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and our post, Building with bricks
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On a sloping building site before you start building, this is how most foundation would look like.
You can start laying bricks in stretcher bond at the lowest corner and work your entire bond of the house from there
Sometimes stepped foundations can also be above ground, and if it happens that is is a face brick wall like the one shown in the photo, the bricklayer should be extra careful, when he starts the first course.
Building with bricks
on a sloping site
As we have already said before, the most important thing in bricklaying is that the bricks must be laid at the right alignment, straight, plumb and level and when building a face brick wall the bricklayer should pay particular attention to these details, we will be coming back to discuss this issue soon, as for the time being we want to start building a brick base for houses, beginning from the first course of bricks that we lay on the foundations, therefore it would be better to concentrate on this single issue, as it is very important to start the brickwork right from the beginning.
As we have already said before, the most important thing in bricklaying is that the bricks must be laid at the right alignment, straight, plumb and level and when building a face brick wall the bricklayer should pay particular attention to these details, we will be coming back to discuss this issue soon, as for the time being we want to start building a brick base for houses, beginning from the first course of bricks that we lay on the foundations, therefore it would be better to concentrate on this single issue, as it is very important to start the brickwork right from the beginning.
Now, to lay bricks on a level site it is easy, as you can see
from this picture beside here; also to lay bricks on a level foundation is also
easy, you see you can build another corner as the one shown here at the other
end, and by using a brickies line on line blocks you can stretch a tight line
and lay bricks in a straight line easily. Of course here we have assumed that
the foundations have been laid level, but on a stepped foundations it is not
that easy, because even the concreters may not have been able to lay the
foundations level, because the concrete moves until it sets, therefore the
bricklayers need to check and recheck the levels when they start bricklaying on
a sloping site. One of the easiest ways to do that is to mark levels on the profiles all around the
building site; then you can stretch a bricklayer tight line between these
levels and measure from the line down to check your levels, ether with a type
measure or a gauge rod.
I know now that you are saying, what is a gauge rod? Okay, a
gauge rod is usually made from a long marked peace of timber that the
bricklayer marks himself, once he knows what sort of bricks he is going to lay
and how thick these bricks are and also what would be the best thickness of the
joints for this sort of brickwork. I know that the gauge rod sounds like a
strange devise for those that are not used to work for bricklayers, but really
it is only a straightedge that has been marked with the space of each brick, so
that you can quickly know how many course of bricks have to be laid in the
space that you are measuring. Now in order to decide the spaces on the gauge
the bricklayer Forman measures the thickness of four bricks that have been laid
with an average and attractive joint, and from these measurements he makes his
gauge rod for this particular job; here it follows that when the gauge rod is
not handy we bricklayer talk about this space as the gauge that is supposed to
be kept on this building site, which is four course of bricks. As you can see
there are many jargon words in this trade, and there are also many other
strange devises or tools that help the bricklayers do his job, which I would
like to talk about some of them, as we go on building this house brick base, or
other brickwork in general.
Anyhow, I believe that
this bricklaying article is becoming too long and perhaps a bit difficult to
understand and remember for DIY for the first time, as there are too many
things to keep in mind all at the same time, and since there is a lot more that
can be said about bricklaying, I think that it would be better to write another
article about it; which we are going to call, Building a brick base, or
Bricklaying on a sloping site.
Dear readers at this point of time I see the need to go back to
the times when I started to work on the building sites, we need to do this
because there are a lot of things that need to be explained and it can only be
done if we take it step by step; in other words let me take you in the long
journey of my life in the building trade; now, what I have in mind here is that
if I tell you my life story in the building, then it would be easier to
describe what happens on building sites and how many jobs are done, this would
help to know how other things are done and many of those things are those
things that one needs to know before one can start laying bricks.
So we may have to write a few articles about my building story,
until we reach that stage where we have to lay bricks for this house base; once
we reach that stage we will go back to build our house base and everything
else. So building a brick base remains to be written later on. See you soon in
our next article. Australian houses in Brisbane
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