I built wall back in the mid 90's, amazingly without any of these great tutorials on you tube, it was about 12 bricks high with a 'soldier' course on top. I genuinely remember practicing the piers with the kids lego. It was long enough to require some piers. I don't live there anymore, but it's still standing and to be honest, it doesn't look too bad at all. I remember it took me ages to finish it, the near neighbour across the road shouted over to me "they built the Great Wall of China" quicker.
That's funny I just laid 370 bricks in a wall and told people if they hired me to do the Great Wall - I want to be paid by the hour, not the job. Took me way too long.
YOU my friend are a GREAT Bricklayer and a GREAT Teacher !! My father was a bricklayer for almost 70 years and I learned so much from working with him and I see my father in you and you as my young father ! I just had to share this with you because your video hits Home thinking of my dad and his hard work and all the fieldstone work that he did just amazing ! Thank you !!
I'm a retired coachbuilder & never laid a brick in my life, until I saw Stu's vid. When I attempted a small wall & pier on my patio, a builder mate of mine came round & gave me 8 1/2 out of 10! Thanks Stu, that's down to you! Respect. 👍
A decent simple to follow tutorial. Thank you. I am nearly 60 and never laid a brick in my life.. going to try a small garden wall .. this has given me plenty of confidence. Well done Stu.
I've never laid a brick in my life but was asked to lay a few blocks so an area could be completed at work. Thanks to this video from Stu, it helped me massively.
@Jordan Belfort it’s not that hard honestly. For example, I’m doing cement work for a really great guy, very patient and very willing to teach me everything he knows. Our job was to build a fence post in a parking lot to keep druggies and vagrants out, and to section off two different property lines. Anyways, my first day meetin him, I told him “I’ve done this once before with my dad growing up and I don’t remember much.” He loved the honesty and taught me how to jack hammer specific lengths so the hole will match the diameter of the metal poles. He taught me how to set string line, he taught me how to mix Type 1 porter cement, and more. Within 3 days I’ve already gotten a grasp on it and was working by myself when he ran and got supplies. Moral of the story, as long as you pay attention and try to enjoy the work, you’ll pick it up very easily. It’s not rocket science haha
I built my first wall in school 1984.Sunyani technical Institute Ghana. Later did General course in construction then finally did construction technician course.Thanks for sharing.proud of you technicians building for the world.
Have gone through 100 videos on bricklaying and this one was by far the best one. All I have to do is watch this video 2 hours a day on loop and I will be doing 500 bricks a day in one year like an expert.
If you notice, as he is pressing down the brick, he is keeping his hand the last brick layed, to gauge height and head joint distance. You start to develop a feel for head joint width just with your hand, and not having to look at it.
Thanks mate, that's given me a bit more confidence now to build some brick planters in my garden. I've been super nervous about it but after watching your video I feel a little more confident
Great to watch your style. I usually lay the next bed of mortar and then move the line. That way it's not interfering with the trowel as you put the mortar down.
I’m think about choosing to be a bricky as an apprentice and just wanted to ask is it hard to get comfortable with laying bricks or is it hard because it feels like somthing I really want to do
My grandpas from Birmingham and helped build Detroit after the war and tons of houses in Detroit suburbs. Unfortunately my dad didn’t see eye to eye with him and restricted me from ever learning how to brick lay from him and my dad went down a different line of work completely. I really want to give it a go but absolutely want to do it right as to honor gramps in heaven. Thank you for your videos this channel is going to be a massive help.
Lovely craftsmanship!I'm not a bricky,but have done a brick shed at home which I thought turned out well,but keeping the brick faces clean was what I found hardest!I don't think average folks can ever watch too many brick laying tutorials. Many thanks!👍
I want to build a brick shed. Did you use concrete blocks and then bricks like in this video or just bricks or just blocks? Also, did you use a damp membrane anywhere?
Stu makes it look easy in this vid. He's probably been doing for years to make it look that way. I'm a builder with a bit of masonry experience (def not a mason) and the hardest part for me was not making a bloody mess!
