Some graft there lads👍 those drowned brick are beyond a pain in the arse. As usual you’re finding a way to deal with the problems. Good to see fellow Lancashire brickies doing well 👍👍 keep up the good work Steve and Alex.
You need a gas burner gun. About £25 for a big one, and then get a a medium size gas bottle. Would dry those 1000 bricks out in about an hour. Bottle last a long time. I also use mine if hard frost and if working off a solid base thats slippy with frost or ice. Thaws it out a treat
Good vid guys🧱👌🏼 Who needs a mini digger when you’ve got a mad mattock wielder like Steve? 😂 You must be fit as a fiddle Steve, you take care👍🏼 Glad the channel’s doing well buddy. Stay safe 👍🏼🧱
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Yere mate. I aways think that foundations are the hardest skill a bricklayer can Learn. The hole building sets off on them. So really it should be the highest payed job in my eyes. You did well mate keeping it going for that long. Definitely have a big respect for you. Top man 👍👍👍👍
Hi Steve. Great job the wet bricks are pathetic we all have to put up with it and its not on .I went from concs under ground to trencb blocks to trench fill foundations now. Trench blocks with handles are the best haven't seen em in a while here. What size are your cavities up there 120 to 150 here could live in these cavities now 😂😂 great work again keep that van clean mate. Justin brickright 👍
@@SteveAndAlexBuild cavities getting so big in wales you cant find the trench blocks or the cavity closers big enough some times ,😂 have a good weekend Steve,
@@brickrightbuildinglandscaping never mind dropping your hammer or trowel down the cav , you could lose your tool bag or an apprentice down there now 😟🤣👍🏽🧱
I think building merchants now need to start preparing bricks being covered up because the winters now are just wet it’s a joke all the bricks get delivered these days and they are soaking wet you’re paying for a product which isn’t right
Nice little extension job that can't do much about wet bricks this time of year I am building 12 by 4 concretes in footings at min which doesn't really matter if they are wet but got rained of today built for three hours in the rain but had to quit when I realised I was soaked to the bone and the mortar started dripping of sides of mortar boards would have been better of using a paint brush instead of trowel good upload lads shows the real graft involved when doing domestic builds👍
Small sites can be awkward can’t they, very similar to what I’m doing at the mo, what you got in that mix ? We’ve been really struggling with it going fluffy but drying out, i think it’s either multi cem or the sand from mkm I’ve never used either before, keep it up boys
Nice n clean guys .. how long does it take for the bricks get dry with the hairdryer ?? I did something similar last week with some bricks we cut with water and dry them with a heating canon lol .. a bit overkill but it worked hehe 😁🙏🏼
😆😆the hair dryer lol brilliant a blow torch handy. Big 2 meter level very handy buddy couldn’t be without it. Proper hard graft as always steve. A feel your pain in these type of jobs always damp weather comes when setting out exc managed to get a underbuild done for a extension prior to last snow week or so back. All be in the bloody light rain on and of. Picked bricks other week for wall repair half the things were saturated 😡 used them today luckily were a brick that soak the life out the mortar so wasn’t to bad. Looking forward to you and boy Alex banging this out. 😎 take care.
Ah the joys of being a bricky in winter , nobody tells you about the winter months when you leave school 🙄🤣. We just keep turning up and doing our best 🧱👍🏼
savage stuff Steve and Alex....not often you see a bricky doing the slave work of ground works along with doing the masonry on the job too....I'm an Irish bricky myself here in New York and just like ye here when we doing a small job we do the lot here too,in this country you cant be a 1 trick pony😂 I do the machines the concrete the plastering the lot. always will have a job then if other work runs out,lovely work lads hats off to ye👍👌
On wet bricks we stack them in honeycomb stacks (like yours) and then use a gas torch on them, very quick to dry! Give us a follow on instagram - Mid City Builders 👍🏽
It made me laugh. When you were doing your setting out measuring from corner to corner. Had a joiner the other day making us some dummy windows he never heard of measuring corner to corner to make sure they were square.As a result they weren’t square. When I come across wet bricks I got my heat gun put it underneath them and it gets so hot there steaming
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh yes, the bricks in your video were soaked. I've got two pallets of wrapped dry aircrete blocks to lay, so unless the trench is wet tomorrow, was going to use a weaker & wetter mix.
