I love this, very, very much! Notice folks the plumb line there in red. It is to tell the bricklayer that what he's doing will end in a final result of a straight line build of brick until the mortar dries. Some guys out there after being in the bricklaying business for many years, can see the true results of being plumb just by eyesight, and don't really need a chaulk line. It's a beautiful trade and profession, being in the masonry industry.

This video is an excellent demonstration for beginners, more videos please for us learners

Found this helpful for a beginner like my self. Cheers 👍

he's a great bricklayer IF it's his first hour on in the trade.

Using mortar joint spacers is another big help for the first-time mason. They keep the joint at 3/8".

paddy your a good teaching your a top man :-)

@nousername21 you keep the bottom edge of the brick you are laying flush with the top edge of the lower bricks which have already been layed to the line and this is how the brick is kept level width wise (as the bricks are made square) hope this helps.

@benny5825 I should have mentioned it in the video benny, the wall is 102mm thick i.e. a half brick thick as apposed to a one brick thick wall which would be 215mm. This wall is built in stretcher bond, if it were built in Englishe bond or Flemish bond it would probably be one brick thick wall.

Good advice.

Spread the bed, thumbs up, now rushing to job centre to sign on and check for scrap on the way home.

I'm amazed by how many negative comments are left on here ? Iv always said actions speak louder than words! So if you negative haters think you have a better technique .. Please up load a video and show us all how brilliant you are ? Otherwise shut the fuck up and leave the man alone.

Well I though I was crap at spreading morter until I saw this :-) love the voice over though. By the way the blocks in the back ground have been crossed I was always told never to do that as u can creat inducment cracks.

Thanks for this. I am an absolute beginner, so this helped me a lot. I am looking for the part with the first bed layer.

Hi Smithy, no it does not matter. Usually right handed people spread from the right and left handed from the left, this is more to do with buttering up the brick (putting on the cross joint) which is easier for right handed people when laying their bricks from the right and left handed people when laying their bricks from the left. Cheers

You should be able to lay up to 3 bricks per spread

@stuarth43 If mixing by hand use 1 part cement, 5 parts building or soft sand and 1-2 parts lime. The lime will bind the sand together which will help the mortar hold onto the water. This will make it more workable. If using a mixer, add plasticizer which will aerate the mortar creating millions of minute air bubbles making the mortar very workable. If really stuck add a squirt of washing up liquid for increased workability (note: this might affect the strength of the mortar, negatively)

Motar Joint Spacers can also be a BIG help for the DIY'er.

ye it amazes how many negative comments can come from people,its a simple step by step for beginners/diy.if he wanted he could spread it out his own way like he wud on site.comments like not standing right side of board if you can see its only one board centre to wall and camera placed so beginners can see, and no furrowing in USA:who cares you all top and tail cross joints on both block and brick anyway that would be more of a concern to me.

I served a union apprenticeship and i can spread mud at least 3 ft in a trowel i notced in my 27 years as a mason most masons dont spread the wall correct. I also noticed when masons lay a solider brick they have to go to the pan twice i can butter a solider in 1 motion i am going to make a video of me doing it when my daughter gets home tommorow.

thanks for your reply, I have some sandstone containng a far amount clay, I mean it pours free dry but you can roll into a ball wet, should I try a shovel of that ? It is 5am, was ready to start, I,ll wait for shops to open to get the plasticiser and lime

@hickeymaster blimey mate!!.you'll be there all day!!! ..Roll into the mortar and fill the trowel so that when you spread, the mortar should be around three bricks length in one hit..spread then get the bricks down..

This learned how to lay brick off the back of a mortar bag

Hi negara54, You lay a MORTAR BED. I.e. laying down a bed of mortar on top of the wall in order to lay a course of bricks on top of the mortar bed.

Can you do a video about different methods of fixing a brick line .cheers.

How can you lay a martyr?

What do you mean when you say the wall is only half a brick thick?thanks.

That furrow is a great place for water to collect

Some right idiots commenting on this!! It's just an intro to spreading a bed, I'm sure the man could spread further and quicker if he needed to. No spec stating not to furrow the mortar in the uk!!!

In fairness lad, this demo is for an absolute beginner i.e someone who has never picked up a trowel before;-) If you are serious about bricklaying you will develope your own style over time.

@hickeymaster Cheers.

did you start yesterday?

hey paddledogC5 have a look at the akkordmaurer videos and see how you like these swiss guys laying clayblock.i would be interested in your opinion.

My tutor can spread motor across 3 or 4 bricks at a time

can't furrow mortar like that in the US it has to go into the holes.

most spec's in the USA say no furrowing of the mortar. You can't spread to save you life and you are slow to boot and I do mean BOOT!

He should be able to do 3 bricks in one go

What do you mean 3 4 at a time?

wonderful and great accent moi boy I am doing a wee round house , so lines are not option, This is my first attempt laying bricks I am in a hot climate and cant get the mortar nice and plastic, and the damned stuff dries in the barrow, tell me how to make mortar so it shines like yours seems to thanks Stu

Thumbs up for the accent.

Exactly, use a bigger trowel and pull the mortar back instead of just letting it fall on the bricks.

