I was taught to bed the DPC onto a thin mortar bed. Also in the the first shot of laying your bricks, the course already laid looks like it has odd width joints, up to 20mm+ on the last two bricks on both courses, and I didn’t see a spirit level used once whilst laying...!!
Stuart Nagle I wasn’t ever taught to bed DPC . As for the perps I could have made them 10mm but had a 3/4 in all 3 walls so I think the big perps are the lesser of 2 evils 🧱👍🏼
Hi just just watched if over mist it was at the kabab shop lol better viewing with a kabab and a beer lol cracking job so far on the brickwork looks fantastic 👍👍👍
Another cracking job well underway lads! 👍👍👍 Dunno how you work all day off of those low down spot boards. Makes my back cry just watching! Got myself some of the plasterers stands that Charlie uses on his channel. World of difference and they take up no space In the van too.
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thank you for that, I build lots rear extensions and always get my corners up but often think it would be quicker with the profiles- you certainly get a speed on
King . Greetings down under mate , thanks for checking our channel out . It certainly is raining a lot , where you have had the fires we have our wettest February on record and many floods . We are lucky to avoid flooding but we have lost many days work to the rain and being self employed no work .. no pay . Fingers crossed spring will be a good one 🤞🏼🧱👍🏼
Fair play to you lads for getting anything done in this weather! It's beginning to get on my thrupenny bits now! Opened the curtains this morning and it's snowing.😭 Hope we catch a break soon....have a good weekend boys.
Thought you forgot your wall starters Steve, then i saw your Blue Birds. Job going well and you work very well as a team. Flying up ! Looking forward to next upload
Spot on guys 👌 The visqueen bit made me laugh, what was alex thinking with putting the ties it under that dpc, tut tut 😂. Nothing like the old school. Enjoy your friday evening, up to much? All the best guys RJM👍⚒🇬🇧
RJM Bricklaying & Outdoors . Every day is a school day . We rarely use tie wires down in the mud during the week . We are hunkered down out of this orrible weather . Doing a fence job this weekend . Not got a fence video yet 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh yes 😁. It's not the Georgy best down here either. Will be good content, and something different, breaks up the slashing too. 👍⚒🇬🇧
Thanks fellas. You guys smashed it as usual. Love the wooden profiles at the house end. Need to come up with an idea. As the garden wall im doing the has just been k rendered. So cant put a piece of skirtting with nails damaging the k rend. Any ideas please. Thanks guys
It takes a lot of graft ,Loading, laying ,cleaning ect to grab a crust especially in this weather ( now three storms in three weeks ) respects given.🧱👍🎥💪
Hiya boys, just got a new phone tonight so had to subscribe again 👍👍. Another great video as always. 😄 I've sussed why Al had the hump - it's because you've taken "Tinker" away again and left him with that manky black barrow 🤣🤣🤣. Hope you have a great week boys. Regards Tim
Young Alex is lucky to have you keeping him right he wasn't thinking tucking that tie under the dpm, personally I always like to bed down dpc as I was taught in 1990 but I have worked with many that don't or just fill the hole or frog so neither here or there I reckon but I find it also helps grab the dpc and stops it moving around when laying also what's your thoughts on vertical dpc or opening up cavity on existing house and insulating to stop cold bridging, I like to as a min put a vertical dpc in as its only a run up wall with con saw and slipping in dpc just to put my mind at ease but as per usual good upload, it's funny doing this all week then when of watching others on utube at the same, obviously must love it even though I moan like a old woman most of the week 👍
wheaten bread . I started off watching and now look , I spent half my bloody evenings editing ! I did specifically ask our building inspector about the cavity and a vertical DPC and he said he didn’t see any need for either . On our last extension that inspector wanted one in . 🧱🧱👍🏼
Why do some extensions have a cavity tray and weeps at the dpc level and some do not? I do lots of brickwork but only steps and garden wall ext so not sure about this part of the building process
Finding good builders like these guys is near on impossible. I need a fair bit of repairs doing to my house but just cannot trust builders nowadays, shame really.
Another great production. I presume it’s speeded up in parts. Even you boys don’t work that quick 😂😂. Keep up the good work thanks for taking the time to film. All the best Pete.
