Why are so many 'so called experts' watching a video meant for amateurs and posting negative comments if they know it all already? Obviously trolls. You got the job done Chris and have certainly helped me out with my current project!! Thanks!

That's really helpful. I'm about to do a front wall with columns for the first time ever. Will reflect on your video as I go along. Thanks bro.

Brilliantly done with easy to understand instructions It is always a pleasure to see excellent craftsmanship

Looks a good job, thanks for posting. I'm soon to build some short piers with slab on top to support bearers for a large cabin base.

. I think it looked excellent!!! Great job!

As soon as I saw you trowel out the mortar I knew you were a pro Great video

Again some nice work and video. TY

Nice one, Thanks for making this vid, helped alot.

Nice job, thanks for the video.

You make it look to easy Chris..good job mate.

Nice job !

Thank you so much! This helps a lot!!

Nice job, all your vids are very good and helpful.

This brings me comfort

Well done 👍🏻 you done good job

Genius ! Thanks man :D

Nice job👍

Good job mate 👍

Very nice, shame about my recently built brick pillars onto a simultaneously built brick wall , it’s not even 4 weeks that the pillars are moving as if bricks had been piled up. I’m glad that the fencing is supporting the pillar rather than the converse. What could have gone wrong ? Any remedies apart from paracetamol would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I just built a few 81cm high with recycled bricks. After I levelled the first course, I used an angle iron marked with increments to get the spacing and corners aligned. I used some round steel lengths on the perimeter to keep my spacing constant. I'm no professional but you handled this well. I had some adjustments to make because the recycled red bricks dimensions slightly varied, learnt a lesson there:)

It's a good way for a beginner to practice.. In time and for quickness, you can plumb up every 3 course, Plumb 4 sides and measure out 325mm

For any weekenders doing this, use a couple of straight profiles and a couple of clamps to eliminate the use of the level so much, he's done a good job but wouldn't last till tea time o site

No problems that I can see with your work. I cheat though and put up a profile after the first 6-7 courses check the plumb then chalk the gauge. Brickworks more perfect every time. But no worries mate your work looks just fine

The ol chad hanging out 😂

A great help for the rookie Mason is by using mortar joint spacers. They keep the joint's at a perfect 3/8".

You never use the plomb fil and the cordeau for your piliers?

Just hope you're able to show us on the finishing part in between the roof and the brick pillar. Do we just fill in cements to cover it up? What we should do if the gap is around half of a brick's height and etc.? Thanks for the video and really appreciate your efforts ^^

buen trabajo,si señor

Great thanks 🙂

@Chris Longhurst Is the pillar still holding strong? did it move? How deep is your concrete foundation ? for such a pillar (3 meters high?) and to support the weight of the bricks them self (even if the pillar is just cosmetic), I always assumed that I need a good footing/foundation. how about the freeze line ? Here where I live they say that a foundation needs to be at least 50-80cm deep in the ground, and footing should also be wider than the foundation that sits on top of it. your thought on that would be appreciated. thank you

can u please help me my house is a wall system house from each side there are two pillars on its right-hand side and on its left-hand side my house is attach with 2 houses my house is 2and half storey. there are two pillars on its ground floor and at the top there are brick pillars as in Ur video. but one thing I want to ask if my house can be protect from earthquake and how plz I will be waiting for ur reply

its people like this who keep proper builder in work, keep it up mate and we will follow you around putting it all right :-)

Very helpful. Thank you.

Hope you don't mind me adding my comments, so good and some not so good. I will start off with the not so good. You are building without using cross joints, and not completely filling up the cross joints when pointing. You level across the top of the brick, sideways, but not all bricks are true to shape. When you moved you're level to all 8 plumbing points, you called them levelling points. You constantly tapped you're level when levelling the bricks. Level are expensive so should be looked after. The good points, The plumbing at the end looked neat, and all bricks were true to the level. The brickwork also looked neat when finished. I assume the build was slow, due to the filming, and at one point, you said you was showing how the level a brick, and then stood in the way. ANyway, the finished pillar did look good, so i guess its a thumbs up.

my thoughts were you mentioned not the base...the depth, the concrete strength...the freeze line etc. btw...like your work

ademas son abundantes a la hora de usar cemento,no se caen no

Nice job Chris where you from stoke ?

gauge stick?

What goes inside pillars? Or are they empty. Thanks

I'm about to do same thing... dreading it

3:40 you should never hit the spirit level.

Hello how did you make your mortar, what quantity materials all about ca thank you

How to calculating thAt brick pillar until toyhe top have 100cm to 6cm

My friend ,is a very good bricklayer,he says when building pillers,piers, and anything with small amount of bricks,that you should always use a smaller trowel,9 or 10,inch, what do you think,?

YOU only tipped those perpendicular joints, why not put a full joint on the bricks when you are building??

Why are you leaving out the head joints?

How high can you go with this size of one and half wide mate? No need re-bar in to it?

muy bonito pero lentisimo, hoy dia a ese paso no trabajas.

At 1:28 I noticed a large crack...

he good

Looks nice but he's trying to plumb both sides of the same brick.

Lay all the bricks on a course then level. Why don't you put the head joint on as you're laying the brick? That little bit that you are pointing in isn't giving you a full head joint and you're just wasting time. One good hit with a sledge hammer and I'd reduce that to rubble. At 9:08 it looks like it is running a little strong mate!

Jeeeez

What’s the name of this brick

how many bricks do you lay in a shift mate about six

if it is a hot day use fairy liqued

In America we lay the frogs down.😅 We also drive on the 'Right' side of the road. .. Why does England do everything 'Wrong'??!

well we know he didn't build that shed.

He is not a brickmason,,,,,,,he hit the level to level the brick. And he waste mortar on the ground...he a scab ..apprentice...

Haha! You was goin so well till you tried to plumb both sides of the stretcher ! So you knocked it one way the the other ! Keep goin you'll be there all fucking day!!

Don't put such a big bed of mortar! Plus point your perps 1st elementary brickwork lesson!

You can use woodprix, it has the best handbooks and ready instructions. You can learn much from them and make it yourself.

not once did you check to see if the wall was to gauge haha

architects love empty cross joints. Wow 10 minutes to lay 3 bricks. You'd be gone before coffee break in Chicago. Nice match on the brick, are you going to paint them? Boot

The base line is parallel to the building not level! The corners of the pier are plumb not level!

shame the bricks don't match the house 😯

9:22 Look at that and tell me that isn't bowing to the left....

Great brickwork, shite woodwork....look at that bleeding shed ;)

beds are way to heavy. tap tap tap. your a bit rough.

that's not how you lay bricks..lol

Slow as a herst

You ain't a bricklayer are u? lol

Amateurs should not be teaching...

why do people who are not masons try to teach masonry?oh yeah it's the internet,mostly uninformed opinion[piece of crap level,dead giveaway]

he good