Nice one thanks. What is the story with the wet bricks? If they are too wet the mortar wont dry? Im guessing here in Oz they must spend their time wetting them to get them to stick.
If they are wet they won’t absorb any water so instead the water in the sand and cement oozes out and runs down the face plus you can’t build as high as the weight of the wall makes it sink 😬🧱👍🏽
Sold the stand at a car boot sale years ago , can’t “stand” them 😆. Seriously we find them a pain unless you are tipping into a barrow which we never do 😁🧱👍🏼
I was just about to ask the same. The Belles always seemed top heavy and kinda dodgy from memory. For smaller jobs a lower more stable base would be better, maybe design it to be tipped into a tub.
Can I have my yellow card rescinded and give it too the guy who stepped on the facing????😬😬😬 Piss poor these wet bricks, if someone comes up with a solution they will be a millionaire Great job pals 🤝🤝🤝🤝
@@rosanneennis725 Not not daft at all . The bricks need to absorb a bit of water from the sand and cement otherwise they will just sink , plus if they don’t absorb it it runs down the face of the wall too . Hope that makes sense 👍🏽🧱
I’ll be honest , I haven’t got a clue 🤷🏽, I’m guessing to save clay those few small grooves adds up to a lot of extra clay for on a few million bricks 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱👍🏽
Great videos! It looks like you've used 140mm lintels and I was wondering if there was a reason you didn't use 65mm lintels? I'm doing foundations as a DIYer at the moment but used 65mm lintels for a span of approx. 1m. I'm now wondering whether that's enough.
Some graft there lads👍 those drowned brick are beyond a pain in the arse. As usual you’re finding a way to deal with the problems. Good to see fellow Lancashire brickies doing well 👍👍 keep up the good work Steve and Alex.
Just keep plodding whatever life throws at us 🙄😁🧱👍🏽
You need a gas burner gun. About £25 for a big one, and then get a a medium size gas bottle. Would dry those 1000 bricks out in about an hour. Bottle last a long time. I also use mine if hard frost and if working off a solid base thats slippy with frost or ice. Thaws it out a treat
Nice one thanks for the tip 🔥🔥👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Good vid guys🧱👌🏼 Who needs a mini digger when you’ve got a mad mattock wielder like Steve? 😂 You must be fit as a fiddle Steve, you take care👍🏼 Glad the channel’s doing well buddy. Stay safe 👍🏼🧱
Thanks very much Marty , I love that mattock 😏💪🏼🧱👍🏽
Best Friday night viewing that there is at the moment. 😎👍
Thanks very much pal 🧱👍🏽
What about tricky bricky live from 6pm
He starts at 6 we start at 8.30 so you can watch both. 😉🧱👍🏽
Grand job lads, stay safe.
Cheers Les 🧱👍🏼
Nice vid lads back in the foundations. You guys can clean them off with your eyes closed 👍👍👍
Cheers mark we make sure we dig 600 wide so we can fit in the trench’s 😁🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Yere. Definitely a bonus bending over with them block is hard work 👍👍👍
@@markhep . Can’t believe I threw them around for 10 years solid ! 6 years on me tod . No wonder my hips ache 😩🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Yere mate. I aways think that foundations are the hardest skill a bricklayer can Learn. The hole building sets off on them. So really it should be the highest payed job in my eyes. You did well mate keeping it going for that long. Definitely have a big respect for you. Top man 👍👍👍👍
@@markhep . Thanks very much mark 😁much appreciated 🧱👍🏽
not many bricklayers do the groundworks well done to you and that young man
Thanks pal , only on the smaller jobs 😉🧱👍🏼
I really like watching your content but i got 8 ads? Keep up the good work 👍
I cancelled my Spotify and pay for youtube premium..... YT music is decent enough, and NO MORE ADS.
Thanks for watching, UA-cam place the ads I’m afraid 😬🧱👍🏽
I never see English Bricklayers use Hydrated Lime in the mortar only sand and cement and the stuff in the bottle you call Fev
Never used to mate 😬.
I think you mean Feb 🤣 . That is a brand name very commonly used . It’s actually callled
Plasticiser 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild We use Lime here in Australia it retards the mortar from going off to quickly its still very hot over here
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How deep did you have to dig for foundation? Can you explain your initial measurements.
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Hard work! Dont you use a gazebo to work under as you did at Leamington?