It's about time I got some profiles. 13 year in the trade and I need to start to make life easy for myself. Unfortunately the lad I work with has over 40 years, is old fashioned, and hates using anything that makes it easier. 😂
Had mine 32 years now and still going strong 💪🏽. They are not only quicker they are more accurate than corners 👌🏼. Just google Blake’s Profiles you won’t regret it 🧱👍🏼
Jawad Ali Gi Jawad we use bluebird ties to tie the extension to the house and we have never bedded their dpc and people very rarely do in our neck of the woods 🧱👍🏽
Hi guys Do you not disc in a vertical damp back of the outside skin or break into cavity of the existing house,what’s to stop the water passing through if the brickwork of the main house gets saturated ?or have I missed something you’ve done later? Great video and workmanship by the way
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex typical B/Inspector just a Labouer with his brains smashed out,the reason most inspectors go from being on the tools to a shirt and tie job is because 9 out of 10 times they were shit on the tools,they can’t give an answer to a question on site because they don’t know until they go back and look it up or google it🤔🙄 Nice job boys👍
Genuine question lads.... I'm not a builder, just very keen on watching you lads perform your trade, so... Were wall starters not required in this instance?
Liam G . I would run a vertical DPC up the wall where your garden wall meets it . A garden wall gets much wetter than a house wall and stays wet so more chance of damp tracking through 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Jack Leigh . It’s just a simple roof batten nailed with a masonry nail . Simple but saves loads of time . Just make sure you have your line coming off the bottom of your pin 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Hi Steve love the channel and the work you both do. Ive been on the trowel 3 years now loved watching and learning from you both 👍. What do you do with the void in the cavity at dpc? Fill then rest the insulation on the first course of ties? All the best mate keep up the good work 👍
brickpug * Thanks pal glad you enjoy the channel and well chuffed they we have helped you 👌🏼. The cavity must be clear a minimum of 150 mm below dpc 🧱👍🏽
It's great to watch after doing it all day for some reason 🤣 forgive me if this sounds silly I've only done houses never been in footings. On our site once the footing is handed over to us it has full fill insulation batts level with top of brickwork then the visqueen/membrane lapped over to brickwork so is the void filled when it shouldn't be? As we put our tray on top of the membrane there is no 150 gap in the cavity 😯🙄. Ps your mortar looks so good compared to our horrible sticky silo muck 😭🧱🧱👍
brickpug * The insulation below dpc is to stop cold bridging at slab level , different builders interpret the regs differently. I’m sure what your following is spot on . You start where we finish , dpc 👌🏼. I started watching brickies videos and I thought me and Al can do that . 21 months later we have our own channel chatting to lads like yourself 👍🏽🧱🧱👍🏽
Nice one fellas 🙌🏻 love it , it would be good if in the future you could do a video on gas membrane dpc taping to tray etc I no everyone has there own way , but would love to see how you guys do it 👍 keep it up nice one Steve
We never get involved with the gas membrane as we only do foundations . We only build up to dpc . Never had an extension that needed a gas membrane 😬🧱🧱👍🏽
Good watch again guys, seem to be quite a good worker even when yer just on yer own Steve good graft! 👍🏻 l love all the keyboard warriors putting the world to right over a bit of damp course 😂🤔 keep up the graft in this shitey weather
Fellas when my labourer loads out my block I get him to do it in three's, two reasons, one it let's the block dry out if they are wet and two I don't keep jamming my fingers like when they are in fours
@@SteveAndAlexBuild I do have a 10inch marshal town but looking for an 11inch but to pay £40 is a bit to much. You've really helped me out thank you so much.
@@SteveAndAlexBuild fair play mate. Thanks for clarifying. Top work as usual considering the conditions. I always feel for the brickies this time of year and weather we get 👍
I'm not a brickie but like watching other trades. I was wondering if you've tried the pick and dip method? It looks like a genuine alternative to the trad way. Thanks
James O'Sullivan Thanks james . Deffo domestic , after 10 years the foundations are taking their toll on me . Site work though Is guaranteed work and there isn’t enough domestic work to keep us going full time 👌🏼👍🏽🧱
Limber w rose trowel best about lower lift on the shank no so much bend on wrist. Also light as a feather in the hand. Good flex in the blade. Just what used to and prefer.
The perforations in the top course should be filled and all DPC's bedded and flush with the face of the brickwork, not bridged , the abutments to the existing should have a vertical DPC installed as in accordance with the NBS, current codes of practice along with the manufacturer's guidelines.
@@martin2466 As a timed served bricklayer serving a five-year apprenticeship also a Clerk of Works and a lecturer in brickwork, through my time on site I have seen many failings and problems caused by not carrying out work in accordance with the standards, the manufacturers guarantee their products and if not installed in the correct manner that guarantee becomes void.
Martin yes I am a fellow member of the I.CW.C.I do you want my number to check my authenticity? I don't lie and would gladly give you that and also I am a former member of the Guild of Bricklayers.
@@martin2466 Thanks very much for your reply, I was not in no way offended by your comments, I have been in the industry form the age of 15 to present-day which I am now in my mature years, as a Clerk of Works I have certainly had my fair share of fire fighting to lift the standards. All the best, Mike Smith F.I.C.W.C.I.
