Learning a trade can help you

Dear readers, we are writing these posts, because we want to write some D.I.Y. Brickwork and building posts, so that you can learn something about how to built something yourself, at least in

theory. But in this blog we are also trying to get you interested to become a tradesman. So, keep reading please. 

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My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

Anyhow, you can see our entire articles at this addresses, DIY brickwork  

 and,  http://diybrickwork.com, 

Welcome to our blog, learning a trade can help. You see it helped me. So, it can help you also to achieve a higher standard of living.  

Dear readers, I believe that most people must work to earn their living, unless you are born lucky and your families are rich enough, that you can live on their properties earnings; or you are have studied and have university degrees and a good job. But if you are not one of them, then  the best other thing to do is to learn a trade. To learn a building trade takes a few years, but it is worth having a qualification, in the building industry, there are several qualifications to choose from, but because here we are talking about brickwork, we invite young people to become bricklayers. Now that I have said that, let me take you through how I learned my trade. To do that, I am going to start from when I was a building labor, because a building labor is already a Semi-qualified tradesman. 

Anyhow, when I came to Australia in the sixties I ended up working in the building industry, we were extending or fixing old houses, or building new houses from scratch, I started as a bricklayer labor, and after a few years I became a bricklayer, and have worked most of my life as a bricklayer. 

But let me start to show you some types of brickwork, because today we are writing this extra article to talk about the various ways we lay bricks, because we want to show that we are serious to talk about how to lay bricks. because we want to help people know how to lay bricks. But by reading and studying this D.I.Y brickwork blog only, you cannot become a bricklayer, to become a bricklayer, it takes a few years of practice, but you can do a small job yourself, and if you like it then you can continue and by practicing it for a long time, you become a bricklayer yourself. 

Anyhow, let me show you a few photos, of different bonds, of how the bricks can be laid.   

Now, let me show you some photos of bricklayers, while they are working on a wall.  

Above is a bricklayer working on a wall and laying the bricks in stretcher bond. Note all the joints in the brickwork are even, note also the set up of the compo-board and the stack of bricks, well withing the bricklayers reach. 

This bricklayer here is building an arch in his wall. To build an arch is not as hard as it seems, if you have an arch form template, but you need to mark all the space of the bricks on the template, so that the closer brick on the top fits well. The hardest part in the case of a face-brick wall, is to cut the brick around the arch to make an even joint.  

This bricklayer here, is laying this type of old bricks with their frogs up. Well that is the way they tell you it is done, but most bricklayers find it harder to lay bricks frogs up, to they lay them frogs down. Really in the end there is no much difference, except it is harder to do. You can lay them whichever way you like. 

This bricklayer here has built his corner in stretcher bond on concrete floor, this is an easy corner to built, since the concrete floor is level. Now he needs to build the other corner and use his bricklayer string line to lay the bricks in between. 

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There is a lot more to learn, and you can use these links hereunder to learn a few things.  

The Art of Laying Brick - YouTube

Images for bricklaying 

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Now that I have done that, let me go back to tell you that Learning a trade can help, by starting to tell you the way that I have started myself. 

Dear readers, I believe that the knowledge you have acquired during your life must be used in full. So, today that I cannot use my knowledge much, because I am getting old and my physical strength does not allow me to use it enough, I have thought to write and publish my know-how D.I.Y brickwork site, hoping it can help somebody that reads my blogs. 

But before I can do that, I must write many blogs. It will be like telling you, how I learned bricklaying myself during my life, and I will be telling you how many things are done on the building sites. 

So, first of all, I need to explain to our readers, how I did acquirer this building knowledge that I am going to use to write this D.I.Y. brickwork blog, and hopefully teach them something useful. You see, knowledge is not easy to pass to other people, but I am going to try anyhow.  

Now let me tell you who I am and where I come from; I am an Italian Australian bloke that has worked most of my life building or fixing house building. I am known in Australia as Frank Menchise, even if in this blog my name has changed, because on the internet one is forced to use a different name for safety reasons.

Now that I have told you that, I can tell you how I learned building things. Anyhow, in Italy when I was young, I worked mostly in the farm and a little in building things for the farm, it was not much but enough to know what you need to know to build something.

