Excellent job, nice to hear you not overly criticising other men’s work before you, one never knows what others may have had, like today we have better building practices and more modern materials, great informative video !
That's quality work and a job done right. Anyone can lay bricks on a new build but that's understanding and repairing decaying older buildings - wish there were more like you!
Great job, your work ethic and doing a proper job is something most consumers wish all builders possessed. Wish you had done a close up of the finished job. But i appreciate it was a long day. 😊.
Lovely neat repair you two. First class. Some great shots of the power of rust jacking. It simply has to expand and destroys all in its path. Water is the same. When it freezes it expands by 10 % and will burst a pipe like a knife through butter. 👍👍👍
Great to see your great masonry repairs and the strategies and tricks used. I have learned a lot repairing and renovating old wooden bungalows here in sub-tropical Queensland but zero experience of masonry beyond brick veneer which is non load bearing (brick-venerial as it is sometimes mocked). Fascinating.
Heroic Fellas. What a super job done in a day. I realise I have not commented lately but watch everything you do and admire it all. Best Regards, Bob (Weston super Mare)
So enjoy watching Professional Trades at work. My first video and have subscribed in order to see more of your videos. Great result and I’m sure the client was both happy with your work and relieved to know the house was safe. 10/10 from me Regards Stewart in West Yorkshire. 👍👍👏👏😀😀
Great video as usual the both of you. Really enjoyable to watch and I learned a lot. I've got to put a lintel in over the back door and the kitchen window on my 1964 bungalow soon, this video has helped. Take care up the scaffold with that hip Steve. I hope you get it done soon. 👍👍
Great Job as usual, What really concerns me that with your bad hip that you worked on a dodgy scaffold , NO HANDRAILS and your working on the edge of the boards
Great job lads! I’ve had lintel leak for a while except the water comes across the cavity 👀. Few bodgers tried to repair but this vid shown me what’s wrong 👍🏻
Original lintel was all wrong wasn't it .I think the job you've done on that is the best job and you did it perfectly. That scaffolding gave me heart failure though 😂😂 good job lads 👍
@SteveAndAlexBuild Look after yourselves steve .personally we insist on professional scaffolding with hand rails etc .We recommend a scaffolding company customer pays directly. If they refuse the scaffolding we say goodbye .gust of wind or wrong footed and your dead .Nothing is worth the risk . You boys be bloody careful we've all done though. Be safe boys 💯👍❤️
Nice eork as usual Steve/Alex, but please get a proper scaffold next time...ive done plenty of jobs like that back in the day , but always use a proper scaffold now. Take care 👍
Question Steve - from a 'Dummy' (me), to the 'Expert' (you) - how do you determine the length of brick course and number of brick courses that can be safely supported by the Strong Boys? To me, it seems as though the brick course is only held up at the ends - why doesn't the un-supported brick course collapse? (I did say I was a Dummy!). Apart from that, another good days work at the office, thank you!
The power of corroding steel, expansion is amazing, it can lift many tonnes of masonry, it was common practice during the 1950’s/ 60’s to use angle iron as lintels, this is a time before off the shelf fabricated lintels, the old angle iron lintels were at best painted with red lead or worst no protection at all, if they had used hot dipped galvanised steel the problems would have not arisen
👍👏 good job. Good thing there was a good breeze and hope it was blowing the right way. Being that close to a sewer vent standpipe could be a stinky situation 🦨🦨🫢. Cheers
Amazing job! As a man also needing a new hip I am blown away with how you manage to do the things that you do Steve, it's inspirational. I wish you were located in my area I would hire you to do all my work.
Nice work chaps , what’s the situation with the plastic trim how’s it held in place ?? Is it L shaped to cover the bottom of the lintel ? Good end to a bad job 👍
@@gavinmcinally8442 As Steve explained in the video, it is a combination of "rust -jacking" from the lintel, and the existing galvanised wall ties in the general walling. The gable wall is single skin of brickwork which is tied to the internal skin with wall ties. Its a relatively light panel of walling. This degradation all starts with the "weathering" process and differential thermal movement - this causes minuscule movement cracks in the mortar (seasonal weather variations & wind) play a large part in this process and before you know it moisture has found a route in........then the problems begin. People do not realise how much their houses move throughout the year - although admittedly this is on a microscopic level. But after 60+ years. PS = I forgot to mention wind loads on roofs can transfer onto the brickwork and cause movement issues......
