I like Alex and the dancing level......

Brilliant job guys

A really neat looking job and all the more satisfying when it's been such a ghastly cold and wet day outside! Another super video, thanks for posting such interesting and varied content.

Messy old job that. But you boys have done a champion job there. Nice protection 👍. Keep it all contained. Well done lads. Top job

Hi Guys awesome job, it made me smile when Alex was trying to push the brick underneath that steel beam, been in that same situation awesome video all the best Tony 👍

Good honest tradesmen you 2, it’s refreshing to see someone else who still takes pride in what they’re doing and seems to enjoy it! Cheers lads! 👍👍🧱🧱🧱

Brings back memories, when I was on the tools, stay safe lads.

Another job well done Steve and Alex. 👍🏻👍🏻

Nice one fascinating to watch well done.

I put in a lintel between kitchen and dining room in a 1970 built house. The spec required an engineering brick stiffening "nib" on the exterior wall and blue brick pad under the beam. The internal wall structurally supported the roof purlins AND a steel that spanned about 2.5 metres to the back wall of the house. This wall was single row "breeze block" so this had to be doubled up for about a metre to where another partition wall met the supporting wall. All good and overall we might even have a stronger house after fitting the new lintel. A wider foundation was needed. I dug out the floor adjacent to the structural wall to meet the foundation concrete. There was no concrete - the blocks were sat directly on the clay about 3 feet down! Oh ****, I had just undermined my house!!! I Akro propped the existing lintel and Building Inspector gave permission to clean out the hole and mass fill with concrete. Left if for 2 days and took out the Akro props. No harm was done but this house had been built with about 4ft (maybe more) of central structural wall sat on nothing but clay. Depth was good probably why there had been no movement. The new engineering brick went in with lots of ties to the existing breeze bock and the new RSJ lintel went in the usual way with Akro props and spreaders to support the floor beams.

Another fine job boys well done

Lovely job boys

Excellent video well done top job top team awesome thanks 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Grand job lads . freezing cold over here as well . All building work closed down from 6 o clock this evening till the end of Jan over Covid . Builders engaged in building council houses , hospitals or anything deemed essential can continue.

good job Steve and Alex.

Another great video,

Always tricky them steels but you made it look easy fellas! Nice work and hope your both well in this cold weather(although your inside)😢👍🏽🧱

Great stuff, just doing one my self this week...dusty jobs. I got the same issues as you with bricks not being tied in. Nice and professional as usual guys👍🧱

nice clean jobs gents

Good fast work lads 👌👍💪🧱🎥👏

Just watched all the video nice job lads again , make it look easy That’s a bigger job than it looks 👌👏👏

What I don’t understand is why the supports are holding the joists and not the wall? Isn’t the wall above going up through the second floor ? Why isn’t that wall falling down ?

Love watching you guys!! I learn something new every time. It'd be great to see you do a external cavity lintel...in case I need to do the same later this year!! 😉

Surprised you only had one acrow holding the rsj whilst installing the pad stones. Would it not be better the leave the lintel supported for a day or two whilst the mortar sets up?

It's nice to see the people made the effort to mask everything up all ready for you to crack on, I went on one job to take a wall out and the customer hadn't done a thing, the room was as it was the night before, there was even kids toys left lying around on the carpet, when I had a polite word with the lady of the house about it, she said we thought that was your job, when I told her it was my job to take the wall out, and not to move their furniture, TV's and Hi-Fi and to lift carpets and take down curtains, she wasn't too happy...that was enough for me, we got into the van and fucked off...

Class video lads 👍👌👌

Hi lads lovely job as always love doing steel myself there good jobs when the weather is shit, loved the video made the job look top notch 👍

Like the new toy Steve and Alex Christmas present to your selfs 😂

Top job chaps. Most time up here normally spec pillar to be built in engineering bricks 🧱 Seen some strange old ideas on drawings at times lol. Put a few monsters in last year have another coming up soon on extension build. Ps Alex extra height comes in handy for this type of work 😎

you take on a varity of jobs, interesting.

Hi lads brilliant job as usual if your drill as variable speed try it on a lower speed saves on drill bits I know from experience lol

Done loads of work like that Steve .Always get a bit worked up doing it 🤣 You and Young Alex did a great job there mate All the best Justin Brickright 👍

It scared me when you were holding up the ceiling and RSJ with one acro and no padstones. You got away with it, keep up the good work.

GOOD JOB GUYS! IM SUPRISED IT ONLY TOOK 1 DAY, THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE TO RETURN.++

Done enough of those in my time good job lads. all steel down south have to be red oxide otherwise bi pulls you up. lol happy new year.

A neat job inthe finish. Might it have been easier (and stronger) to use two Acrows under the beam as temporary support before load goes onto padstones? Glad you rebuilt the right hand support wall but it still looks a marginal in terms of 'stiffness'

Don't the joists usually run front to back? So whats the need for an rsj? Couldn't see if the video. Tidy work as always lads !

Hi lads obviously l'm not a builder or l wouldn't be asking these questions . You put mortar on top of the steel and as you are winding the acrow it displaces and some falls out ,is that to make sure there is no gaps above steel ? Oh and caught the comment about painted steels is it a requirement ? Cheers lads your vids are great l'm a wanna be builder.

Didn't see you srew the acro's to your planks which is a must top and bottom

very hard work you go To bed early after that !!!

Hello Steve and Al , I’m late to the party but good job , man I can’t count how many times I did a beam like that but the one you took out ( the box-section lintel ?) Never seen anything like it , it doesn’t look that strong to me lol , top job as always !!🙏🏼

Hey great video could you advise on the following 1) what mix did you use for the bricks and pad store ie cement and sand 3:1 ratio of sand to cement 2) did you use the same mix on top of the steel to pack it in sand and cement just bit less water

I don't understand why you installed the floor supports. The beam is located in a normal partition, not in a load-bearing wall

Does the wall you have knocked down continue upstairs ?

Steve . Do you use structural engineer to calculate the necessary RSJ beam. Reason for the question I'm thinking of getting I done and the bricklayer said not to he will know by looking ?

Hiya boys, another great video 👍😉. You want to get those Acrows wire brushed and oiled 😁😂😂 Hope your weather is improving, have you got any inside work if it stays cold ? All the best Regards Tim

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Another great video lads.. What dimensions was that steel..

I noticed you filled the gap between the steel and the padstone with mortar. I've always been lead to believe you have too use slate. Is it down to personal choice or the BI?

Nice job lads. Do you have to get an engineer to size the steel each job or is it a standard size?

Would another catnic lintel not have worked? Like the one you took out, or was a rsj a requirement?

Why do you have to use padstones Steve and not just bricks ?

why were you adding the new steel beam loved the way you sealed the rest of the house to reduce dust well done

That tea,s not on top of a prop🙄😆😆😆👍🏻

Alex at 14:42...literally laying around on the job! 😂

Bit dodgy removing acros as steel on wet pads mmm

No hard hats 😧, hope your insurance company doesn't see this (you are insured, aren't you?). Anyway, good job lads.

Looks a lot like a catnic to me, not an RSJ , just saying.

Bigger van yous would have more room