I love watching builders who do the job absolutely 100% correct.That includes you mate( and your Dad, sorry about his sandwich !). Keep making the videos .👍
Thanks mate! After watching your videos I believe I will quit me job in the office and become a bricky! No need to labour mixing mortar and hauling bricks for those boys, I have learned enough from these short clips to begin laying as a master. I will apply for employment this week and start building pyramids!
Brilliant video, cheers. I've got some tidying up to in the garden where a fence line wall was knocked through for a driveway, and this has shown me everything I need to make it look decent. Thank you.
Nah with the line there it’s pretty simple to lay it’s just how clean he builds if that was me there would be muck all over the floor and I’d need brick cleaner.
Thanks Stu, for the informative video. I'm looking at building a cabin, but I've never attempted to start my own project. This video has given me the confidence and thorough information to be able to do it. Cheers 👌
I just did a HORRIBLE job laying bricks to repair a detached garage and I have so much more respect for this. I literally dropped half of mortar on the floor the way he just dropped globs at the beginning and didn't spill any is actually insane. Also didn't think about how heavy everything is, the bricks are heavy the mortar is heavy even the trowel is heavy.
This is so therapeutic to watch. Can you do a video of a whole project with just the sounds of the trowel scraping the brick? I could watch that for hours.
Thank you for your videos. You do beautiful work. Very well done on explaining the technique. I have always wanted to learn & you have been a great help. Thank you.
I'm curious how you keep the bricks level from front to back... in other words, the string line keeps the bricks level from left to right but what prevents the bricks from leaning too far forward or too far back? Unless doing the line and eye balling makes that direction of level irrelevant? I was thinking putting a square onto of the brick line against the wooden frame, then you can see if the row is not creeping forward or backwards?
back in the late 1970s up into my teen years in the 80s, summers I'd help my grandfather build walls, pure driveways etc. 40+ years later i can go back and see those things my grandfather and i built together still standing or laying there. grandfather tried talking me into bricklaying and concrete work for a living. i went the welding, cutting, bending metal together route. i took metal class in 8th grade, i was hooked, and didn't even weld yet.. lol thx for the vid and ur time
Im starting a bricklaying apprenticeship in September so watching these will give me abit of knowledge and abit of insite im 20 but wish i did at 16 but I would rather do it now then never
I laid 4000 brick on an extension on my house....it took me 2 years in my spare time, as you can probablyguess I'm not a bricklayer. One of the biggest problems that I had was getting the morter consistancy correct, which made laying the brick difficult. I would have liked to see the morter mixing process at the beginning of the video. Perhaps you could do a video on mixing morter with hints and tips to get it to just the right consistancy. An interesting video with some useful tips, thanks for sharing.
Stu do you have a vid showing how to get a good mix..i.e. How much sand cement 4:1 you mention but I struggle to get a mortar that flows off the trowel. So need to know what plasticiser you use and what ratio. Also need your view on adding colour to mortar . Just read the instructions on the tub but if I use the ratio I'm going to use quite a lot of powder die. Thanks mate
It helps having good mortar, I had labours when I was on the trowel, they weren't all that. I found I always had to give them a tutorial, just to get started! 😬 Good work fella!
I love these videos they are so informative. I'm a plumber by trade but I love brickwork, I reckon I can build my porch and brick shed just by watching these videos. Thanks Stu for the videos, I can't wait to have a crack. Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. Keep it up and thanks again.
this was excellent. Others take the training wheels off too fast and dont use lines all the time but newbies need that line or itll look like crap. So very good tutorial and lovely Irish accent....(i think its Irish)
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Now THIS is quality 4am content.
4:22 in here lmao I'm so glad I'm not alone
4:34 Am so very accurate
3:26 for me!
Yes.
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You know when someone’s a true professional by both the explanation and end result. He explains so that an 8 year old can do it and it looks excellent
Thats how english and Uk is, in other parts of the world they explain, u understand nothing, and the result is a failure.
