Brick work very neat and block work very tidy all in all a very good job but I hate the way you don’t cover up drive muck that your dropping straight on to drive and then walking it in as your laying bricks at least put dust sheet down or tilt cover to protect drive and it looks more professional.
Thanks Trevor but I’d rather spend and extra half hour tidying up as anything you put down always moves and you end up tripping on it . I can’t afford to trip up as my hips are in a bad way 😩🧱👍🏽
I worked about 15yrs of my working life as a joiner on some fantastic projects on listed buildings Along with two brickies who steve reminds me so much of,out and out perfectionists Time wasn't of the essence,just proper work pride,really enjoy your passion fella's Keep it up
Totally agree , great skill and ethic I’m also a joiner and these guys remind me of some of the old school lads I have had the pleasure of working with ,no macho bull either, so refreshing
Nice job Steve it will look great when the windows and doors go in. The pride you have for your work has made the best of that porch. I agree with you over the porch angles it is the most cost effective way to do it and looks good when done properly. Some people just need to button up and understand there are several ways to do a job. They cause so many problems.
What a difference a day makes.Just one comment if you Don,t mind.I,m an ex brickie and on a job a long time ago using Accrington reds the architect wanted the same raked out joint.He was a young chap and this was a prestige job in town. When it rained hard the water was blown past the frames and ruined a lot curtains and fittings.After having us go with rebar banging the snots from tie wires he was told he ought to have told us to flush point at least an inch away from frames ,and it worked.As I say he was only a rookie and we liked to see his wife(also an architect) climb our ladders,so our thoughts were elsewhere. I,ve always applied that idea since===mind you they were metal frames so I guess that didn’t help. I,m 84 and then some so i doubt I,ll ever get the chance to try “pick and dip”.It looks weird anyway.
Really good upload gave a good insight to how tricky a small porch build is good tips for getting gauge and using timber profile’s on small piers and the placement of wall ties ! The bricks must have been a nightmare for laying but Steve and Alex overcame all problems on the job and finished it to a high quality as usual thanks for the upload 👏
@@trevormappley yeah m, us too but this motor is on its way out now and it’s £100 + just for the bare motor but the gearbox could be dodgy so it would be wasted 🤔🧱👍🏽
Without belaboring the point, I really don't understand the angled part to narrow an already very narrow entryway. Most people would have trouble carrying a suitcase through that opening.
Great job guys as usual, makes a change from watching plumbing videos ( busmans holiday for me) I can see dad is old skool brickie. What really impresses me is how you clean the job up afterwards & during . I was always taught " you can do a fair job & leave it spotless, the customer,er will always remember that" you can do a great job & leave it messy the customer will always remember that. You guys do a great job & leave it spotless 👍 What would be great to see , is the finished job with all the windows in . I think it will compliment your work. Great tip is to buy milwaukee MX 4 sds bits they will outlast those ones you keep buying. I use them for plumbing & Heating & they last ages 👍 BTW where are you guys based ? If ever you fancy a trip to sunny Brighton free accommodation & food I have a lintel job that needs doing at my house. You are the experts in that . Keep up the great work guys, really enjoying your work. Alex you will learn countless experience working with dad, stuff that will always keep you in work in years to come. You seem like,e 2 genuine guys which is a rarity these days. Richie 👌
Hi Dad love the films. Been a window fitter for 30 years never seen what the angle post that your talking about on a door as it would take the strength away from the fixture off the door. Let me know your thoughts. Maybe if it had been timber?
Dam carnt believe I missed the premiere again. Been a bit off it hopefully catch the next one. 👍That porch looks amazing know they are a pain in the arse but they do look Bloody grate. Can rember you saying you used to do a lot of conservatorys before. You can tell. I done a few and honestly they all been a pain lol I only like to do them if I order the windows and doors then I can make them how I want. No complaints 😂👍👍👍
You lads make it look like it’s 20 odd degrees. In West Yorkshire I’ve got 2 pairs of socks on, 2 pairs of gloves, jumper, fleece, coat and hat on and defrosting bags of sand in the van footwell it’s that cold 😂 I think I need to seriously consider moving to warmer horizons 🙈
Never ceases to amaze me, the amount of 'attention to detail' you guys put into a job - I guess that's the difference between a 'That'll do' finish and a 'Good job that one' finish, as a customer I know which one I'd want, every time! Love the bricks too, the recessed mortar (?) makes them really pop.