Those cavities are bone dry, not much chance of damp getting in there and causing issues lower down the wall......! Obviously damp had penetrated far enough in to set off the decay process on the steel angle. It was good to see the concrete lintel on the internal skin. Good comment on the new cavity trays - I`m not a fan.....but they have a job to do. I remember putting steel angles & flats in above openings - but in my defence we always gave them 2 coats of metal paint prior to installation.....and it was the standard practice at that time. That being said that angle iron is what.......68 years old, so its reached the end of its working life. Every component we put into a house when we build it starts deteriorating from the moment it is built. The air brick wasn't lined inside the cavity was it.? It was not a standard detail then. And cavities were viewed differently in those times....2 inch cavity, no insulation, unvented and the two skins of the cavity wall probably tied together with galvanised fish-tailed ties (bastard things) All different today of course. Right I`m waffling again so it just remains for me to say, estimable and sterling work chaps......A job very well done. 10 from me. 👍👍👍👍 📙☑☑☑😁😁
What sort of price dose it cost to change lintels I have 3 needing done on my house I just got 2 windows n 1 door lintel they are old wooden 1s that's rotten am up in Newcastle not looked for anyone to do it yet hoping to get it done this summer
they probably were dodging bullets when they built those houses which accounts for the bad workmanship good on you for putting it right ,thanks for the video
You made that look really nice. I am a bit concerned about you being so high up and having a dodgy hip. Keep thinking about how easy you went over around all those bricks. Take care and great job
@@SteveAndAlexBuild the mortar is way to strong for them bricks. Lets go back solid walls and lime mortar I’d say they’ve been proven the stand for hundreds of years. But let’s change it make it faster and cheaper lol
Nice job lads ,lovely to see a father and son working together as a team .😄😄👍👍
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It's one thing to do everything new but another to fix someone else mess up. Takes years of experience to do it right. Great job.
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It is great that there are still craftsmen who "do our best". Another lucky customer.
Thanks Otto 🧱👍🏽
Excellent job, nice to hear you not overly criticising other men’s work before you, one never knows what others may have had, like today we have better building practices and more modern materials, great informative video !
Cheers Mark 🧱👍🏽
Watching you work while standing atop a box atop a hop-up atop a scaffold gives me the hebbie-jebbies!
Me too 😳🧱👍🏽
I was thinking that... then remembered watching Fred Dibnah doing a bit of chimney pointing and thinking this is nothing 🙂
I was shitting myself to be fair 😮💨😆🧱👍🏽
I agree! Made my stomach turn when the shot looked down and I could see how high up you were.
Its good to see that there are tradesmen who still do things properly. Thats a good job well done.
Cheers Andrew 🧱👍🏽
A dad and son to be proud of. Forensic work ethic. Excellent.,
Thanks very much 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽😃
That's quality work and a job done right. Anyone can lay bricks on a new build but that's understanding and repairing decaying older buildings - wish there were more like you!
Cheers Dave 🧱👍🏽
It’s so good to watch you put right an old bit of brick work back to a very good looking brick work. Thanks for sharing
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Steve and Alex are super skilled craftsmen.
Thanks Otto 🧱👍🏽
Lovely to see a real professional do the job properly rather then just patch it up. Sending support and respect from Australia!
Much appreciated thanks 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
Know the feeling. Every tool in the van out 😂😂
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Bang on that job mate ! Nice to see an apprentice happy with his job too ! Well done to professional workmanship!
Thanks, Alex isn’t an Apprentice 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild sorry Alex !
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Great job, your work ethic and doing a proper job is something most consumers wish all builders possessed. Wish you had done a close up of the finished job. But i appreciate it was a long day. 😊.
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Good repair, great workmanship. H&S !
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Very tidy job guys. Another example of the power of rust (4 ton per square inch).
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@phil6465
I`m intrigued where does this figure of "four tons per square inch," come from..?
