I a used to do a lot of manholes when I was serving my time , did some big corbels on manholes with the clerk of works standing over me telling me how he wanted it and the foot iron spacings (he was a bricklayer )brings back some good old memories of younger days , a used to enjoy doing them actually 😉👍
I remember being told I was getting "time and a turd" for building my first manhole.It was only when a big turd splattered by boot that the penny dropped!!
My dad was a plumber and I brought his old set of drain rods when I moved to Spain in 2003 - put them in the shed and forgot about them. Had a Spanish contractor make a bathroom extension on the house - plumbers, builders, electricians, plasterers all coming and going, you know how it is, you don't even catch there names. Anyway about a year later I thought the chimney needed sweeping so I went to get the rods and some bastard had swiped them. Not only that, they were wrapped up in plastic sheet and they'd gone to the trouble of replacing the rods with bamboo and wraopping them up again! Wankers!
@@Hew.Jarsol If you are talking about in the manhole you have to break into it and fit a purpose made plastic slow bend, can be a hell of a job, better if Building Control allow you to install a tumble system where the pipe enters the manhole higher.
I am going to be doing something very similar but smaller for multiple open french drains. I have conpacted down some hardcore for where it will sit as there is soaking wet clay where i am putting it. I am worried that when i pour the concrete base and build the brick walls the water will want to go under the chamber where the hardcore is. do you think this will be a problem? Its annoying because i was planning on doing this tonight but this worry has entered my brain!
i spent a couple of months in roydon just building manholes ,the place was some sort of communications site and most of the manholes were inspection pits for cables , all different depths some of the deep ones had the foot irons in them the digger used to lift me out with the bucket , a bricklayer working on the main building said you must be bored .....no mate im left alone got me radio while your knocking yer bollox out
Hi Andy, did you have to build in masonry or is it just what you prefer? I had to do one a couple of years ago and we used plastic manhole risers and it worked well. Basically we exposed the 9" pipe and cut out a section of the top half like you've done. Brought in the new pipe on the angle in the flow direction. Then just got a 600mm riser chamber section, offered it over everything and neatly scribed over all the pipes. Concreted all around the outside of the chamber and the benched inside with a granno and cement mix.
Can be done like that Joe, concrete rings , square sections etc just sometimes it's quicker old school as you can get over stuff with brickwork 👍 also that's what the Architect specified.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 i must admit it's nice to see the traditional methods. I've been in the building game for 19 years now and not come across anybody building a brick manhole. Good stuff Andy 👍
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277would you just do a full square foundation up to and under the pipe or keep it below the pipe ? Cant seem to see any details on this part
Nice bit of good old fashioned manhole construction. Beautiful bit of benching there too chaps , love it . And finally those old pointing trowels looked perfect 👌🏼🤩🧱👍🏽
Used to be flushed up every course bagged finished inside step iron every 4 leave out 4 half brick headers out to hold 4x3 to hold your scaffold up an a deep one built one once 14ft deep 100 bricks a course used lines it was so big all in double frog southwaters hate to think what it would cost ...
Only 8 minutes in watching and a thought right away, what kind of depth would require step irons too start being fitted??? Don’t know myself without looking it up but I would bet you know straight of the top of your head Andy👍🏻
Well done boys. Rats or that turd🤣. I didn't think you would both with tea Andy🤣. Buy a tea in Wetherspoon and then it's free👍. Tidy up that van Andy and you wont find anything 🤣.
I have seen a lot of clay brick for manholes and catchbasins here in the US, but how do they hold up there? The salt and weather fluctuations here spalls them. I like to use concrete solid block or brick.
The clay bricks we normally use for this are Engineering bricks, they don't spall and are pretty much waterproof, the ones we used on this job are actually made from concrete 👍
I was taught to be carfull who ya learn from. I've watched your video after being self taught after working with a few but I would love to learn from you. Can you let me know if you can teach us the old school way. Cheers mate.
They take as long as they take mate, daywork job,all level work , benching have to wait to point them up, only do them on price if they are really big.
All due respect Sir. Building regs does only specify 9" brickwork. I only know about water bond due to the privilege of working with old school masters like yourself. The color joint should be filled with a cement grout slurry, and brick bond offset by half brick to eliminate the chance of cotaminated foul waste from ingress into surrounding subsoil if a blocked occurs. I love your style and your banter, it reminds me of my master, god bless his soul. Apologies for sounding like a t**t ✌️
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Great little video, I've done loads of these just after I finished my apprenticeship but these days it's all plastic, good to see it done properly.
