Bricklaying Guide -How To do a Cavity Tray Over Lintel 

Great to see the fall arrest system within the building on this video, excellent succinct and clear. Brilliant content.

Gold dust the detail in these vids. Thanks for your efforts, Stu

Top video stu, Top marks for doing a voice over after ya work even when ya appeared to be doing a running commentary on the day. impossible to do a full bang on commentary for a tutorial vid and have full focus on ya work with spot on results like ya do. Thumbs up, effort is seen and noticed for sure on this channel.

Fantastic tutor, a real gentleman. Every video is a gem.

Spot on Stu. Looks very intricate and the finish is stunning. 👍🏾

Great video. Clear and concise explanation. Great to watch like all of your other videos.

Really good quality, instructional video, Stu - thanks for sharing 👍

Intricate Work there, lad. Very inspiring and a good visual practical aid in learning. Masonry is really an art and you all are quite underrated. Thank you for sharing this

Thanks for the videos Stu, my grandfather was a mason and I inspire to turn out like him one day

Good video Stu interesting to see how they fit in, like those stone heads, look great.

Great learning vid Stu Appreciate it keep up the good work 👍

Nice and simple explanation keep it up. Top man 👍

Thank you so much for the video Stu!

superb vid stu, great explanation :)

Great videos Stu keep em coming 👍🏻

True professional! 👍

Good work Stu, as always 😀😀

Much more educational stu, cheers

This is exactly what I need to know what to do, thank you

Great video stu !

Nice neat job as always. Nothing much changed since I last laid a brick 10 years ago 👍👍👍

Great explanation, thanks.

You're hilarious 😂 loved this video narration. I never knew what and wind pole was either. LOL.

GOOD TEACHER. Liked the stone lintels. Probably would have put a line of silicone under the rubber liner.

Well done 👍Stu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Хорошая работа!! Успехов в работе!

Great guide

Great video , will be a big help 👍

Love the videos

Nice video stu

Top job stu

The mud is very satisfying. 😊😍

Good stuff stu

Great video mate!

Love the videos m8

Why do l like watching other brickies lay brick l do it every day . must b just in our blood lol. lrish brickie forever 👊

Most put the weep holes the other way around, good to see them this way.

Great vid Stu. I thought the weep holes went the other way round. Maybe I have been doing wrong.

great stuff

Nice vid. Cheers. Wind poles max 450mm spacing - every 2 bricks.

Zip thing is good too!!

You are a neat mason.

Hi Stu i think ur the best technical brickie on utube. I have a question only with ur experience can answer…I have my neighbours ground level 350mm above mine. The weep holes will need to go 150mm above my neighbours ground level on the external wall..but as my ground level is 350mm below neighbours ground level how would I position my cavity tray, weak mix between the cavity and insulation…?

Is it possible to retro fit the membrane? If so how would it be secured to the inner wall.

Hello. Love the video. Can I ask.. If I want to put a lintel on a single brick wall (Garage) do I still need some sort of DPC & weep holes? Thanks.

Goat here.

Like it stu 👍 I hate it when we are made to put steel under the stone was a lot better a few year ago looked a lot better

Nice vid, thanks Stu. What gloves are you using?

Thankyou great. Barb

Good bricklayer. , & next. Not like all the brick tapper’s . I see & hear .Although can’t understand the wearing of Gloves ! Unless it’s extra cold . Been an apprenticed bricklayer since 1976. Great trade. All the best.

Those Stone lintels look so good, what kind of stone is it?

Could you do a video one day on fitting cavity trays on an existing building,for above an extension say 👍🏻

Just stared my apprenticeship really needed this

how would you work the CAVITY TRAY ,DPC if the outside skin was block and you were using a concrete lintel,,cheers

Make it look easy

1923 brick and block 2 story home had all lintels warp and bow below soldiers (course above windows) creating a gap between lintels and soldier course. Would any blockage in cavity wall contribute to this? Lintels were changed out 25 years ago. One 1st floor window has water damage at ceiling. Wondering what caused this? Cavity wells were never installed 1923 and I'm pretty sure the 2nd time as well.

what is the black cavity tray material called? could send its specs

Just wondering where the insulation sits? Woukd it sit ontop of the cavity tray?

Does the same apply to concrete lintels?

Do they not require fire socks were the jack wall is ?

Could anyone tell me if the DPC above the Cavity tray Lintel is a buildings reg requirement in the UK? Thanks in advance.

Hi stu I have been watching your videos for couple of weeks now and just wanting some advice I did three years in college bricklaying and haven't done it in years what would be the best way to get myself back into it thanks Paul

Why use the dpc only over the lintel what happens in the cavity around the rest of the wall?

Does this have to be done on all lintels????

I noticed gaz speedy bedded his side of the lintel before u stu! But it’s not always better to be faster! That’s what my wife says anyway

“Or else your house will have to be knocked down and rebuilt “ 😂😂😂

I like this video very informative Would be great if one day you could show the Correct way to cut the the tray at the bottom of a building on the corners where two separate trays meet and the laps get stuck together with the blue double side tape i struggle in these areas as I think many others do as they are quite complex Thanks Josh

The weep holes only need to go around windows or not?

