This is a great help to me, 22 year old bricky recently moved from East London where I was only doing commercial builds and large scale residential buildings e.g. apartments and also once the biggest site in Europe..Battersea power station, which is simply just Blockwork and brickwork running in to a line all day long and dealing with the likes of shelf angles and the constant introduction of new regulations of installing damp coursing. I’ve now moved down to the south, just past Plymouth where stone work is the in thing. And it took me a while to get me head around it, for instance the random natural stone which comes in all shapes and sizes would often throw me and I’d spend more time digging through stone rather than laying. Because I was so used to laying a nice uniformed brick or block. I haven’t laid this type of stone yet but I can’t wait to jump at the opportunity when given. Keep these videos coming, as they do help us young brickies 👍🏽
Glad it helped mate. If you have been laying natural stone then you will find this stone a walk in the park 👍🏻it is honestly very easy and super quick 👍🏻
Thank you very much for taking the time to demonstrate this. Makes a lot of sense now because gauging it to the wall ties in the blockwork puzzled me. Judging from my experience and content posted elsewhere, brickies from London the south east of England will benefit the most from this because you never see it done on sites around these parts nowadays.
You are welcome mate, its me who needs to say thanks, it was your'e idea. It seems like a fair few of my subscribers haven't done alot of stone. I will do another video with random coursing which is not as common round these parts. Thanks again.............keep the suggestions coming 👍🏻
Nice work, been a. Stonemason since 1989 , bricklayer and a stonemason are to completely different thing. , in general and mason can lay to the line but a bricklayer won’t know how to crop and dress stone , Horses for courses
This isn't really stone work mate, nothing like you would do, now that is an art. This is basically big bricks, some people really struggle with it but its really easy when you know how 👍🏻 Thanks for stopping by
Thanks Peter, I was a little rusty but hopefully people got the basics of how to lay stone. I have shared it to our Facebook page so hopefully our apprentices will get to see it
We measure back off the blockwork say 205/210 to the front of the stone and for me i plumb the stone corners by turning my level round and hold it up the arris of the corner stones and make sure the arris all in line to the edge of the level.. (hope that makes sense hard to describe) instead of holding it flat against it like u would brickwork..For ties we double up the jambs every 450 and same with Movement joints instead of every course like bricks...And as for cuts they say to never wall a peice smaller than it is taller..In other words a normal piece of stone is 140mm tall so never put a piece in smaller than 140 in length..Theres other diff ways stone can be walled just touching a few of the basics....Not trying to teach how to suck eggs we just do a lot of this stuff here in west yorkshire...
Makes perfect sense to me and done of those techniques we use but didn’t want to over load with to much info 👍🏻 takes a good eye as well as bit if level work 👍🏻
@@Tone_Team Your right mate it does take a good eye with stone...It is a lot more forgivng as u say...With Natural stone i revert back to imperial...So if i,m working with 3inch 4 inch etc i'll bed up and make my beds bigger..Ive found if u work metric with imperial stone and use 10mm beds its looks all wavey and shit.. I find bigger beds just take some of the wave and uneveness out of it.and natural stone dont tend to get jointed..I normally rake it out or bag it off..(Rub some hessian on the joints when it stiffend a bit)...And u can get around ur ties falling back because you have a variety of diff height stones to put in 2inch 3inch etc Anyways hope i dont come across as trying to tell u how to go on just sharing on how i do it...All the best
Nice one mate u need to get that trowel back out on site lol I find best way to joint is with abit of hose but on site there’s never any or hard to find some
I am glad you found it helpful. This muck I used is from a Silo which is on our site. Silos are prefilled from a lorry and then all we have to do is press a button and adjust the water so it is a consistency we like. We are very fortunate, it is not often we have to use our own muck. Mix would me 1 part cemtent, 1 part lime and 4 parts cement. Normally a plastiscer is added to help with workability
We do a fair bit round here so most people I know can lay it quite easily. We don't tend to do much natural stone, although it looks fantastic. Might learn how to lay it one day
It's not stonework it's reconstituted stone it's a man made product and is nothing like building natural stone and compared to laying natural stone it's child's play so don't be thinking if you can lay that shite you can build stone people
Wow, very helpful comment. I did say it was recon stone and never indicated it was anything like natural stone. Its acutally quite a nice alternative to places that can't justify the cost of natural stone, there is a place for most products.