Good video I like your vids-:)...I bought some profile line holder from Jubilee (plastic orange type) they wouldn't fit the profile..Just looking at yours they seem easy to use!
Chris Longhurst Thanks Chris , the feeling is mutual 👍🏽. They are the Blake’s profiles with the Blake’s clips , I can’t rate them highly enough . Had my set (2 externals , 2 intermediates ) since I was an apprentice back in 1988 and they as good as they were back then . Very reasonable too 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild hahaha back in the day aye,...I also bought the Mustang profiles, but found them a bit to heavy- they were pulling the brickwork-:(
Hello fellas, hope you're well. Quick question - I've seen you voluntarily work overhand in a few videos now and I was just wondering why this is? In this video it's the neighbours side and they may not want you on their side, but you point it up overhand too? Just wondering why.
Adam Flint . I served my time building houses right up to the roof overhand and did conservatories for 14 years . To be honest everything is handy working from inside and it’s easier to trestle out too 👌🏼👍🏽🧱
Tom Vincent Thanks Tom , sold it at a car boot sale years ago . I would only ever use a stand if we were mixing concrete and tipping into barrows which we never do . They are heavy and cumbersome and just get in the way in the back of the van ....... apart from that I love them 😂😂🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh and. You bickering with your boy made me laugh. Reminds me what I used to be like with my old man as an apprentice. Always thought I was right. But I'm 30 now and I am right haha
bill baranko . Time served means we have done a bricklaying apprenticeship and have certificates to prove we are qualified. The experience comes over the next 30 years as we are all always learning 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Time served my time 1970 a day a week in technical collage for four years. did one more year as under 20 so 5 year did not have do last year all paper work exam in year 3 and 4 city and guilds
Paul I did the same at Wigan Tech as me and mike my fellow apprentice were in the tools already we were allowed to skip year 1 so did year 2 and advanced in year 3 🧱👍🏽
Steve plz don’t take offence to this but you can’t half graft for an older man. I hope I’m like that at your age! You can tell you look after yourself physically 👍
Also if I was caught laying a brick with a glove on I’d get a brick thrown at me by my uncle as you can’t feel the brick. Old School methods maybe. Also too much bed being put down if you are taping the bricks, should be able to push down, scrape off and reuse for next joint on brick, over the course of a days laying you will lay an extra 100-150 bricks doing this
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Lovely job fella's, the knackered tape made me smile!
Jim Jam . Cheers pal 😂, that tape has since been retired 🧱👍🏼
Need more info on the timber you use for a profile on the wall and how you fix your line to it 😊
Stay tuned 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuildhi Steve and Alex I want to see this too can you do a tutorial and show us how you fix the Barton to wall with the string ?
Loved it....Over 20 minutes of bliss.
john lewis Nice one thanks John 🧱👍🏽
Great craftsmanship as per usual boys, have a good weekend , cheers 👍
Cheers peter you you too 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Why am I watching this, very therapeutic, good music and editing, thanks guys, enjoyed it ALOT.
Mark Newman . Cheers Mark , that’s great to hear nice one 🧱👍🏼
I was taught to bed the DPC onto a thin mortar bed. Also in the the first shot of laying your bricks, the course already laid looks like it has odd width joints, up to 20mm+ on the last two bricks on both courses, and I didn’t see a spirit level used once whilst laying...!!
Stuart Nagle I wasn’t ever taught to bed DPC . As for the perps I could have made them 10mm but had a 3/4 in all 3 walls so I think the big perps are the lesser of 2 evils 🧱👍🏼
There are profiles up so don’t need to use a level !
Neil Smart . Common sense reply , Thankyou Neil 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Hi just just watched if over mist it was at the kabab shop lol better viewing with a kabab and a beer lol cracking job so far on the brickwork looks fantastic 👍👍👍
Cheers Mark , glad the kebab and beer were worth the written warning 😂😂🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild 😂😂😂my gaffa sent me she was hungry lol😂😂😂
Mark Hep Ah fair enough 😬😂🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild 😂😂👍👍👍
Nice work Boys.I like to see a job tidied up at the end of the day, puts you in the right frame of mind when you get to the job in the morning.
It certainly does mate 👌🏼🧱👍🏽,
Thanks for watching and commenting 👌🏼
another quality job lads keep em coming
Tonto D Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
Another cracking job well underway lads! 👍👍👍
Dunno how you work all day off of those low down spot boards. Makes my back cry just watching! Got myself some of the plasterers stands that Charlie uses on his channel. World of difference and they take up no space In the van too.
We would hardly use them as we are in the foundations most of the time .