When I came to Australia I was ready to do any work to earn money, because in the sixties there were a lot of standalone new house being built in Brisbane, I ended up to work with a small builder that built, or partly built these houses. I worked first as a building labor, because this is what these people needed; they needed a strong bloke to do hard physical work and help them build these houses. In the early sixties on small building most things were done by hand, even foundations were dug by hand, so, I was the right bloke to do this job.

Anyhow, for a few years I worked as a building labor, with a few small builders and bricklayers’ gangs. One day the boss was looking for more bricklayers, but he could not find them, so, he asked me if I wanted to be a bricklayer, since he knew that I would work  hard to succeed. He tried me out and found that I could earn my wage if I worked with other brick layers that new more than me. Anyhow, I worked with them for a few years and became as good as any of them. This is how I became A bricklayer.

Anyhow, this is more or less my life story, but I need to tell you this, because when I was working as a bricklayer labor, I was observing how the bricklayer worked, and when I had time, I tried to lay some bricks instead of taking it easy, the boss gave me this chance, because I was trying to learn. So, if you do the right things, one day you may be recompensed and that is what I wanted. 

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Now, let us talk about the Australian building industry, I believe that the Australian building industry  is one of the major employment industries in Australia. It was so in the sixties and even today is much the same. Because Australia is a new country, and it needs more people. Because the population grows steadily also accommodations need to grow steadily, therefore, new houses need to be built to keep a steady balance. So, a lot of people are needed to build these houses. The only problem that you can encounter working with builders, is that your job is a temporary job. When one job is finished, you do not know, if your employer has been able to secure another job to keep you employed.

But then to find another job is easy, so, it works both ways, even though you can be concerned about having this job.

Anyhow, it is a job with good opportunities, because you can learn and improve your building knowledge and built something yourself. So, in those times, if you were a tradesman, most likely you could be the builder as well.

But now let me talk about what I was doing in the early sixties, as a builder labor, so that you can understand how these houses were built. With this builder contractor that I was working with, we did many things, and we also started houses from scratch, when there was some brickwork, concrete work and concrete stumps to make, in those times concrete stumps were made on site, so, let me tell you what we did.

We went to the site and set it up if it was not set up from the builder or carpenter that was building the timber house on top. This setting up required that we should fix some timber frame to the ground with pegs and per the measurement in the plan. These timber frames are called profiles, and they are marked accurately to the measurement on the plan, so that we had the right measurement to go by, to start digging the foundations for the concrete stumps and brick walls. 

How the profiles are set on a near level site. Anyhow, what you need here are a few length of timber fixed to the ground, where you can mark where the walls and the stumps are going to be, then you can use a stretched bricklayers line between the profiles. When laying bricks we could also use the profile to mark our levels.  

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Anyhow, here I want to say that, while I was working, I was also learning how these things were done; and those houses that we were building in the sixties, they were average affordable house that the average family could afford to buy, and therefore, they were sold easily.

Anyhow, there is a lot more to be said, how we built these houses. But let us go back to our previous blog, where we had built our imaginary house brick base, and link it to our next blog, building a veneer house.

See you soon.

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I believe that on the internet, it is  helpful if we keep our personal links handy, so that we can visit our sites from anywhere we are. These links hereunder are some of my links, feel free to visit them. 

http://diybrickwork.com  

 http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/

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Completing the house brick base

Dear readers, we are writing these posts, because we want to write some D.I.Y. Brickwork and building posts, so that you can learn something about how to built something yourself, at least in

theory. So, keep reading please. 

You are here, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

Anyhow, you can see our entire articles at this addresses, DIY brickwork  

 and,  http://diybrickwork.com, 

This is a typical average affordable timber house, set on brick-base. These houses seem to be build for just normal working families. This base here is not like the base in the text, because in the text we are building on a sloping site. But we do not have a photo to show you

Welcome to our article completing the house brick base, from, House brick base continues

Dear readers, this article is the continuation of Building a brick base, where we were going to explain step by step how to build a house brick base, so that, anyone can follow how is done. They can also use what they have learned to build something else.

Anyhow, in our last article, we have started to describe how to build a brick base on a sloping building site, we had reached the stage, where the bricklayers had set-up and built the southern wall high enough to lay some brick reinforcement and the damp course. Now, to keep our descriptions simple and accurate, we must assume that they are leaving an opening for a door, then continue to build this wall as high as the first brick on the concrete foundation at the highest corner. They need to do that, so, they can check and make sure that all the walls are level and there is no mistake in the level of the brickwork. Anyhow, once the bricklayers have done that, it starts to be easier for everyone to work on this brick base, since the whole house dimensions have been set-up, and everything is level.