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Lovely neat repair you two. First class. Some great shots of the power of rust jacking. It simply has to expand and destroys all in its path. Water is the same. When it freezes it expands by 10 % and will burst a pipe like a knife through butter. 👍👍👍
Same in bricks Doug hence blown faces after winter ❄️ 😬🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Yes indeed. No sign of op yet 🤔
@Doug.... nope , they say no news is good news but I beg to differ 😒🧱👍🏽
Well earned cuppa at the end, of what could have an awkward job..
Well done,l bet the owners were pleased..
Cheers Paul, yeah very pleased 🧱👍🏽
Great to see your great masonry repairs and the strategies and tricks used. I have learned a lot repairing and renovating old wooden bungalows here in sub-tropical Queensland but zero experience of masonry beyond brick veneer which is non load bearing (brick-venerial as it is sometimes mocked). Fascinating.
Thanks Geoff .
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
Just heard back from my survey the house Im lookng at needs a lintle done at the front door, great video explaining the process.
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And well done Alex for all the grunt work good hard worker ( and looking after Dad) you are a good son.👍❤️
He really is 🥹😍🧱👍🏽
Another cracking job and looks great!
Cheers 🧱👍🏽
Good repairs . Perfect. Professional.And The Mortar infill Perfect. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😇
Cheers Harry 🧱👍🏽
Very interesting and great job!
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Heroic Fellas. What a super job done in a day. I realise I have not commented lately but watch everything you do and admire it all. Best Regards, Bob (Weston super Mare)
Cheers Bob 😉🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Nice repair work, looks as good as it could without completely replacing it all
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Fantastic job well done chaps
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Great job guys.
Ta Richard 🧱👍🏽
What a neat job guys, you definitely made a silk purse out of a pigs ear on this job.
Take care & stay safe Gentleman 👍🇬🇧🍀
Cheers Ray 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
Brilliant work as always!! Hope all is well, take care
Thanks Peter 👍🏽🧱
@@SteveAndAlexBuild you're most welcome, hope both of you are well. Did you have your hip op Steve?
Great job, well done! But while you're at it - why not clean the ventilation grid?
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Great job lads. Client will be real happy. Easy to see why lintels are galvanised now. Regards, Dave
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Excellent job fellas!
Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
Well done lads, you would never know how "out" those levels were...brilliantly hidden.....
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Better than new! Awesome job
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Certainly a 100% improvement there lads, good job, well done....Saludos desde España mi amigos.
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So enjoy watching Professional Trades at work. My first video and have subscribed in order to see more of your videos. Great result and I’m sure the client was both happy with your work and relieved to know the house was safe. 10/10 from me Regards Stewart in West Yorkshire. 👍👍👏👏😀😀
Thanks Stewart and welcome to the channel 🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽
Another fine job, guys ❤ it .
Thanks David 🧱👍🏽
great jobs lads well done love the videos proper work
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Proper quality job, done right as you fellas always do.
Cheers Steve 🧱👍🏽
Educational. Love your honesty.
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Great video as usual the both of you. Really enjoyable to watch and I learned a lot. I've got to put a lintel in over the back door and the kitchen window on my 1964 bungalow soon, this video has helped. Take care up the scaffold with that hip Steve. I hope you get it done soon. 👍👍
Thanks pal . Good luck 🧱👍🏽
god job what recip blade do u use for grinding beds out?
Milwaukee carbide blades 🧱👍🏽
Who needs handrails 😂😂top job lads
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Honestly please take care
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Mare of a job you done well as always 👍
Cheers 😬🧱👍🏽
Great Job as usual, What really concerns me that with your bad hip that you worked on a dodgy scaffold , NO HANDRAILS and your working on the edge of the boards
Stupid but won’t be happening again. 🧱👍🏽
Nice work, great tunes
Cheers Gary 🙌🏽🙌🏽🧱👍🏽
Good job again lads 👍
Thanks 🧱👍🏽
Great job, why are there some many wood lice?
