How To Lay Brick Columns and Soldier Courses!
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- čas přidán 5. 03. 2015
- Masonry tricks of the trade, building column and soldier courses.
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0:15 In the first part of this video we cover building brick columns, with different sizes of brick, and in different styles, for different uses, including ways to reinforce columns.
8:50 In the second part of this video we cover how to add a soldier course to a standard brick wall, including ways to speed up the process and remain accurate.
13:25 And at the end we recap what we covered in this clip.
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Ladies and gentlemen take it from a guy who have done this for 35 years, it takes a very skilled person to eyeball a straight line without laying a line. This guy knows exactly what he's teaching.
This is the type of teacher people need. Very clear, very simplistic, no beating around the bush. To the point. 👌🏻
I'm such a begginer, I didn't even know the standy-up bricks were called soldier courses, so thank you. Excellent video.
Thank you for the teaching. It’s very well explained.
You have great videos... Explaining each move ..things to look out for and why you do them!! Great craftsman for sure!!!!!
I do floor covering, had no clue on brick laying! All these videos are very helpful! I like doing my own work. I have been practicing, of course no were as good or as fast...but thanks to these videos I can now do my own!!! Thank you for these videos! Wished you lived next to me!!! Would help you for free on the side just to learn more!
Another excellent video. I like the review at the end to highlight the points made during the video. Thank you for sharing.
NICE WORK , SIR, I AM LEARNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE, MY DAD USED TO SAY ´´YOU NEVER REALLY STOP LEARNING , SPECIALLY WHEN THE THINGS YOU LEARN ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO BE HONORED WITH HARD WORK´´, HE LIVED 85 YEARS AND HIS WORDS ARE STILL HERE , WITH ME AS I WALK ON THIS LAND... HE USED TO ENJOY TEACHING ME AND OTHERS ALL HE KNEW... I MISS HIM SO MUCH...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK , KEEP TEACHING...
Thank you. Clear, concise, informative.
Excellent instructional video. Thank you very much.
He makes it look very easy! Skilled.
So simple and precise in explanation.. Nice job!
Back in school we used lime and sand mix and some gray coloring to practice our columns and walls. Then when done we would have to tear it down clean up the brick and our fake mortar mix was thrown into the mixer dry to beat the clumps out of it and it was ready to used again and again for practice.....thanks for the great videos
Excellent instruction! Thank you.
Thank you. You were really helpful.
Makes it look easy, your'e a real pro! I just tried my first column today, laid up 6 levels of 4 bricks only, took me 4 hours and looks like a dogs breakfast compared to yours. Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot, I'll get there!!
Great bricklaying skills,you can tell this from 80's,house doesn't have tyvek,vapor barrier,house wrap.Would never fly today's standards.Very skilled mason.
elams1894 did you get better?
elams1894 I just did the same yesterday, with training mortar.took me a couple of hours ,5 courses high, so
will keep practicing, good luck, brian uk,
Jaja u funny
Beautiful Mountains in the background
Thanks, great video. Nice brick work.
Muito mas muito bom ver como o carinho profissional e dedicação a profissão trazendo ótimos resultados , parabéns.
Thank you very much for the videos.
Learned a lot great video 👍
I’m thinking about doing this for structural support . I enjoyed watching your video 👍😁 also it looks like this video was made back in the 90s or early 2000s I miss the good old days 😉
Great info . Thank you
Well done, sir!
Its amazing so many different size colomns
Brilliant video thank you
GOOD STICK WORK..
This is by far the best vid I found. But I need bit more about how to do foundation.
I am planning to build a automated sliding gate with intercom. Any tips?
those mountains make me want to go hiking
Good work, bro
Nice Video!
Bill K i
Good bricky he recaptures the squeezed out mud and taps his trowel clean to keep from smearing the brick.
Very detailed awesome
Your awesome pal 👍
Wish I'd seen this before my first masonry project.
Well done bro.
Thanks. Nothing is classier than brick.
How deep should the concrete footing be for the Columns? Should the fitting have rebar in it?
