Pick and dip may be quicker but traditional is much better to watch Stu. Love your relationship with your apprentice, excellent mentoring. Keep up the good work... top man.. even if your not from Yorkshire lol
Hi Stu, how are you finding the 10" marshalltown, I got the ox 10" but I find it slightly heavier and not as flexible as the Marshalltown. Just come out of hospital mate so once I'm fit again a new 10" MT is on my list, better for me joints too.
Hi Stu I’m a block layer down here in Cornwall what do you use in your mortar To make it buttery as the sand down here is hungry it’s basically china clay waste
That's a good question about the perps isn't it. I've always looked at it this way, assuming that the wall's length is equal to a full number of bricks and there are no cut bricks in it, and assuming also that the profiles are absolutely upright, the perps would have to basicially be upright by default. So the only time one would need to be a bit careful about that is when there is a window to brick around and to make sure the cut bricks are the same length all the way up having got the window completely upright in both directions. Obviously you do all that automatically really.
Brick laying is a shit job let's be honest most of all on sites. Great money to be earnt but it's a boring monotonous job. Some days I even do the labouring because it's a change of the boring one on top on two. By 60 (if you make it) your body especially back will be fucked. So, if you can do something else for similar money then do it. If not then get out at 35 into site management.