We will do soon as we have one of our own now 👍🏽🧱
Good progress fellas👏🏼 I hope your gunna give that hair dryer back to the mrs mate👀😂 looking forward to the next one already!
Cheers Kieren , Chris wouldn’t let me take hers I had to pinch my daughters spare 🤣🤣🧱👍🏼
Hi Steve.
Great job the wet bricks are pathetic we all have to put up with it and its not on .I went from concs under ground to trencb blocks to trench fill foundations now. Trench blocks with handles are the best haven't seen em in a while here.
What size are your cavities up there 120 to 150 here could live in these cavities now 😂😂 great work again keep that van clean mate.
Justin brickright 👍
Hi Justin trench block all the way. , definitely!
Still mainly 100 mm cavities up here 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild cavities getting so big in wales you cant find the trench blocks or the cavity closers big enough some times ,😂 have a good weekend Steve,
@@brickrightbuildinglandscaping never mind dropping your hammer or trowel down the cav , you could lose your tool bag or an apprentice down there now 😟🤣👍🏽🧱
I think building merchants now need to start preparing bricks being covered up because the winters now are just wet it’s a joke all the bricks get delivered these days and they are soaking wet you’re paying for a product which isn’t right
Very true , big sites are the same 😩🧱👍🏽
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@@joshy3602 Yep ! 🧱👍🏽
Steve i cant thankyou enough .im doing my own extensions now working out the diagnals for the dig and then setting out .works everytime .thankyou both
That’s great to hear , glad we could help 🧱👍🏽
Nice little extension job that can't do much about wet bricks this time of year I am building 12 by 4 concretes in footings at min which doesn't really matter if they are wet but got rained of today built for three hours in the rain but had to quit when I realised I was soaked to the bone and the mortar started dripping of sides of mortar boards would have been better of using a paint brush instead of trowel good upload lads shows the real graft involved when doing domestic builds👍
Cheers pal , yeah when the mortar is running off the boards its time to do one 🙄🤣🧱👍🏽
Lovely video Steve and Alex
Alway nice and clear I hope your looking after that new van 😂👍
Cheers Malc , we are 🧱👍🏼😁
Small sites can be awkward can’t they, very similar to what I’m doing at the mo, what you got in that mix ? We’ve been really struggling with it going fluffy but drying out, i think it’s either multi cem or the sand from mkm I’ve never used either before, keep it up boys
Yeah not much room to move or load out .
It must be your sand as the multichem makes a lovely mix 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
That's 💔 work, tight site, Wet brick's, Got to push on through
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Why were the bricks so wet when they were delivered to you, why can’t you send them back. Under the circumstances not a bad days work for you both.
Thanks, if we send them back we lose a days wage minimum plus they won’t take wet brick back 🧱🧱🧱⛈👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild so why do they send them out wet to you, when you can’t use them ?
@@kenforshaw8901 . Because it’s not their problem 🧱👍🏽
Nice n clean guys .. how long does it take for the bricks get dry with the hairdryer ?? I did something similar last week with some bricks we cut with water and dry them with a heating canon lol .. a bit overkill but it worked hehe 😁🙏🏼
Forever ! , the hairdryer is useless Jay , heating canons are by far the best way to dry wet bricks 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Great video guys in less than perfect conditions puttin em in the wall good job. Enjoyed watching!
Thanks Richard , we don’t seem to get easy jobs 🙄🤣🧱👍🏽
That's hard wet graft , not for the snowflake generation 😉
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😆😆the hair dryer lol brilliant a blow torch handy. Big 2 meter level very handy buddy couldn’t be without it. Proper hard graft as always steve. A feel your pain in these type of jobs always damp weather comes when setting out exc managed to get a underbuild done for a extension prior to last snow week or so back. All be in the bloody light rain on and of. Picked bricks other week for wall repair half the things were saturated 😡 used them today luckily were a brick that soak the life out the mortar so wasn’t to bad. Looking forward to you and boy Alex banging this out. 😎 take care.