You suggest an 8 year old can do manual work
Hitler would have employed you as a foreman for such optimism
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agree
I built my first wall, today, at school, and this video I watched the night before was a great help. I did very good. Thank you, sir.
Brick
At school how?
👍👍👍💝
Well done mate
Nice! Bout to do mine tomorrow at school ✊🏾
I built wall back in the mid 90's, amazingly without any of these great tutorials on you tube, it was about 12 bricks high with a 'soldier' course on top. I genuinely remember practicing the piers with the kids lego. It was long enough to require some piers. I don't live there anymore, but it's still standing and to be honest, it doesn't look too bad at all. I remember it took me ages to finish it, the near neighbour across the road shouted over to me "they built the Great Wall of China" quicker.
Could you tell me what is course
@@taniafari7737 course is each layer of bricks, soilder course is when they stand on end, tall.
I bet it looked like the cruel sea
@@taniafari7737 “that built the Great Wall of china quicker” the 90 was a wholesome time
That's funny I just laid 370 bricks in a wall and told people if they hired me to do the Great Wall - I want to be paid by the hour, not the job. Took me way too long.
YOU my friend are a GREAT Bricklayer and a GREAT Teacher !! My father was a bricklayer for almost 70 years and I learned so much from working with him and I see my father in you and you as my young father ! I just had to share this with you because your video hits Home thinking of my dad and his hard work and all the fieldstone work that he did just amazing ! Thank you !!
I'm a retired coachbuilder & never laid a brick in my life, until I saw Stu's vid. When I attempted a small wall & pier on my patio, a builder mate of mine came round & gave me 8 1/2 out of 10! Thanks Stu, that's down to you! Respect. 👍
Well done mate.
A decent simple to follow tutorial. Thank you. I am nearly 60 and never laid a brick in my life.. going to try a small garden wall .. this has given me plenty of confidence. Well done Stu.
how did it go...? 58 and doing my first :)
I've never laid a brick in my life but was asked to lay a few blocks so an area could be completed at work. Thanks to this video from Stu, it helped me massively.
Why would they ask someone with 0 experience to do that?
@Jordan Belfort it’s not that hard honestly. For example, I’m doing cement work for a really great guy, very patient and very willing to teach me everything he knows. Our job was to build a fence post in a parking lot to keep druggies and vagrants out, and to section off two different property lines.
Anyways, my first day meetin him, I told him “I’ve done this once before with my dad growing up and I don’t remember much.” He loved the honesty and taught me how to jack hammer specific lengths so the hole will match the diameter of the metal poles. He taught me how to set string line, he taught me how to mix Type 1 porter cement, and more.
Within 3 days I’ve already gotten a grasp on it and was working by myself when he ran and got supplies. Moral of the story, as long as you pay attention and try to enjoy the work, you’ll pick it up very easily. It’s not rocket science haha
Let me guess it was unpaid work init
@@DeathnoteBBHow else will you gain any experience
@@Poppasgottabrandnewbagofcrack Being trained obviously??
I built my first wall in school 1984.Sunyani technical Institute Ghana. Later did General course in construction then finally did construction technician course.Thanks for sharing.proud of you technicians building for the world.
Have gone through 100 videos on bricklaying and this one was by far the best one. All I have to do is watch this video 2 hours a day on loop and I will be doing 500 bricks a day in one year like an expert.
You're such a professional! This is very satisfying to watch lol
👍👍👍💝
Your skills remind me of my first masonry shop class in 1957 .. so great to see the younger generation learning this skill!
Your 66
@@Freddyfazbearofficial1987 I’d wager a guess and say no, he isn’t. He’s probably in his mid-late 70s.
Wow. Such a beautiful and clean wall. I mean, it's how men make society. I find that skill very impressive
You have the hands and wrists of a surgeon, thank you for your patience. Excellent work
If you notice, as he is pressing down the brick, he is keeping his hand the last brick layed, to gauge height and head joint distance. You start to develop a feel for head joint width just with your hand, and not having to look at it.
