Kind of reminiscing now as I was a brickie once upon a time.Your accent brings back memories as well.I,ve only just sold my Blake’s after almost 14 years in my garage -just didn’t want to let go easily.All is ok now though as I can at least draw a breath.You see I had a fall out walking one day,and bust a blood vessel somewhere,they pulled all the stops and I was at Guys andThomas,s for a heart valve op.What a great country we have here but I guess my days working are over at84 y.o.a. Keep making these amusing vids.
Nice one mate ,Baltic up here in the north east , tools have been put away as it's to cold and next week looks as ruff ,a think quite a few have called it for the year 👍🍻🍻
Worked with an old boy 20 year back and he used to flush his block work up with a worn in pointing trowel,look just as neat as bucket handle finish but joints were just as full (if not fuller) makes perfect sense Andy!🧱👍
I used the thin version beds in Australia and Germany, The Germans called it hebel . They tried it in perth Australia for a few years but it developed a lot of issues with cracking due to perth can get down to freezing in the winter but a 110 in the summer and they just didn't allow for movement . Like you said it was a great system as we used to get 90 blocks out of a big bucket of the grout stuff . Great video .........
Interesting, I've worked in Perth so it seems the extreme heat was the problem as in Europe we have extremeties with colder weather which dosent seem to have any adverse effect on the system, how's the work situation in Perth thinkin of coming out for a while next year, won't need to work but would be good to catch up with a few brickies👍
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 I think it just the range of temperature is larger In perth year in year out. I'm no longer in Perth, I'm in poole now but I have contacts there and the work is good but the cost of living is horrendous ....my youngest Lad is in the mining game up in hedland .
Top upload Andy shows all the tips you need to do a private job from profiles with Dutch pins to getting blockwork and brickwork on hop ups ! A good pair of boots Andy 👌🏻 your lock up looks like my one now a very organised place 😂 cheers for upload stay warm -7 this morning in Scotland
Super video Andy thanks. Can’t go wrong with the Haix boots expensive but real quality gortex like the design on tounges all part of the boot. You do get a clear cream you can rub on them keep the the leather good to be honest a kind of neglect that a bit lol but still get a easy solid 8 months out before starts going that hard type way. Great ankle protection on them. Have nice weekend fella look forward to next video 🤟🤟
On the Dutch pins you don’t think are very good, I find drilling a hole getting it hammered in a good few hits, 30mm ideally then turn the securing part of the pin round to the profile I find it ends up pulling tight, but yes the others are a lot easier
I done a few years of the thin joint system over here, Celcon we’re pushing it for a while but we built it like we would a traditional build. Lift by lift with brickwork. Didn’t make sense and didn’t catch on
Flettons were always used on jack walls in the old days,built in english bond,great Saturday job, put two door frames up as profiles and slash it up!Earn your money by 11am and in the battle for opening🤣 I hate flettons purely cos of the frogs, Most lbc bricks are crap, Great video Andy... Been below all week and next week ain't looking no better, Early Xmas here hopefully
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277we'd get the hod to shovel it on straight out of the barrow, great job and knock for a Saturday! Was laying below last week, Enjoy your Xmas andy🤣
Sound is great Andy👍good insight video mate.I was just thinking if I could use wintermix accelerator on a little job I've got to do ,but you're right you use loads per gauge of muck so bugger that. Looks like most of us gonna have to pack up abit earlier for Xmas? Enjoy Spain Andy ATB.
Enjoyed the video Andy,pleasing to see someone else shares my thoughts on ironing up blockwork,and as for ironing up the inside of the cavity for zero£,i just lose the will to live
Great video. New to channel. How will the party wall with the neighbours be finished? You mentioned a gully. Is there another skin of brick being added to their side? Have a great weekend
Hi Andy. I've just bought a lovely Edwardian house in Tonbridge, Kent. To my eyes (note I'm a chippie not a brickie!) the existing brickwork looks like high class work: flemish bond, beds & joints appear thinner than usual, white sand. The facade needs a good cleaning but I think is really lovely brickwork. Anyway, I plan on building an extension but I'm unsure how to go about matching and meeting the new brickwork with the old. I think the brickwork extension on the front facade would need to be toothed-in, just butting the new brickwork against the existing would be easier but would look poor. But toothing-in I imagine wont be easy, I believe you are in Essex and probably don't come down as far as me too often but I would really appreciate hearing your opinion on how I go about designing my brickwork, don't believe there are many as knowledgeable as you with regards brickwork! Would I be able to email you a few photos to get your advice? There's a few pints of Guinness in it for you if I ever meet you☘🤣
Pro tip! Wall ties like Andy is using not allowed in North America and many countries in the world except UK. Also vapor barrier on blockwork between block wall and brick wall?? It is code every where but UK? Andy why 4 inch block? You know they make 6 -10 inch block which you core fill if wall is structural . The world has been changing and techniques approved.
