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Welcome to our article,
Dear readers, the original article of D.I.Y. brickwork is a long article; so, we are going to divide it up make, a few blogs, if you want to read it in the original form, click on the link above. Anyhow, I am writing this article ‘DIY brickwork’, because I am a bricklayer by trade, so, I want to share my knowledge with you.
I believe that even today, there are things
that we must do ourselves, or employ qualified trades people to do the work. So,
building knowledge can be helpful, for people that want to build something
themselves.
So, we are writing this article of, DIY
brickwork, to help people that want to do some building work. In this article,
we are describing how to lay bricks and other building works. I know that
people can appreciate this for different reasons, and most times could be just
to save money.
But, to do any building work, whether is just
repairs, or build a small something, or build a house, we must at least know in
theory what needs to be done, unless we are tradesmen and knows what to do. So,
it is wise to read articles about build. So, in this article we are going to
write what we think can be helpful and paste articles that we think are helpful
to learn how to build or repair things.
But I want to point out that it is not
possible to teach people to be a bricklayer just by reading a single article
about bricklaying. For people that want to lay bricks, the best thing for them
is to observe the bricklayers on the job, this is the quickest way to learn.
However, even by observing how it is done, it will take a long time to learn
bricklaying, in fact, it takes years to become a bricklayer but don’t be
discouraged about that, because this article can help you, you see, you can
learn enough to do what you want to do. Now, let me explain.
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Explaining my position and what
we write
Now let me explain, you should keep in mind
that this ‘DIY brickwork’ article, is part of my life story, and I am writing
this article ‘DIY brickwork’, since I am a bricklayer. I am partly retired now
from building, so, I have been thinking that leaving behind my life building
knowledge would be a waste; so, I want to share my building knowledge, and for
this reason I am writing this article DIY brickwork; where we want to show you
how to build with bricks, since we want to tell you how bricklaying is done, I
have thought that it would be good to tell you how to build a brick base for
houses step by step for a start.
So, dear readers please note that this
article here is the first article about building with bricks, it will be
followed by several other building articles, where we share our bricklaying and
building knowledge with you; because then I feel that I have contributed in a
small way to the community by sharing what I have learned during my life; in
the hope that this can help somebody that wants to do some brickwork.
As we know, we are born with the capacity to
learn things; so, we believe that most people can do building work themselves,
if they are shown how it is done. Therefore, in these articles we will talk
about the following activities: (1) How to build with bricks; (2) Building a
brick base for houses. (3) Bricklayer laying bricks. (4) Getting ready to lay
bricks. (5) Making sure we start the brickwork level; (6) Laying bricks on a
sloping site; these are the main items that we are talking about in this article
and the following articles. Of course, there is more to say about bricklaying,
so, we are continuing with ‘DIY brickwork’ in our next article; Building a
brick base, and we will continue to write about brickwork until we complete the
brick base at least, even if we must write several articles about brickwork.
Building with bricks and other
things.
Dear readers, I believe that it is the duty of any human being to help
humanity to improve their standard of living, as we have written in this
website www.frankmenchise.com. So, let me pass
to my readers some of my hard-learned knowledge, starting with how a bricklayer
would build a house brick base.
But because it is hard to visualize some aspect of the bricklaying trade just by describing them, we are going to use some visual links from the internet to show you a few things about bricklaying, so, it is easier to follow, how to build this house brick base, I know that these are not my videos, but you see, ones you publish anything on the Internet those things are supposed to be shared from the rest of the community, at the same time whoever has published them can still claim to be the owner.
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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For want of a better
photo to show a normal house brick base, we are replacing it with this small
brick base photo, just to give you the right idea what we are talking about.
Anyhow, you can use your imagination to fit it to whatever you want to build.
Now allow me to explain it in writing.
Build a 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 DIY 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
have some ideas of what you need to know. 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 bricks.
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.
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.
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 built 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 2
To see more click on this link, DIY brickwork.
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