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Where do you go to school to learn the trade of masonry? Technical School or as an apprentice? I live in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We have a lot of cement companies around here (Heidelberg) but they just make the cement. I don’t want to work in a cement plant.

I'm about to build a garden wall that's retaining a bit of soil and this video is very helpful, thanks. We're these lighter blocks as I noticed you put up many courses, the blocks over here are about 27kg each so not sure how many courses I could go for in one session. Thanks.

You did your country proud at supertrowel England this year. It was a lot closer this year!

ok dude. you did a good video and your a real pro.. but we need a whole video on morter. how to select your mortar. how to mix your mortar.. how much to mix at a time.. all the important stuff to know. are there additives to mortar we rookies need to know about? and what about sealing a brick job.. you could speak a little bit about sealers if we need them. i used to do concrete slabs and we sealed them. i used to do footers and councrete foundation walls and we didnt seal them. but this is brick.. so need some conversation on this topic; please. when i used to be on big commercial jobs; we used to call our wall block layers brickies. do you feel like that is a derogatory term or do you feel like its all right to be known as a brickie.. its not meant to be an insult. when we send laborers over to see the brickies; that laborer knows exactly who we are talking about. anyway. lets get back to important stuff; sealers and morter preperation.. thanks for this vid...

How do you like this twice, jeez

I feel slow listening to this guy

What is the name of that musical score?

I love that you talk so much explaining why you do something, i personally find it is more important then the visual of what you are doing.

Great video! Thank you for posting.

Booger 13:56 😂

What about the cap???

Dude, your useless. Who put a trowel in your hand?

Are you telling me no rebar is needed to make a brick wall gate ?

I feel like I make pancakes wrong.

And after building that do you guys knock it down and resuse?

Sourdough for bread can be made or just flour and water.

Thanks mate

now I am off to make some concrete pancakes.

Where's your location I wonna come by you guys

New subscriber and life-long learner here. I appreciate your time and effort in making these instructional videos. Your delivery is very professional and the best I've seen! Your words are easy to follow and I'm not having to rewind to figure out what you're saying.

How would you go about continuing from this layout. Do you set all 4 corners and infill the middle or stick with the layout to the other corner and cut blocks closest to the next corner ?

What about the steel inside to keep the over period of time

Great lesson and technique. Thanks for sharing!

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@2:30 FYI, the "frog" probably is not named after the amphibian. Following the other parts: heel, toe, foot... a "frog" is a part of a horse's hoof.

Thank you Sir for this informative video tomorrow i am going to build someone's wall with confidence

He's a rookie.

Great use of analogy to simplify and explain this subject. Thank you

I like the inspector who appears around the 34:00 mark. He is keeping a watchful eye on proceedings.

Thx for this 👍 ... Now and again, I do adhoc projects at home and find myself wandering round the hardware store trying to decide what sort of mix I need to buy ... I then usually default to what I know - the portland cement bag and add my own ballast/sand/plasticiser, etc, depending on what I'm doing (and what other CZcamsrs tell me !) . I now feel a bit more confident about actually buying the more appropriate pre-mix bag - I really do believe this is the sort thing they should be teaching in schools 🤓

Were here in Fl., block is Stucco finish. Im still trying to figure out HOW to get the Finished Height and Corners, from your Layout? I kinda of under stand the Height, should be on 8" Increments. The Runs are what im having trouble with.

The Lay out is my problem. Blocks measure 8 5/8"x8 5/8"x15 5/8". To finish corner to corner, U lay out to the 5/8th" and to come out with the Finished Block on the other end- 15 5/8"+3/8"= (16")?

Ive been in the building trades over or close to 40 years, carpentry. When 1st breaking out, i was Hod Carrier, (Shake that mud 😂) inbetween the carpentry. I have always wanted to learn to lay, i guess the Masons, layer's didnt want to teach, protecting their job. I have Always wondered HOW to start your Courses, ie., run vs height-measurements. For someone that has Never been around laying block, u might need to explain the Measurements of the Blocks to the Actual Laying for spacing. I gathered the Height=7 5/8"/with mud=8" increments. The run=15 5/8"/with mud=16" center. In real life, wouldnt you start at Both Ends, set 1 Block to Height, string line, then build you leads?

Thank you for the free education Sir, I just subscribed

Great instructional video, personally I would be more focused on building a 3 course lead, heading down wall and building another 3, probably continue that way for more corners and jogs if necessary, giving setup time to original lead and keeping the line jockeys working their magic ability to make a 2 foot wall consistently looking like it was built by a blind toddler, but that’s just me!

I’m a journeyman bricklayer, yet I still love watching your videos, because I love this trade! 💯🦾

So I made a cake with cement. It was terrible and my little sister busted her tooth 😞

Well I knew the cement wasn’t named after Portland OREGON or the cement would have piercings, purple hair and it wouldn’t work.

I'm designing a house and my husband says we have to design the house according to the size of the block so that it comes out even. Is this correct? I called BS. I think you can make the house any size you want and cut the block to fit it. Can you recommend a video for an example?

man that music is bad , is this what you play to the students learning at the shop

Best video I ever see.

I love it. his English is very clear.

Ok, so smart newb question... if the lime makes the portland weak or "spongy", then why does mortar have it in the mix? The entire brick/block structure depends as much on the strength of the mortar as it does the block. All vertical pressure is exerted as much on the mortar as it is on the block. Please explain since the few of us out there with some common engineering sense might see this as a problem when it obviously isn't historically speaking.

Along with all you did, I was also shown to bring those lead/ head/ corner faces flushed was the level from the begining so there is no air gap in the mortar because no adjustment woumd be needed at the end.

superb explanation no words to praise his pro work

...let's pretend U aren't talking 2CHILDREN!!!!

...oversimplification DISTRACTSfrom FACTS!!!!

Your the best,im watching you from Zambia