BRICKLAYING..HOW TOO.... REPLACE BLOWN BRICKS BELOW DPC 

Good job for the hot weather Steve not to taxing, keep up the great work 👍

Top job. Great attention to detail and going the extra mile. That’s what keeps the customers recommending! Dave Birmingham.

Still the best bricklaying channel on RU-vid for the UK. The lads are always spot on with the work they do.

Another masterpiece of brickwork.

Excellent video as always, love how you fill those heads. Hope you have a great weekend 👍👍

Great job Ken, thanks so much for sharing your video.

Lovely work! ! I could watch this all day ! Great video ☺👍

High standards on every job, it's a real credit to you. Good video Thank you .

An artist at work. Super video.

Top notch as always Steve

Found how you apply mortar--8.14-10.00--using the tuck pointer and trowel very helpful. I will be using the technique as shown on my next job. Thanks

Nice job guys as always very professional

Very nice work, I’ve got a lot of spalled bricks to repair, learned a lot from this video, just need a bit of decent weather!.

Nice job mate few days when it dries you never now they were Re done top job👍👍👍

This is most probably the fiddly’ist part of being a bricklayer. I done this so many times on site when tarmacer’s get to close with the wacker plate 😂 great vid and job well done 👍

Top marks for this, man. Im in a situation in a customers right now. I found yesterday after knocking off blown plaster that the DPC on the internal block work is 100mm HIGHER than finished floor level. Plus I suspect that the DPC is spanning from block to brick and making a lovely pool in the cavity. I won't go to any so called damp experts who want to fill everything with chemicals so I could, technically lower the DPC using that method? Any replies, even insulting ones are appreciated 👍🏼

Good job 👍🏻

Good job!

Great work as always. I know that because the mortar hardens across the entire wall it all remains strong & in place but watching this its hard to shake the feeling that the wall might collapse when you remove the bottom brick 😅

I would have done this job the same as you did a finger jointer is always good to fill in the last bed joint and I have made my own which is just 6 mm wide.

Surprise surprise a bone dry cavity tray🤪 nice and tidy work mate. 👍🏻

Ficou muito bom parabns

You make it look easy 😆

Great video, really interesting to see how this is done. Out of interest, something that I can't quite get my head around is, when the original wall is laid, the bricks are squashing down into the mortar as it dries... so, when putting new mortar in around the new bricks, do you have to really pack the mortar in hard below the original bricks to recreate the level of support that the original brickwork would have had? Hope that makes sense.

I'm finding these videos very useful and I've now subscribed. Can you tell me the name of the thin bladed tool you use to push mortar into the joints? Thanks.

BELEZAAAAAA...UM FORTE ABRAÇO

Nice job as always. I’ve just purchased a 1960s house and the slate DPC has previously been repointed an it’s almost as if it’s being forced out/ won’t stay in.. Any advice would be appreciated.

Great video and thank you for showing us how to do it. Having never seen this before I was worried that the upper course of bricks would collapse. What's the limit in terms of the number of bricks you can take out in a course before the upper ones come tumbling down. Sorry if this is a stupid question!

Good job Guys , those vents Should b standard here to keep insects out , we mostly dont place them 🤦🏻‍♂️

I need all my air bricks replacing and more added is this best way to do it

Excellent video and job 👍 Can I ask, what size wattage chisel drill would I need to remove the damaged bricks? Thanks in advance

Very impressed with your work, guys. So disappointing though to see those blown bricks on relatively new property. I thought the bricks below the DPC needed to meet a higher standard than those above it.

First class work. I have always done my own DIY over the years but have reached the point where I need the tradesmen to take over. Do you take on work in the west midlands?

Bro you just saved my arse! Owe you a beer if your ever in Adelaide!

Great video!As an observation, I have never understood why blue engeering bricks aren't used below the damp course as a matter of course (no pun intended),I know that would cost more but as house prices go would not be very significant over all.For me I would rather do it once and forget.I know when you repair as in the video you couldn't use them because they wouldn't match the rest anyway,but if I was having a new home built from scratch then I would do that.Or is it overkill?

Do you need to use slate? I had something similar in an internal wall and the guy used slate to pack it up.

As a non brickie, can I ask how you knew the brick courses above would not drop? Great job, I always enjoy watching you (and Alex) working. Mart.

Does it matter that the dpc is left contained inside the mortar joint and not obviously over hanging on the outside to indicate an obvious separation? I've never understood how a dpc that you cant see inside a mortar joint isn't being bridged by the outer slither of mortar. Thanks.

what did you use to put in the cement,like a piece of plastic?

Hi guys x great work x I'm impressed x my stepdaughters bricks are worse than urs x her old dpc is only one course from driveway slab x is it possible to put in a new dpc two courses up using the same principle x please help x thank u

Sorry me again x if I had the length of a building to do would it be safe to do four , miss four , do four and so on x thank u

Whats a rough price, same type thing ive got, corners 2 bricks below dpc, tight to floor, ive about 8 in total, cheers ive asked 3 builders and never come to look, prob one of them jobs, not sure if i would have a go myself, cheers

alright mate, unfortunately for me I live on that estate and my house is built with them castle golds above DPC. where did you manage to get some from? I know they are discontinued so hoping somewhere has a few of them. About 40 on my gable have blown so need to replace them 🙄

STEVE GREAT CAMERA WORK QUICKER THAN BENNY HILL ( DO YOU REMEMBER HIM) KEEP IT UP MATE AND STEVE WITH YOUR BUILDS DO YOU ALLWAYS WORK TO DIMENTIONS ETC LET US KNOW MATE

how much would a job this size cost ive got 3/4 sections at this height around my house that need doing? locating in chesterfield, derbyshire if i can tempt you guys into the job

I need similar work doing. Would this be a daily rate or a fixed price

How did you cope having to get around that screw, Steve? I really felt for you there. Almost as bad as those drains on your last extension!!! 🤪 Seriously, good to see you get a few less taxing jobs as well as the nightmares!

Did you put new damp proof membrane around the new bricks?

Hi, enjoyed the vid. What was your mix and is it lime based?

I have one blown brick half way up my wall at the rear of my victorian house. Can I just smash it out and replace? Great video. 👍 subscribed.

well done m8 a very hard job with not much to see at the end take care

Looks like the old mortar was a bit soft and sandy?

Newish house with drive surface level at least a brick too high. NHBC Building Control ?

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is the geoengineering in the intro related?

What kind of bricks are they? So i can avoid them.

Dig the music brother

Thus your own house Steve? Proper keyhole surgery there mate

Isn’t it safer to put an angle grinder to mortar joints then knock the bricks out gently with a lump hammer? I have this Titan SDS and I’d be scared of taking it to a wall like this because of the vibrations! 🤣

Why change those bricks?

How much for a job like this in USA dollars?

What’s DPC?

New houses are crap. Mine is 140 years old and is still going strong.

Barely blown mine are more than half brick in places

Bad case of brick worm 😁

Nice of the customer to move their car out of your way 🤣😂

You've two knees so that makes you 25 right? 😀

Chemtrails.

all well and good mostly, u completely knackered the already bad door frames and didn't bother to replace.

Those bricks were not even CLOSE to replacement...