So long as the customers happy is all that counts I suppose , But 35 years doing high end Kitchen fitting Im a little bit pedantic and paranoid about leaving a site messier than when we arrived or worse still shovelling up my own rubbish on what appears to be a good drive, the shovel could well have scored the paviours ..............not worth the risk when a sheet of ply is only £20
Steve just a quick one have you ever tried those drill all bits various sizes 10m no probs and if you trash one they replace free of charge and one drill bit will go through anything steel brick concrete even iron just a thought mate might save you a few quid in drill bits 👍
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Ideal world or QVC they usually do a demonstration on a Sunday morning they drill through brake discs and puts them on a bench grinder for 10 seconds doesn't even file it down plus they replace any bit if you bend blunt which is impossible or snap.
A little trick foe you on the plastic windows if you get a filler knife and put it down the joints with a hammer it will break on the joint and you want take up to much in the skip
thought the choice of bricks was a odd match to the house , males the porch stick out like a sore thumb , messy work im thinking of the work involved cleaning that drive
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Cheers, Andy from Bricklayers World said the same. I didn't think they looked that special in the photos but I'll take your words on it.
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Big word for me that, but i remember on the building sites in Sydney in my youth the brickies ( mostly British ) would soak them in large buckets till they stopped bubbling or sprayed them with the hose etc and it worked fine, this is the 80's and thats what they explained to me
Hi Steve &Alex. The extra pillars you put in to make the windows smaller made it look better. As for it being wrong I think that was the window fitters not wanting the extra work with the posts that you said were needed. I have seen loads of conservatory’s with angle walls so it can’t be wrong if they can do it on conservatory’s.Thought the rake joints work with the bricks. Great job once again. 👍
window surveyor has no vision - welded cills , structural baypoles fixed off top and bottom and spray foam in the cavity so the door shuts without shaking the brickwork - whats the problem ?
Don't think it's a problem, it will just look crap with two big bits of white trim down both sides of the door and one side of each window. I would definitely prefer the turn in the brick and a straight cut cill over a welded cill and a piece of flat plastic.
Porous bricks and a big mix and odd sizing and more work, it makes for a bit of hassle job by the looks of it. By the time your lads, it will be perfect as usual, I'm sure.
The right side looks like it bows out in middle then swings back in to much at top ,Am not a bricklayer but it don't look straight.sorry maybe it's my tablet .
By the way not having a dig at your work dude. Just wish the people who sold the the job would have the guts to tell the customer what a bad design they chose lol. Think of the poor fitters!
Work is Tidy Design is bloody shocking, the window ope is desperate on the squinted corner No Insulation means a little freezer for a front door, if the client had brains they would be dangerous 😂😂😂
Hi Steve.I cut and bond my own squint bricks ,its a bit fiddly geting the cut tight ,get stone glue they usevfor granite work tops. 100% bomb proof,make one and see would make interesting content.🤙🏴.if you have a table saw piece of piss,save a fortune and time waiting for specials.
I'm a young bricky (6 years experience) who has been working for someone new lately, I count up the amount of work done by counting the bricks/blocks in each course, x by how many courses I've done. I count halves as a half, but any other cuts I do I count them as a full block, as it takes more time to cut and lay than a usual block does. These plots we've been building have movement joints everywhere, internal and external. The contractor I book in to keeps refusing to give us a price sheet/lift sheet, so he's told us to count up each brick/block and book in this way. He's come to us and told us we have overbooked significantly, we're both very confident in our numbers. Turns out he's totalled it all up by measuring the job, he will obviously get different numbers than we will if he's counting the 6 cut blocks per course as say 2 blocks (because the measurements will add up different to what's actually there). If I cut a 300mm cut and laid it, that to me is still worth full price as it takes me longer to cut and lay than a full block would, but by measurements, that would be worth 3/4 of the actual price. Which would you consider as correct? Because we're having a dispute about this now as there is 6 internal movement joints and 4 external mj, there is obviously a lot of cuts involved that we're not going to be paid for, not to mention all of the windows and doors, etc.. He and his slow gang of 4 came onto our job for a day and barely laid 500 bricks between them, but they have paid themselves day rate (£200 per day) out of OUR price when they only covered 1 persons wage, that would be the reason why we might have over booked, because he's booked in work he hasn't done and then we've built it and booked it in. Who's right who's wrong? Please give me some insight, I would have taken this to Bricklayers Worldwide on Facebook but we all know how those freaks act.
