They might be small jobs but many people do not realise how important those jobs are, left unchecked they could cost thousands of pounds down the line. Attention to detail is everything, thankfully there are Tradesmen like you lads left.
Just a quick question, what grout do you use for the heli-ties? we use a crack stitching kit and the grout is in powder and liquid polymer form to be mixed together. Looks so much easier using the grout from a tube. The stuff we use is a ball ache
@@Theoldbricklayer I will have to convince the boss to change over to how you buy them. He insists the kit is cheaper. I can't see how when you get a whisk, a dinging iron that isn't worth the metal it's made out of and a plunger gun in every kit. Thank you for the reply 👍🏻
The house I grew up in My mom n dad built in the early 50s was 4” block then red brick on out side with plaster on the inside with metal casement windows , with formed and poured windowsills whoever formed the windowsills did not seal it very well and cement rundown on the red brick In a few places lol !!
@ yep water ran into the basement by gravity, but would not run up in through the Spicket s so it ran into a tank with a pump overflowed out the top ran in a ditch to the corner of a full basement, laid up through a hole underneath the footer and down over the bank into the ditch in the road ! It came from about a quarter mile up through the fields from another farm through galvanized pipe that ran down to the old farmhouse that I live in now then to his milk barn and then 900 feet up the road to his house where he had built !! we appreciate your hard work, providing us some good videos for sure!
@ChooseLife.YourLife I know, but it's supposed to be drilled and anchored into the brick, not the soft mortar! Apart from that, the job was done excellent 👌
@Theoldbricklayer It is stronger in the brick I had it done on my downpipe all the ones in the brick are still there and the one they put in the mortar fucked up after a year and I had to re do it
and i thought the old bricklayer would of talked the customer into a nice corbel , look better than that horrible concreate thing ) , top repair job tho ) n good use of resin and resiliant bar
Working for cash is really bad, you should declare and do everything by the book, the government deserve t I can´t do it lol. I cannot even finish saying that rubbish without laughing so much that I cannot type
@Pobsta-de7hb As a 69 year old retired trowel , all I can say is ........ Cash is KING . Hope you both have a great Christmas and I love the vids . 👍🏴
@@johnbowkett80 Oh believe me I know, I was just kidding and wanted to try and pretend that it isn´t but I couldn´t do it lol In fact I have a skip on my drive in which I paid the geezer 200 quid cash, rather than him having to wack it in his books, every little helps, who ever gets it. Have a great Christmas as well mate o/
They might be small jobs but many people do not realise how important those jobs are, left unchecked they could cost thousands of pounds down the line. Attention to detail is everything, thankfully there are Tradesmen like you lads left.
The most under rated people on the planet, builders. Nice job, useful work, that we all need. Peace and goodwill
Have a great weekend
lovely job guys that lintel looked spot on.
@@adam-p4n9p thank you have a great weekend
I have never seen a lintel like that before. Fascinating.
Aye Old Bricky, you keep the old trowel in the warm - it’s done the hard yards!
Hello from Glasgow and have a good shift if you’re both out today.
He’s in the warm I’m out blocking up a couple of windows inside a house. Have a great Sunday
I hate replacing those! Always stressful Always praying nothing drops! Good job replacing it!
Went like a dream this one
You make it look so easy.
Great job guys
Thank have a nice weekend
Was nice meeting you yesterday in the car park at the deliwar pavilion
@@GarthBaker-o1u thanks nice to meet you have a great Christmas
Really good work ben, and old brickie. Looking good 👍
Thanks have a nice weekend
Hi Ben just wanted to wish you and your dad a very happy Christmas to you both and your family all the best for 2025 🎅🙏👍
Thanks very much have a great Christmas
Top work enjoy your break
Thanks . Have a great Christmas
Beautiful little job for a couple of hours bring on next video 😊
Next video should be Tuesday
@@Theoldbricklayer brilliant thanks
I hope everything’s OK over there !
Great thanks just having a well deserved break new vids after Xmas. Have a great Christmas
Nicely done tidy 👍
Thank you have a nice weekend
Just a quick question, what grout do you use for the heli-ties? we use a crack stitching kit and the grout is in powder and liquid polymer form to be mixed together. Looks so much easier using the grout from a tube. The stuff we use is a ball ache
Rawplug R-kem resin from screwfix
@Theoldbricklayer thank you, will be grabbing some next heli tie job
@ the kits work out far to expensive so I get my bars and rolls from eBay and the resin from screwfix …..
@@Theoldbricklayer I will have to convince the boss to change over to how you buy them. He insists the kit is cheaper. I can't see how when you get a whisk, a dinging iron that isn't worth the metal it's made out of and a plunger gun in every kit. Thank you for the reply 👍🏻
What are those rods for? and what are they made off?
@@anthonykinrade8642 heli bars made of stainless steel
When you say you used slate below and resin above the lintel, what resin do you use?
Resin from screwfix
I appreciate you’ve replaced like for like, but surely that home should never have been built like that!
I can’t help how it was designed and built
Nicely done 👍
Thank you
Lovely job lads
Thanks have a nice weekend
Nice work!
Thank you
Have you got more to do on this house seen all the scaffolding
Yes got to repoint the bottom lift of the back of house and install 2 lintels on the back
You have to feel for the next brickie, whose grinder will catch badly on those tie rods.
nice job mate
Thank you have a nice weekend
Could you not corble the brickwork?