Never laid a brick in my life but have been watching Stu brick laying daily for the last week. Great stuff 👍
Watching bricklaying videos is Uber relaxing for me, the sounds, the geometry, the sequencing…love it
The bricks looks neat.
It's so pleasing to the eyes.
It looks so easy but its extremely tricky to get comfortable at it!!
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Thanks mate, that's given me a bit more confidence now to build some brick planters in my garden. I've been super nervous about it but after watching your video I feel a little more confident
Great to watch your style. I usually lay the next bed of mortar and then move the line. That way it's not interfering with the trowel as you put the mortar down.
I’m think about choosing to be a bricky as an apprentice and just wanted to ask is it hard to get comfortable with laying bricks or is it hard because it feels like somthing I really want to do
@@benthered0914 get a trade as a sparky or something mate. Your back and knees will thank you!
I would love to brick lay but the grit sound give me goosebumps. Your bricklaying is beuautiful.
i get that with bed sheets lol.
Good to see someone enthusiastic about his job. From what I have seen you are very good at it as well especially that extension you built. Good job.
Great tutorial, you make it look easy but with the good old northern humour it’s a joy to watch.
A pleasure to watch a skilled bricklayer at work. Very nice clear guidance.
Thanks for all your content from Canada! These videos really helped a novice get a decent results!
Use to do brickalaying years ago. That is really tidy work
My grandpas from Birmingham and helped build Detroit after the war and tons of houses in Detroit suburbs. Unfortunately my dad didn’t see eye to eye with him and restricted me from ever learning how to brick lay from him and my dad went down a different line of work completely. I really want to give it a go but absolutely want to do it right as to honor gramps in heaven. Thank you for your videos this channel is going to be a massive help.
I wish one day to be so good at laying bricks like this. Excellent work! 😄😄
👍👍💝
Just started tradeschool, thanks for teaching your technique🙏
Lovely craftsmanship!I'm not a bricky,but have done a brick shed at home which I thought turned out well,but keeping the brick faces clean was what I found hardest!I don't think average folks can ever watch too many brick laying tutorials. Many thanks!👍
I want to build a brick shed. Did you use concrete blocks and then bricks like in this video or just bricks or just blocks? Also, did you use a damp membrane anywhere?
Stu makes it look easy in this vid. He's probably been doing for years to make it look that way. I'm a builder with a bit of masonry experience (def not a mason) and the hardest part for me was not making a bloody mess!
Love the look of that mortar. Looks absolutely edible.
I love watching builders who do the job absolutely 100% correct.That includes you mate( and your Dad, sorry about his sandwich !). Keep making the videos .👍
Thanks mate! After watching your videos I believe I will quit me job in the office and become a bricky! No need to labour mixing mortar and hauling bricks for those boys, I have learned enough from these short clips to begin laying as a master. I will apply for employment this week and start building pyramids!
How is it working currently?
Brilliant video, cheers. I've got some tidying up to in the garden where a fence line wall was knocked through for a driveway, and this has shown me everything I need to make it look decent. Thank you.
This awesome, was just thinking of masonry, now I’m super motivated to do it!!!
follow your dreams 👍🏽
Really well explained. You add the detail as needed. You're a good teacher. I've never done this in my life but i feel even i could have a go at it.
Looks great, you make it look easy. I suspect though that I shall hire someone as I'd quite like the job done once and properly!
Brick laying wizardry on an epic scale Stu, love it
Excellent job as always... thanks Stu.
Saturday night and im watching a random lad building a brick wall!
Life moves fast!
Always enjoy these videos. I can't lay for my life but watching your skill is satisfying. Hope your keep busy and safe in these strange times
You make this look so relaxing and therapeutic. A true master of the trade.
Thanks, Sir. It's really important requirement for beginners .
Best my friend
Best. Video. Ever. for beginners. Well explained and demonstrated.
