Why are so many 'so called experts' watching a video meant for amateurs and posting negative comments if they know it all already? Obviously trolls. You got the job done Chris and have certainly helped me out with my current project!! Thanks!
Hello, I just built a few 81cm high with recycled bricks. After I levelled the first course, I used an angle iron marked with increments to get the spacing and corners aligned. I used some round steel lengths on the perimeter to keep my spacing constant. I'm no professional but you handled this well. I had some adjustments to make because the recycled red bricks dimensions slightly varied, learnt a lesson there:)
Yes you can use what we call Profiles that's what you were doing, some use builders lines and some free hand as I did. I have done a video recently on a long wall with pillars in and I used a profile. I'm currently building an extension and I've used an Aluminum profile..Well done and yes the brick sizes will vary when using old reclaims, best thing with them is to organise the bricks into piles of sizes before you start, iv always found that helps a pain but worth it..
@@foundationgood123 Yeah, you did a great job free hand but you have a great feel and eye for accuracy, I'm a beginner and I'm not at your level of expertise :( . However, I really appreciate watching the skills involved and learning at the same time. I know you make it look easy but it is definitely not. Cheers
For any weekenders doing this, use a couple of straight profiles and a couple of clamps to eliminate the use of the level so much, he's done a good job but wouldn't last till tea time o site
No problems that I can see with your work. I cheat though and put up a profile after the first 6-7 courses check the plumb then chalk the gauge. Brickworks more perfect every time. But no worries mate your work looks just fine
Hope you don't mind me adding my comments, so good and some not so good. I will start off with the not so good. You are building without using cross joints, and not completely filling up the cross joints when pointing. You level across the top of the brick, sideways, but not all bricks are true to shape. When you moved you're level to all 8 plumbing points, you called them levelling points. You constantly tapped you're level when levelling the bricks. Level are expensive so should be looked after. The good points, The plumbing at the end looked neat, and all bricks were true to the level. The brickwork also looked neat when finished. I assume the build was slow, due to the filming, and at one point, you said you was showing how the level a brick, and then stood in the way. ANyway, the finished pillar did look good, so i guess its a thumbs up.
Steve Thunder I beat the hell out of my levels. If it’s good, it’ll last. You only need to plum every 3/4 courses and only in 2 sides. Kudos to dude for taking the time to level off the established wall. Dude did great and u wanna talk shit?
they are called perps and they should be filled. but also i have a brick laying level and i hit it all the time (10 years) i check it before every new job with my carpentry levels that i take really good care of and my brick level is still true. you can tap it just check it.
Very nice, shame about my recently built brick pillars onto a simultaneously built brick wall , it’s not even 4 weeks that the pillars are moving as if bricks had been piled up. I’m glad that the fencing is supporting the pillar rather than the converse. What could have gone wrong ? Any remedies apart from paracetamol would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Okay Kempouk, please explain in more detail because just saying what you have with out explaining where the fault is is just you trying to look good, so I am all ears!!!
Just hope you're able to show us on the finishing part in between the roof and the brick pillar. Do we just fill in cements to cover it up? What we should do if the gap is around half of a brick's height and etc.? Thanks for the video and really appreciate your efforts ^^
can u please help me my house is a wall system house from each side there are two pillars on its right-hand side and on its left-hand side my house is attach with 2 houses my house is 2and half storey. there are two pillars on its ground floor and at the top there are brick pillars as in Ur video. but one thing I want to ask if my house can be protect from earthquake and how plz I will be waiting for ur reply
@Chris Longhurst Is the pillar still holding strong? did it move? How deep is your concrete foundation ? for such a pillar (3 meters high?) and to support the weight of the bricks them self (even if the pillar is just cosmetic), I always assumed that I need a good footing/foundation. how about the freeze line ? Here where I live they say that a foundation needs to be at least 50-80cm deep in the ground, and footing should also be wider than the foundation that sits on top of it. your thought on that would be appreciated. thank you
David e David e Hi, yes its still standing firm...The foundation was about 300mm deep and concrete was approximately 120mm deep....The pillar is approx 2.4m (7.6”) hight.....Concerning the fnds, they are wider than the pillar and its on solid sub soil ie clay
@@foundationgood123 I need to build a porch 13 ft high but next to a cellar window so want to use brick pillars. do you know how deep foundations should be?
+Daniel Marec This is only cosmetic...it has support from the roof etc...On major building works there would be internal rebar to give the pillar added strength..
@@foundationgood123 nice one I'm a old stoke boy but live in Runcorn now just trying to get back into the bricklaying game after been working in mental health the last 7 years.....do you know the keelings or Cammillare up there.
Lay all the bricks on a course then level. Why don't you put the head joint on as you're laying the brick? That little bit that you are pointing in isn't giving you a full head joint and you're just wasting time. One good hit with a sledge hammer and I'd reduce that to rubble. At 9:08 it looks like it is running a little strong mate!
Haha! You was goin so well till you tried to plumb both sides of the stretcher ! So you knocked it one way the the other ! Keep goin you'll be there all fucking day!!
+Chris Longhurst no Chris ! I don't have time to be filming myself because I am actually making money as a tradesman rather than a chancer handy man , why are you putting videos up professing to be an expert when you and I both know you are not , I watched one of yours the other day saying you got in expert people to tooth out brickwork !!! They looked like a couple of labourers ! Show me one person in the world who just specialises in toothing brickwork ! And if they were experts they were fucking doing it wrong !! Did they put in a vertical dpc ? Chris all I'm saying is don't pretend to be an expert in something you have little knowledge of , I know a bit about cars but I wouldn't come on here telling people how to build an engine
What a load of rubbish-keep commenting dude you helping boost ratings lol Your problem is your quick to judge and and have a problem with me, well I'm gounna keep uploading dude- oh, and keep the swearing for site not youtube as you might offend folk!!!
My friend ,is a very good bricklayer,he says when building pillers,piers, and anything with small amount of bricks,that you should always use a smaller trowel,9 or 10,inch, what do you think,?
+Corey Hughes * not to mention that there is no rebar in the foundation, tying the brick to the foundation. as well as, how were the ceiling joists and roof ( mansard ) rafters anchored to The Brick? ^
bonanzatime you lay frog down because you’re all backwards in America.laying frog down you don’t get a full bed joint, which means if you get water inside and it’s freezing temperatures the brickwork will decay a lot quicker.Also We drive on the left and we speak and write English lke you Americans do!
architects love empty cross joints. Wow 10 minutes to lay 3 bricks. You'd be gone before coffee break in Chicago. Nice match on the brick, are you going to paint them? Boot
