Allen hart is the nicest man in the world. Excellent plumber and not a bad brickie either. Love his vids and attitude. Kudos my man. From a fellow plumber!!!!!! South wales
Making good the old hole can be a really enjoyable satisfying job to do. Especially when the weather is right. I don't understand why so many traders try to take a shortcut.
Considering you're a plumber and not a mason, in the end you did an outstanding job. A good tutorial of what to expect, for someone who dosen't do that many masonry repairs......like me.
Thanks mate lvl 3 bricky here havnt done it for years as now I'm in upholstery. But got a job coming up Monday I'm slightly nervous for haha so thankyou 👍
Top quality video - very informative and great pace for DIYers to follow. One thing I'm wondering before giving this a go myself is whether any damp proofing is needed to stop moisture coming through the brickwork? If anyone knows I'd be very grateful for a reply!
Can I be really boring. If you are cutting bricks (or drilling etc). Please wear safety glasses. Four years of Moorfields, 2 lots of laser surgery and a lot of pain - after getting a lump of brick in the eye . Apart from that - brilliant bit of brickwork
Excellent advice. And God bless all the amazing staff and Eye Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital saving people’s eyesight. They are serious grafters too. Loved the neat brickwork in the video
Thanks, this is an excellent, well-paced video. I'm about to tackle this job DIY. The advice about measuring bricks, how to remove bricks without breaking those nearby and without buying all the tools under the sun looks invaluable.
Hi Allen, Great job making good is harder than it looks, what you can do is string a line and that would help you, also I use 3 and 1 mix for engineering bricks and 4 and 1 for everything else. You can buy either a scutch hammer or scutch chisel to help chisel the bricks and mortar beds. One more thing if you look at the course below not directly below but the one under that, your bricks should line up vertical. Top job and great plumber.
Great vid thanks Allen. I did a bit of bricking at college and a cheap easy way to help pointing is to use 6" offcut of garden hose to hold in your hand and press the muck in and run it over the joint to give a smooth contoured finish.
Great video Alan - learning a lot from yourself - hope you're keeping well mate. Thanks for the complete step by step, I'm sure not easy to film and do it and not cover the camera in mortar
SDS+ Plus 6mm Brick Mortar Rake Joint Chisel/Breaker Bit for Hammer Drills. A great tool for removing mortar joints without causing damage to the surrounding bricks. We use them removing bricks for when we have to remove the insulation from the cavity.
I've done some of this, i drill round the brick like you then finish off removing mortar with a SDS mortar removing chisel on a stationary hammer drill. im quite messy with mortar i use a sponge and a bucket of water changing often to clean bricks when im done . Also i add a lot of lime to the mix if the original mortar is light.
Hi Allan had old system boiler replaced with a combi boiler installer put new boiler on a board and bricked up external wall but unsure whether he had done internal wall behind boiler would that matter
When I did it I didn’t mix frog up and frog down , and used febmix scraped back when gone off and rubbed over with off cut off 15mm copper. Any mortar on brickwork can be carefully removed with mortar acid .
Hello need some advise just had a boiler installed costing over 2.5k the installer has damaged the outside brick and a pressure release copper pipe going out side does not protude beyound to prevent leaking on the bricks. The face of the brick has cracked off and they have come back and just put cement on top of the brick what would you advise ? It looks like a messy job.
Hi Allen, In a gas meter box: Do the pipes out of the meter that go into the property (right hand side of meter) always have to go down and out the bottom of the box or can they go straight up / drilled thought back of the box into the property so no pipes are on show? I have a few bricks to replace myself, Angle grinder with ceramic bit works great but ceramic bits on a multi tool are also good . Ceramic bit on a Recip saw also works great once you have drilled through first! SDS drill with chisel / hammer feature is also good but run the risk of damage to surrounding bricks. Neighbours hate the noise of all the power tools! Haha. I use 2 sand / 1 cement on patchwork.
@@AllenHart999 Thanks. I've had the gas meter blocked off with a blanking plate whilst I do the renovation. Installing new central heating system before I have a new boiler installed (Veissmann 100-W) I want to tidy up all the pipework and if I could drill through the back of the box directly into boiler room it would work perfectly.
Mix it dry! But I dampen the dry bricks in the wall, with an old brush or sponge. This helps prevent all the moisture being drawn out of the mortar. This gives me more time to level up. I point all the verticals first. Then straight across the horizontals. Just to end, very recently. A gas installer pointed around a flue with what looked like polyfilla. I re-pointed it having done the gas safety check, along with other remedials. I did take a photo, will send it over if iv'e still got it. 🙄
If someone were to have a boiler replacement with the boiler relocated elsewhere (paying extra for the relocation), would you expect the old boiler flue hole to be filled as part of that or not?
If I try really hard to pick faults there are only two comments I could make: You could have put some insulation back in the cavity to help prevent a cold spot; You could have vacuum cleaned the artificial grass when you had finished. If only all tradesmen tried as hard as you!