Ah the joys of being a bricky in winter , nobody tells you about the winter months when you leave school 🙄🤣. We just keep turning up and doing our best 🧱👍🏼
What is the hair dryer for Steve's hair? lol
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savage stuff Steve and Alex....not often you see a bricky doing the slave work of ground works along with doing the masonry on the job too....I'm an Irish bricky myself here in New York and just like ye here when we doing a small job we do the lot here too,in this country you cant be a 1 trick pony😂 I do the machines the concrete the plastering the lot. always will have a job then if other work runs out,lovely work lads hats off to ye👍👌
Great to hear you doing well over there . The more strings to your bow the less time you will be looking for work 🧱👍🏽
Why do you prefer blue circle over other cement
It’s reasonably priced and makes a Good mix . We would use it all the time but our only stockists are B&Q 👍🏽🧱
It's like listening to a set by Sasha when watching your videos.
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On wet bricks we stack them in honeycomb stacks (like yours) and then use a gas torch on them, very quick to dry!
Give us a follow on instagram - Mid City Builders 👍🏽
Thanks for the tip ,......followed 👍🏽🧱
Soon be in some decent cloud lads 🤣 keep plodding 🧱🧱👍👍
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What concentrated feb mix do you use ?
And how much do you put in per mix ? ML ?
Thanks Jason
I cant remember which brand but they are all pretty similar. We generally put about 10 mils in 🧱👍🏽
It made me laugh. When you were doing your setting out measuring from corner to corner. Had a joiner the other day making us some dummy windows he never heard of measuring corner to corner to make sure they were square.As a result they weren’t square. When I come across wet bricks I got my heat gun put it underneath them and it gets so hot there steaming
A joiner didn't know diagonals 🤯! that's a shocker 🧱👍🏽
How come you don’t buy tonne bags of sand? And use like boys of Boden and that? 👍👍👍
We used a ton up then didn’t need a full ton to finish so for bags 🧱👍🏽
Good old Mattock,, so useful.. Use mine all the time.. Great for stubborn tree roots.. Great video. 💯👌👍💯
Brilliant tool the Mattock 💪🏼🧱👍🏽
Great vid again. Backs must be aching working in that tight space. Will you be breaking in to the side of the house?
No mate it’s a dining room off the kitchen 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
wat mix do u use for the mortar
4 to 1 with concentrated plasticiser 🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽
Exactly what I do.
B&Q for blue circle, good price and by far the best cement.
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You should definitely get some dutch pins for holding timber profiles against the wall... so much easier... 😉
B T have sent us some but old habits die hard 😬🧱👍🏼
Enjoyed watching this video tonight. Got 80 Celcon trench blocks to start laying tomorrow - hoping for a dry day!
Good luck pal get course 1 in all the way round in case it does rain so you don’t need to bail out 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Cheers Steve. Do you guys mix up regular 5 to 1, but maybe a bit on the wet side for those beds?
@@Carl-yu6uw we do 4:1 more dryish as the bricks were wet 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild oh yes, the bricks in your video were soaked. I've got two pallets of wrapped dry aircrete blocks to lay, so unless the trench is wet tomorrow, was going to use a weaker & wetter mix.
@@Carl-yu6uw Oh yeah definitely a wetter mix on the trenches 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Can't wait 👍🍺
See you then pal 🧱👍🏽
Looks nice little tight sight
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Enjoyed that lads can't wait for the next instalment. Pity you only do one vid a week.
Cheers pal ..... we sneaked 2 out this week 😏🧱👍🏽
hi steve can you explain where the doors go you havent bricked up ,,, why
The blockwork doesn’t go across the door ways so the concrete goes right up to the doors 🧱👍🏼
Bricks always soaked with that wrapping on from builders.
Yep it’s a bloody waste of time 🙄🧱👍🏼
Nice one thanks. What is the story with the wet bricks? If they are too wet the mortar wont dry? Im guessing here in Oz they must spend their time wetting them to get them to stick.
If they are wet they won’t absorb any water so instead the water in the sand and cement oozes out and runs down the face plus you can’t build as high as the weight of the wall makes it sink 😬🧱👍🏽
What ya talking about shagger??
Will bricks contract if you set them when wet?
No just sink and the mortar will run down the face 😬🧱👍🏽
Why don’t you have your mixer on a stand
Sold the stand at a car boot sale years ago , can’t “stand” them 😆. Seriously we find them a pain unless you are tipping into a barrow which we never do 😁🧱👍🏼
I was just about to ask the same.
The Belles always seemed top heavy and kinda dodgy from memory.
For smaller jobs a lower more stable base would be better, maybe design it to be tipped into a tub.