IM sorry. That was building up to fine showdown with the window and door outfit..... And a nightmare outcome. I didnt get the satisfaction promised as a viewer. 🙂
Dude. Like your vids and all but and it’s a big wobbly butt, how are the fitters going to secure the front door to your opening when they have to put the 45% posts either side? On the windows they can use straps and secure to the inside block but the door doesn’t have those, the block is set too far back.
Sorry dude. Been fitting windows and connys for 35 years too like your brick laying and unless rapiers go round corner now that door is gonna shake like a sh*ting dog.
@@dannyrobertson3486 those were the cards we were dealt I’m afraid , we didn’t design it and would rather have flattened it and built it square like the roof but we were just doing as we were asked by the customer 🧱👍🏽
Brick work very neat and block work very tidy all in all a very good job but I hate the way you don’t cover up drive muck that your dropping straight on to drive and then walking it in as your laying bricks at least put dust sheet down or tilt cover to protect drive and it looks more professional.
Thanks Trevor but I’d rather spend and extra half hour tidying up as anything you put down always moves and you end up tripping on it .
I can’t afford to trip up as my hips are in a bad way 😩🧱👍🏽
Zzz...
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@@SteveAndAlexBuild 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴
@@YAWN.... wow you have emojis that match your channel .. so cool 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
I worked about 15yrs of my working life as a joiner on some fantastic projects on listed buildings
Along with two brickies who steve reminds me so much of,out and out perfectionists
Time wasn't of the essence,just proper work pride,really enjoy your passion fella's
Keep it up
Thanks very much John 🧱👍🏽
Totally agree , great skill and ethic I’m also a joiner and these guys remind me of some of the old school lads I have had the pleasure of working with ,no macho bull either, so refreshing
@@chriswild2458 Thanks very much, much appreciated 🙏🏽🧱👍🏽
That brickwork looks lovely Steve and what a finish Alex came up with at the top of the blocks.
Cheers John 😁🧱👍🏽
More please guys….. waiting for the next one🎉
No next one on this job I’m afraid 😬🧱👍🏽
👍Chill out and have beer, look forward to future videos 🍺🔨🤩
@@colinbrooks6290 😆😆🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Nice job Steve it will look great when the windows and doors go in. The pride you have for your work has made the best of that porch.
I agree with you over the porch angles it is the most cost effective way to do it and looks good when done properly. Some people just need to button up and understand there are several ways to do a job. They cause so many problems.
Thanks Jack , very true 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Omg the angles , the maths that go into the job is not easy,so you’re spot on keep up the good work
Yeah the angles were all wrong mate .
Thanks 🧱👍🏽
Nice job lads, I like the raked mortar look too…well done 👍🏻
Cheers Stu 🤙🏾🧱🧱👍🏽
What a difference a day makes.Just one comment if you Don,t mind.I,m an ex brickie and on a job a long time ago using Accrington reds the architect wanted the same raked out joint.He was a young chap and this was a prestige job in town. When it rained hard the water was blown past the frames and ruined a lot curtains and fittings.After having us go with rebar banging the snots from tie wires he was told he ought to have told us to flush point at least an inch away from frames ,and it worked.As I say he was only a rookie and we liked to see his wife(also an architect) climb our ladders,so our thoughts were elsewhere.
I,ve always applied that idea since===mind you they were metal frames so I guess that didn’t help.