Just double up on the crates if you have enough
Ah that's where I went wrong I had served time bricklayer on my van . I wondered why it was quiet
David Burt haha, nice one 👍
😂😂love it 🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild what do you think of this one . Tooled up for every job . I've ordered 5000 drop cards 👍
David Burt . Is that enough ?🤔😂🧱👍🏽
Great work once again. Its amazing how things go up
Nigel bob . It’s a great little job , a nice change to houses . You really see it progress quite quick 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Proper brickies tape that! Had a few like that! Top work lads.
Rick T covered in mud and half the numbers missing ? 😬😂🧱👍🏼
Great video, can you tell me please, I’ve never used profiles- how do you attach the string at the house wall? Thank you Jules
Hi pal , we nail a batten to the wall and push the pin in behind that, works a treat 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thank you for that, I build lots rear extensions and always get my corners up but often think it would be quicker with the profiles- you certainly get a speed on
@@julianowens4071 you can also use intermediates as we did in our latest build 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Nice and tidy work there guys , yes profiles are good to work 👌🏻😁 , first bricks than blocks reminds me when I started bricklaying 😎
Jay Puyenbroeck Thanks Jay , gotta love a good profile 😉💪🏽🧱👍🏼
Aussie bricky here. Nice job by the way fellas! seems to be always bloody raining in the UK, must be frustrating!
King . Greetings down under mate , thanks for checking our channel out . It certainly is raining a lot , where you have had the fires we have our wettest February on record and many floods . We are lucky to avoid flooding but we have lost many days work to the rain and being self employed no work .. no pay . Fingers crossed spring will be a good one 🤞🏼🧱👍🏼
Fair play to you lads for getting anything done in this weather! It's beginning to get on my thrupenny bits now! Opened the curtains this morning and it's snowing.😭 Hope we catch a break soon....have a good weekend boys.
Jim Newlands . Cheers Jim we got a good day today . A nice bit of fencing this weekend so these storms have their up sides 😏😉🧱👍🏽
Thought you forgot your wall starters Steve, then i saw your Blue Birds. Job going well and you work very well as a team. Flying up ! Looking forward to next upload
Spartrowel . Thanks pal Alex is so great to work with ☺️🧱👍🏽
Spot on guys 👌
The visqueen bit made me laugh, what was alex thinking with putting the ties it under that dpc, tut tut 😂. Nothing like the old school.
Enjoy your friday evening, up to much?
All the best guys
RJM👍⚒🇬🇧
RJM Bricklaying & Outdoors . Every day is a school day . We rarely use tie wires down in the mud during the week .
We are hunkered down out of this orrible weather . Doing a fence job this weekend . Not got a fence video yet 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh yes 😁.
It's not the Georgy best down here either.
Will be good content, and something different, breaks up the slashing too. 👍⚒🇬🇧
RJM Bricklaying & Outdoors Absolutely Ryan , love a bit of fencing 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Thanks fellas. You guys smashed it as usual. Love the wooden profiles at the house end. Need to come up with an idea. As the garden wall im doing the has just been k rendered. So cant put a piece of skirtting with nails damaging the k rend. Any ideas please. Thanks guys
Joanna Roome . No choice but to put a corner up pal . Not a good idea banging nails into new k rend 😬🧱👍🏽
It takes a lot of graft ,Loading, laying ,cleaning ect to grab a crust especially in this weather ( now three storms in three weeks ) respects given.🧱👍🎥💪
Ronnie Biggs . Cheers Ronnie it certainly ain’t fun lately 😬🧱👍🏼
Not bad brick match..and nice go see some overhand too..🌦
my pencil ART. Wayne Bailey Cheers Wayne , yes a good match for a change 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Hiya boys, just got a new phone tonight so had to subscribe again 👍👍. Another great video as always. 😄
I've sussed why Al had the hump - it's because you've taken "Tinker" away again and left him with that manky black barrow 🤣🤣🤣.
Hope you have a great week boys.
Regards
Tim
5000v8 . Hi Tim , it all makes sense now 😂🧱👍🏼
NICE WORK LADS!
J Don Thanks very much pal 🧱👍🏼
Young Alex is lucky to have you keeping him right he wasn't thinking tucking that tie under the dpm, personally I always like to bed down dpc as I was taught in 1990 but I have worked with many that don't or just fill the hole or frog so neither here or there I reckon but I find it also helps grab the dpc and stops it moving around when laying also what's your thoughts on vertical dpc or opening up cavity on existing house and insulating to stop cold bridging, I like to as a min put a vertical dpc in as its only a run up wall with con saw and slipping in dpc just to put my mind at ease but as per usual good upload, it's funny doing this all week then when of watching others on utube at the same, obviously must love it even though I moan like a old woman most of the week 👍
wheaten bread . I started off watching and now look , I spent half my bloody evenings editing ! I did specifically ask our building inspector about the cavity and a vertical DPC and he said he didn’t see any need for either . On our last extension that inspector wanted one in . 🧱🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild I suppose just depends on where you are and building inspector one says one thing another says something else👍
wheaten bread Exactly 🙄🧱👍🏼
Why do some extensions have a cavity tray and weeps at the dpc level and some do not? I do lots of brickwork but only steps and garden wall ext so not sure about this part of the building process
It all down to what building control want 😬🧱👍🏼
Finding good builders like these guys is near on impossible. I need a fair bit of repairs doing to my house but just cannot trust builders nowadays, shame really.