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did ya level come free with the boots steve
We did get free boots and levels off Ox but these ain’t Ox wellies 😏🧱👍🏼
Great job lads still watching video just thought comment 👍
Thanks very much for watching and commenting Dave 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Can I have my yellow card rescinded and give it too the guy who stepped on the facing????😬😬😬
Piss poor these wet bricks, if someone comes up with a solution they will be a millionaire
Great job pals 🤝🤝🤝🤝
I’ll check with the boss about the yellow 🟡🤣🤣🧱👍🏽
Not a builder of any description why cant you use wet bricks or is that a daft question
@@rosanneennis725 Not not daft at all . The bricks need to absorb a bit of water from the sand and cement otherwise they will just sink , plus if they don’t absorb it it runs down the face of the wall too . Hope that makes sense 👍🏽🧱
Thanks every day is a learning day
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Wow some job,vans shining well done.👍👍👍
Cheers Richard 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Have it easy nowadays with 25kg cement bags,back when I started,cement was 50kg bags,all that changed in the 80's or was it's the 90's due to HSE..
I back when were a lad it was 50 kilos 🥵
Firwood still do 40 kg bags of sand , ball breakers. 🥵🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild Thought you were now only allowed 25kg max for pre packed material like sands,aggerates.
Same here 🤷🏽🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild I like the 40kg bags some of the small independent merchants around my way still do them.
@@davidwills6640 Small independent merchants,great places, amazed that any survive,around here,all been bought up,by the big names.
Love the content.. Keep the footage coming 👍🏼👍🏼🧱🧱
Thanks pal , will do 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Lay them Blicks good and Priper
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A good think for drying out brick is a industrial heater from a hire company they are not much to hire and will dry the bricks out very quick
I used them all the time on conservatories , but I wasn’t paying for the hire 😉. I need to buy something a bot more portable 🧱👍🏽
I bought my heater for on line it was £156
@@andywest3260 I wouldn’t use it enough to justify spending that kind of money on one 😳👍🏼👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild fare one 👍
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What mix you dowing
4:1 sand and cement pal , with 10 ml if concentrated plasticiser 🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild thanks
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Look forward to it👍
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Bricklayers with hair dryers love it. lol.
I might as well use it for drying bricks ... I don’t need it 🙄🤣👍🏽🧱
Class guy’s tough build in the winter
Thanks John ! We pick all the hard ones 😆🧱👍🏼
Nice plug for Ken Bruce :)
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Got some good chooses going on
Cheers Andy 🧱👍🏽
Could you mark the courses of the house on a staff then transfer them to your 2 corners. Will help keep you gauge.
We divided the courses into the height and got 77 mm per course so it was easy enough to gauge as we went 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Real nice edit
Thanks very much , I appreciate that 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Evening lads
Evening David 🧱👍🏼
Excellent video well done lads 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks pal 🧱👍🏽
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What’s the purpose of the grooves in the brick on the back of the face
I’ll be honest , I haven’t got a clue 🤷🏽, I’m guessing to save clay those few small grooves adds up to a lot of extra clay for on a few million bricks 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱👍🏽
@@martin2466 . The ones Charlie c was using on a new build brick on edge were unbelievable. I’ve never seen holes that big
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@@martin2466 . The ones Charlie c was using on a new build brick on edge were unbelievable. I’ve never seen holes that big
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@@martin2466 . Very true Martin 🙄🧱👍🏽
Great video and picking up loads of tips along the way keep up the good work
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Nice work lads..bloody hell Steve you're one proper grafter 🐃
Cheers Wayne, hope your ok pal 👍🏽🧱
Great videos! It looks like you've used 140mm lintels and I was wondering if there was a reason you didn't use 65mm lintels? I'm doing foundations as a DIYer at the moment but used 65mm lintels for a span of approx. 1m. I'm now wondering whether that's enough.
65 mm are fine Peter , ours was a bit of overkill 💪🏼🧱👍🏽
🤔🧐Around the 29:00 minute mark, are those other blokes building a fence infront of a fence? 🤣👌
Yeah 🤣, it was being moved back to form a bin store , they couldn’t finish as the skip was in the way 🙄🧱👍🏽
Cowboys - never cut vertical DPC / or cut new cavity in existing brickwork....
Are you calling us cowboys ?
Charlie needs to watch out for you Steve
We’ve missed him this week 😟🧱👍🏽