Now let me make it clear, to start a house base on a stepped foundation is not easy, and the bricklayers must be careful and make no mistakes, especially on a sloping site and stepped foundations, since the foundations may not be level, because of the extra difficulty that the concrete worker encounter when laying the foundations on a sloping site.

Anyhow, when building every tradesman must rely on their skills, they must make sure that what they are doing is the right thing to do, they cannot blame somebody else for their own mistakes, therefore, when they find a mistake from the previous tradesman, whether they are concrete workers or other trades, whenever possible they should try to fix whatever there is to fix themselves, when that cannot be done, their foreman can recall the previous tradesman to fix their mistakes, before they go ahead and make the mistake bigger and more costly to fix later.

That is why the bricklayer cannot trust blindly the concrete workers. Anyhow, the bricklayers that are building this brick base are doing the right thing. They have built the lower part of the brick base level and they have made the first full course of bricks all around the house base. Now they can relax a bit, as everything is in the right place at the right level and there is no pig in the brickwork, as the last course of bricks makes a full circle of the house and ends up level, so, there is no pig in the brickwork, now, let us explain what is a pig in the brickwork and how it can happen.

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Explaining a pig in the brickwork

Let me explain how a pig in the brickwork can happen.

Here I need to say that this saying, can be a local saying that explains; the brickwork is set in a way like a spring coil, so it never ends, and it cannot be level

Now let me explain how it can happen, and how the bricklayer can create a pig in the brickwork.  This mistake can happen on a sloping site, like the sloping site we are working on now. It can happen when the brick-walls are not exactly level, and the bricklayer ties the line on the wrong course of bricks, when they start building the last wall.

Therefore, let us go back to build our brick base, and let us assume that the bricklayer that is setting the wall on the eastern side is having some difficulty in setting the wall exactly level, because the foundation is not level, so, the bricklayer believe that he can make the walls level,  by making the bed joint thicker before he reaches ground level; therefore, he lets his northern corner be a couple of centimetre lower than his southern corner on the same course of bricks, you see this is a long wall and if you only use the spirit level, you can hardly see that it is not level, but with the proper level or water level it will show the difference.

At the same time, the bricklayer that is setting the western wall is having some difficulties too and for the same reason is starting his wall and letting his northern corner be a couple of centimetre higher that his southern corner on the same course of bricks, he also believes that he can set everything right by making very small joint before ground level is reached.

Now, there is a difference of four centimetres at the northern wall, this is a problem, you see, four centimetres is more than half a brick, therefore, the bricklayer can easily tie the line on the wrong course; this is how a pig in the brickwork is created.

To make sure that there is no pig in it, the bricklayer needs to make sure that the walls are started level from the start, and then run a full course all around the entire building. The brick course should be like a closed even ring, and make sure that the walls are level, this is the only way to avoid mistakes. So, it is better to spend extra time at the start and get it perfectly level. I hope I have explained it properly and clearly, how a pig in the brickwork can be created.

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Building the rest of the brick-base.

Let us assume that everything has been set properly, so, all the brickwork around is level and at the right alignment. But to make sure, we double check everything again by running a type measure and seeing that it agrees with the plans measurement, this now is a very simple job, because everything is set in hard cement and everything is level, so, if there is any mistake in the measurements it will show up easily.

Having checked everything and found that everything is right, we can proceed to complete the brick base. Anyhow, we have built the lower part of the base one brick higher than the highest corner of the concrete foundations.

Since the whole base has been set, the best way is to build higher the northern wall, which is now the lowest wall, we want to build it at least to above ground level, so that the trances can be back filled and then it is easier for everybody to walk around the building site, this is an easier job now since everything is in the right place at the right level. So, we build this wall above ground level. Having built the northern wall above ground level, now we must choose which wall to build next. But at the same time, let us see what the bricklayer can use to speed up the brickwork, like the bricklayer’s profiles, these are devises that can be attached to the brick walls to help the bricklayers. So, let us explain the bricklayer’s profiles.

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This picture shows you how some bricklayers profile look like, they help because you can save time. 