petemason57 . I heard an agent said “these days a bad bricky is better than no bricky “ .......that is a sad state of affairs 😔🧱👍🏼
Another great production. I presume it’s speeded up in parts. Even you boys don’t work that quick 😂😂. Keep up the good work thanks for taking the time to film. All the best Pete.
bamboo bushcraft Cheers Pete yeah some is timelapse to get more work in 😉🧱👍🏼
I’m learning some tips 👍 keep the vids coming 😎
Thanks that’s great to hear 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Cracking job guys 👌
MrStella1976 Thanks Mr Stella 🧱🧱👍🏼
Excellent craftsmanship guys 👍🍺
james swain Nice one thanks James 🧱👍🏽
классно работаете. Приятно смотреть на работу, материал, инструмент.Все для людей. У нас не так.
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How many courses do you normally take up the brickwork ready for tresseles.
We just go till it gets awkward on our own jobs . It all depends on the ground level 🧱👍🏽
How do you set the profile up to the existing building?
We nail a piece of wood to the wall and put the pin into that 👍🏼🧱
Poor old dad 😂 thanks for the video lads
Rob Cheers Rob Al is bigger than me now 🥺😂😂🧱👍🏽
Who you calling old
titans97740 . 😂😂🧱👍🏼
do you not need to bed the DPC on a fine bed of mortar first ?,,cheers
newry123 . Some do some don’t , it’s not a big issue if you don’t . 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild start building mind tomorrow,thanks again for the advice
newry123 Good to hear , best of luck pal 🧱👍🏼
DPC shoug aways be bedded. If you had COW inspecting your work , you would be taking down and bedding your DPC
@@Johndoe-fy1eg thanks
Another cracking start to the brickwork above d.p.c.
les gill . Cheers Les 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Nice job lads, keep it up!
jimichip . Thanks very much 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Proper job as always lads
mark dwyer Nice one thanks Mark 🧱👍🏽
I'm thumbs up you and I've not even seen the bid yet, bring it on
mickuljatheseagull 😂🧱👍🏽Thanks pal
It's about time I got some profiles. 13 year in the trade and I need to start to make life easy for myself. Unfortunately the lad I work with has over 40 years, is old fashioned, and hates using anything that makes it easier. 😂
Had mine 32 years now and still going strong 💪🏽. They are not only quicker they are more accurate than corners 👌🏼. Just google Blake’s Profiles you won’t regret it 🧱👍🏼
where did the one "dislike" come from?🤔🤔🤔
great job as always guys👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
alione s . Thanks pal that is our regular mystery disliker 😂😂🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Seems there are 9 dislikes now. Maybe they know nothing about quality building.
petemason57 😂😂🧱👍🏼
maybe an ex employee
alione s 😂😂🧱👍🏼
Hi, just 2 questions why didn't use use wall starter against the wall and why didn't you bed the DPC just good practice and secure?
Jawad Ali Gi Jawad we use bluebird ties to tie the extension to the house and we have never bedded their dpc and people very rarely do in our neck of the woods 🧱👍🏽
I hate the whole premier thing - the anticipation is killing me. 😁👌
MrT123 😬😂sorry pal . Be worth it on Friday
Hi guys
Do you not disc in a vertical damp back of the outside skin or break into cavity of the existing house,what’s to stop the water passing through if the brickwork of the main house gets saturated ?or have I missed something you’ve done later?
Great video and workmanship by the way
coggsy3036 I specifically asked our building inspector about this who said he didn’t want it 👍🏼🧱
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex typical B/Inspector just a Labouer with his brains smashed out,the reason most inspectors go from being on the tools to a shirt and tie job is because 9 out of 10 times they were shit on the tools,they can’t give an answer to a question on site because they don’t know until they go back and look it up or google it🤔🙄
Nice job boys👍
Where did you 2 find that wheelbarrow times must be hard
They are now 🥺
Great job lads, just wondering why you boys didn’t do the internal block work first? 👍
Jonathan Cleaves . I’m not keen on block first plus we can’t work from next doors garden 😬🧱👍🏼
I understand with the next door neighbor 😂 how do you go about fixing the insulation? Thanks for replying 👍👍
Jonathan Cleaves . We always use the fibreglass cavity batts 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Did u get profiles with gauge marks already on ,
John Holland No John , mine are over 30 years old 😬. I’d prefer them without anyway 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Genuine question lads.... I'm not a builder, just very keen on watching you lads perform your trade, so...