Could do but that would cost more
Well done ! 👍
Thank you have a nice weekend
Quality job.
Thank you have a great Sunday
Nice job
Thank you have a nice weekend
Merry Christmas hard working/editing/pointing/dating/breakfasting fellows and family 🙏👍🏽👌🏽🥳
Thank you have a great Christmas
HOPE YA BOTH HAVE A GOOD CHRISTMAS AN NEW YEAR 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks same to you
Why put slate in and resin what does this actually do?
Holds it in solid before I pack it with mortar
The house I grew up in My mom n dad built in the early 50s was 4” block then red brick on out side with plaster on the inside with metal casement windows , with formed and poured windowsills whoever formed the windowsills did not seal it very well and cement rundown on the red brick In a few places lol !!
Prob still be standing when they knock the new houses down
@ yep water ran into the basement by gravity, but would not run up in through the Spicket s so it ran into a tank with a pump overflowed out the top ran in a ditch to the corner of a full basement, laid up through a hole underneath the footer and down over the bank into the ditch in the road ! It came from about a quarter mile up through the fields from another farm through galvanized pipe that ran down to the old farmhouse that I live in now then to his milk barn and then 900 feet up the road to his house where he had built !! we appreciate your hard work, providing us some good videos for sure!
Proper job!
Thank you have a nice weekend
Why resin?
Just holds it in place very quickly
I have always felt that a cantilever lentil or beam support should be triple the length if the length it’s holding up but i was wrong one day !
It’s only holding up about 10 bricks that are white light weight ….
Resin that’s the trick. I do the same always
Slated it first to keep it in place then resin worked a treat
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TROWEL 😂
😂😂😂
The council houses near me have those lintels
So your home has those lintel?
@ nah I’m in a council flat
Good job with that horrible feature, why wasnt it built as a corbel in the first place?
No idea to be honest
70s Architecture, the ones round my way are 3 course deep and weigh a ton. I've seen builders leave them in on 2 storey extensions it looks awfully.
Good job lads 💪🧱
Have to be a huge corbel ..... The depth of that soffit.. 🏴
I will answer for you Ben , yes it is cold old bricklayer , manners dear boy manners friendly advise
Getting that mortar in with gun on the sly....😂. Or was it indoor pva for a solid fix...
8 days and no video…everything ok my friend?
@@potta061 yes great thanks to windy to film so new vids will be in January as I’ve packed up for Christmas……
@ yes sir! Have a lovely Christmas with the family. Will catch up in the new year
@@potta061 thank you. Have a great Christmas and new year
Wimpey houses they was still doing that detail i9i the late 70s. I know because I worked for wimpey homes then
Went down well with my fish fingers chips and beans
Enjoy 👍🏽
Nice I went out for a steak and chicken wings
Luck or judgment getting that👏
Pure skill 👍
@@Theoldbricklayer😂
😂😂😂
Good job apart from rawplugs in the mortar 9/10
They were for the gutter
@ChooseLife.YourLife I know, but it's supposed to be drilled and anchored into the brick, not the soft mortar! Apart from that, the job was done excellent 👌
No it don’t have to be drilled into the brick
@Theoldbricklayer It is stronger in the brick I had it done on my downpipe all the ones in the brick are still there and the one they put in the mortar fucked up after a year and I had to re do it
Work in haste repent at leisure.. like yall were never there. Nice work.
Thanks have a nice weekend
and i thought the old bricklayer would of talked the customer into a nice corbel , look better than that horrible concreate thing ) , top repair job tho ) n good use of resin and resiliant bar
Yeah some times it’s about cost.
Tradesman, can put up with getting overcharged. It’s when they do that and then do a rubbish job that boils my piss.
Should have corbaled it and got rid of the lintel.
Big price difference
@Theoldbricklayer guess it would not have been in keeping with the rest of the house either.
I would have redesigned that considering it rusted it's a poor design
Maybe dressed it with lead and form a small drip on it
It’s been there nearly 50 years not done to bad
That ain't going nowhere 😁
Solid job
Nice job but I prefer to see a nice brick corbel which in my opinion looks far better.
We can do them no problem but Costs more than a lintel change
If costs are a problem for the customer you’re absolutely right .
Who’s actually going to look there ?
Someone who appreciates good brickwork 🤔
£1.000 job ...... For cash . 👍🏴
Working for cash is really bad, you should declare and do everything by the book, the government deserve t
I can´t do it lol. I cannot even finish saying that rubbish without laughing so much that I cannot type
@Pobsta-de7hb As a 69 year old retired trowel , all I can say is ........ Cash is KING . Hope you both have a great Christmas and I love the vids . 👍🏴
@@johnbowkett80 Oh believe me I know, I was just kidding and wanted to try and pretend that it isn´t but I couldn´t do it lol
In fact I have a skip on my drive in which I paid the geezer 200 quid cash, rather than him having to wack it in his books, every little helps, who ever gets it. Have a great Christmas as well mate o/
Again same approach I’d take strong boy and resin helps obviously the old man’s idea ✌🏻
Resin and slate made it solid went very will this one
How shit does that look lol
Couldn’t they have had a bit stone made 150 mm depth or more as a feature to. 1970’s crap