What's the weapon off choice in this video mate? Looks a bit off a bigger trowel than usual Also seen a couple off old geezers on site with an axe in the bucket, asked what it is for and they told me they use it too cut thermo blocks, new one too me, just wondered if you'd see it before?
Axe for cutting thermalite blocks goes back quite a few year , I remember in the late 80s older bricklayers using them ,I've used one the odd time just for the sake of trying it🤔👍
Hi Andy, do you have a make of wheelbarrow you would recommend? I want something that will last years, the last 2 I have had have been flimsy and ended up snapping the frames.
Sorry I don't, the one ime using came from Spain, apparently Belle or Vaunt are the best but expensive, but I couldn't vouch for them as never used one.
that early chat with your mate was interesting ,allways have a packet of jelly babies in the bag or in the car bring your levels back up quickly ,also Andy when iv done them type of extensions where you have work overhand ,right or wrong but iv put the line up my side and got away with it , and fair play to ya still carrying the monkey !
My dad and I much prefer to build with thermal blocks on our jobs. gift to handle and have thermal properties. Everybody in Northern Ireland use concrete blocks above dpc lol .
I live in Bangor County Down ,near Belfast . Just do private work ,bricky by trade .do wide range of general building work mostly.great videos man .I enjoy watching them 👍
Wtf using a hod I thought they would be illegal in this day and age only joking 😀😀😀 bloody good tool if you know how to use it short staff hunch your shoulder a little and both hands on the ladder when climbing But never poke the brickie up the arse😁
BC in this area won't accept toothing because of differential ground movement, in fact I can't remember the last time iwas allowed to do it probably in the 80s. I do agree it does look better but unless the client forks out for imperial bricks which most don't when they find out the cost toothing metrics into imperial work looks crap
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 that’s fair , honestly never heard the ground movement issue with toothing so you’ve taught me something, and yes you would have to be a magician to tooth metrics in to imperials 😂
I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful as you're an older trowel than I am and perhaps it's just years of site work drilled into me, but I still don't get your reluctance to point up blockwork. With the amount you had to bump those blocks you could've done it with an old hosepipe. Anyway, with regards to the thin joint system, I did it in 2018 in Golders Green using Porotherm blocks with glue beds. The work flew up but the developer said he'd avoid using the system again because of how ridiculously expensive the ties were and how much damage the chippies would do when fixing timbers to the Porotherm blockwork. The blocks are also so easily damaged when packs of them are hoisted off the wagon by the HIAB.
Interesting that Lawrence, I don't know how much the ties are will have to check, I've used Porotherm in more than one country and there are many types of fixings available for them without damaging them they are also very easy to chase out for the Sparks, Thermalite type blocks can also be used for this system.
There are good few styles boots are real quality worth shopping on prices the 1 in link a use can get them £130,s. Most there boots gortex proper ankle protection and certainly these 1,s the tounge is Al part the boot so shitty muddy water etc coming in at lace area. Real bugger when the laces snap tho just like any boots suppose. Keep the leather good will easily last well over a year am pretty brutal with them and still do good 8 months happy with that because a know most important thing ma feet are dry and proper high ankle protection. Some these boots on market company’s should be jailed.
Mob do go 1,s also got some sent from Belgian bricky jay and they do the best line pins will last till ya retire where these footprint shit last 5mins if not pushing into soft joint on the same day.
I agree but a lot of build inspectors don’t like it anymore as they say about footing movement i personally think if you do it right with a tuck pointer filling the joints I’ve had no problems
As Liam said BC don't like toothing because of differential ground movement also unless the client is willing to pay more for Imperial size bricks it don't always look that good with metrics.