Were wall starters not required in this instance?
Rob . We use bluebird stainless steel screw in ties 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild ah ha! As I say bud - not a builder, just very interested :)
Rob . Cheers Rob we always answer every comment we can , thanks for the input 👌🏼👍🏼🧱
When you use those wall starters does it require a damp proofing of any kind ?
About to redo my garden wall myself which is connected to main house.
Liam G . I would run a vertical DPC up the wall where your garden wall meets it . A garden wall gets much wetter than a house wall and stays wet so more chance of damp tracking through 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Just realised that may have sounded a bit weird 😫 it was meant in the most unwiered way possible 😂😂
Joeybuilder0114 . It’s all in the editing 😬, I’m struggling with my hips lately but they seem to be on the mend 🤕💪🏽👍🏼
Why didn't you bed the DPC on?
Because we don’t bed dpc 🤷🏼♂️
Just subscribed.
Thanks very much and welcome to the channel 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
What are you using as a profile returning to the house/ how do you set it up and use it?
Jack Leigh . It’s just a simple roof batten nailed with a masonry nail . Simple but saves loads of time . Just make sure you have your line coming off the bottom of your pin 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Simple but very effective very good tip that. Will be using that from now on 😎💪🏿
L Milne You will wonder how you managed before 😉🧱👍🏽
I wish my mixer would spin as fast as yours.
john williams 😂😂😉🧱👍🏽
Hi there so with these profiles they are slightly away from the corner and you lay both sides to the line to give you upright. Is that correct?
Yes mate , they don’t touch the brickwork at all , great profiles 🧱👍🏼
Never used them seem good can point up without removing👍
@@grahamdalzell6933 . Yep they have a clip to stabilise them as you go so no need for clamps at the top . 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Hi Steve love the channel and the work you both do. Ive been on the trowel 3 years now loved watching and learning from you both 👍. What do you do with the void in the cavity at dpc? Fill then rest the insulation on the first course of ties?
All the best mate keep up the good work 👍
brickpug * Thanks pal glad you enjoy the channel and well chuffed they we have helped you 👌🏼. The cavity must be clear a minimum of 150 mm below dpc 🧱👍🏽
It's great to watch after doing it all day for some reason 🤣 forgive me if this sounds silly I've only done houses never been in footings. On our site once the footing is handed over to us it has full fill insulation batts level with top of brickwork then the visqueen/membrane lapped over to brickwork so is the void filled when it shouldn't be? As we put our tray on top of the membrane there is no 150 gap in the cavity 😯🙄. Ps your mortar looks so good compared to our horrible sticky silo muck 😭🧱🧱👍
brickpug * The insulation below dpc is to stop cold bridging at slab level , different builders interpret the regs differently. I’m sure what your following is spot on . You start where we finish , dpc 👌🏼. I started watching brickies videos and I thought me and Al can do that . 21 months later we have our own channel chatting to lads like yourself 👍🏽🧱🧱👍🏽
Nice one fellas 🙌🏻 love it , it would be good if in the future you could do a video on gas membrane dpc taping to tray etc I no everyone has there own way , but would love to see how you guys do it 👍 keep it up nice one Steve
We never get involved with the gas membrane as we only do foundations . We only build up to dpc . Never had an extension that needed a gas membrane 😬🧱🧱👍🏽
This I awesome
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Good watch again guys, seem to be quite a good worker even when yer just on yer own Steve good graft! 👍🏻 l love all the keyboard warriors putting the world to right over a bit of damp course 😂🤔 keep up the graft in this shitey weather
Big Mobsy . Nice one , thanks very much pal 🧱👍🏼
What's with the mixer on the deck then
Mark Anderson . Never use a stand mate , sold it at a car boot sale years ago 🧱👍🏽
Fellas when my labourer loads out my block I get him to do it in three's, two reasons, one it let's the block dry out if they are wet and two I don't keep jamming my fingers like when they are in fours
betty swollocks . We’ve started doing the same 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Nice video Steve and Alex what do you think if the oc trowel are they any good. I'm after buying one but just wondering if there any good.
Sam Price I like them Sam and had 5 now. Just as good quality as Marshalltown but way cheaper 💪🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thanks I might try one. I've noticed that you never tap the bricks down with the black bumper how come
Sam Price just habit I guess , we do use it occasionally 👌🏼🧱
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thanks for getting back yes I'll probably get one now chrars 👍
@@SteveAndAlexBuild I do have a 10inch marshal town but looking for an 11inch but to pay £40 is a bit to much. You've really helped me out thank you so much.