I've always wondered how these are bonded, interesting to know them by there names aswell, I've never laid these as down here in the south they aren't used on our sites, looks good tho a really nice buff colour 👍 good job
Not my finest work Bri but I was more trying to show people how easy it is. We do a fair bit round here so most lads know how to lay stone. Its natural stone that we don't do much of, now that is an art. If this video goes down well I will make more of an effort to get some more stones, may be do a few features etc 👍🏻
@@Tone_Team I done a wall for a customer who wanted to incorporate big sandstone like boulders, they dug up from their garden, I put them on the corners and had to tooth in the brickwork and used slate and tiles to keep it all tight, looked really good in the end shame I can't show pictures on here
I love stuff like that, lovely to make features out of things that belong to the house or grounds! Can you post pictures on the community tab? I know I can but not sure subscribers can
NEVER put closures in the middle of the panel . Avoid using them at all if possible .... They ruin the job . Good to see no closure's here . If you're short of 6 inch peices , cut a load in advance they will all be used . 👍🏴
@@Tone_Team Conrete imitation stone is very limited in sizes and you have to do your best with what you have . I've tried telling so-called trowels never to put closures in .... Nothing wrong with your work pal . I've done a fair bit of real random stonework and that takes patience but is easy once you get the 'feel' of it . 👍🏴
This is a great help to me, 22 year old bricky recently moved from East London where I was only doing commercial builds and large scale residential buildings e.g. apartments and also once the biggest site in Europe..Battersea power station, which is simply just Blockwork and brickwork running in to a line all day long and dealing with the likes of shelf angles and the constant introduction of new regulations of installing damp coursing.
I’ve now moved down to the south, just past Plymouth where stone work is the in thing. And it took me a while to get me head around it, for instance the random natural stone which comes in all shapes and sizes would often throw me and I’d spend more time digging through stone rather than laying. Because I was so used to laying a nice uniformed brick or block.
I haven’t laid this type of stone yet but I can’t wait to jump at the opportunity when given.
Keep these videos coming, as they do help us young brickies 👍🏽
Glad it helped mate. If you have been laying natural stone then you will find this stone a walk in the park 👍🏻it is honestly very easy and super quick 👍🏻
Nice example of setting out and gauging stonework and top tips on pointing and explaining brush finishing is the key to the look !
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Thank you very much for taking the time to demonstrate this. Makes a lot of sense now because gauging it to the wall ties in the blockwork puzzled me. Judging from my experience and content posted elsewhere, brickies from London the south east of England will benefit the most from this because you never see it done on sites around these parts nowadays.
You are welcome mate, its me who needs to say thanks, it was your'e idea. It seems like a fair few of my subscribers haven't done alot of stone. I will do another video with random coursing which is not as common round these parts. Thanks again.............keep the suggestions coming 👍🏻
It is a pleasure watching your handy work i am learning a lot from you
Thanks 🙏🏻 glad it is useful and I appreciate the feedback 🎄 please let me know if there is anything else you would like to see on the channel
Nice work, been a. Stonemason since 1989 , bricklayer and a stonemason are to completely different thing. , in general and mason can lay to the line but a bricklayer won’t know how to crop and dress stone ,
Horses for courses
This isn't really stone work mate, nothing like you would do, now that is an art. This is basically big bricks, some people really struggle with it but its really easy when you know how 👍🏻 Thanks for stopping by
Enjoyable video you make it look easy I hope your apprentices are doing good all the best
Thanks Peter, I was a little rusty but hopefully people got the basics of how to lay stone. I have shared it to our Facebook page so hopefully our apprentices will get to see it
We measure back off the blockwork say 205/210 to the front of the stone and for me i plumb the stone corners by turning my level round and hold it up the arris of the corner stones and make sure the arris all in line to the edge of the level.. (hope that makes sense hard to describe) instead of holding it flat against it like u would brickwork..For ties we double up the jambs every 450 and same with Movement joints instead of every course like bricks...And as for cuts they say to never wall a peice smaller than it is taller..In other words a normal piece of stone is 140mm tall so never put a piece in smaller than 140 in length..Theres other diff ways stone can be walled just touching a few of the basics....Not trying to teach how to suck eggs we just do a lot of this stuff here in west yorkshire...
I,m sure there will be trowels on here ready to tell me i,m doing it wrong 😂😂
Makes perfect sense to me and done of those techniques we use but didn’t want to over load with to much info 👍🏻 takes a good eye as well as bit if level work 👍🏻
@@Tone_Team Your right mate it does take a good eye with stone...It is a lot more forgivng as u say...With Natural stone i revert back to imperial...So if i,m working with 3inch 4 inch etc i'll bed up and make my beds bigger..Ive found if u work metric with imperial stone and use 10mm beds its looks all wavey and shit.. I find bigger beds just take some of the wave and uneveness out of it.and natural stone dont tend to get jointed..I normally rake it out or bag it off..(Rub some hessian on the joints when it stiffend a bit)...And u can get around ur ties falling back because you have a variety of diff height stones to put in 2inch 3inch etc Anyways hope i dont come across as trying to tell u how to go on just sharing on how i do it...All the best
@@grannyg8155 not at all mate, all feed back is welcome and I am sure others will pick up a few tips from your comments too 👍🏻
Can you put ties in the perps of the blocks and twist 45 degrees to make them work imperial course
Not too shabby !..
Thanks, not to bad considering the materials who actually freezing as I was using them 🥶
How come you couldn't use 18" vertical spacing to help break up the bed joints a bit more? You'd still hit all of your wall ties no?