Kind of reminiscing now as I was a brickie once upon a time.Your accent brings back memories as well.I,ve only just sold my Blake’s after almost 14 years in my garage -just didn’t want to let go easily.All is ok now though as I can at least draw a breath.You see I had a fall out walking one day,and bust a blood vessel somewhere,they pulled all the stops and I was at Guys andThomas,s for a heart valve op.What a great country we have here but I guess my days working are over at84 y.o.a. Keep making these amusing vids.
You are doing well for 84 Thomas 👍
Thanks for the Dutch pin/profile setup. Much appreciated Andy 👍
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Nice one mate ,Baltic up here in the north east , tools have been put away as it's to cold and next week looks as ruff ,a think quite a few have called it for the year 👍🍻🍻
top video Andy proper bread & butter work.
Worked with an old boy 20 year back and he used to flush his block work up with a worn in pointing trowel,look just as neat as bucket handle finish but joints were just as full (if not fuller) makes perfect sense Andy!🧱👍
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Totally agree about blockwork jointing up
If you're going to joint at all strike it upside down it will keep the spreads happy
We never used to joint up block work houses are still standing
I used the thin version beds in Australia and Germany, The Germans called it hebel .
They tried it in perth Australia for a few years but it developed a lot of issues with cracking due to perth can get down to freezing in the winter but a 110 in the summer and they just didn't allow for movement .
Like you said it was a great system as we used to get 90 blocks out of a big bucket of the grout stuff .
Great video .........
Interesting, I've worked in Perth so it seems the extreme heat was the problem as in Europe we have extremeties with colder weather which dosent seem to have any adverse effect on the system, how's the work situation in Perth thinkin of coming out for a while next year, won't need to work but would be good to catch up with a few brickies👍
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 I think it just the range of temperature is larger In perth year in year out.
I'm no longer in Perth, I'm in poole now but I have contacts there and the work is good but the cost of living is horrendous ....my youngest Lad is in the mining game up in hedland .
Great video...useful as well...totally agree not to point blockwork...looking forward to next video... thanks Andy..
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Nice setup Andy 🤙🏾. You did well getting the scaffolders to listen to you 😆😆🧱👍🏽
I stayed for a while to make sure they got it right 😏
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 😁🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Great video Andy 👍
Top upload Andy shows all the tips you need to do a private job from profiles with Dutch pins to getting blockwork and brickwork on hop ups ! A good pair of boots Andy 👌🏻 your lock up looks like my one now a very organised place 😂 cheers for upload stay warm -7 this morning in Scotland
Thanks John, keep warm fella 👍
Super video Andy thanks. Can’t go wrong with the Haix boots expensive but real quality gortex like the design on tounges all part of the boot. You do get a clear cream you can rub on them keep the the leather good to be honest a kind of neglect that a bit lol but still get a easy solid 8 months out before starts going that hard type way. Great ankle protection on them. Have nice weekend fella look forward to next video 🤟🤟
Thanks mate I've ordered some cream of eBay 👍
On the Dutch pins you don’t think are very good, I find drilling a hole getting it hammered in a good few hits, 30mm ideally then turn the securing part of the pin round to the profile I find it ends up pulling tight, but yes the others are a lot easier
Good video Andy fair play to ya getting up that ladder with the hod of bricks
Great video again Andy. This weather is a bit baltic. Think a few guys will be having an extended holiday. Hope you and the Mrs enjoy Spain. 👍👍
Not Spain😏
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 enjoy wherever your going.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Wetherspoon
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 some people aren't really up to speed are they 😭
Excelente trabajo saludos y mil bendiciones para todos uds 🧱💪💯👌🏻🙏🙏
I done a few years of the thin joint system over here, Celcon we’re pushing it for a while but we built it like we would a traditional build. Lift by lift with brickwork. Didn’t make sense and didn’t catch on
Don't like change in this country do they.
Great vids pal
Great video once again mate, just about to do a party wall agreement with next door I like the gully idea
See if you can get a flying freehold you will get a bit more room in your extension and save on bricks
Cheers mate @@markmaddison5312
Flettons were always used on jack walls in the old days,built in english bond,great Saturday job, put two door frames up as profiles and slash it
up!Earn your money by 11am and in the battle for opening🤣
I hate flettons purely cos of the frogs,
Most lbc bricks are crap,
Great video Andy...
Been below all week and next week ain't looking no better,
Early Xmas here hopefully
Is for me mate ,got 6 inches of snow here and it's still coming down, used to love the Jacks hod ok muck straight on the wall👍
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277we'd get the hod to shovel it on straight out of the barrow, great job and knock for a Saturday!
