Nice explanation. I live in California and have been slowly fixing damaged bricks and broken mortar in my exterior brick facade wall. I initially found the process mysterious but I now feel confident doing small touch-up jobs like this. When just replacing a couple bricks on a non-structural wall there's not too much to mess up.

Stunning. Superb instruction. Thanks!

You've done splendid work in explaining and performing the repair. Thank you for your presentation.

Many Thanks. Just the info. I needed to sort out garage wall.! 👍

I'm no builder but I came across your KZfaq channel, your work is awesome to watch, nice to see someone taking pride in their work. Also helped me when I needed to replace mortar voids after some poor work and the water came through on the inside. Thanks for great content.

Good video Mate cheers nice job just what I wanted to see you my friend are a real professional

excellent video thanks the clearest Ive seen on pointing, I like the birds beak finish

Ive just bought a 1950s house on the North Wales coast. There are a few damaged bricks. This was just what i was looking for. Thanks a lot.

Try turning the KZfaq auto-captions on when you're using the drill. You get some interesting results lol :D

Great job! Thanks for sharing

Very good method.

greaet video, cheers from Canada.

nicely done! I can no longer use a hammer drill b/c of problems with my right arm, so I'm taking another approach. thanks for the vid, though.

VERY GOOD VEDIO FOR REPLACE NEW BRICKS.

I NEVER take the whole brick out . I chop the face off about 23-30 mm and cut a brick down lenghtways and replace it as a tile . A much better way to replace the face of a brick and much less damage done inside the plaster work . Been doung it this way for over 40 years . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Brilliant and a great help many thanks

Great work. I like to use a little crowbar to move the brick around cos it can be really fiddly. Sometimes the other side of the brick is still good if you can't find a close match.

Excellent video. What do you do when rebuilding a good portion of a bricked outer wall, but they no longer make that color brick?

Hammer function to use as chisel. Nice. No chisel and hammer needed or hardly at all. 👍

Hey I live in New Jersey and my walk up steps Stanton bricks are breaking apart I’m thinking water / freezing etc so I’m gonna try this

Hi, I have to do very similar job, but need to install air Bricks instead old imperial. I couldn’t find any information on the web as to how to install air bricks into solid brick wall of an old house. I am planing to install additional two air brick at the front of the bay wall due to damp issues. One is already there placed in the middle. It is a solid brick wall house was built back in 1900. My question, due to structural integrity reasons do I need to install lintel when installing air brick. Wall is pretty thick, more than 200 mm. Would appreciate any advice really. Many thanks.

Excellent Well expressed

Finaly someone showed the diy, intead of the "use specialy 100-150 euro tool" just Drill it out.

Nicely done and very informative. Thanks a lot. Remember your eye protection.

Thanks for that

Great clip, I've got to replace maybe 20 bricks in a couple of areas and if I take my time and do one at a time it should be straightforward...you probably wouldn't try to do a run of 6 bricks in a row all at once though would you?

great work mate do you remove the down pipes sometimes when filling or raking out when you cant get behind the downpipe

thanks

this video helped me beat sponge

All these videos show a similar method for applying the mortar. It seems to me there has to be a better way. Isn't there an invention that would provide positional standoff/shim for the brick to be held in position with a backing board for the interior side of the brick and then a wetter mortar be added or injected similar to how foam insulation is?

What is the mortar mix for interior chimney brickwork house age 1860s the lime mortar is now powder and bricks are loose in the loft.

How do you know when your mortar mix is just right? The perfect mix is pretty hard to achieve only because it's fairly difficult to get the perfect amount of water added.

Random question...is a single skin wall fairly water resistant if the pointing is mostly sound?

not to criticize but you right perp looks massive

Just use a mini handle grinder with a diamond just cut through joint top and bottom and the 2 side joint so much easy some time the brick come out in one old school that way was show how to do it 👍

Sds with breaker bit.brick would be out in less than a minute. This way is so much slower and no more effective

You just gotta love a good tradesman.

Walll still looks knackered and needs repointing. Pointless ad you chipped the brick nextdoor 😮😮

Where are you mate ?

Pelicula Six iol

I went to look at a job in Rhode island and it was spalled bricks on stair risers I need to replace ten brick I got it for $1,600 us dollars is that insane lol

Nice. Or you can spend £20 on a cheap angle grinder and finish the job while you're only on your second brick and without knackering your arms with all the vibrations

Just cut the front off the spalled brick don't be scared of your hammer and chisel cut a slip off your replacement add some unibond. To your muck stick it in and point it 😀

Bricks a bit small 😂

Dude, what was wrong with the first brick?

Complete novice. If taking out multiple bricks wall would need to be supported? Thanks