Cheers. Good question maybe as it’s very damp up there 🤔🧱👍🏽
Nice job
Cheers pal 👍🏽🧱
Great job lads! I’ve had lintel leak for a while except the water comes across the cavity 👀. Few bodgers tried to repair but this vid shown me what’s wrong 👍🏻
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Original lintel was all wrong wasn't it .I think the job you've done on that is the best job and you did it perfectly. That scaffolding gave me heart failure though 😂😂 good job lads 👍
Cheers Justin . Mmmm got a bollocking off mum and dad yesterday too 😬.
We are looking into something a bit newer and safer 🧱👍🏽😁
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Look after yourselves steve .personally we insist on professional scaffolding with hand rails etc .We recommend a scaffolding company customer pays directly. If they refuse the scaffolding we say goodbye .gust of wind or wrong footed and your dead .Nothing is worth the risk .
You boys be bloody careful we've all done though.
Be safe boys 💯👍❤️
Hope health and safety are not looking.get a proper safe scaffolding with hand rails,it's better to be safe than sorry lads.
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Nice eork as usual Steve/Alex, but please get a proper scaffold next time...ive done plenty of jobs like that back in the day , but always use a proper scaffold now. Take care 👍
Investigating some new stuff 🤔🧱👍🏽
Another good job done.....👍
Cheers 🧱👍🏽
Nice one fellas. Loving the scaffold, looks like one of my jobs! How's its done in the real world without all the nonsense!
We are getting some serious bollockings for it 👍🏽😆🧱
Great job
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Why the timber support under the steel lintel? 33:02
Lintels should always be propped when building over them 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuildThought the whole point of a steel lintel was that it was so strong it wouldn't need support?
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Cracking Job Steve and Alex, I wish you would come to Nottingham plenty of work for you here 😊
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Question Steve - from a 'Dummy' (me), to the 'Expert' (you) - how do you determine the length of brick course and number of brick courses that can be safely supported by the Strong Boys? To me, it seems as though the brick course is only held up at the ends - why doesn't the un-supported brick course collapse? (I did say I was a Dummy!). Apart from that, another good days work at the office, thank you!
Triangles and friction are the key words 😉🧱👍🏽
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A great job there lads apart from the Collin Crompton microphones well done
Bad day for the mics to play up 😒👍🏽🧱
The power of corroding steel, expansion is amazing, it can lift many tonnes of masonry, it was common practice during the 1950’s/ 60’s to use angle iron as lintels, this is a time before off the shelf fabricated lintels, the old angle iron lintels were at best painted with red lead or worst no protection at all, if they had used hot dipped galvanised steel the problems would have not arisen
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Another top job lads you always give it youre best well done
Thanks 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
Well done looking good now
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This Architect approves !
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👍👏 good job. Good thing there was a good breeze and hope it was blowing the right way. Being that close to a sewer vent standpipe could be a stinky situation 🦨🦨🫢. Cheers
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Steve or Alex, I bloody hate that soldier course with the bricks swung 90° ! is that usual around there ?
Very common 🧱🧱👍🏽
Well that was a real mess, looks to me as one of the worst lintles yet. Made an excellent repair job given the circumstances, great work.👍😏
Cheers Bruce it certainly was 😬🧱👍🏽
Amazing job! As a man also needing a new hip I am blown away with how you manage to do the things that you do Steve, it's inspirational. I wish you were located in my area I would hire you to do all my work.
Thanks . Good luck with your hip 🧱👍🏽
Cracking job 😊
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Hurrah....The Lintel -Lifting - Lads of Lancashire," are back.....yessssssss.
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Brilliant job you made of that 👍👍lads just sayin from north of Newcastle
Ta Brian 🧱👍🏽
New subscriber, Excellent workmanship, Keep up the good work🎉
Thanks pal and welcome to our channel 🧱👍🏽😁
no handrail?
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@SteveAndAlexBuild I have fell from that height and suffered, also secure your ladders.
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Nice work chaps , what’s the situation with the plastic trim how’s it held in place ?? Is it L shaped to cover the bottom of the lintel ?
Good end to a bad job 👍
Super glue then sealed with silicone🧱👍🏽
Good job lads.