What he did in 13 minutes would take me about 2 days to get it looking that good.
Brilliant work,
Nah with the line there it’s pretty simple to lay it’s just how clean he builds if that was me there would be muck all over the floor and I’d need brick cleaner.
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Ye Santax and a wire deck scrub.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👍👍👍💝
@@gyalsnextman4725 🤣
Thanks Stu, for the informative video. I'm looking at building a cabin, but I've never attempted to start my own project. This video has given me the confidence and thorough information to be able to do it. Cheers 👌
The only thing that sucks about this job is getting up early in the morning and when it's super cold outside
Better then superhot over here in aus
And the repetition
Can lay brick if it's freezing outside. Let's have a place to keep your mud from freezing
cant lay brick in the cold the mud will freeze.
@@zachinapocrising9193 man said mud
This has helped massively on focusing on Gauge, Level and plumb
Very impressive. Not sure how I would keep the space between bricks so beautifully uniform, not to mention get that mortar to the perfect consistency.
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As a bloke from Leigh (near Wigan) god I missed my calling. Genuinely regret not getting a trade when I was younger. Fantastic video sir
This gives me the motivation to hire a bricky, you make it look too easy!! I feel like posting a video of how badly my effort would be 😂😂
keep practising alan
If someone makes it looks easy it probably isnt lol i found this out when i had ago at plastering 😅
Lol Wayne
@@Stucrompton1 /. Mmm
I wanna try this 😏
Thank you for doing this, Stu! We're missing trades people and this will really help!
Same way the master mason who trained me taught me how to lay. Great work as always Stu!
Nice one mate
@@Stucrompton1 do you do 121 lessons Stu ?
I just did a HORRIBLE job laying bricks to repair a detached garage and I have so much more respect for this. I literally dropped half of mortar on the floor the way he just dropped globs at the beginning and didn't spill any is actually insane. Also didn't think about how heavy everything is, the bricks are heavy the mortar is heavy even the trowel is heavy.
This is so therapeutic to watch. Can you do a video of a whole project with just the sounds of the trowel scraping the brick? I could watch that for hours.
The same feels.
Wow just the moment and sounds is so cathartic to me I could watch and listen all day
Great video. Good, simple, clear instructions. Thanks for uploading.
You Euro boyz are the best masons!
From Algeria Hi how are you I would like to say thank you for the beautiful and pious work Thanks man
after the slip up he wasnt the same in his performance :( he demonstrated resilience and continued on. True Bricky.
Nice work, you make it look easy but I know it's hard work for an amateur like me. Enjoy watching a pro at work 😁
It’s always easy to learn if you have a good teacher
Stu, your videos are absolutely brilliant. You’re a great teacher. Wish I was 16 again, then it would definitely inspire me to become a bricklayer.
Cheers for that Lee
Thank you for your videos. You do beautiful work. Very well done on explaining the technique. I have always wanted to learn & you have been a great help. Thank you.
Beautiful, especially love the moves at 8:16. I can even hear a melody.
Very nice
Best my friend
You can always see such
beautiful work👍
Not a bricklayer or a tradesmen have great respect for trades it amazes me how the line as been tried and trusted for years 👍
Absolutely magnificent Stu. Really love your work. Such a great teacher from the best.😊
Indeed when you have e good teacher things are very easy
Bricklaying is an art, just fascinated by it good work pal 👏 anyone retrained as a bricky in their late twenties?!?
I am eating my breakfast and watching guy making wall from bricks. I am not normal :)
At least you've got both hands above the table mate.
Daniel Barbee you never know...
@@TuJestPolskaNiePolinI giggled at this
Man, you make that look soooo easy. I know it ain't. Very satisfying to watch 👍
Dude I love when y'all do the other British accents. You sounded like John Snow from GOT there. LOL good on ya!!
King in the North!
This is man's work. God bless.