Say, do you ever hose down the bricks that you’re going to lay with, water, to keep the bricks from sucking all the moisture out of the mortar? I’m learning so much from your vids!! Thank you so very much!!!
yes in the heat of summer it can help to wet the brick down, especially if your in the desert like we are.
I want to brick up my house which has asbestos siding on it,I know I will have to build a new footer around perimeter, any ideas on this subject.???
Should I apply a 30 lb roofing felt or house wrap.?
I love his posture
Nice bond on the brick veneer
In the first example, is it possible that the brick pier get filled with water or humidity and gets damaged that way? Any experience out there?
So wish I’d found this video before trying 1.5 brick 6 foot piers for our driveway gates for the first time. Didn’t appreciate the need for rebar and only filled the centre with concrete. Second time I closed the gates they snapped the pillars around course 4 or 5 and toppled over! Soul destroying rebuild with 16mm rebar lengths chemically resined 400mm into the concrete foundations followed!
Very good work i like this vidio
Hook the end of the rebar before you set it in the footing it acts like an anchor
Hi I have a question about the column you built for the gate that was on a concrete slab. You put rebar in it--and said you would reenforce it with mortar. Can I build a column on concrete steps doing the same? Putting rebar in it with concrete? Without it tipping over?
What are your thoughts on Smith Levels? That and your thoughts on Type N vs Type S mortars for laying brick veneer like in the video?
Never use "s" mortar for brick. It is too strong, clay brick are not "structural" if any cracking occurs you want it to be in the joint not the brick. "S" is stronger than the brick.
What do you with the gaps in the mortar. Or is this just a demo and that normally would not happen.
Do any bricks have holes on the outside like the so on the others for grip
trig means to straiten or tidy up.One trigs a line with a twig.maybe a small branch?
What kinda footing are you on?
Pardon my ignorance, but since brick is so porous, why isn't there a moisture barrier behind it? I know very little about bricklaying; however, when a house uses standard siding there is a house-wrap type of moisture/vapor barrier used. Is there a reason it isn't used here? Is it not needed?
nice work mate. here in Canada required black paper first
Some sort of vapor bearier I hat the way chip board swells and deteriorates slow Rory sucks.
I did my first brick job today at home trying to fix some exterior stairs…what a Fing mess! Hopefully it lasts a few weeks 😆
We call those "Chariots" The Brick pointing gadget with two wheels and a nail for a particular finish and pieces of hosepipe or dowling whereby giving the desired effect also we have some very talented Bricklayer's Stu Crompton in particular has CZcams channel and he just keeps getting better all the time people like him are drawing those at home showing them all the way to lay brick and the industry is better for that, Rodian Montague is another talented lad also on CZcams showing the public that You too can do this, obviously for a profesion City & Guilds which is the older Merit needed to Qualify as a Bricklayer and NVQ 's but with all this Coronar Virus and place's on lockdown i suspect there will be quite a few Homemade Barbeques being Built and i maybe one of them. !!
love to hear you bcoz your voice resemble to John F Kennedy who is my ideal leader. Your work is also excellent.
the reply about the vapour barrier that i commented on was when you were laying the soldier course on the back wall, not the pier i know that as i am a brick layer myself in Canada, all our houses up north have vapour barrier ,deu to our climate
carl witteveen how many months is it too cold to lay
Thank you very much for his channel.
Soon I will use all your knowledge to improve this world.
Come to England and learn to lay bricks the traditional way tried and trusted for generations as in my case 4 generations.
Paul Best wish I lived over there I wanna be a brick mason so bad I practice all the time but it’s really hard to find someone to take time to give lessons in person
Go brush your teeth..of you have any...
This guy really knows what hes talking about
Obviously this is a very old video; but it is very well done and will defnitly help me build my pillar; I have a very difficult time finding the right brick here in Phoenix area; need 12x4x4 or 9x3x3 with holes, not solid.
Thanks 👍
Thanks big man
I can't even believe what I'm seeing at 9:42 Where's the house wrap or vapor barrier?? Unbelievable! ...Nice looking masonry though.
