Guess who’s back? Haha Nah I finished the first course of blocks now buddy, so now I’m watching how it’s done with strings instead of free handing it like I did for the first course. It was a nightmare overcoming all the undulations in all the separate footings, but every single block is perfectly level along the length and width now… though some of the mortar beds are huge 😆 When it comes to doing several courses in a day, which I’m hoping to do now, how many can you do with blocks on flat? I’m always amazed that the weight of the ones on the next course doesn’t dislodge the ones on the course below, even though they’ve been freshly laid!
That’s good that you’ve got the first course sorted! I sometimes ping a chalk line on the floor too so I can see a line on the floor and also have a line up on the blocks. A line can never be wrong unless it moves and you’ve not realised 🤣. You can basically go as high as you want in a day with block on flat unless it becomes wobbly (which is rare with block on flat) the mortar beds won’t squash out unless the blocks were dripping wet but then you wouldn’t be laying if it was raining that much. Block on edge is a different story as a wall can become wobbly when you haven’t even gone that high in a day
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Guess who’s back? Haha
Nah I finished the first course of blocks now buddy, so now I’m watching how it’s done with strings instead of free handing it like I did for the first course.
It was a nightmare overcoming all the undulations in all the separate footings, but every single block is perfectly level along the length and width now… though some of the mortar beds are huge 😆
When it comes to doing several courses in a day, which I’m hoping to do now, how many can you do with blocks on flat? I’m always amazed that the weight of the ones on the next course doesn’t dislodge the ones on the course below, even though they’ve been freshly laid!
That’s good that you’ve got the first course sorted! I sometimes ping a chalk line on the floor too so I can see a line on the floor and also have a line up on the blocks. A line can never be wrong unless it moves and you’ve not realised 🤣.
You can basically go as high as you want in a day with block on flat unless it becomes wobbly (which is rare with block on flat) the mortar beds won’t squash out unless the blocks were dripping wet but then you wouldn’t be laying if it was raining that much. Block on edge is a different story as a wall can become wobbly when you haven’t even gone that high in a day
Can’t beat the block on flat walls when it comes to making the bobs .
Yea, as long as you have someone tidy on the mixer! Luckily we had a diesel mixer on this job so could mix plenty up in one go...
@@SamDaviesBuilder definitely Sam , you’d want one guy constantly on the mixer if you have 2 brickies laying block on flat .
@@brickbybric yea, on this job we had 3 laying so that mixer didn’t turn off at all. We went through a lot of sand too!