Was laying below last week,
Enjoy your Xmas andy🤣
@@kirkhogan2688 You to Kirk 👌
Another great video Andy, when are you gonna show us your trowel collection?
Another quality video. Plasterers prefer blockwork not jointed keys better.
Yep
Sound is great Andy👍good insight video mate.I was just thinking if I could use wintermix accelerator on a little job I've got to do ,but you're right you use loads per gauge of muck so bugger that. Looks like most of us gonna have to pack up abit earlier for Xmas? Enjoy Spain Andy ATB.
Thanks Dave, it's not Spain😉
Sorry my mistake Andy....Will look forward to finding out where👍
Enjoyed the video Andy,pleasing to see someone else shares my thoughts on ironing up blockwork,and as for ironing up the inside of the cavity for zero£,i just lose the will to live
Yes ridiculous isn't it👍
Great video. New to channel. How will the party wall with the neighbours be finished? You mentioned a gully. Is there another skin of brick being added to their side? Have a great weekend
No mate there wall remains as it is, the gulley is just a sloping piece of concrete as designed by the Party wall bloke.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Thank you for your reply
Hi Andy.
I've just bought a lovely Edwardian house in Tonbridge, Kent. To my eyes (note I'm a chippie not a brickie!) the existing brickwork looks like high class work: flemish bond, beds & joints appear thinner than usual, white sand. The facade needs a good cleaning but I think is really lovely brickwork.
Anyway, I plan on building an extension but I'm unsure how to go about matching and meeting the new brickwork with the old. I think the brickwork extension on the front facade would need to be toothed-in, just butting the new brickwork against the existing would be easier but would look poor. But toothing-in I imagine wont be easy,
I believe you are in Essex and probably don't come down as far as me too often but I would really appreciate hearing your opinion on how I go about designing my brickwork, don't believe there are many as knowledgeable as you with regards brickwork!
Would I be able to email you a few photos to get your advice? There's a few pints of Guinness in it for you if I ever meet you☘🤣
No probs, send me some pics over, is it listed?
apalij1@hotmail.com
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Ah thank you Andy, you are a Gentleman. I've emailed you now.
@@kevocos Ile take a look later, out at the minute 👍
Hello mate, been looking at them spot boards. Are they worth the money? Happy New Year
I think so, I could never go back to wood again, robust and will last a lifetime.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 thanks Andy. Something I will invest in 👌
@@Aled____wyn678 👍
Great vid andy. When u worked in germany. Was it like auf pet? out every night a good laugh?
Yea just like it mate.
Pro tip! Wall ties like Andy is using not allowed in North America and many countries in the world except UK. Also vapor barrier on blockwork between block wall and brick wall?? It is code every where but UK? Andy why 4 inch block? You know they make 6 -10 inch block which you core fill if wall is structural . The world has been changing and techniques approved.
We build like this and all over Northern Europe quite simply because we do not suffer from Earthquakes so it is sufficient.
What's the weapon off choice in this video mate? Looks a bit off a bigger trowel than usual Also seen a couple off old geezers on site with an axe in the bucket, asked what it is for and they told me they use it too cut thermo blocks, new one too me, just wondered if you'd see it before?
Axe for cutting thermalite blocks goes back quite a few year , I remember in the late 80s older bricklayers using them ,I've used one the odd time just for the sake of trying it🤔👍
Old bow saws were used as well
Used to use the axe back in the 80's ..... Can't beat it .
I use a machete, if you look back on my vids there is one on cutting thermalites where I use it.Ile use it on the next vid I do on this job.
It's an old Philadelphia Marshaltown, ideal for the big frogs, I did mention it in the previous vid 👍
Hi Andy, do you have a make of wheelbarrow you would recommend? I want something that will last years, the last 2 I have had have been flimsy and ended up snapping the frames.
Sorry I don't, the one ime using came from Spain, apparently Belle or Vaunt are the best but expensive, but I couldn't vouch for them as never used one.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 OK, man. Cheers for answering.
@@kennethocongerskin9460 👍
that early chat with your mate was interesting ,allways have a packet of jelly babies in the bag or in the car bring your levels back up quickly ,also Andy when iv done them type of extensions where you have work overhand ,right or wrong but iv put the line up my side and got away with it , and fair play to ya still carrying the monkey !