Bricklayer's profiles

Bricklayers’ profiles are helpful, because it eliminates the process of building the corners first, it also helps to keep the gauge easily, since the gauge is marked on the profile. I have always had a profile with me when I was laying bricks. Some of these profiles can be bought, but if there are not readily available on the market, and there is a lot of brickwork that needs to be done, by using your own creativeness you can make one yourself, all that is needed is a straight edge marked with the gauge that you can fasten to the walls.

There are at least two types of profile that the bricklayers can use to speed up his work, the main one is used for external corners. This external corner profile needs to be supported both ways to be effective, so, if you haven’t got one and you cannot buy one, you need to configure a device that can be tighten both ways, when you are making your own profile. You have to plan it in such a way that you can grab a brick from the joint on one side and two bricks on the other side, so that a sort of triangle is made and balance can be kept.

The internal corner profile can be a lot easier to make, and here I wonder why people don’t use it, since it is easier to make. All what is needed is again a straight edge with a hole or a few holes drilled in it and a special made up bolt or two that are thinner than the brick’s joint; these special bolts need to be modified and instead of their normal bolt head they should have a short cross say 30 to 40 mm welded at one end, and at the other end is the tread with a butterfly nut. All the bricklayer needs to do now is to leave a hole in the bed joint near the corner, or clear the joint with a plugging chisel, then he puts one of his bolts in the hole of his straight edge; now he can push the bolt in the joint until the modified bolt head reaches the other side of the brick, then he turns the whole bolt 90 degrees, so that the modified bolt head is now vertical, and then he can tighten the bolt with his butterfly nut and at the same time make sure that the profile is plumb and he can use this profile instead of building the corner with his spirit level.

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To complete the brick base

What else needs to be done to complete the brick base?

Let us now assume, that because the ground is sloping the base of this house has been divided, in such a way that the lower end can be used for garage laundry and utility room. To achieve that they have dug up the ground level about half the length of the house, and then dug a foundation to support a retaining wall and pillars to support the house above, the rest of the ground under the house will be left the way it is for the time being, because it is too costly to dig it out.

Anyhow, let us complete this brick base, as we have said above the lower side is now a certain height where the windows openings should be started. The windows are going to be tied to the brickwork, so, they need to be put in the right place and braced while the walls are being built. The bricklayers need to be careful that the windows remain plumb and in the right place while he attaches the window ties to the window and builds the tie into the brickwork. Here I may have to point out that placing the windows on the walls at the right height and at the right place, it’s one of those jobs that in this part of the world there is no rule who has to do it, say if the bricklayer is paid a fixed price for the amount of bricks he has laid, when he is placing and fixing the window on the wall he might not be paid, therefore, nobody is willing to do it, but there is no set rule and not much money for doing it, therefore, everybody wants to pass the buck to the builder or other trade people.

Having said that, now let us assume that everything has been done according to trading practice and the windows have been built into the brickwork accordingly. But here I want to point out that we have not talked about the lower part of the brick base that is being built on the higher part of the land, so, what needs to be done there?

The lower part of the brick base is built together with the rest of the base, but because it is lower it can be just one single brick thick with engaged piers under the house. These engaged piers may have a double purpose, one is to strengthen the walls and they may be used to carry the weight of the house if this part of the house is going to be a brick veneer. In this part of the house because there are no windows the bricklayer needs to leave some air vents, so that a minimum of ventilation is achieved. All this is going to be done according to specifications, as there must be some local rules and they may not be the same everywhere.

What we have written in this article is approximately what happens when we bricklayers build a brick base on a slopping piece of ground. So, I hope that I have not left behind any important description that would have helped the readers.

Now that we have built our imaginary house brick base, we believe that we have said enough in this article. So, see you soon in our next article, building a veneer house.

See you soon.

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This blog-site is; old man-lifeworks

 Blog, Completing the house brick base  

IS TO BE CONTINUED WITH

Building a veneer house    

See you soon.

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I believe that on the internet, it is  helpful if we keep our personal links handy, so that we can visit our sites from anywhere we are. These links hereunder are some of my links, feel free to visit them. 

http://diybrickwork.com  

 http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/

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Building a house brick base

Dear readers, we are writing these posts, because we want to write some D.I.Y. Brickwork and building posts, so that you can learn something about how to built something yourself, at least in

theory. So, keep reading please. 