I,m 84 and then some so i doubt I,ll ever get the chance to try “pick and dip”.It looks weird anyway.
Thanks for watching and commenting Thomas 🧱👍🏽
Really good upload gave a good insight to how tricky a small porch build is good tips for getting gauge and using timber profile’s on small piers and the placement of wall ties ! The bricks must have been a nightmare for laying but Steve and Alex overcame all problems on the job and finished it to a high quality as usual thanks for the upload 👏
Cheers John 🧱🧱👍🏽
love how you look after your mixer so well and your attention to detail is great keep it up
Cheers buddy , that poor mixer is on its last legs 🥺🥺 14 years old 🧱👍🏽
I’ve had mixers that 25 years old you can buy new drum for it, rest mixer almost bullet proof
@@trevormappley yeah m, us too but this motor is on its way out now and it’s £100 + just for the bare motor but the gearbox could be dodgy so it would be wasted 🤔🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild bell mixers are not cheap I think there over £500 for orange
@@trevormappley yep ! £200 minimum plus vat just for a drum 😮💨🧱👍🏽
another fantastic looking build guys ,sorry i havent been on the chat but back moderating for another channel cheers guys...........dougie
Cheers Dougie 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Without belaboring the point, I really don't understand the angled part to narrow an already very narrow entryway. Most people would have trouble carrying a suitcase through that opening.
Its a lousy design indeed 🧱👍🏽
Yep I agree great workmanship but what a strange little porch
@@lewiswalker6646 😁🧱👍🏽
Great job guys as usual, makes a change from watching plumbing videos ( busmans holiday for me) I can see dad is old skool brickie. What really impresses me is how you clean the job up afterwards & during . I was always taught " you can do a fair job & leave it spotless, the customer,er will always remember that" you can do a great job & leave it messy the customer will always remember that. You guys do a great job & leave it spotless 👍
What would be great to see , is the finished job with all the windows in . I think it will compliment your work.
Great tip is to buy milwaukee MX 4 sds bits they will outlast those ones you keep buying. I use them for plumbing & Heating & they last ages 👍
BTW where are you guys based ? If ever you fancy a trip to sunny Brighton free accommodation & food I have a lintel job that needs doing at my house. You are the experts in that .
Keep up the great work guys, really enjoying your work. Alex you will learn countless experience working with dad, stuff that will always keep you in work in years to come.
You seem like,e 2 genuine guys which is a rarity these days.
Richie 👌
@@actorlyric Thanks very much Richie , that’s very kind of you. Thanks for the drill but tip too 🤙🏾🤙🏾😁🧱👍🏽
Lovely job boys....as usual...Great video..thanks
Thanks Del 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Fantastic work and cheers for the video take care
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Hi strange wee porch but looks a million times better love the pointing on those bricks looks cracking job.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Thanks Richard 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Making a nice tidy job of an awkward tight corner! Well done gentlemen
Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
its nice to see someone on youtube that works near me
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Hi Dad love the films. Been a window fitter for 30 years never seen what the angle post that your talking about on a door as it would take the strength away from the fixture off the door. Let me know your thoughts. Maybe if it had been timber?
The doors are in now but not seen them up close 🧱👍🏽
Great job.....
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Dam carnt believe I missed the premiere again. Been a bit off it hopefully catch the next one. 👍That porch looks amazing know they are a pain in the arse but they do look Bloody grate. Can rember you saying you used to do a lot of conservatorys before. You can tell. I done a few and honestly they all been a pain lol I only like to do them if I order the windows and doors then I can make them how I want. No complaints 😂👍👍👍
It did look nice when it was finished. Can’t believe I did Conny s fir 14 years 😳🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild 14 years that's mad the square ones arnt that bad lol. The others can bugger off 😂😂😂
@@markhep yeah mark I bloody hated them 😂😂🧱👍🏽
You lads make it look like it’s 20 odd degrees. In West Yorkshire I’ve got 2 pairs of socks on, 2 pairs of gloves, jumper, fleece, coat and hat on and defrosting bags of sand in the van footwell it’s that cold 😂
I think I need to seriously consider moving to warmer horizons 🙈
Same here , the video is from when the heatwave was here 😎🥵👍🏽🧱
Nice work lad’s 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
Good work as usual fellas.
Thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
Is that the finished floor or will there be a screed on top. Now doing my oversight and I’m looking to save money and get rid of the screed element.
We have never done a screed floor . We always do a concrete finished slab 🧱👍🏽
Wetting myself with excitement . 🤣
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Another cracking job lads
Cheers Neil 🧱👍🏽
Some window companies just haven't got a clue???
That is a fantastic job and 100% better to what the cowboys had done previously.
Cheers Rob 🧱👍🏽
Another great jobs boys.
Glad you enjoyed it 🧱👍🏽
Never ceases to amaze me, the amount of 'attention to detail' you guys put into a job - I guess that's the difference between a 'That'll do' finish and a 'Good job that one' finish, as a customer I know which one I'd want, every time! Love the bricks too, the recessed mortar (?) makes them really pop.
Thanks very much Dave 🧱👍🏽
17 nights in Florida….. I’m doing something wrong.!! Looks good by the way.! Pain in the arse angles.!
😎😎🤙🏾cheers Nigel
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Most 4 inch solids weight the same as them trench blocks in Ireland. Good crack taking it up 7 row
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excellent work guys
Cheers Damo 🧱👍🏽
I do understand the window fitters point he would have to trim on a angle would look silly corner piece would work but don’t think it would look nice
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Get yourself a battery powered jet wash lads!
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Be good to get some finished shots like you did on the last one. Good work thou chaps!
Thanks Thomas 🧱👍🏽
To be honest that does look better mate , was half finished 1st time
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Looks great
Thanks John !🧱👍🏽
So long as the customers happy is all that counts I suppose , But 35 years doing high end Kitchen fitting Im a little bit pedantic and paranoid about leaving a site messier than when we arrived or worse still shovelling up my own rubbish on what appears to be a good drive, the shovel could well have scored the paviours ..............not worth the risk when a sheet of ply is only £20
Patterned concrete 🧱👍🏽
Steve just a quick one have you ever tried those drill all bits various sizes 10m no probs and if you trash one they replace free of charge and one drill bit will go through anything steel brick concrete even iron just a thought mate might save you a few quid in drill bits 👍
Never heard of those Nige 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Ideal world or QVC they usually do a demonstration on a Sunday morning they drill through brake discs and puts them on a bench grinder for 10 seconds doesn't even file it down plus they replace any bit if you bend blunt which is impossible or snap.
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A little trick foe you on the plastic windows if you get a filler knife and put it down the joints with a hammer it will break on the joint and you want take up to much in the skip
Cheers Andy 🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽
Good looking brickwork 🧱 as always guys.
Cheers Doug 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Good ol boys
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How does the porch get its strength if it isn't connected to the house? (I'm not a builder i just like watching these types of channels)
Hi pal, it is connected to the house in the brickwork and the roof is attached too 🧱👍🏽
Angled porch is to match angled bay window, square would look wrong...
I disagree the angled look bloody awful 🧱👍🏽
I can't fault your work lads fair play but that porch looks like it was designed by a committee 🤣
Thanks Dai buddy , mmmm it should have beef flattened 😬🧱👍🏽
A lovely job as always gents. It would be nice to see the finished look if you could get a pic in the future,
Thanks james i will try 🧱👍🏽
thought the choice of bricks was a odd match to the house , males the porch stick out like a sore thumb , messy work im thinking of the work involved cleaning that drive
The customer chose the bricks, the house is now rendered ( as was mentioned numerous times in the video ) and the drive is spotless 🧱👍🏽
Weird job that one, looked ok before looks even better now
Cheers Stuart 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Neat work👍. As you say your mixer is 14 years old do you have any reccomendations for a long lasting wheel barrow? The one I got off ebay snapped😞
The belle warrior barrows are indestructible but cost about £180 😬🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Cheers, Andy from Bricklayers World said the same. I didn't think they looked that special in the photos but I'll take your words on it.