Hi lads, I know someone asked this already but why no tray at dpc with weeps etc? Honest question, I'm not a brickie. You said not required but why?
It wasn’t specified on the plans plus on site they only get put in when there is a gas membrane 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild fair play mate. Thanks for clarifying. Top work as usual considering the conditions. I always feel for the brickies this time of year and weather we get 👍
John Daniells . Cheers , thanks John 🧱👍🏼
Are the brick by Hanson.. golden browns?
Dodgy Dave . No pal they are Terca Tawny buff 🧱👍🏽
Is the plastic barrier mortared down first or is it just sitting on the bricks?
Yeah, what prevents whole stack sliding off in a quake?
A QUAKE ....In england ?
@@SteveAndAlexBuild : oh! I didnt know that.
@@SteveAndAlexBuild : but what about bad drivers 🤔😱
Pockets MacCartney mortar doesn’t actually stick to shiny plastic so a bed underneath won’t make much difference 🤔🧱👍🏼
I'm not a brickie but like watching other trades.
I was wondering if you've tried the pick and dip method?
It looks like a genuine alternative to the trad way.
Thanks
Mark Velo . It wouldn’t work for us as we don’t have a labourer . You need a set up like Charlie collinson 👌🏼🧱🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild cool thanks. Yes it was Charlie I saw do it first.
Mark Velo . He has got a really slick set up there , he is a credit to the trade 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Pick n dip your not getting a consistent full joint.
L Milne . I can’t judge without seeing it in person 🤔🧱👍🏼
Great tape measure ! No numbers lol
Richard Powell 😂that tape has since retired 🧱👍🏽
Another great video, I think you two are the best brickies on RUclips. Do you prefer site work or domestic. Keep posting !!!
James O'Sullivan Thanks james . Deffo domestic , after 10 years the foundations are taking their toll on me . Site work though Is guaranteed work and there isn’t enough domestic work to keep us going full time 👌🏼👍🏽🧱
Quality.
Liam G Cheers Liam 🧱👍🏼
How are you finding the new ox trowles
Jay Glover I’ll get back to you on that one , not started using them yet 🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild ok brilliant.
Jay Glover 🧱🧱👍🏽
Limber w rose trowel best about lower lift on the shank no so much bend on wrist. Also light as a feather in the hand. Good flex in the blade. Just what used to and prefer.
L Milne . Exactly 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
The perforations in the top course should be filled and all DPC's bedded and flush with the face of the brickwork, not bridged
, the abutments to the existing should have a vertical DPC installed as in accordance with the NBS, current codes of practice along with the manufacturer's guidelines.
Mike Smith 🧱👍🏽
Martin 🙄 yup ! 😂🧱👍🏽👍🏽
@@martin2466 As a timed served bricklayer serving a five-year apprenticeship also a Clerk of Works and a lecturer in brickwork, through my time on site I have seen many failings and problems caused by not carrying out work in accordance with the
standards, the manufacturers guarantee their products and if not installed in the correct manner that guarantee becomes void.
Martin yes I am a fellow member of the I.CW.C.I do you want my number to check my authenticity? I don't lie and would gladly give you that and also I am a former member of the Guild of Bricklayers.
@@martin2466 Thanks very much for your reply, I was not in no way offended by your comments, I have been in the industry form the age of 15 to present-day which I am now in my mature years, as a Clerk of Works I have certainly had my fair share of fire fighting to lift the standards. All the best, Mike Smith F.I.C.W.C.I.
Wall starters?
no , bluebird ties 🧱👍🏽
Good video I like your vids-:)...I bought some profile line holder from Jubilee (plastic orange type) they wouldn't fit the profile..Just looking at yours they seem easy to use!
Chris Longhurst Thanks Chris , the feeling is mutual 👍🏽. They are the Blake’s profiles with the Blake’s clips , I can’t rate them highly enough . Had my set (2 externals , 2 intermediates ) since I was an apprentice back in 1988 and they as good as they were back then . Very reasonable too 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild hahaha back in the day aye,...I also bought the Mustang profiles, but found them a bit to heavy- they were pulling the brickwork-:(
Chris Longhurst . The Blake’s have a simple adjustable metal bracket that clips on after half a dozen courses which hold them solid 👍🏽💪🏼🧱
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex Thanks for the info👍
Chris Longhurst . No probs 🧱👍🏽
Nice work. But how do you read that tape? 🤦♂️
Stuart Jones 😂😂 it is now retired 🧱👍🏽
Hello fellas, hope you're well. Quick question - I've seen you voluntarily work overhand in a few videos now and I was just wondering why this is? In this video it's the neighbours side and they may not want you on their side, but you point it up overhand too? Just wondering why.