Wont work at door, window reveals, expansions, window heights etc, always 9" steps
Not too shabby
Still got it mate 😉
Yes lad, I’m an apprentice learning the trade. Would you be able to set up and build a bulls eye/arch and explain how to get angles etc? Cheers
Yeah man, wil be doing alot more of these in the future. You have chose a good trade young Jedi 👍🏻
Nice one mate u need to get that trowel back out on site lol I find best way to joint is with abit of hose but on site there’s never any or hard to find some
Still got it hey mate 😂 not quite as fast as you 🔥
Tidy stone work great picked up a few tips to
Thanks 😂👍🏻
Got a lot of tips form this 👍
Good to hear. Hopefully people take on board that it was minus 2 and the stone was frozen together and the muck was freezing on my trowel 🤣
Good video mate when your building gables with this do you put your line up to the biggest piece of stone then plumb to the line
exactly the same as you would on brickwork. Only difference you can get a way with hammer and bolster, no need to use disc cutter
@@Tone_Team cheers pal .....are you lads busy down your way
@@matthewingham7806 we are flat out at the moment and looking busy going forward
Great job. Thank you for sharing. The muck looks very good to use. What is the mix and additives are you using in the muck ?
I am glad you found it helpful. This muck I used is from a Silo which is on our site. Silos are prefilled from a lorry and then all we have to do is press a button and adjust the water so it is a consistency we like. We are very fortunate, it is not often we have to use our own muck. Mix would me 1 part cemtent, 1 part lime and 4 parts cement. Normally a plastiscer is added to help with workability
I work for another subby in Swindon not gunna say who 🍕🍝 but I'm sure you can guess 🤣 and from the videos I've seen the quality of work is alot better
🤣🤣 good to hear 🔥🧱
Nice work,🇨🇮 is the mix,the same as you are using for the bricks,
Some sites use different mortar mixes for stone, it’s nice when the mortar is a little lighter but sometimes we just use the same as bricks
Thanks for reply, we build similar stone here in Ireland called hallmark stone , we don't have the 4 inch size,that ye use,
@@hotpoker4212 I quite the 4's, sometime we have a 4 and a 5 instead but dont see so much of that
Flint blocks next please 👊🏻🏡
great idea 👍🏻
What part of england do you work in
South West
If you ever need any sites facilitating in Essex and its not cost effective to haul your own gear let me know👍🏻.
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Quality stuff
Thanks 🤙🏻🙏🏻
Not many bricklayers can lay stone, mullions etc is even another ball game altogether
We do a fair bit round here so most people I know can lay it quite easily. We don't tend to do much natural stone, although it looks fantastic. Might learn how to lay it one day
@@Tone_Team yeah your work is very good mate, unlike most on CZcams
Thank you 👍🏻
It's not stonework it's reconstituted stone it's a man made product and is nothing like building natural stone and compared to laying natural stone it's child's play so don't be thinking if you can lay that shite you can build stone people
Wow, very helpful comment. I did say it was recon stone and never indicated it was anything like natural stone. Its acutally quite a nice alternative to places that can't justify the cost of natural stone, there is a place for most products.
Got any surecav and natural stone? (Ton bags, not palleted pre cut stuff) 😈
I’m not good at natural stone mate 😂👍🏻
It's pretty easy really, once you just accept that it is just going to take ages to go up. 😅
I've always wondered how these are bonded, interesting to know them by there names aswell, I've never laid these as down here in the south they aren't used on our sites, looks good tho a really nice buff colour 👍 good job
Not my finest work Bri but I was more trying to show people how easy it is. We do a fair bit round here so most lads know how to lay stone. Its natural stone that we don't do much of, now that is an art. If this video goes down well I will make more of an effort to get some more stones, may be do a few features etc 👍🏻
@@Tone_Team I done a wall for a customer who wanted to incorporate big sandstone like boulders, they dug up from their garden, I put them on the corners and had to tooth in the brickwork and used slate and tiles to keep it all tight, looked really good in the end shame I can't show pictures on here
I love stuff like that, lovely to make features out of things that belong to the house or grounds! Can you post pictures on the community tab? I know I can but not sure subscribers can
@@Tone_Team I tried but I can't do it only you can, that's cos your the boss man 😉
Much better if it is dressed on all 4 sides then you line it in to the arris.
It is dressed 👍🏻 it’s not real stone, a cheaper alternative to natural stone 👍🏻
NEVER put closures in the middle of the panel . Avoid using them at all if possible .... They ruin the job . Good to see no closure's here . If you're short of 6 inch peices , cut a load in advance they will all be used . 👍🏴
I was short of all sizes mate or I would have cut some longer ones down! I’ll be me more organised next time 🥶👍🏻🥶
@@Tone_Team Conrete imitation stone is very limited in sizes and you have to do your best with what you have . I've tried telling so-called trowels never to put closures in .... Nothing wrong with your work pal . I've done a fair bit of real random stonework and that takes patience but is easy once you get the 'feel' of it . 👍🏴
@@johnbowkett80 thanks John, I will do some random coursed stone next and then might show a little natural stone 👍🏻
@@Tone_Team 👍
When did Jason Statham become a stonemason?
I’ll take that 🤣🤣🤣 Bern called worse 🙃
Can't beat doing stonework good job on it 🧱👌
Love stone work I do
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