You are here, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

Anyhow, you can see our entire articles at this addresses, DIY brickwork  

 and,  http://diybrickwork.com, 

Houses can be built with different materials, most times a house can be part bricks and part timber, like the one here, a brick base and a timber house above. Anyhow, in this blog we want to start the house building a brick base.  

We start the house by digging and concreting the foundations first. On a narrow sloping site the foundation can be like this one above. But let us start how to proceed laying bricks.  

Welcome to our blog, Building a brick base

Dear readers, in our last article, we wanted to tell you how to build a brick base, on a sloping site. I believe that the best thing to do is to talk in a way, as if we are building this house brick base step by step, so, let us start building it.

When we want to build a house, it is necessary to have a plan, but because we don’t have a plan, let us say that we are building a rectangular house base, which is about 8 meters wide and 12 meters long, it happens to be built on a sloping site.

Now, the foundations have been laid, and there are several concrete steps in it, because, of the slope in the land. So, the bricklayers need to pay more attention to the foundation levels. They cannot lay bricks and follow the foundations, set by the concrete workers, because they may not be level. In building every tradesman is responsible about his own work, so, it is wise to be careful that you don’t make mistakes, and if the trade before you have made a mistake try to adjust it, without making too much fuss if you can.

In the case of a stepped foundation, it is hard for concrete layers to set the concrete steps of the foundations at the right level, for the bricklayers to lay bricks on them without checking the levels, one of the reasons is that the steps in the concrete foundation may not be the same gauge of the brickwork that we are going to lay.   

As we have explained in our previous article about levels, we have already marked the level on the profiles and stretched a tight line above the southern brick wall; from this level line we can check the levels on the southern brick wall. 

Now, to make things easy let us start with one working bricklayer, and let us assume that the bricklayer has marked the outside boundary corners and has started to lay a few bricks on the lowest corner of the foundation; he is building a corner four bricks high. He has chosen to make the corner four brick high, because from his measurement he knows that there is a difference of three bricks in the foundation, therefore, his fourth brick on the corner that he is building now, is going to be level with the first brick on the opposite corner, having built his corner four bricks high and having laid his firs brick on the other corner, now he can stretch his brickies line between these two points and start working his stretcher bond from his lowest corner, making sure that the bricks he lays are laid in line and level. 

Let me explain, in bricklaying it is important that the entire building is set in stretcher bond from the start, even if there are other types of bonds that are going to be used in the brickwork, because the stretcher bond is always the main bond, as this bond will continue throughout the building; therefore, the bricklayer cannot build the other corner until he runs a full course in stretcher bond from the first corner that he has built at the start, once that is done he can proceed to build both corners.  

  

A bricklayer working on a brick wall. As we have said, bricklaying is a hard job, but the hardest part is to start the brickwork the right way. As we will explain in the following descriptions, 

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How we proceed to build the brick base 

Now, to give an easier description let us say that the lowest corner of the house is the South East corner, the South West corner is three bricks higher than the South East corner and the other corners are higher than these two corners. Now as I have said the bricklayer has built this corner four bricks high and laid one brick at the west corner as marked, so, he is ready to lay brick, but before he does that he double check everything with his gauge rod, he checks from his line level that he has set above, or with the water level that his fourth brick in the corner is level with his first brick on the west corner, let us assume that they are level and they are the same course of bricks.

Now he can start laying brick in stretcher bond, from the South East corner working his way to the west corner, he sets his brickies line as he sees fit making sure that the levels and the alignment are right, when he reaches the fourth course, which is the first full course in this wall he tries to work out if he can start this whole wall in stretcher bond, without cutting any bricks by increasing or decreasing the perpendicular joints between the bricks, if he cannot achieve that, then one brick must be cut a bit shorter; small pieces are to be avoided as they are unsightly and they weaken the wall. While doing this job, one has to keep in mind that in a face brick wall the perpendicular joints become unsightly if they are bigger than the bed joint, therefore, it is better to keep the perpendicular joints smaller than the bed joint.

Now that the first course of bricks in stretcher bond has been laid from corner to corner, the bricklayer will lay bricks in the inside of this brickwork, if it is just a one brick thick wall he will lay the bricks right against the bricks he has already laid, but if it is a cavity wall then he has to set his inside wall as specified, most time this space between the walls is about 50,mm. Now that the lowest wall has been set, he moves to work on the eastern wall, since this is the second lowest wall in this brick base.