Adam Flint . I served my time building houses right up to the roof overhand and did conservatories for 14 years . To be honest everything is handy working from inside and it’s easier to trestle out too 👌🏼👍🏽🧱
Always good to watch you lads grafting , keep up the good work.
david armstrong Cheers David 🧱👍🏽
Big perps guys should have tightened up on your first course, this will only look sloppier the higher you go
Petesy . Tightened up and put a 3/4 in it I don’t think so pal 🙄🧱👍🏼
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex well a 3/4 is a lot better looking than soldiers belts for joints
Petesy we will have to disagree on that one
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex absolutely, but you would have got a half brick out of it by tightening up
Spot on boys..
Stuart Hardie Cheers Stuart 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Love watching your videos. You always do a cracking job. But if you dont mind me asking. Why dont you ever use the stand for your mixer?
Tom Vincent Thanks Tom , sold it at a car boot sale years ago . I would only ever use a stand if we were mixing concrete and tipping into barrows which we never do . They are heavy and cumbersome and just get in the way in the back of the van ....... apart from that I love them 😂😂🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Haha fair enough mate. Never tried using mine without the stand mind maybe I'll try and sell mine to who knows
Tom Vincent . Each to their own Tom , we all have our own ways 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild true that mate, keep up the good work
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh and. You bickering with your boy made me laugh. Reminds me what I used to be like with my old man as an apprentice. Always thought I was right. But I'm 30 now and I am right haha
Watching at 2x is interesting
Pockets MacCartney 🤔mmm never tried that 😳🧱👍🏼
Сколько денег вы взяли за работу кирпичной кладки и блоков
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Even better job when you bed damp down first
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No muck wasted here.
llamedos R . No job n knock with the gobbo 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
iv been a bricklayer for 50 years and never used a profile it seems young bricklayer s dont build corner s any more .
darryl j andrews . Why build corners if you don’t need to , they make work quicker , easier and neater 🧱👍🏽
Steve & Alex exactly !
Jay Puyenbroeck 💪🏼🧱👍🏽
SHOW DE TRABALHO!
Thanks my friend 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Nice fat bed joint right through the middle
Andy G . That’s the moment you stand back and pull this face 😳 then this 😬 then this 🥺. 🧱🧱👍🏼
Haha true brickies type that no numbers on the first foot of blade lol
L Milne . Yep , that one has been retired now 😂😂🧱👍🏽
time served on your truck? does this designate a level of experience
bill baranko . Time served means we have done a bricklaying apprenticeship and have certificates to prove we are qualified. The experience comes over the next 30 years as we are all always learning 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Time served my time 1970 a day a week in technical collage for four years. did one more year as under 20 so 5 year did not have do last year all paper work exam in year 3 and 4 city and guilds
Paul I did the same at Wigan Tech as me and mike my fellow apprentice were in the tools already we were allowed to skip year 1 so did year 2 and advanced in year 3 🧱👍🏽
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex thanks Steve paul
Paul ,. Thanks for commenting 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Steve plz don’t take offence to this but you can’t half graft for an older man. I hope I’m like that at your age! You can tell you look after yourself physically 👍
Joeybuilder0114 😳😂😂🧱👍🏼
Don't like the overhand building,is it not quicker,to build the brick,face on,
minecraft king Not really we don’t mind working that way 🧱👍🏼
Need a new tape mate😃
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Sean 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Also if I was caught laying a brick with a glove on I’d get a brick thrown at me by my uncle as you can’t feel the brick. Old School methods maybe.
Also too much bed being put down if you are taping the bricks, should be able to push down, scrape off and reuse for next joint on brick, over the course of a days laying you will lay an extra 100-150 bricks doing this
Dirk Diggler 🧱🧱🧱🧱👍🏽
No 18 inch cavity try
Kevin Jackson . No pal no need for one 🧱👍🏼
Didn’t bed the damp
Romeo De’Great . Never have but I’m finding out from the comments other people do 🤔🧱👍🏽
I agree to disagree with you
darryl j andrews About what ?
Martin 😂😂🥊🥊🧱👍🏽
Big perps
I’d rather have bigger perps all day long over a tiny 3/4 running up the middle like a zip !
Reverse bond then tighten up neater
@@paulcollins6221 no it’s not you will end up with brick on brick at dpc level which looks awful
Dry bedded the dpc!!,ffs!!!!
Oh dear maybe go for a lie down 🤣
@@SteveAndAlexBuild maybe install the dpc correctly