Yea I know about the line but I just can't bring myself to do it, the monkey is for sale 😁
I always have sugar cubes on me just in case
Put a piece of 300mm dpc down that back gutter then pull it out when overhand section done.
Normally would but the fence post closes it down to much and can't get it out 👍
My dad and I much prefer to build with thermal blocks on our jobs.
gift to handle and have thermal properties.
Everybody in Northern Ireland use concrete blocks above dpc lol .
I know they do mate, can't beat therms just treat them like a Lady 👍Where abouts in NI are you ?
I live in Bangor County Down ,near Belfast . Just do private work ,bricky by trade .do wide range of general building work mostly.great videos man .I enjoy watching them 👍
@@ryankingmtb4025 Not so far from my lot in Newry, maybe catch up sometime when ime over next 👍
No problem 👍
Wtf using a hod I thought they would be illegal in this day and age only joking 😀😀😀 bloody good tool if you know how to use it short staff hunch your shoulder a little and both hands on the ladder when climbing But never poke the brickie up the arse😁
Why didn’t you tooth it in ? Looks much better than a straight joint
BC in this area won't accept toothing because of differential ground movement, in fact I can't remember the last time iwas allowed to do it probably in the 80s. I do agree it does look better but unless the client forks out for imperial bricks which most don't when they find out the cost toothing metrics into imperial work looks crap
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 that’s fair , honestly never heard the ground movement issue with toothing so you’ve taught me something, and yes you would have to be a magician to tooth metrics in to imperials 😂
I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful as you're an older trowel than I am and perhaps it's just years of site work drilled into me, but I still don't get your reluctance to point up blockwork. With the amount you had to bump those blocks you could've done it with an old hosepipe. Anyway, with regards to the thin joint system, I did it in 2018 in Golders Green using Porotherm blocks with glue beds. The work flew up but the developer said he'd avoid using the system again because of how ridiculously expensive the ties were and how much damage the chippies would do when fixing timbers to the Porotherm blockwork. The blocks are also so easily damaged when packs of them are hoisted off the wagon by the HIAB.
Full joints don't need pointing . Simple .
Jointing is for exterior bricks that need the water to flow down. Water will never get on the interior blocks. 👍
Interesting that Lawrence, I don't know how much the ties are will have to check, I've used Porotherm in more than one country and there are many types of fixings available for them without damaging them they are also very easy to chase out for the Sparks, Thermalite type blocks can also be used for this system.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 I think he’s right I looked into it for a job but got a great big price back same old here they love to lump it on you
What's the actual style of them boots called
Not sure to be honest.
Need to get new pair went site thursday some dirty bozo nicked my boots he got sack took my boots and level scum
@@colleenmcfarland8298 just found the invoice, they are HAIX Airpower XR26 GORE-TEX Safety boot from Workwear Outlet Blackburn Lancs👍
There are good few styles boots are real quality worth shopping on prices the 1 in link a use can get them £130,s. Most there boots gortex proper ankle protection and certainly these 1,s the tounge is Al part the boot so shitty muddy water etc coming in at lace area. Real bugger when the laces snap tho just like any boots suppose. Keep the leather good will easily last well over a year am pretty brutal with them and still do good 8 months happy with that because a know most important thing ma feet are dry and proper high ankle protection. Some these boots on market company’s should be jailed.
I wish I had learned a trade like this...wish in one hand and !@#$ in the other right?
Beton make the best Dutch pins, they're pricey though 👍🏻
Ile take a look at them 😏
Mob do go 1,s also got some sent from Belgian bricky jay and they do the best line pins will last till ya retire where these footprint shit last 5mins if not pushing into soft joint on the same day.
Would have looked even better if it was toothed out to the old
I agree but a lot of build inspectors don’t like it anymore as they say about footing movement i personally think if you do it right with a tuck pointer filling the joints I’ve had no problems
As Liam said BC don't like toothing because of differential ground movement also unless the client is willing to pay more for Imperial size bricks it don't always look that good with metrics.
Dumping mortar down into the cavity is never good
How The fuck you get a brick barrow from Perth to uk?😂
Ship
KEEP OFF THE F**KING LINE !!! 🤣👍
He's on his own if you hadn't noticed so what are you on about or are joking
No sound
Sounds on, must be your end,
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 hear it now. Thanks
@@eamonmoore6134 👍
WHAT ???? 😜
So your not working for yourself
I work for myself and other builders, whatever comes along really.