-
Welcome to my blog, Menfranco general blog
and this post, DIY Brickwork
-
Bricklayer is working while others are there just to be in the photo.
D I Y brickwork if you like ((article 1) also on my Yola website and
blogger)
I hope to be able to help you, if you are building anything yourself.
DIY Brickwork
My life in Australia as a bricklayer and what else I did to
earn a living
For my entire life in Australia I have worked in house
building or repair, but the best trade that I know is bricklaying as I have
worked as a bricklayer most of my life, therefore, I would like to share my
bricklaying knowledge with you, before I can share other knowledge that could
be useful in life, since we all live in building accommodations, and therefore
any knowledge of building a house, or maintaining the accommodation we live in
could be helpful to most of us. So here and now, I am going to share this
knowledge with you, in all aspect of building, repairing or owning a house; so
let us start with building something with bricks, because as I have said I am a
bricklayer.
But before we start that let me explain why I would like to
do that; you see I believe that it is the duty of any human being to help
humanity to improve their standard of living, (an article about this is written
at this web address; www.frankmenchise.com
, if it does not work from here try to Google it in Google search bar)
therefore anything that one learns during one’s life should be passed to the
future generations. I know that in the past some trade people tried to hold on
their knowledge so that they would be employed if they were required to do
certain jobs, but that is in the past and today that would not help much
anyhow, so let me try to pass on some of my knowledge, starting with how a
bricklayer would go about and build a brick base for a house.
Building with bricks
Welcome to our article, DIY
brickwork, or Building a brick base for houses. Perhaps we need to say that in
this article, we would like to interest you our readers to learn at least in
theory how to lay bricks, just in case you would like to do some brickwork
yourself in the future, because if you do then you already have an idea what
knowledge is required; therefore starting with this post we will be talking about brickwork; we will start with Getting
ready to lay bricks; making sure that we start the brickwork level, and Laying
bricks on a sloping site. Of course there is still a lot more to say about
bricklaying, but this article might become too long to describe the many things
that need to be said, so we are going to continue with DIY brickwork also in
our several posts; Building a brick base and we will continue to write about
brickwork until we complete the brick base at least, even if we have to write a
few post about it.
-----------------------------------------
The Art
of Laying Brick - YouTube
Here again there are two links that would be very helpful if
they work, because one shows a bricklayer laying brick and explaining how it is
done step by step; the other link shows photos of many types of brick walls
already built, many types of bonds and also brick walls while they are being
built, let us hope that these links works for you, if they don’t try to copy
them in Google search bar and use Google engine to find them.
------------------------------------
Building a
brick base for houses
Okay, I know that some of you are going to say that this article
is not exactly what it claims to be, because it cannot really teach you how to
lay bricks from scratch for an entire house base, as this takes a long time if
you want to do it properly. So it should have been called with a different
name, perhaps its name should have been, Building a brick base for houses, or
how a bricklayer would build a house brick base for houses; since this is what
really we are talking about in this article, but while I was writing this
article it became obvious that I was going to write so many details that it was
like teaching somebody how to do it yourself, so I changed the hub name to DIY
brickwork. At this point of time my intentions are that I am going to write a
few or several hubs mainly about brickwork as I have been a bricklayer most of
my life, then I might also write other articles with whatever I know about
other building trades like concreting and other helpful hints that might help
whoever has the intention of building something themselves, I hope this would
help my readers that are willing to have a go at building something themselves.
So, now let me go back to what I was going to talk about in this
article, you see, in our previous article called, House building in Brisbane, we were explaining what
we were doing on the building sites, and we had reached the point where we were
ready for the bricklayer to start laying bricks working on the brick base of a
house.
Now what is going to follow here is how we lay these bricks so
to speak; I am also telling you that here I am not speaking any more with the
knowledge of the brickies labour that I was, when I was getting everything
ready for the bricklayers to start work, in our last hub called, House building
in Brisbane, but I am speaking with the knowledge that I acquired when I became
a bricklayer and later on in life during the long time that I have worked as a
bricklayer, and I may add that what I am writing here can also apply to other
brickwork in general terms, as bricklaying is a repetitive job and once you
have acquired the skills how to do one job, you may easily use this knowledge
to do a different job, so, DIY brickwork, is a possible name that I could have given
also to this hub.
So now that I have explained myself, let me just take you step
by step how the bricklayers have to work, when building these brick bases for
houses, so that any of you that have in mind to do some of this bricklaying
work yourself have some ideas of what you need to know, and here I am talking
about the basic know-how that is required to lay bricks the right way, you see
you need this basic knowledge because once you have laid the bricks and the
mortar becomes hard it is a very hard and costly job to fix it, if you have
made any mistakes. I have to say also that it is very easy to make mistakes
here, unless you are an expert and really know what you are doing. So, let us
follow how a professional bricklayer would start the house base, because there
are a lot of things that must be kept in mind before you even start laying the
first brick.
The most important thing is that you start laying the first
brick in the right spot at the right level, and this should be done at the
lowest point of the foundation wherever is practicable when the site is not
level, otherwise you could encounter real problems later on; so, how we
bricklayers go about to achieve that you may ask? Therefore, let me explain in our next post the procedure while we are getting ready to lay the first brick.
-----------------------------------
Menfranco general blog
DIY Brickwork
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Getting ready to lay bricks
---------------------------------------
Some helpful links here under
Yola.com
-------------------------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment