Repairing your brick chimney: Part 4. Repair and replacement of bricks 

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. You at the SPAB have my respect. Too many of our older buildings are demolished in favour of new buildings. Well done all of you.

Outstanding instructional video. I can't comment on the techniques since I am here to learn how to repair the top of my garage chimney (low height) but the video and audio are excellent making it very clear what you are doing. Thanks for creating and posting this video!

Very informative video. When you have an old house these videos are excellent 👍

Thank you!

Great video! Thank you

Excellent video. Very imformative.

Great skills and a great job.

'frog.' I've heard many reasons it is called a 'frog', until i spoke to a very old brickmaker at Bore Place Handmade Bricks ,Kent. I was working on a 16th century barn conversion nearby and needed some 'Squint' bricks, (angled), for the job. This is what he told me. A circular trough in the ground (about 3ft wide and 2ft deep and 10ft in diameter ), was filled with the clay medium, water, sand, etc.. In the trough was a large circular stone, like a mill stone, A post in the centre had fixed to it a long wooden pole that joined the stone by an axel and that was fixed to a horses collar. As the horse walk the trough the clay medium softened to become the 'Pug' (Bricklayers will know the term), for the brick material. The horse would leave his 'Frog Print ' (The underside of a horses hoof is called a 'Frog') in the clay, This word migrated to become the name for indent in a brick. Hope that wasn't too long! I also worked under the auspices of SPAB through a man named Steven Rickards. A very knowledgeable Person! John, (52 years in Masonry)

Thank you for this

What started as replacing one brick wound up replacing 25 bricks, by removing and replacing the 25, one brick at a time. Do I have that right?

what type of mortar did you use? thank you

great job but i woulda smoothed out that mortar jeez

Talk about going over the top lol. Just chase brick out, and lob another one in.JOB DONE !!!

I'm not builder but this looked like a crap job....I would be concerned about the poor condition of the whole chimney and the lack of maintenance.... There is no mention of the Lime content of the mortar so we can only hazard a guess I think this guy needs to upskill his basic brick laying skill..

You ant a brickie

HGM very good bricks 🧱 good job they donated 2.50 per brick