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Welcome to D.I.Y brickwork part 2, brick base for houses,
To learn something, we need to observe how it
is done; so, we are going to show you how a house brick base is built. I know
that I cannot teach you how to lay bricks from scratch for an entire house base.
But let us write, how a bricklayer would build a new house brick base.
Anyhow, as I said I am going to write so many
details here, that it is like teaching somebody how to lay bricks, so, I am
calling this D.I.Y brickwork. Anyhow, for the following to make sense, we need to
go back to our previous article House building in
Brisbane, to see what we were doing on the building sites, when we were
building a new house and we had reached the point where we were ready for the
bricklayer to start laying bricks for this house brick base.
Now what is going to follow here is how we
bricklayers lay these bricks; here I am speaking with the knowledge of a
bricklayer, and I may add that what I am writing here can also apply to other
brickwork, because bricklaying is a repetitive job and once you have acquired
the skills how to do one job, you can easily use this knowledge to do a
different job.
So, now that I have explained myself, let me take you step by step how the bricklayers work, when building these brick bases for houses, so that, if you have in mind to do some bricklaying work yourself. You need this basic knowledge because once you have laid the bricks and the mortar becomes hard it is a very hard and costly to fix it. I have to say also that it is easy to make mistakes here, unless you are an expert and really know what you are doing. So, let us follow how a professional bricklayer would start the house base, because there are a lot of things that must be kept in mind, before you even start laying the first brick.
The most important thing is that you start
laying the first brick in the right spot, and this should be done at the lowest
point of the foundation, otherwise you could encounter real problems later; so,
how we bricklayers go about to achieve that you may ask?
Okay, here we should assume that some of our
reader may not know anything about bricklaying, so, it is wise if we can
describe to you, how a bricklayer lays bricks and then we will proceed to build
the house brick base.
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How a bricklayer lays brick
Therefore, let us describe briefly how the
bricklayer lays bricks, so that those that have never seen it done before, can
have some idea how it is done. Let us explain this first, most of us are right
handed by nature, but a few of us are left handed; now let us assume that the
bricklayer we are going to talk about is right handed, so, he holds his trowel
in his right hand and picks the bricks with his left hand; now let us go back
to our last article House building in Brisbane, there we were getting everything ready
for the bricklayers to lay bricks; so, we had set near the foundations, a
combo-board and a stack of bricks and then again a combo-board and a stack of
bricks and so on.
Now that you have this picture of the setup,
you can see when the bricklayer lays bricks, first he spreads his mortar bed on
the bricks, by picking up a trowel full of mortar and while he tips his trowel
to let the mortar fall on the bricks he pulls back his harm towards his elbow,
so that a long spread is achieved, if he likes to spread a longer bed then he
picks a few more trowel full of mortar and spreads it, then he fix this mortar
with his trowel more evenly, and at the end he uses the tip of the trowel to
split his mortar and collects the extra mortar on both sides, then he picks up
a brick with his left hand and at the same time he picks up a bit of mortar on
the tip of his trowel, while he turns toward the wall he sticks to the head of
this brick the mortar that he picked up and now he can lay his brick, these are
the main things that we can describe here, and it would be hard to say more,
unless you can see how it is done, so, I have found a bit of a video from
YouTube to show you.
Here are a few videos from YouTube to show
you how some bricklaying is done.
The Art of Laying Brick - YouTube
These two links above would be very helpful
if they work, because one shows a bricklayer laying brick and explaining how it
is done step by step; the other link shows photos of many types of brick walls
already built, many types of bonds and also brick walls while they are being
built, let us hope that these links works for you, if they don’t try to copy
them in Google search bar and use Google engine to find them.
We also strongly advise that if you really want to do a bricklaying job yourself, you must practice how to lay bricks before you start, most people find that it is harder than it looks and also think about it, practice make perfect. Anyhow, hereunder we are pasting more link again hoping they can help you.
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How to Learn the Basics of Bricklaying - YouTube
This link above is for people that don't know much how you lay bricks, however it is a starting point, of course there are things that a real bricklayer would not do, but there are also very useful hints for a beginner.
How to Bricklaying Tips and Techniques DIY - YouTube
This link above shows you other things and if you can use this together with what you have learned from the other links, you are on the way of learning how to lay bricks.
How To Lay Bricks Like A Bricklayer - YouTube
This link above shows you how a real bricklayer would finish his face brick wall, of course even here you cannot learn everything, and so if you are not a bricklayer, you need to visit most of other links here.
Now that we have pasted some of these helpful links here and we are pasting another one below in this article, let us continue how to build a brick base for houses.
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All brickwork, must be build level and exactly vertical, so the spirit level, is a must have tool for bricklayers.
Now that we have explained how the bricklayer lays bricks, you need to learn about important tools that the bricklayer uses, and we are going to talk about how to use and check the spirit level and make sure that it is okay. Anyhow, at this point of time, I believe that I have said enough in this blog, so, see you in our next blog, Explaining levels and the spirit level, D.I.Y brickwork part 3
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Blog, D.I.Y brickwork part 2, brick base for house
IS TO BE CONTINUED WITH
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