Bricklaying Lesson 1 - Spreading Mortar 

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I've waited 23 years for someone to explain these majorly important, foundation bricklaying skills in such a simple and easy way. Amazing video and thank you for going over the basic in great detail.

im just working on the subtitles for this video i wont be long, i hope you enjoy all these new bricklaying tutorials guys and gals, going back to my roots and giving back to youtube as i have learned a lot from this platform myself. :)

My apprenticeship finished in1993, so I’ve been on the tools most of my life. Saw all sorts over the years, from brickwork artists, to as close as you could get to vandalism, without being arrested. You my man are without doubt one of the neatest bricklayers I’ve ever seen. Keep up the great work, respect from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Your a great mason and teacher! Most mason's are bully's to upcoming apprentices. My own Dad talked down to me. He was also a great Mason, but a terrible terrible teacher. He didn't have patience for anything, he couldnt do anything without losing his cool or temper, but for some odd reason though when he picked up a trowel and level, then genius kicked in, there was nothing he wouldn't tackle when it came to tedious brickwork, but anything else he was lost. I just wish we could have worked together, but unfortunately he and I couldn't. Great video man! All the way from USA!

That mortar looks delicious.

Beautiful bricks! Obviously the king of all trades is bricklaying. Skills! Endurance! Power! Discipline! Love it!

You’ve taught me more in 12 minutes than I was taught when my school sent me on a day release program for troubled students that was supposed to actually teach you how to lay bricks 🧱 did in the four weeks worth I did before I quit

Brilliant tutorial Stu, hats off to you. Many years ago, I did a beginners bricklaying night class at my local college, the tutor was a seasoned bricky too. The first evening class was similar to what you have just demonstrated. He gave us all a length of 4"x3" timber to practice laying the mortar onto and he wouldn't let us loose with any bricks until we could lay a neat bed along the timber without getting it all over the floor. You are a natural teacher Stu and a lot of folks are going to learn great skills in your academy.

Absolutely Outstanding Sir!!! 🙌🏾🔥👏🏾

Mortar board lesson long time since seen that good on you Stu lets get the pride back in the young ones good one you fella x

Omg Stu what a brilliant idea for your next video! Sling mortar in from yards away with a 9 iron.

WHen he knocked over that brick and cussed (bleeped out), killed me lol

I got excited when I watched your last video yesterday and you mentioned starting the tutorial series. I’ve never laid a brick in my life but I’m going to try a small garden wall eventually and any hints and tips I get from your videos will maybe stop me making a complete hash of it. I’ve a desk jockey by day 😂💪🏻 cheers, can’t wait for the next one!

Makes me actually want to take up bricklaying Stu! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

So much common sense in his tutorials that its not common. :)

You make it look easy----TY Stu.

Thanks stu is I am a tree surgeon gardener but going to give some bricklaying a go in my own garden making a bar and bbq area out of breeze blocks , would like to say thank you for the videos as helps so much watching this

Thanks for this Stu - been watching your channel for a while now, and i think i may try doing my garden wall when weather gets nice.

I'm two months into a apprenticeship and I'm still terrible lol a real tricky trade to pick up, brill videos mate

Best bricky, best teacher 👨‍🏫 👍

Great as always greetings from St Petersburg 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

Takes me back to my trade training course at Beverley College in the early 80's , nice one Stu, keep them coming.

So happy with these tutorials definitely will be educating myself with these keep them coming stu 👌🏻

Can't wait till you get to 100k. Going to be an monumental time. 🙏😎

Always stay tru Stu keep on keeping on x

Thanks for posting...just about to start my first big project building a 125ft brick and block wall, so tips like this are invaluable to the DIYer!

Practice makes perfect Stu, great educational video for many viewers of your channel, well done

Great video and wonderful information..

Thank you, much appreciated 🧱

I’m a upcoming brick layer.. and I found this very useful, thanks 👍

Brilliantly explained! I want to add something about laying hollow concrete blocks if I may. The sides of those are less than two inches, so what I do when laying those, is to take some mortar in a similar way to the video here, then slap the trowel down on the board, and then the mortar sticks to it better so that you can rotate your wrist anti clockwise if right handed, and then best way I can explain it is to scrape the trowel of the mortar along the outside edge of the block lowering the trowel as you go, leaving a nice small little toblerone. The same on the other side of the blocks of course and ready to lay. Again try it and experament and hope that might help somebody. Take care and God bless.

Thank you Stu, great video.

Really informative video Stu! Keep up the great videos looking forward to the next ones 👍🏻

Excellent set up demonstration, I have been laying brick and block and setting stone for many years and these techniques are spot on great job man, you know your stuff. Highest Respect for you!!!

Great video, well done.

Excellent, thanks very much Stu.

Thanks. Great video.

This is brilliant. I've started learning Carpentry and Bricklaying in College this week. It was my first time doing Bricklaying today and I learnt how to bond the bricks and use the mota and we built a little practice wall. Using the Trowel is hard at first and we was shown the Cut and Roll technique. You get the hand of it after much practice. Thanks again for the video 😁.

A rare and top notch channel your very relevant for lads like me trying to get a trade under our belts thanks stu thanks a lot 😊 🙏🏽

I agree with kick kick. Very easy to understand 👍💯

Have watched a few of these and I find them really easy to learn from. Good humour added which always helps but what an amazing bricklayer Stu is! really good a training videos!!!

To many tip and runners out there God bless you and kc x

Thank you for this video Stu your masterclass technique is so inspirational it beats all

Very helpful videos, keep them coming.

Ty stu. Respect my dude.

Can’t wait for the rest of these vids

Love your videos Stu! Get that mortar board up on 4-6 blocks and save your back man! Bricky to Bricky

Thank you for sharing your fantastic skills with us... loved this lesson of fundamentals! :)

Great video lots of good tips and explinations,

Good stuff 👍

I've never done any brick laying but if I do, I've got the wrist strength covered 100%.If u know what I mean.