The old man who trained me 26 years ago (here in America) could spread the mortar perfectly over 5 bricks (40 inches) with one (1) trowel full of mortar, without touching the line, on a residential brick veneer (limited space behind the wall). Since then, I have worked with well over 100 different masons and None of them can spread mortar like that ; including myself (or his sons, for that matter). I didn't pay much attention to the details at the time; I wish I had b/c he's dead now.

if youre serious about bricklaying you want looking at

More college students thinking there brickys

Good bricklayers has no right or left it's all the same when you know what your doing. Furrowing the mortar is not allowed in most USA specifications. If you are laying one brick for each trowel spread you should pick and dip.

My tutor at college can do about 3 4 bricks at a time

If you're deaf or hard-of-hearing the subtitles will be of no use whatsoever :)

What mix do I use to practice? I have heard that the mixture only uses lime and sand, is this correct? in what proportions? Your videos are excellent, the best one can find, thank you, greetings from Argentine Patagonia

@stuarth43 Use a Retarder it makes the muck keep for longer.

What is wrong if I am losing most of me mortar mix down the holes when I spread it?

Come on please we now have none bricklayer passing nonsense , wonder why the trade is being lost.

Whats the mix for building a brick or block wall, sand to cement cheers

ah so thats where ive been going wrong these last 36 years

Conor mcgregor laying bricks

you don't furrow the bed joint with perforated brick

Should have sub titles

he needs a u.s.a marhalltown trowl, that little ass trowl would take ages to spread a full bed join, plus hes just dumping the mud in the middle not even pull the mud across, should b able to spread that in 2 swipe n would only take 5 second insted of 5 years lol

Oh dear.

Aren't stones with 'holes' not bad in frosty weather? What I mean is that in any remaining air pocket there will be some moisture which can expand during frost....and break the stone..

Thought it was Connor McGregor

I just want to know how you got that name ?

Question is, are you a frog up or a frog down man.

Made you shouldn't be teaching people your spreading is so wrong incorrect method

brick

He ferrows the mud with his trowel upside down. It looks like the sissy way of doing it. He a shoemaker.

you sound like Connor mcgregor!!! lmao

washing up liquid..!!

at sorry

As a Lead construction lecturer in BWK for Milton Keynes college it does my head in to see this, I spend hours teaching lads A, to cut and roll mortar the correct way and B, my biggest bugbear is "Bricklayers" standing and spreading the wrong way round! it wastes time, is poor technique, totally in-efficient and normally as in this case leads to lots of line movement. teaching lads is hard, but its no reason to cut corners

Iv never seen anyone spread shit like that obviously had the gift of the gab to get a lecturer job .

Perhaps he is showing how to lay the bricks on for beginners, if he is laying the bed on has normal he should look for another job, and what the hell is that trowel .

You spread Mortar

ignore not a mason

you think that is how to spread mic?

Furrowing is a waste of time. I have had guys spreading better in a week.

i do hope he is not a college tutor because he doesnt no alot if he thinks thats how you do a bed joint

100 moves to spread for 5 brick your kidding right?

No no no im 13 and spread way better than that son u going to leave bee holes

Who the fuck cuts and rolls 😂 just fill ya trowel up

-----spreading-the mortar the wrong way the only thing he has got almost right is the lifting the mortar from board not like others I have looked at this rolling crop he has kept good clearance round board edge

That has to be the worst spreading of mortar I have ever seen he talks the talk But can’t lay mortar at all

You push down way to much! You are making a drainage ditch for water to gather! Trust me.

It breaks my heart to see such rubbish. From an "expert" too. Joke. He'll never be a bricklayer as long as he's got a hole up his arse. He certainly wouldn't have been back in the 60's and 70's.

you seriously need to learn how to properly lay a bed and how to spread it about

also he doesnt put enought muck/motor on to the trowel by which you use a twisting motion with you wrist focusing on covering the most amount of bricks sufficiently with one trowelfull, not one trowel for one brick, this guy seems nothing but a weekend diyer of a sort. certainly not a real bricklayer

You're standing the wrong way. Trowel should be board side.

This guy doesn't top his perps :(

He don’t have a clue haha

I have been retired for about 8 years after a lifetime in the trade and believe me this is total crap. For a right handed bricklayer you stand sideways to the wall with the wall on your left, this is the correct way whether you are laying from the left or the right. You roll the morter and spread it on the wall, this normally would be enough to lay two and a half to three bricks. 4 simple actions with the trowel and you are ready to lay 3 bricks. This is another video by a 6 week expert who has never made his living laying bricks.

This guy is not a Brick mason.

hey man no offence but u r spreading very wrong im 14 and im a brick mason i ant hatin on the video its just ur spreading wrong otherwise great video

rubbish

This video is a bloody joke, pop down any site and watch a proper brickie....

this guy is showing poor technique, he is doing it what we real brickies call kak handed, as a right handed bricky you allways keep your left foot nearest to the wall so that your right hand will be nearest to the spot boards, you DO NOT want to be turning your body around, totally unessasary method, which will cost you time and money,

He's not a propa bricky thick Irish chancer

Boo hoo. Who cares?

This man shouldn't be teaching anyone. He has no idea how to roll the muck, pick it up, lay it, or spread it. Does he think that if he puts a white coat on it will give him some authority? If you want to see a proper bricklayer on You Tube look up Rob Songer.