In this video I replace a porch support with a new 1 brick pillar (pier). I run through the whole job. Filmed on my iphon 6 and edited in Final Cit Pro 10
Thanks Chris, you've help give me confidence to try my own projects. Just finished 50ft retraining wall with steps in vintages bricks. Super pleased with it.
Top quality as always Chris. Love to watch your work.. I’m a plasterer/ bricklayer.. So doing it at work then watching at home.....lol.. Like to learn new ways . Master craftsmen:-)
I had to do one of these, and it's my first attempt at brick laying. Its going OK so far, but I've got a bad suspicion it's one of the more tricky things to try for a beginner. Because unlike if you were doing a wall, there's no string line to follow, and you're putting the next bricks right on top of the ones you just laid, and putting the 2nd brick on always wants to upset the first as you push the buttered side together.
God save us from such incompetence!!!!!!! A 1Brick structural column requires a minimum of 450x450x450mm Gen1 concrete cube set at a formation level of 600mm below ground level. Under NO circumstances should stone be placed under the foundation concrete as it WILL subside. The column should be built with Class B eng bricks up to 150mm above ground i.e. 4 courses o/a and thereafter with selected facing brick. The column should not have been constructed in a single lift but in two at least. The steel column was taken out without any temporary support. Even if the porch roof holds itself up, by the time the brickwork reaches roof level the roof structure will have sagged a little, which will be the final position as the brickwork sets. At least use an acrow to temporarily support the roof. I would instantly condemn any construction shown here on any of my sites
You need at least do a 4 year study to make a simple brick pillar and have a PhD in brick laying. The brick pillar will cost you as much as it weight in gold, and after 10 years it will be finished.
Colin Green I used that 4 by 2 over the time the concrete was curing. But when building I took it out, it was ok during the build which was done in a day
How deep is your foundation ? looks a bit shallow for a brick pillar, I thought the foundation for a heavy brick pillar should be much deeper and wider. what is your thought about it ? thank you
01:07, the car in the garage failed it's MOT in January of this year on two rear coil springs, repaired and passed so OK until next January, great video.
If you don’t mind me asking Chris Do you do more domestic than site based? If so how long have you being working for your self for?? Is it hard on your own? Cheers :-)
keep off site work mate, its so different now than a few years ago...I do more of my own work now...working for self 20 years may be more..it is hard on your own but you're your own boss which has its benefits!!
Boss You Don't Need To Know Well this is youtube and you gotta make sure its plumb lol...I wanted to make sure the header (purp side) were inline as they can poke in and out!!! 🤔
If you did it would isolate the pillar from the dpc upwards making it insecure and unsafe . Not enough weight in my opinion . Plus he has put slate on top so this is waterproof. No Damp will get to the roof
Colin Riley you should never put a DPM into a pier or garden wall as it affects the structural stability and it is highly likely to move at the course were it is inserted. Entire houses have actually slipped on the plastic dpm before. Rare, but it has happened.
you could have used a nice straight bit of 2x2 as a profile when building, with gauge marks on it, gauging down from the top. Pretty good end result though you were kneeling on the floor at the start, and working in the rain with no coat, the making-good at the top still ended with some unnecessary ugly beading with a suggestion that the gauge was iffy, which it wasnt, I would have screwed a butterfly tie into the canopy and bricked the last course around it, but I like the look of the pillar at the end, great brick match although they are not engineering bricks the first 10 bricks could have been. I think I would have propped the roof to see if it naturally wanted to push up a few mm to help with a tight snug fit at the top
Darr Vowles I’ve explained already- this is youtube and you go over the top to! Also I like to make sure the ends are not tipping in or out as that happens🤔
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Thanks Chris, you've help give me confidence to try my own projects. Just finished 50ft retraining wall with steps in vintages bricks. Super pleased with it.
Top quality as always Chris.
Love to watch your work..
I’m a plasterer/ bricklayer..
So doing it at work then watching at home.....lol..
Like to learn new ways .
Master craftsmen:-)
I had to do one of these, and it's my first attempt at brick laying. Its going OK so far, but I've got a bad suspicion it's one of the more tricky things to try for a beginner. Because unlike if you were doing a wall, there's no string line to follow, and you're putting the next bricks right on top of the ones you just laid, and putting the 2nd brick on always wants to upset the first as you push the buttered side together.
God save us from such incompetence!!!!!!! A 1Brick structural column requires a minimum of 450x450x450mm Gen1 concrete cube set at a formation level of 600mm below ground level. Under NO circumstances should stone be placed under the foundation concrete as it WILL subside. The column should be built with Class B eng bricks up to 150mm above ground i.e. 4 courses o/a and thereafter with selected facing brick. The column should not have been constructed in a single lift but in two at least.