Beautiful, thank you 👍👍👍

Great video and lesson Stu.

Great video Stu , nice to see great quality videos on RU-vid 👷‍♂️. Keep it up mate

Thanks for this pal, iv got a old window to brick up and the inside is going to be dot, dabbed over so no one will ever see it. This is the perfect opportunity for me to try lay bricks.

Thank you for the lesson.

Great Lesson, thank you for your time and great teaching details, God Bless

Great tips. I teach bricklaying at a college and I’ve taken a few tips away from this video. Thanks.

Great video with great tips Cheers 👍

Looking good

you are fantastic

Nice one stu

tried replacing some cinder block today. I'm 51 and never used mortar before. Thought I was doing it completely wrong because I was getting more on the ground than in the blocks. mine still looks like crap, but it's just a porch. If I was building a wall, it would probably fall down lol

Excellent video. Thanks look forward to the next installment. Hope your still going to video your work on jobs I enjoy all your content. 👍👍👍👌🍺

Great video, Stu. I’m learning a lot. Could you please do one on the different types of mortar and how to make the different colours?

To many rosco 's out need to teach the young ones right bless you mate x

After years of using Marshall town Philadelphia pattern I've gone back to a London pattern Nela trowel with a cork handle that I use for brickwork .....still use a 11inch Marshall town for blocks but the steel seems poor quality compared to the steel on the Nela , tap them both on a scaff tube and the Nela is still ringing 30 seconds later . Bit of a long way round the houses to ask if your going to do a trowel review video . Enjoying the videos and enjoying bricklaying again ....roll on summer .

Great video !!! Quick question: will i be fine building my summer house ( 7mx4m) on my backyard using just 100mm concrete blocks all around (single wall) plus door and windows. Then 45mm thick wooden frame inside on walls (all around) to put 40mm insulation celotex and then cover it all with plasterboards to finish it off. Then roof using thick sleeper's every 60cm. will it work fine or will it fall to bits? Thanks

Very helpful excellent videos. Would like to see you laying on jobs extentions etc keep it up

You are the best Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹

Thank you , Stu , Wish i wuz 40 years younger , would like to take bricklaying up ,

The mortar you load onto your trowel is called a pear of mortar

Muito boa essa colher eu tinha uma dessa aqui onde moro não tem dessa colher de pedreiro redline

Very useful core skills , Walk before you run so to speak.

Hi Stuart, s`funny you just talked about doing whatever you do / attempt to the best of your ability whatever it is because if I'm ever trying to get that across to anyone and how important it is to make your best effort and that you can't ever reproach yourself, I always say something along the lines of 'imagine you're building a wall, the most important thing is the base (like the first line you lay) because providing you take care and check things, whatever follows SHOULD be OK also, but if you lay the first line wonky everything following will be the same'. just a tenet I try to stick with.

Great work Stu! How thick is the spot board?

Подскажите начинающему, какие пропорции делать для учебного раствора что бы можно было разбирать кладку и снова его использовать, глина или известь что вы добавляете? спасибо что делаете нас лучше!!!

Im only fourteen planning ahead but what are the pillars of bricks for that are beside the mortar

Hi Stu, how would you lay hollow concrete blocks

Hi. How about a 3 brick width/deep garden wall ie two skins with bricks in the middle in same direction? Please. Hard to put middle brick in without moving outer bricks, then levelling AAAAGGGGHHHHH! 😄

Hello ,how and What has the mixture for laying bricks...

Something about seeing mortar that makes me want to eat ice cream.

great work Stu, its the right time for you to do this now you have your presenting skills, I love the Toblerone, brickies are mostly visual learners, it was quite funny the Toblerone popping up each time you said the word! You should do more of this with pictures popping up in the corner, its a brilliant way to embed details, I also liked your analogy with the golfing terminology too. Can I recommend to you a radio show by Nick Abbott, he uses 'sound effects' in his shows and it is hilarious. I'm not suggesting you use sound effects but the pictures in the corner popping up at the right time is the video equivalent of a sound effect. Loving the languages, I have done this with my videos where the titles are in French or Spanish you pick up a different group of viewers, you are on the right track. I can tell you one of my videos has 1.2m views because it went viral somewhere in asia. Albañilería Lección 1 - Difundir mortero; 50% of the world speak Spanish then watch them videos fly. You need to put Albañilería into your video tags, search Albañilería and none of your videos show up, try it. I did.

Love the videos buddy. They are so good. Just one question, can a mortar board be anything? Ie-plywood, ect or is it a specific material? Asking for a friend☺️

Вот это сюрприз.Спасибо!

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Hi Stu i wish u comme at Swiss skill bricklaying day...👍👍👍👍

Great video tutorial Stu 👍

Love the videos stu been watching for nearly 2 years and finally started to try bricklaying only for diy around the house / garden and I can never get my mortar to look like yours the ratio is right but it’s never creamy either looks too dry or too wet and is always watery pools under the mortar when the brick is on it please help

ps your the man

Much like my first pole dancing lesson..... Spready

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Hi Stu do you have a Pattron account ? You should charge for this your bloody good at what you do . I should know been building for 20 years bricklaying and plastering . Brilliant work keep it up .

You can always tell an expert by how easily they explain things. Excellent Stu.

They have a go at me on sight for spreading my mortar like that lol they say don't use the point 🤣 but that was the way they showed me at college edit the second one you showed is how they want me to do it

Привет! Покажите как делаете раствор для кладки?

Hi stu I have more information about brick layer watching ur video.

Какой состав вашего раствора. Какие пропорции?

I have to learn english much faster!!Greetings from Catalonia 👍🏻