Grueling mate this heat 🔥 as long as they aint engineers soak em and i mean soak em much easier to lay and the compo dont turn as quick. Haven't seen a video for a while been so busy your team gets better and better .miss the other lads but more organised witb the current lot . Great work as always charlie's angels 🤣🤣 Justin brickright 👍
I've been a desk jockey for twenty five years - a bit more useful than most as I'm an engineer but I've still been sat on my ever growing behind all that time. And I find this channel fascinating. It's not to say that my work isn't 'real' (I design automatic software control systems for the National Grid, so a large proportion of the English population has power because of my work (and some in Wales too)) but it doesn't have the same physical satisfaction of being able to look at something and know "I built that!".
Charlie, My dad was a mason and on hot days in the summer his helper (me) would soak common bricks in a wheelbarrow full of water. I forget how long they soaked. This was back in the 1960`s New Jersey, USA
We've been wetting the bricks all week. Out bricks are thirsty. Two large gorilla buckets of water (90litres) over each full stack of brick is perfect. Getting half a gable built before having to joint and mortar cures properly. Left a lovely finish to wall. Been doing this for years. Where did you get your block cutter from? 👍
Get 3 or 4 empty bottels that they use for water machine in the canteen mate and keep blathering them think they hold 25lts so save u keep filling buckets up always worked a treat for us
We used a lot of Mexican bricks around North Texas before they got banned . They were like sponges ..you could throw them in a bucket of water and they'd boil !!!! We literally had to spray them down constantly when the weather got too hot . They're really good in the cold weather though ! 👍🏻😁
when i was working with my dad last year it was pretty hot and i saw that brick layers covered their brick stacks in a plastic sheet when they weren't being layed, this helped keep them nice and saturated
In regard to wetting the bricks, we used to run a hosepipe over each stack, but make sure the water soaks all the the way through. So let the water run right through, so all the bricks get soaked. But if you don't have access to a tap, you could pour buckets of water over them. But it's not as effective.
Hi Charlie. When I worked in Spain, we always soaked the solid bricked in buckets until they stopped fizzing. It certainly helped with giving time to lay a few coarse before jointing up.
Wetting the will help but may cause a ghosting film on the face unless you clean water each time. I’m a old boy as you say,we had only solid bricks back then and had to wet them,we set up a scaffold plank and let them dry for a few minutes,you had to have someone wetting them ahead of you could lay them them in steady. Cored brick are so easier to lay,we would call them holy brick,because it was a blessing someone figured it out to put holes in them! Sand looked a lot better not as course of a grit. You should try putting a tarp up over the mixer and sand pile keeping them cooler(then at night you drop the tarp down and cover the sand to keep it cool for tomarrow! ( and to keep sticks and leaves and any feline delights out,also I would wet the empty cement bags and lay them flat in the mortar tub to insulate from the sun and keep it cool also. Like I said in a comment A few weeks ago,I realize you know this already...here in the states our weather may be hotter for longer periods so a couple little tricks we do might help you in this heat. Will they let you put a little lime in each mix to retard the setting or are they afraid it might change the color of the mortar when it drys? Geo from NJ
I hear you but laying wet bricks will leave that ugly white stain on the bricks, just never seen anyone dip a brick in water, even the summer's I worked labouring
we've started to pour a full bucket over the stacks once there loaded works a treat can get a few more down before needing to point. and can be done after a brew or dinner if they have dryed.
Fair play to you Charlie for having the minerals to publicly say how you feel what’s going on,a lot a people with a public platform are to bothered about offending people with their opinion. Especially nowadays with this shitty cancel culture.
also I notice you use a larger plastic barrier under your windows and you use weeper plastic units every 4 or 5 bricks is this a barrier to repel water to keep it from freezing in the winter time why de you have that void between the blocks and face bricks?
Fair play to you and your gang for keeping going, many brickies including myself given up, joints turing white and to powder when jointing, and constantly knocking up muck up, I respect you massivly for doing the whole day, top man.
Charlie mate, agree with others on dunking the bricks. The water will draw in to the centre, but not fully.. the centre will stay 'thirsty' and will draw the mortar (cementitious water) to bed it on the course/perp. don't forget to protect your work on friday, we gonna get drenched at the weekend!
NOW THEN, CHARLIE BOY, YA EVER HEARD OF CEMENTITIOUS BRICKS ? no, neither have i. frankly, i think they should bring back the "stocks". .there's some bollock chops on here... love it, though.
I always wet the bricks up with hose pipe but im on privates. Only thing is it can cause efloresence but they lay alot better and your not jointing each course
Squirrels looking much smoother. I've dipped bricks in the past in tray of water. Can't think of an easy way, also used a hand sprayer. Have a word with Steve and Alex for some brick tongs for shifting those bricks with holes. You can sing the milkman's song as you go. Stupid question: Can you explain sometime why you still sometimes get bricks with frogs on these new builds, or do they just buy what they can get hold of? P.S. don't give up on the idea of mental arith. 120 div 3 should be no probs. Just div 12 by 3 then add a zero to get the result of forty. Simples!
buckets of clean water on the stacks works a treat, sucks it up like a sponge. the buff version of that brick is worse, cut the top of the packs open and let it rain i'd say, brick jackets to keep bricks cool and 'moist' you know what i mean
Yep I’m an old git used to be a (proper) hod carrier back in the mid 80s like you say no silo muck no forks we used to scaffold the lifts ourselves don’t get me wrong paying for it now. Good that things have moved on but the labourers are not rea ‘hod carriers’
The bricks are so dry they are sucking the moisture out of the mud. So of course it's another pick and dip day. We used to take 4-5 brick into a bucket of water and pick the brick out of bucket, always have at least 4 bricks in bucket. Then after 3 or 4 courses and must the wall down with cool water, try to use cool water in bucket, can't be hot.
One of a very few masons that will grab a few bricks on his own. Unfortunately I have to since I work alone lay over a 1000 a day while mixing mud and setting up. No Hoddie
chuck the hose, or if you aint got one, get the forky to suspend a water butt over the pallet of bricks and let it rip for a while, more than you think, they soon dry out. or me and my old man used to get a daisy chain on (not that kind) and dip each brick in a bucket of water for a few seconds while loading out
I've no idea on wetting the bricks, but Magic deserves a pay rise, his work ethic and speed compared to the others when laying out shines through. He's a machine!! Top man!
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Wet bricks and blocks no point wetting engineering bricks it just makes a mess and you can put washing up liquid in the water you use to knock up with to stop it drying out and makes it more worker able
Your buildings are differently than here in the usa here new type of building wooden frame work and a four inch face brick on most residential buildings or 4 inch concrete blocks and face bricks and older style common brick and 4 inch face brick