The steel column was taken out without any temporary support. Even if the porch roof holds itself up, by the time the brickwork reaches roof level the roof structure will have sagged a little, which will be the final position as the brickwork sets. At least use an acrow to temporarily support the roof.
I would instantly condemn any construction shown here on any of my sites
You need at least do a 4 year study to make a simple brick pillar and have a PhD in brick laying.
The brick pillar will cost you as much as it weight in gold, and after 10 years it will be finished.
What ever you do youre self you do better then anyone else, sometimes you make mistakes but you grow into it.. Keep on going and enjoy what you do
That's a hell of a high step to get in an out of that house!
Looks a lot better, good job Chris.
Nice job Chris. Surprised there no need for temporary prop or jacking up where roof may of sagged?
Colin Green I used that 4 by 2 over the time the concrete was curing. But when building I took it out, it was ok during the build which was done in a day
brilliant
How deep is your foundation ? looks a bit shallow for a brick pillar, I thought the foundation for a heavy brick pillar should be much deeper and wider. what is your thought about it ? thank you
01:07, the car in the garage failed it's MOT in January of this year on two rear coil springs, repaired and passed so OK until next January, great video.
Checkmot.gov.co.uk
Excellent vids have learned do much from ya tks
Looks good, like it’s always been there 👍
Good stuff 👍👍👍👍
Nice pillar but I would have cast a new slab reused the post and clad with timber, personal choices.
Nice job Chris 😉👍
Great video
Looks great!
another stonker. I decided to watch this, rather than grand designs. keep it up.
all this needed was the base sorting out and the original steel post fefitting cowboy s
@@davidreddington2842 tell the customer that…they wanted a brick pillar…I was happy to oblige 🤷♂️
Nice one sir
If you don’t mind me asking Chris
Do you do more domestic than site based?
If so how long have you being working for your self for??
Is it hard on your own?
Cheers :-)
keep off site work mate, its so different now than a few years ago...I do more of my own work now...working for self 20 years may be more..it is hard on your own but you're your own boss which has its benefits!!
proper job ! well done chris , not like these other tossers whap bang wollop price work jordie cowboys
This is the exact project I need but I have no brick on my house, do I dare do this using cinder blocks? no rebar?
Nice job Bro I'm still learning from you up in Scotland hope all is well
conan Baliga Hiya bro- good to hear from you😆👍
Great work as always, just a reminder you can't plumb both ends of a brick
Boss You Don't Need To Know Well this is youtube and you gotta make sure its plumb lol...I wanted to make sure the header (purp side) were inline as they can poke in and out!!! 🤔
Understandable
Isn’t it a bummer when you are knocking pegs into good ground and you hit it too hard and you can’t get the bleeder out 😂😂😂
Are the piers structural?
No, cosmetic..
Does a column need a damp proof course ?
Colin Riley It could do, I didn’t incorporate one though as I didn’t think it needed one
If you did it would isolate the pillar from the dpc upwards making it insecure and unsafe . Not enough weight in my opinion . Plus he has put slate on top so this is waterproof. No Damp will get to the roof
Colin Riley you should never put a DPM into a pier or garden wall as it affects the structural stability and it is highly likely to move at the course were it is inserted. Entire houses have actually slipped on the plastic dpm before. Rare, but it has happened.
@@MrOitoyboy Thanks for that.
Tidy job Chris.
Fair play not an easy job with those bricks, tidy
What's the make of your cutter
Brendan Mcgivern Husqvarna
NOT THE MOST EASIEST OF PIERS TO BUILD . MAYBE PROFILES COULD BE USED , GREAT WORK ,
You can’t build a 1 brick pier as the bricks are not the same size , also the marks on the bricks are called feathers and you build them down .
you could have used a nice straight bit of 2x2 as a profile when building, with gauge marks on it, gauging down from the top. Pretty good end result though you were kneeling on the floor at the start, and working in the rain with no coat, the making-good at the top still ended with some unnecessary ugly beading with a suggestion that the gauge was iffy, which it wasnt, I would have screwed a butterfly tie into the canopy and bricked the last course around it, but I like the look of the pillar at the end, great brick match although they are not engineering bricks the first 10 bricks could have been. I think I would have propped the roof to see if it naturally wanted to push up a few mm to help with a tight snug fit at the top
nice one chris......not bad for so called amateurs!! 🤣🤣👍👍
plumbing both sides of a brick 🤷♂️
Darr Vowles I’ve explained already- this is youtube and you go over the top to! Also I like to make sure the ends are not tipping in or out as that happens🤔
🤭ok if you say so
Darr Vowles lmfao
Nice work, but please correct the title: pier, not peir.
Thanks, sorted it-:)
1 brick pier mate..