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Working on the eastern brick wall

The eastern stepped concrete foundation is a longer foundation and it has a difference in level of about 1.2 meter and this will be about 15 courses of bricks.

First, the bricklayer stretches the external line and a level tight line above the eastern wall, from these two lines he can check the outside alignment and the levels, then he checks and lays his first brick on the foundation near the first concrete step, as he has a four brick high corner he can lay one to four brick next to the concrete steps. I must say here that it is hard to explain just by writing a text to show exactly how everything is done, but in building everything is common sense, so, use your imagination to see how things can be done.

Anyhow, let us assume that the bricklayer has set his bricks and now he is running his stretcher bond, from the south eastern corner to the north eastern corner of the house and the fourth course of bricks has been laid and the inside brick has been laid. At this point of time the bricklayer needs to build the south eastern corner higher to proceed with the works, unless another bricklayer is doing that for him. You see, I am writing this article as if there is a single bricklayer on the site at the beginning, but I am doing that because that is the only way to show you how we can start this brick base correctly.

Anyhow at this point of time the bricklayer wants to add a couple more courses on the walls that he has started, so that his walls in this corner are higher than the ground and the trench then can be back filled at this corner of the house, so that it is easier for him and everybody else to work on level ground.

But before he does that, he knows that he must check what else needs to be done, he notes that there is an opening for a door after he lays another two or three courses of bricks and that he needs to reinforce his brickwork with some brick mesh reinforcement before the opening occurs, and there is also a damp-course to be laid at the opening level, this damp-course is only needed in this lower part of the base, because they are going to lay a concrete floor and build a couple of rooms under the house. The damp-course is a thin layer of material that stops the dampness passing from the ground up and from one level to another; it works both ways depending on the way it is laid.

 In the specifications says that the reinforcement is needed every four courses and under and above all openings. So, he lays his mesh reinforcement on the walls and builds another corner three brick high, this is the level where the first opening occurs, it is also the level of the damp course. Here we need to note that to make it easier to understand what is happening, this south eastern corner is now seven bricks high form the foundation, at this point of time it is better that all the brickwork in the base is built to this level.

Once you have all the brickwork level, the damp-course is laid according to the specification, and the first problem is solved in this lower part of the brick base. So, now the bricklayer/s can start building higher corners, as they did when he started, or if they want they can set bricklayer profiles if they are available, since now the brick walls at this lower end of the house are set at the right level and alignment.  

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Bricklaying for a house requires team work

On the above written explanation, we have assumed as if there was only one bricklayer on the job, but to build a brick base a small gang of bricklayers and labor/s are needed, say two or three bricklayers and a labor. Sometimes there are no strict rules on the job, and they can help each other. Mind you this can only work with small gangs, and the bricklayer foreman is there to guide the team and help whoever needs help. On large team everyone has his own job to do, and when the unions have a say, they want you to do only your own job and nothing else, so, sometimes the unions are not helpful, but then again they need to have their own rules otherwise they cannot exist.

Anyhow, let us go back to building this house brick base; now that the first part of the base has been started, the bricklayers must be careful to start the rest of the base correctly, so, they continue to lay brick and check for levels and alignments’ as they have done before, by building one wall at a time and a course at a time, until they bring all the brickwork level with the first brick on the foundation on the highest corner of the house foundation, here again everything must be checked and rechecked again, to make sure that everything is level and set at the right alignment and above all that there is no pig in the brickwork. To make sure there is no pig in it; all the walls must be built at this level and checked, and then proceed to build everything to the finish height required.

I believe that this article has become too long, because of the explanations that are required, so, it is better if we write another article, and talk about what is going-on on the work site, while we are building this house brick base, and explain what is meant by a pig in the brickwork.

To make it easy for you to follow, this is the link to our article, House brick base continues

See you soon.    

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This blog-site is; old man-lifeworks

 Blog, Building a house brick base  

IS TO BE CONTINUED WITH

Our house brick base continues    

See you soon.

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I believe that on the internet, it is  helpful if we keep our personal links handy, so that we can visit our sites from anywhere we are. These links hereunder are some of my links, feel free to visit them. 

http://diybrickwork.com  

 http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/

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