Stu have you any more videos with gaz speedy they where great videos... Good next week mate👍👍👍

How do you make the mortar squidge out like that when you place a brick without it being really wet is it the plastisier ? Makes it easier to get the brick level and my mortar kept drying out dead quick

Isnt it easier and quicker to use Preformed tray from Cavity Trays of Yeovil?

Just a picky comment or query now: can you avoid resting the stone head on a half-brick at each side of the window opening - the vertical joint of the half-brick and the next brick lines up with the vertical joint of the head and the adjoining brickwork so you get two vertical joints connected together. If the window height allows it, could you lay out the bricks so the head rests on a full brick at each side and the vertical joints are always staggered?

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It does matter extending the tray too far beyond the lintel for other trades needing to put vents in for extractors or flues. 150mm bearing and 1st joint after for the tray

I'm retired and quite right too but I noticed a bloke building a house down the road from me and he didn't put trays under the windows something I've always done infact it was insisted on by the building inspector .infact he told me lots of things have changed I said yes we had to build walls plumb and level . So can anyone shine a light on when this changed ?

Would cutting the DPC on the lintel with the utility knife like that not cause a scratch in the galvanised coating on the lintel leading to early corrosion of the lintel? Should you not be placing a plank or similar on the lintel to protect it while cutting?

Can you do one for dpc in corners and stepped cavity tray on a roof abutment

seems all our weep holes if they ever existed were rendered over during the build and I'm pretty sure we have water in the cavity

So the lintel and soldier's are just cosmetic, the catnic does the real work, good to know. I've got a Victorian house and over my windows are soldiers with a very shallow curve, it's 9" solid wall, do you think there's a concrete lintel behind them or do you think they are structural?

Good to see how that's all done. Moral of the story is, if you fall out with your neighbour, glue their weep holes for slow revenge. 😂

Stu in the video I can see the dividing wall and the concrete blocks connect with the thermalite block in the corner they haven’t been formed as a true corner just butted up together. Is this normal? Is there not a structural concern? Cheers

I would do a water test after The brick has harden and this will clean the cavity tray out before you enclose the cavity. 🤠

What do you do when cavity tray over a lintel is inside and the two walls are internal.?

Hi Stu - I don't get it - is water MEANT to get in there? Or is that set up IN CASE water gets down into the cavity..?? And are soldiers for aesthetic reasons? Nice vid Stu!

Why is the cavity tray just above a window. What about moisture dripping down the rest of the wall cavity??

Sending apprentices and newbies off on nonsensical errands used to be part and parcel of any ( mostly male ) workplace, but I sometimes wonder if the P.C. police might be killing off. Or perhaps. most people today don't have enough wit and imagination to pull it off. Back in the late 60's - early 70's I used to work for a large motorcycle dealer in Perth, WA and the boys in the workshop were always sending new apprentices around the corner to a scooter dealership to see if they could borrow a couple of pounds of compression or a box of sparks. The bloke at the scooter place was in on the joke and would give the kid a sealed, but empty cardboard carton with some "compression" in it. The machinist in that workshop did his time at the WA Railways workshop and he told me that in the blacksmiths' shop, the favourite prank was to send a 1st year apprentice down to the steel store to get the key for the door of their big furnace. The key didn't exist, but the blokes at the steel store would give the kid a long and very heavy tool that they used to roll RSJ steel beams with. The poor little bugger would stagger all the way back to the blacksmith shop with the "key", only to be told he had the wrong one and would have to take it back! Even being aware of the possibility that you might be about become the victim of a practical joke can backfire on you. A mate of mine in Queensland used to work on a fettlers crew for Queensland rail. One day, he was out on the job helping to re-align some track when one of the crew asked him to drive back to the workshop and get the curve gauge. Thinking he was about to be the butt of joke, he just laughed at the bloke and jokingly told him to go and get you know what. A huge argument broke out that nearly ended in fisticuffs before my mate found out that railway tracks are slightly wider on the curves than they are on the straight bits and to check the extra width, you need a curve gauge - which is a real thing!

The weep holes on a stretcher are every 4 bricks

where was the insulation in those cavities?

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Heyy How much isolation is in between the walls? (cm) Thank for the Answer

Water might come down anywhere not just the windows. You'll need lintels all around the house, with weep vents.

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When you build over with bricks do you prop the little???

Why are you only putting the cavity tray and membrane above the window ONLY as opposed to wrapping it 360 degrees round the entire building ?

Haha long time since i heard the word fetler, ha ha

What’s your intro song mate

Funny, now we have to use thicker wall ties on site than those ones for external cavity walls.. the internal walls are the only ones that we use them on.

Prefer the solid plastic variety

Where does stu reside, sounds like a Wiganer?

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