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@@SteveAndAlexBuild and those Belle wheel barrows come with a lifetime guarantee... 👍
@@kennethocongerskin9460 and those Belle wheel barrows come with a lifetime guarantee... 👍
How come you don't set up the sprinkler to hose the bricks down for 30 min before you use them ?
It helps but increases the chances of efflorescence 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Big word for me that, but i remember on the building sites in Sydney in my youth the brickies ( mostly British ) would soak them in large buckets till they stopped bubbling or sprayed them with the hose etc and it worked fine, this is the 80's and thats what they explained to me
@@pedropete1833 yes mate I’ve done it in the past when on a price 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
I think it looks a lot better with the two extra pears each side
Definitely Andy 🧱👍🏽
Ithink it would look better with a couple of apples and a banana to go with the pears!!!!
@@josephlyons6637 😏🧱👍🏽
Hi Steve &Alex. The extra pillars you put in to make the windows smaller made it look better. As for it being wrong I think that was the window fitters not wanting the extra work with the posts that you said were needed. I have seen loads of conservatory’s with angle walls so it can’t be wrong if they can do it on conservatory’s.Thought the rake joints work with the bricks. Great job once again. 👍
Cheers John boy 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
window surveyor has no vision - welded cills , structural baypoles fixed off top and bottom and spray foam in the cavity so the door shuts without shaking the brickwork - whats the problem ?
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Don't think it's a problem, it will just look crap with two big bits of white trim down both sides of the door and one side of each window. I would definitely prefer the turn in the brick and a straight cut cill over a welded cill and a piece of flat plastic.
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135 degree baypole covers are hardly 'flat pieces of plastic'
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Porous bricks and a big mix and odd sizing and more work, it makes for a bit of hassle job by the looks of it. By the time your lads, it will be perfect as usual, I'm sure.
Cheers Bob 🧱🧱😁👍🏽
Brick work looks great, I'm no builder, but just wondering why the air brick wasn't moved over to show its full face? Unless its redundant?
It’s redundant 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thanks for replying 🙂
@@richardwalker6417 no probs 😁🧱👍🏽
Lovley
Cheers Eddie 🧱👍🏽
Would it be better to wet the bricks befour hand
I used to but you risk efflorescence 🥺🧱👍🏽
Love brick work Steve n Alex looks amazing job so much better than cowboys did 👍👍
Thanks Dave 🧱👍
Did you notice you bricked over an air brick on the LHS?
Yes 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Is it OK to do that, aren't they there for the reason?
@@leecooper3852 It wasn’t fully covered 🧱👍🏽
Referring to dry bricks not dirty ones !
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Have you remembered to bring your wheelbarrow?
Always have the wheel barrow 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
its the small jobs that are always the killer
Very true Stuart 🙄🧱👍🏽
The right side looks like it bows out in middle then swings back in to much at top ,Am not a bricklayer but it don't look straight.sorry maybe it's my tablet .
Yep it’s your tablet 🤨🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild I think it's the camera lens.
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By the way not having a dig at your work dude. Just wish the people who sold the the job would have the guts to tell the customer what a bad design they chose lol. Think of the poor fitters!
Totally agree with you Danny 😫🧱👍🏽
What a strange ask of you guys, to build the shape under a square roof
Couldn't change the footprint because of the patterned concrete 🧱👍🏽
Work is Tidy
Design is bloody shocking, the window ope is desperate on the squinted corner
No Insulation means a little freezer for a front door, if the client had brains they would be dangerous 😂😂😂
Should have been flattened and started again 🧱👍🏽
how can it be wrong if you discussed it all with the client, doing great job
Exactly 🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Hi Steve.I cut and bond my own squint bricks ,its a bit fiddly geting the cut tight ,get stone glue they usevfor granite work tops. 100% bomb proof,make one and see would make interesting content.🤙🏴.if you have a table saw piece of piss,save a fortune and time waiting for specials.