Thanks Rob 👍
Nice, tidy job👍
I a used to do a lot of manholes when I was serving my time , did some big corbels on manholes with the clerk of works standing over me telling me how he wanted it and the foot iron spacings (he was a bricklayer )brings back some good old memories of younger days , a used to enjoy doing them actually 😉👍
Three three quarters and a closer should bring it back to bond😄😀😀
Do you have to build the first course on a footing of a certain depth?
Yes, all these details should be on the drawing or BC wil make that decision
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Thanks.
“Look, nice turd going along there.”
That benching is the dogs bollocks
I remember being told I was getting "time and a turd" for building my first manhole.It was only when a big turd splattered by boot that the penny dropped!!
I can remember watching an old paddy polishing up a manhole with a light ale bottle😂😂🕺
Very nice manhole there mate 👌🏼 tbh never done it this way mine looks like concrete blocks lol and uh great finish around the tubing
Concrete blocks probably good enough Jay, this was just the old standard specified by the architect, even though I moan I enjoy working the old ways 👍
Nice job.We used to rub them up with dry sand and cement 2:1 on a bit of rag polishes up nicely and fills all the holes in
Awesome content very well constructed man hole and top tips for overhanging bricks to save on closures. Benching spot on 👌🏻
My dad was a plumber and I brought his old set of drain rods when I moved to Spain in 2003 - put them in the shed and forgot about them. Had a Spanish contractor make a bathroom extension on the house - plumbers, builders, electricians, plasterers all coming and going, you know how it is, you don't even catch there names. Anyway about a year later I thought the chimney needed sweeping so I went to get the rods and some bastard had swiped them. Not only that, they were wrapped up in plastic sheet and they'd gone to the trouble of replacing the rods with bamboo and wraopping them up again! Wankers!
Someone nicked mine in Spain, you never used to be able to buy them think you can now.
Looks pukka, bit better than a plastic channel and rings 😂
How do you connect a modern 110mm pipe into these old clay manhole foul half pipes?
@@Hew.Jarsol If you are talking about in the manhole you have to break into it and fit a purpose made plastic slow bend, can be a hell of a job, better if Building Control allow you to install a tumble system where the pipe enters the manhole higher.
I am going to be doing something very similar but smaller for multiple open french drains. I have conpacted down some hardcore for where it will sit as there is soaking wet clay where i am putting it. I am worried that when i pour the concrete base and build the brick walls the water will want to go under the chamber where the hardcore is. do you think this will be a problem? Its annoying because i was planning on doing this tonight but this worry has entered my brain!
@@benbutcher1595 If its compacted well and dense it shouldn't attract to much water.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Thanks for the reply boss really appreciate it 👌
i spent a couple of months in roydon just building manholes ,the place was some sort of communications site and most of the manholes were inspection pits for cables , all different depths some of the deep ones had the foot irons in them the digger used to lift me out with the bucket , a bricklayer working on the main building said you must be bored .....no mate im left alone got me radio while your knocking yer bollox out
You know 👍
Hi Andy, did you have to build in masonry or is it just what you prefer? I had to do one a couple of years ago and we used plastic manhole risers and it worked well.
Basically we exposed the 9" pipe and cut out a section of the top half like you've done. Brought in the new pipe on the angle in the flow direction. Then just got a 600mm riser chamber section, offered it over everything and neatly scribed over all the pipes. Concreted all around the outside of the chamber and the benched inside with a granno and cement mix.
Can be done like that Joe, concrete rings , square sections etc just sometimes it's quicker old school as you can get over stuff with brickwork 👍 also that's what the Architect specified.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 i must admit it's nice to see the traditional methods. I've been in the building game for 19 years now and not come across anybody building a brick manhole. Good stuff Andy 👍
Very experienced craftsman
Shouldn't have to do 'waterbond'. If a manhole backs up its nothing to do with the brickwork . Blame the pipelayers .
Very cold this week as you know and this is my revision of a little project of mine as I've never built a manhole being a pup 👍🇬🇧
If losing bond. I would lay a marker brick in the middle *in bond* then work back from it. To give correct bond.. Keep up the good work brickmates
Nice work pal . Do you start building off a small foundation ?