I'm curious how you keep the bricks level from front to back... in other words, the string line keeps the bricks level from left to right but what prevents the bricks from leaning too far forward or too far back? Unless doing the line and eye balling makes that direction of level irrelevant? I was thinking putting a square onto of the brick line against the wooden frame, then you can see if the row is not creeping forward or backwards?
Unless a dramatic lean it's irrelevant
You use your eyes to see that, it's 4cm
back in the late 1970s up into my teen years in the 80s, summers I'd help my grandfather build walls, pure driveways etc. 40+ years later i can go back and see those things my grandfather and i built together still standing or laying there. grandfather tried talking me into bricklaying and concrete work for a living. i went the welding, cutting, bending metal together route. i took metal class in 8th grade, i was hooked, and didn't even weld yet.. lol thx for the vid and ur time
Thank you for the depths of the soul for your story, it is similar to mine.🇺🇦🙋👍
I don't lay brick, but when I saw him stack the bricks toward the end I was like are you sure you want to do that? 🤣
Im starting a bricklaying apprenticeship in September so watching these will give me abit of knowledge and abit of insite im 20 but wish i did at 16 but I would rather do it now then never
20 is super young. You haven't missed out or anything. I didn't start in building till I was 28 and I'm 40 now still at it.
Beautiful buddy, so neat and tidy. You make it look so easy, and your got a great flow, relaxed too.
Perfect. Takes the mystery out of what seems to be so complicated for the uninitiated - me. First small wall comin´this WE. Thanks!
Great idea,i really enjoyed your creation
Blimey I m hooked on this stuff..this is better than match of the Day mate..brilliant stuff. You make it look so easy!
He really isn’t that good of a layer, I know college students better than this guy
I laid 4000 brick on an extension on my house....it took me 2 years in my spare time, as you can probablyguess I'm not a bricklayer.
One of the biggest problems that I had was getting the morter consistancy correct, which made laying the brick difficult.
I would have liked to see the morter mixing process at the beginning of the video.
Perhaps you could do a video on mixing morter with hints and tips to get it to just the right consistancy.
An interesting video with some useful tips, thanks for sharing.
You make it look so easy! I could watch this all day.
I know you’ve been doing this for years but I’m on my level 2 at college and F me it’s harder to lay that clean than it looks
Nice and easy to follow,
cant understand why anyone would give a thumbs down? Must be some world class brickies out there.
Stu do you have a vid showing how to get a good mix..i.e. How much sand cement 4:1 you mention but I struggle to get a mortar that flows off the trowel. So need to know what plasticiser you use and what ratio.
Also need your view on adding colour to mortar . Just read the instructions on the tub but if I use the ratio I'm going to use quite a lot of powder die.
Thanks mate
Great vid pal. The humour was actually top notch.
Keep them perps in line
Take your time don't serve it 😜
Very nice job
Never done it before but after this video..I will give it a try..thanks for the vid. Regards from Holland..
Love it I can watch you all day long nice job again, even with the brick on brick . Ha Ha Ha 👍🏻😎👍🏻
It helps having good mortar, I had labours when I was on the trowel, they weren't all that.
I found I always had to give them a tutorial, just to get started! 😬
Good work fella!
What A splendid job there fellow
I love these videos they are so informative. I'm a plumber by trade but I love brickwork, I reckon I can build my porch and brick shed just by watching these videos. Thanks Stu for the videos, I can't wait to have a crack. Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. Keep it up and thanks again.
Damn ! You made it look easy like a walk in a park , but actually it's hard 😁😃👍
The first of many videos I’ll watch prior to building my own house in the desert
Can you do a vid on how to set up the profiles before you Start ?👊🏻
this was excellent. Others take the training wheels off too fast and dont use lines all the time but newbies need that line or itll look like crap. So very good tutorial and lovely Irish accent....(i think its Irish)
lol manchester!
How do you get the spacing the same between the bricks, that's what I can't get my head around?
Mortar Spacers will keep the joint at a perfect 3/8 inch. Standard thickness.
Best brick tutorial very much detailed, everything you need to know.