Nice one 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
12:26 that looks like a outline of a wolf on that brick
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Would you not insulate that cavity? I know it's a non standard gap but anything would be better than nothing... maybe 25mm or some rockwall
That internal wall was too rough to do iit unfortunately 🧱👍🏽😬
Tbh I would have made it a standard design with insulated cavity, if your having latest Windows you may as well go the whole hog
@@optic1972 We just do the work the customer makes the decisions 🧱👍🏽
Foam it out is only solution that would work in a thin rough cavity imo
@@ianbullock5621 🧱👍🏽
I'm a young bricky (6 years experience) who has been working for someone new lately, I count up the amount of work done by counting the bricks/blocks in each course, x by how many courses I've done. I count halves as a half, but any other cuts I do I count them as a full block, as it takes more time to cut and lay than a usual block does. These plots we've been building have movement joints everywhere, internal and external. The contractor I book in to keeps refusing to give us a price sheet/lift sheet, so he's told us to count up each brick/block and book in this way. He's come to us and told us we have overbooked significantly, we're both very confident in our numbers. Turns out he's totalled it all up by measuring the job, he will obviously get different numbers than we will if he's counting the 6 cut blocks per course as say 2 blocks (because the measurements will add up different to what's actually there).
If I cut a 300mm cut and laid it, that to me is still worth full price as it takes me longer to cut and lay than a full block would, but by measurements, that would be worth 3/4 of the actual price. Which would you consider as correct? Because we're having a dispute about this now as there is 6 internal movement joints and 4 external mj, there is obviously a lot of cuts involved that we're not going to be paid for, not to mention all of the windows and doors, etc..
He and his slow gang of 4 came onto our job for a day and barely laid 500 bricks between them, but they have paid themselves day rate (£200 per day) out of OUR price when they only covered 1 persons wage, that would be the reason why we might have over booked, because he's booked in work he hasn't done and then we've built it and booked it in.
Who's right who's wrong? Please give me some insight, I would have taken this to Bricklayers Worldwide on Facebook but we all know how those freaks act.
Site work is a mugs game in my opinion, they will shaft you at every opportunity.
Not on Facebook so no idea what it like over there 🧱👍🏽
@@martin2466 🧱👍🏽
IM sorry. That was building up to fine showdown with the window and door outfit..... And a nightmare outcome. I didnt get the satisfaction promised as a viewer. 🙂
It’s all fitted now 🧱👍🏽😁
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Only joking of course buddy.
@@andyharpist2938 😏😉🧱👍🏽
Window fitters think they run every job.
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Dude. Like your vids and all but and it’s a big wobbly butt, how are the fitters going to secure the front door to your opening when they have to put the 45% posts either side? On the windows they can use straps and secure to the inside block but the door doesn’t have those, the block is set too far back.
I did explain it in the video 🧱👍🏽
Sorry dude. Been fitting windows and connys for 35 years too like your brick laying and unless rapiers go round corner now that door is gonna shake like a sh*ting dog.
@@dannyrobertson3486 those were the cards we were dealt I’m afraid , we didn’t design it and would rather have flattened it and built it square like the roof but we were just doing as we were asked by the customer 🧱👍🏽
Is it my eyes, or am I looking at a bow in the RHS pillar at around 21.40…??
Its your eyes Stu 🥸🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣…
@@stun9771 😏
I thought that but I think the camera lens is doing it. Love the raked joints.
Is it just me or are the end pillars bent as a nine bob note
That are bent 👍🏽
Why .waste of tjme
What is ?
@@SteveAndAlexBuild that porch
@@robertnapier4455 😬🧱👍🏽
But then im a fussy fkr
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Stop messing about and get it right
It’s right and finished 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild hope so don't want no call backs
Hiw would the door fit against the 2 front pillars??? I can't imagine it looking anyway normal....
I explained it in the video 🧱👍🏽
Looks nice lads 🧱🧱 I need to have a good catch up on all the videos I’ve missed 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Cheers Nick 🤙🏾. Enjoy 😁🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild cheers lads 🧱🧱👍🏻👍🏻
@@nickholt4887 🧱👍🏽
Nice job lads , 👍personally I would cut all the half’s with a buzz saw first 👍🧱
Cheers buddy 🧱👍🏽