be the same brick? My line of thought is that if the new bricks contain different materials they may expand or contract at a slower faster rate than the rest of the wall causing more damage? Am I over thinking?

I thought that but it felt good, no movement atall mate! Cheers Vincent👍🏽

Yes mate abit tricky to say the least👍🏽 got there in the end! Thanks for watching richard👍🏽🧱

You should do so it bonds to the bricks

Thankyou mate!!

It looks abit dodgey but it was working fine mate we checked that!👍🏽

Eh??

@@paullee7508 think about it

@@ronniebiggs4026 if the dpc wasn't there the brick would've rotted further up and the damp would've penetrated through to the inside

@@paullee7508 And yet the bricks are allowed to perish below the dpc ? and how does damp cross the cavity unless it’s blocked . I have been a bricklayer ‘ site manager for over 45 years so I understand the concept however it’s one that needs more thought than ( Damp would somehow jump across the cavity ) My argument is this what does it actually do? Besides trapping in saturated masonry between the ground “ path level “ and the dpc “ The internal dpc is an easier one as it is isolating the floor construction from rising ground moisture! I am not saying that I am right or wrong I just needed some input to test the question.

I agree with Ronnie , rising damp is a total myth in the building trade they build piers submerged in water and the water will not rise , the city of Venice is built literally on water no problem there..

It’s because they are older!

@@ConstructionwithKieren also the same stones?

@@leiboohd2614 nope they are different and reclaimed, the customer has had them in the garden for a while and wanted to use them

@@ConstructionwithKieren Why only the bottom row? Were they brocken?

@@leiboohd2614 it’s where water has splashed up and got behind the faces and blown. They are just normal bricks they should of been engineering bricks👌🏽

Agree try to find a brickie that even knows what expanding motar is

Definatly!!

Boooooo!!😂😂 agreed but had no other choice mines giving up😔 hope your well mate!