Likely in Nevada or a very dry climate. But I agree, house wrap would be good practice anywhere.
nice vid👍
Good video
i love laying brick
The first segment doesn't talk about ending height calculations and how to figure foundation/footing starting elevation in regards to brick bed joints ending at a precise height.
Second segment has the rebar being placed in the middle of the column AFTER the concrete is poured... the column isnt anchored at all.
hi can i use brick columns to carry roof trussers
The second column is just going to be a big sponge... Hopefully it doesn't go through any freeze/thaw cycles.
Would be best to use a half 8" block, stack that upto height, then fill it solid with grout and rebar.. Blue skin and flash your block, Then put your brick veneer around it and leave a few weeper holes...
thank your
Kind of an old video, but maybe somebody will answer: if you aren't saving the mortar that you scrape out with that rake, is there some other benefit to using the rake to remove the mortar instead of leaving the mortar flush with the brick? I've always liked the look of brick laid with the mortar sort of spilling out of the joint (although I know that just uses a lot of mortar - but back to the initial question - if you aren't going to scrape the mortar back into your bucket and use it, what's the benefit of raking it?).
it is a style
i like the mic cord from his back.. must be a while ago? we have had whireless for sometime now... lol but he is damm good!!!
chimney man Yup filmed back in the 80, these where originally available on VHS.
Quality workmanship. What year is this though? Feels early 90's.
late 80s early 90s
@@learntolaybrick thanks for your answer and taking the the time to reply.
why didnt you record from the start of column?
Very beautiful, but it would be more convenient if a lamp is installed on the post, it can be used for lighting and decoration
muito legal parabéns.
Boy them soldiers though. Man do you know how long it took me to learn how to lay them properly. Laying soldiers and headers use to have me frustrated 😂
Roman Corners will touch a wall up nicely.
just keep a strait edge for the level bashing.and use a level to check the plummet .
Your bricks will plummet mate
Just started school for this
Is that a W.rose trowel
is that a w.rose trowel
Хочу заказать такойже мастерок как у вас, как это сделать
No moisture barrier?
That OSB is rotten by now!
nice
How does the column carry the load of the gate when the rebar is not part of your footing it’s just floating in the pier
Short answer rebar needs to be embedded into footing with an L shape.
Footings for gates are usually undersized or not deep enough.
When planning for a gate you need to consider length and weight of gate, what type of opener is appropriate for column hinge location.
You need to plan well and do your homework.
I’ve heard it said you can’t overbuild a gate footing!😂
I'm still waiting for my trig
Good video.. are you in Hawaii
This man knows his shit....
Phil Simms is a pretty good mason.
No moisture inside house?
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do you stll have videos for sale?
Yes all videos are available at learntolaybrick.com
Back here in the UK we call your "header joint" a perp joint or perp. Short for perpendicular of course. The trig, or twig, we call a 'tingle'. These are generally made using a strip of thin card doubled over to enclose the line at the fold and held in place by a brick weighing it down.
The level tapping question is about level of craftsmanship and also the nature of the level. I was working on a new bus station back in the 70s when my brand-new Stabila 4 foot level took a tumble from the top of a 5-lift pole scaffold. It was sickening to watch it hit what seemed like every bearer and cross-brace on its downward series of collisions until it bounced off a pile of brick into the mud. When I shinned down to the ground I was fearing the worst. I'd only bought it a couple of days beforehand, but when I went off and tested it against the site standard it was spot on all round, undamaged.
I couldn't have afforded a replacement - I was still using the WHS kite-pattern trowel, with one edge tempered for cutting brick and a metal pommel that anchored the tang to the handle. We called it the Work Hard or Starve, or the Work Hard and Starve, depending on the going rate. Whatever, I wouldn't have tapped a level with that trowel. Usually I would use the butt-end of the brick hammer to tap the brick to the level line. Like John Graham said, tapping the level was a minor sin when I was doing my time. Use the level to test the work - use the trowel or brick hammer to set the work to the line.
like good
there's a coyote or a fox below his right arm at about 4:40. great video btw
It's a horse
What are the cores of the column bricks prefilled with ?
They just have mortar in them, during filming we did many many takes, so we tore it down and rebuilt it many times.
OK, thanks for reply.