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
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, 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.
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.
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 👍
I'm kind of glad my plumber said 'we don't do brickwork', rather than doing a sh*t repair job. Shame not all contractors have the same level of pride in their work as Allen.
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.
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
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 .
😂 I will make it yellow to stand out & you can see the difference, & I will make a cut on grass ? I’ve only had 50 years on the trowel….. but this fella is teaching me me so much …… I can’t take it all in ……. I’m going for a lay down 😂
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. 🙄
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.
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.
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 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
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?
You're no bricky Allen but you did a great job regardless. You could've benefited from using a tuck pointer to get the mortar into the top of the last bricks.
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!
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
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Yeah he’s done fousands of videos
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.
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Already liking your style of teaching, half way through.
Thanks.
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Can't help but reading the writing in the wall cavity in your accent Allan 🤣 good job fella 👍
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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.
Ahh I love you Allen, you really do have a video for everything, this is the stuff they don't teach you!
Thanks for this video Allen! I successfully bricked up a redundant cat flap with your guidance. Fantastic video.
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.
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Attention to detail, love it
Great video. Lots of stuff for a beginner to learn.
Thanks. Great video. Just what I was looking for. From Mark in Australia.
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 👍
I'm kind of glad my plumber said 'we don't do brickwork', rather than doing a sh*t repair job. Shame not all contractors have the same level of pride in their work as Allen.
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.
Thank You
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.
Thank You
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
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Looks great the brick work , it’s the sort of job that could make or break the finish for the customer 👍😀
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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.
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What about the insulation? That going to create a cold spot which will introduce condensation, which means damp.
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!
Good job Allen 👍
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Great video Alan 👍
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Really good patch up on bricks. Can’t fault it
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Just going to sit back and wait for every man and his dog to tell you how it should be done. I think it looks pretty good.
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Cracking job of that matey.
Nice job Allen.
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Very good video
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Great video as always and you have done a really good job!
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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
Not boring Steve.
I call that highly sensible.
Hope you are in good recovery.
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
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Easily explained tutorial Allen. Nice drawing😅
Thank you! Cheers!
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 .
Yea i do that so i can push morter in, Sometimes you cannot do that though.
😂 I will make it yellow to stand out & you can see the difference,
& I will make a cut on grass ? I’ve only had 50 years on the trowel….. but this fella is teaching me me so much …… I can’t take it all in ……. I’m going for a lay down 😂
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. 🙄
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Also Alan, Cement Caulking Gun they will make putting the new mortar beds in alot easier and tidier for you.
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Nice job looks good
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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.
Depends on the meter. Medium pressure cannot go through the wall. Thanks.
@@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.
Best part of the job brickwork if the weather is good 🌝
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Great idea for a video Alan. There's more than a few plumbers out there that need to see this 😏
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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.
Thank You
Imagine if there was only 3 types of brick 🧱 ever made! The world would be a simpler place
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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 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
4:59?!!!! Hope he is OK 🤣🤣🤣
Good video.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good video
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Buy yourself a small paddle mixer/paint mixer from screwfix. Only about £4 but will make mixing the mortar much easier.
Thank you for the tip.
24:24 - wow you cant tell where the new bricks are!
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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?
Depends on what was agreed upon. I would brick it up.
You're no bricky Allen but you did a great job regardless. You could've benefited from using a tuck pointer to get the mortar into the top of the last bricks.
You needed spme PLASTERICISER in the mix Mate
I have never used that, What does it do? Thanks.
I've got that Pink Floyd song stuck in my head now lol
Why? Not sure what you mean. Thanks.
@@AllenHart999 there was a song by PF can't remember the name of it "all in all another brick in the wall"
👍🏻good in
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Me names Allen Hart in mortar was the best!
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Me name is Allen haaaat 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
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grab a bucket of ready made mortar from macblair builders...job done
I do not like the ready-made stuff, Thanks.
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!
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One dislike sitting in the corner by itself 😂
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No more dislikes, RUclips have turned them off. Thanks.
Me names Allen Hart :) 😀
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@AllenHart999 takes such pride in his work, wish he lived near me to do such great jobs like this 👌
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Good video
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