Yes mate.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277would you just do a full square foundation up to and under the pipe or keep it below the pipe ? Cant seem to see any details on this part
@@JackCadet-jo2lj Have look at my other vid "Manhole Monday" at 13 minutes 👍
Benching looks well tidy 💪
What's the reason for the corble on one side??
Brings it over to the size of the MH cover.
Have the same problem with my van Andy, get it tidied a few days later it's like a grenades been launched into it 😂 lovely work as usual
There wanting footing looking like facework, thats why I stick to the supers no back ache
I can't stand footings mate, never did👍
Most we do on site is bt boxes, back breaking work 🤣
Love the videos mate not many of the proper brickies left like you now 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Built hundreds of them hoping about on one leg in a hole what’s not to like ?
Amazing brick work and very helpful video .. thanks
Nice bit of good old fashioned manhole construction.
Beautiful bit of benching there too chaps , love it .
And finally those old pointing trowels looked perfect 👌🏼🤩🧱👍🏽
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Used to be flushed up every course bagged finished inside step iron every 4 leave out 4 half brick headers out to hold 4x3 to hold your scaffold up an a deep one built one once 14ft deep 100 bricks a course used lines it was so big all in double frog southwaters hate to think what it would cost ...
They were a heavy brick them Southwaters 👍
Only 8 minutes in watching and a thought right away, what kind of depth would require step irons too start being fitted??? Don’t know myself without looking it up but I would bet you know straight of the top of your head Andy👍🏻
It used to be around 4 feet, not done one for a long time👍
Thanks for the video Andy mate interesting on the manhole cheers. 🤟
Well done boys. Rats or that turd🤣. I didn't think you would both with tea Andy🤣. Buy a tea in Wetherspoon and then it's free👍. Tidy up that van Andy and you wont find anything 🤣.
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What type of Rose trowels are you guys using? ,thinking of changing from Marshalltown , what would you recommend? , cheers , keep up the good work 👍
I normally use a vintage WHS but sometimes a Rose, always a narrow London for bricks for me.
I have seen a lot of clay brick for manholes and catchbasins here in the US, but how do they hold up there? The salt and weather fluctuations here spalls them. I like to use concrete solid block or brick.
The clay bricks we normally use for this are Engineering bricks, they don't spall and are pretty much waterproof, the ones we used on this job are actually made from concrete 👍
I was taught to be carfull who ya learn from. I've watched your video after being self taught after working with a few but I would love to learn from you. Can you let me know if you can teach us the old school way. Cheers mate.
I don't really do teaching , I just hope people learn a bit from my vids 👍
Why have you not used water bond on the manhole that's they way I was taught on my apprenticeship 35 years ago
Only use water bond if specified on the drawing, ,95% of manholes are built in English Bond.
How long did that take to build in total? I’ve got 16 of the fuc’ers to do next week and I’m dreading it
They take as long as they take mate, daywork job,all level work , benching have to wait to point them up, only do them on price if they are really big.
Nice hat👍
Bet you get in trouble with that surname
Tasty work lads ,watch out for the floaters 😜
Hi Andy. For best results on benching use sharp sand mix 1.1.
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Neat job on benching manhole well done 😀
Love that old ducks foot trowel,
that's a skill no longer seen
Do ou not do water bond for man holes down south sir 😊 great work
Only ever had it specified once, normally it just says 215mm Bwk but we always do English Bond.
All due respect Sir. Wrong bond man, should be water bond. Fare play old man, New School!! 🥰
I've only done water bond once in my life,English Bond is always specified
All due respect Sir. Building regs does only specify 9" brickwork. I only know about water bond due to the privilege of working with old school masters like yourself. The color joint should be filled with a cement grout slurry, and brick bond offset by half brick to eliminate the chance of cotaminated foul waste from ingress into surrounding subsoil if a blocked occurs. I love your style and your banter, it reminds me of my master, god bless his soul. Apologies for sounding like a t**t ✌️
@@Stennmass No probs fella 👍
Good work!
Used to do a lot of manholes back in the day not so much now 👍
Rare now aren't they.
Slavi Ukraine 🇺🇦
Easier just to build it a brick size and corbel it to fit the cover.
I did
To be fair I watched the video and understood the corbel. I'm not a bricky by any means but admire the skill involved
Top class
Benching like glass
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