Building A Jamaican Home Series: Laying Blocks With Mortar
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- Building A Jamaican Home Series: Laying Blocks With Mortar
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How do I mix mortar?
Mortar is a wet paste made of sand and cement
To mix a small amount of mortar by hand:
1 Put the dry sand and cement on a board and mix them together very well
with a trowel or shovel.
2 When mixed properly, all of the mix will be the same colour.
3 Make a heap of the mix and make a hole in the middle
4 Put water in the hole.
5 Lift the dry mix into the water - a little bit at a time until all the water is used up.
6 Mix it all together. Keep mixing for at least five minutes.
7 The mortar needs to be a paste like mashed plantain or potatoes.
If the mortar is too dry it won’t spread or stick to the blocks properly. If it is too wet, the water will separate from the sand and the mortar will run off the blocks. Add more water or sand/cement until your mix is right.
Only mix enough mortar for the number of blocks you can lay in about 30 minutes. In hot weather, the mortar will start to “go off” and be unworkable in less than 40 minutes. You can work with the mortar straight from the mixing board, but many tradespeople put the mortar into a bucket. It is easier to carry in a bucket and the mortar lasts a little bit longer before it goes off.
A good trowel is the most important tool when you are working with mortar and blocks
The mortar joint running along the top and bottom of the blocks is called the bed joint. The up-and -down, vertical joints are sometimes called “perpends” by tradesmen.
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Love how you are teaching and explaining as you go along so other's can understand what is happening because u have some persons who love to judge and criticize the house coming along nicely a step at a time the longest journey will be completed
yes thanks... everyone want to see pretty finished work but so we need to show them the ugly stressing part of the process much love and respect me family
@@paynefuldiy for real man we always edit the best parts and post but as u rightly say them need to see the ugly parts too
Way up
bless up fam
As usual persevering to excel. 🤗
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Keep up the good work mi General it must finish as long as you pit in the work love to see what you doing clean work. Keep put in the work for you and the family bless
thank fam really appreciate the motivation 🙏
i gave up on getting the blocks level with each other. dont even check that they're level with each other anymore. funny thing is it still looks level with the naked eye. i make sure each block is plumb and level and then plumb with the block beneath it and move on. my pride wants it perfect but my sanity is more important than my ego. those 8 inch blocks are no joke, i'm using them for the entire structure and it is not a fun process. my record is 50 in one day [by myself]... i watched this channel and other videos before i started and thought this was gonna be easy. was dead wrong.
if i could go back would do it all again though. gotta love the "payne"
Lol
Bro just use some lite mix coneret level out where the water settle up
Your project is coming together nicely, enjoy the process of building and enjoy Jamaica 🇯🇲
Big up
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Awesome block work bro👷♂️
thanks fam
@@paynefuldiy you're welcome
rate the movements mi g. u fi leave ur contact info pon the screen or in the links. yuh work boasy
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Here, we use 8 inch for foundation and ground floor walls if we going up a next level. Main difference between what you guys do is we use ground beams 95% of the time. But rebar in every other block.
ok thats great to know where are you located?
Antigua
wow with all the hurricanes passing that side I can understand why much love to you
Work neat as usual Payne . Step by step . Night work good just need to have good lighting . Much cooler 👏🏽👏🏽
Hey how things going how the family
Thats good jobs builds house or business
Don't worry about the electricity going off maybe your next project will be going solar 👍
yep that in the plants too... Thanks 🙏
Love the look general keep on do the doingthe good work real one
Appreciate that
Do you find yourself buying a lot of different type gloves because they wear out so fast and trying to find the perfect one?
yes buy its not that they wear out but because i have a glove monster and a sock monster they always goo missing lol but i love there red ones they are close fit and flexible i have really tried a lot of them.
Blessing to you .. am new here and I find your channel to be very helpful. Just want to see how to set the steel for blocking up like from foundation the one the block go over while blocking up
Good day thank you so muck for supporting the channel we have a video where we are steeling up for the decking but after installing the steel matting and the cages the first wall bar needs to be 6 inches from the column cage and the others wall bar have to be 16 inches from the first one
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lol if cord line show you the problem early so ou can solution it and you still dont like cord line
it make you get too comfortable and forget that you need to plumb and level as you go
So when you finish the wall do you "splash then render" which is the finish coat. I always get this confused they built my house in Westmoreland in 1992. It's block with deck roof.
The flashing goes on first the make sure that the wall is plumb and straight and the render to make it smooth so water cant soak the walls
Nice, but you only need to plum a level the rows you are laying don't need to carry the level all the way down 👇 they already plum and level 😊
yes but these block have a lil fault where the top of the blocks have a lil curve edge so i have to plumb each one.
In portmore that
Yes it is