Cheers Pal 🧱👍🏽
Tough one but good job lads
Ta John 🧱👍🏽
great job guys 🔥
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Defo need (even a cheap) wind proof microphone. Very interesting video. New subscriber. Greetings from Prague
Thanks very much for your subscription we mics but they were faulty on this day 😬🧱👍🏽
2nd feb was my 60th birthday and I was still out on the tools 😊
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As always top work
Ta mark 🧱👍🏽
The lintle lifted? Whats pushing it up.? Serious question
Very powerful rust 😬🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild rust lifted that whole gable, the rust on the lintle rest?
Yea mate very common , I’ve seen rust lift a house roof up 😳🧱👍🏽
@@gavinmcinally8442 As Steve explained in the video, it is a combination of "rust -jacking" from the lintel, and the existing galvanised wall ties in the general walling.
The gable wall is single skin of brickwork which is tied to the internal skin with wall ties. Its a relatively light panel of walling. This degradation all starts with the "weathering" process and differential thermal movement - this causes minuscule movement cracks in the mortar (seasonal weather variations & wind) play a large part in this process and before you know it moisture has found a route in........then the problems begin.
People do not realise how much their houses move throughout the year - although admittedly this is on a microscopic level. But after 60+ years.
PS = I forgot to mention wind loads on roofs can transfer onto the brickwork and cause movement issues......
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nice one lads.
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Looks pretty dark while packing up. What time did you get away ?
About 6 I think 😒👍🏽👍🏽🧱
Did you put a Catnip lintel in
No, Catnic is a brand name 🧱👍🏽
Why no handrail?
Ran out of scaffold 😒🧱👍🏽
Please be careful, somebody is waiting for you to come home.
You done a really. Nice job that looks very dangerous your dad. Doing I wish you were down in Essex
Thanks Andrew 🧱👍🏽
Sure looked a lot better than it did 👍
It does 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Those cavities are bone dry, not much chance of damp getting in there and causing issues lower down the wall......! Obviously damp had penetrated far enough in to set off the decay process on the steel angle. It was good to see the concrete lintel on the internal skin. Good comment on the new cavity trays - I`m not a fan.....but they have a job to do.
I remember putting steel angles & flats in above openings - but in my defence we always gave them 2 coats of metal paint prior to installation.....and it was the standard practice at that time. That being said that angle iron is what.......68 years old, so its reached the end of its working life. Every component we put into a house when we build it starts deteriorating from the moment it is built.
The air brick wasn't lined inside the cavity was it.? It was not a standard detail then. And cavities were viewed differently in those times....2 inch cavity, no insulation, unvented and the two skins of the cavity wall probably tied together with galvanised fish-tailed ties (bastard things) All different today of course. Right I`m waffling again so it just remains for me to say, estimable and sterling work chaps......A job very well done.
10 from me.
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Cheers Martin 🙏🏽😁🧱👍🏽
What sort of price dose it cost to change lintels I have 3 needing done on my house I just got 2 windows n 1 door lintel they are old wooden 1s that's rotten am up in Newcastle not looked for anyone to do it yet hoping to get it done this summer
£600 each minimum 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thanks thats not as bad as I thought really
they probably were dodging bullets when they built those houses which accounts for the bad workmanship good on you for putting it right ,thanks for the video
Dodging bullets 🤠🤣🧱👍🏽
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well done
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Another great video…………..
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Well done, looks much better.
Ta Craig 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
To all you so called professionals out there, that’s a professional job. Well done to you two , guaranteed repeat business 👏👏
Cheers 😁🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽
The old mild steel lintels.
Oxidation process annihilates the masonry.
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Great job, guys.
Cheers 🧱👍🏽
Guys, where's the safety railings? That's a x4 meter drop behind you
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You made that look really nice. I am a bit concerned about you being so high up and having a dodgy hip. Keep thinking about how easy you went over around all those bricks. Take care and great job
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Look how strong the mortar is that the house has been repointed in lol
It was a very poor job 👍🏽🧱
@@SteveAndAlexBuild the mortar is way to strong for them bricks. Lets go back solid walls and lime mortar I’d say they’ve been proven the stand for hundreds of years. But let’s change it make it faster and cheaper lol
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