Ladies and gentlemen take it from a guy who have done this for 35 years, it takes a very skilled person to eyeball a straight line without laying a line. This guy knows exactly what he's teaching.

This is the type of teacher people need. Very clear, very simplistic, no beating around the bush. To the point. 👌🏻

I'm such a begginer, I didn't even know the standy-up bricks were called soldier courses, so thank you. Excellent video.

NICE WORK , SIR, I AM LEARNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE, MY DAD USED TO SAY ´´YOU NEVER REALLY STOP LEARNING , SPECIALLY WHEN THE THINGS YOU LEARN ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO BE HONORED WITH HARD WORK´´, HE LIVED 85 YEARS AND HIS WORDS ARE STILL HERE , WITH ME AS I WALK ON THIS LAND... HE USED TO ENJOY TEACHING ME AND OTHERS ALL HE KNEW... I MISS HIM SO MUCH...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK , KEEP TEACHING...

Another excellent video. I like the review at the end to highlight the points made during the video. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you. Clear, concise, informative.

Thank you for the teaching. It’s very well explained.

You have great videos... Explaining each move ..things to look out for and why you do them!! Great craftsman for sure!!!!!

I do floor covering, had no clue on brick laying! All these videos are very helpful! I like doing my own work. I have been practicing, of course no were as good or as fast...but thanks to these videos I can now do my own!!! Thank you for these videos! Wished you lived next to me!!! Would help you for free on the side just to learn more!

Back in school we used lime and sand mix and some gray coloring to practice our columns and walls. Then when done we would have to tear it down clean up the brick and our fake mortar mix was thrown into the mixer dry to beat the clumps out of it and it was ready to used again and again for practice.....thanks for the great videos

He makes it look very easy! Skilled.

So simple and precise in explanation.. Nice job!

Excellent instructional video. Thank you very much.

Excellent instruction! Thank you.

Makes it look easy, your'e a real pro! I just tried my first column today, laid up 6 levels of 4 bricks only, took me 4 hours and looks like a dogs breakfast compared to yours. Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot, I'll get there!!

Thanks, great video. Nice brick work.

Thank you. You were really helpful.

I’m thinking about doing this for structural support . I enjoyed watching your video 👍😁 also it looks like this video was made back in the 90s or early 2000s I miss the good old days 😉

Learned a lot great video 👍

Beautiful Mountains in the background

Thank you very much for the videos.

Well done, sir!

Its amazing so many different size colomns

This is by far the best vid I found. But I need bit more about how to do foundation. I am planning to build a automated sliding gate with intercom. Any tips?

Great info . Thank you

GOOD STICK WORK..

Brilliant video thank you

Muito mas muito bom ver como o carinho profissional e dedicação a profissão trazendo ótimos resultados , parabéns.

This guy really knows what hes talking about

Good work, bro

Your awesome pal 👍

Nice Video!

Very detailed awesome

Good bricky he recaptures the squeezed out mud and taps his trowel clean to keep from smearing the brick.

those mountains make me want to go hiking

So wish I’d found this video before trying 1.5 brick 6 foot piers for our driveway gates for the first time. Didn’t appreciate the need for rebar and only filled the centre with concrete. Second time I closed the gates they snapped the pillars around course 4 or 5 and toppled over! Soul destroying rebuild with 16mm rebar lengths chemically resined 400mm into the concrete foundations followed!

Thanks. Nothing is classier than brick.

Obviously this is a very old video; but it is very well done and will defnitly help me build my pillar; I have a very difficult time finding the right brick here in Phoenix area; need 12x4x4 or 9x3x3 with holes, not solid.

Well done bro.

Wish I'd seen this before my first masonry project.

Hi I have a question about the column you built for the gate that was on a concrete slab. You put rebar in it--and said you would reenforce it with mortar. Can I build a column on concrete steps doing the same? Putting rebar in it with concrete? Without it tipping over?

How deep should the concrete footing be for the Columns? Should the fitting have rebar in it?

I want to brick up my house which has asbestos siding on it,I know I will have to build a new footer around perimeter, any ideas on this subject.??? Should I apply a 30 lb roofing felt or house wrap.?

I did my first brick job today at home trying to fix some exterior stairs…what a Fing mess! Hopefully it lasts a few weeks 😆

Very good work i like this vidio

I love his posture

Pardon my ignorance, but since brick is so porous, why isn't there a moisture barrier behind it? I know very little about bricklaying; however, when a house uses standard siding there is a house-wrap type of moisture/vapor barrier used. Is there a reason it isn't used here? Is it not needed?

In the first example, is it possible that the brick pier get filled with water or humidity and gets damaged that way? Any experience out there?

I can't even believe what I'm seeing at 9:42 Where's the house wrap or vapor barrier?? Unbelievable! ...Nice looking masonry though.

Do any bricks have holes on the outside like the so on the others for grip

Nice bond on the brick veneer

trig means to straiten or tidy up.One trigs a line with a twig.maybe a small branch?

Say, do you ever hose down the bricks that you’re going to lay with, water, to keep the bricks from sucking all the moisture out of the mortar? I’m learning so much from your vids!! Thank you so very much!!!

Hook the end of the rebar before you set it in the footing it acts like an anchor

What do you with the gaps in the mortar. Or is this just a demo and that normally would not happen.

What kinda footing are you on?

Thank you very much for his channel. Soon I will use all your knowledge to improve this world.

Thanks big man

We call those "Chariots" The Brick pointing gadget with two wheels and a nail for a particular finish and pieces of hosepipe or dowling whereby giving the desired effect also we have some very talented Bricklayer's Stu Crompton in particular has KZfaq channel and he just keeps getting better all the time people like him are drawing those at home showing them all the way to lay brick and the industry is better for that, Rodian Montague is another talented lad also on KZfaq showing the public that You too can do this, obviously for a profesion City & Guilds which is the older Merit needed to Qualify as a Bricklayer and NVQ 's but with all this Coronar Virus and place's on lockdown i suspect there will be quite a few Homemade Barbeques being Built and i maybe one of them. !!

Thanks 👍

nice vid👍

What are your thoughts on Smith Levels? That and your thoughts on Type N vs Type S mortars for laying brick veneer like in the video?

Good video

Come to England and learn to lay bricks the traditional way tried and trusted for generations as in my case 4 generations.

hi can i use brick columns to carry roof trussers

i love laying brick

love to hear you bcoz your voice resemble to John F Kennedy who is my ideal leader. Your work is also excellent.

Very beautiful, but it would be more convenient if a lamp is installed on the post, it can be used for lighting and decoration

thank your

why didnt you record from the start of column?

Kind of an old video, but maybe somebody will answer: if you aren't saving the mortar that you scrape out with that rake, is there some other benefit to using the rake to remove the mortar instead of leaving the mortar flush with the brick? I've always liked the look of brick laid with the mortar sort of spilling out of the joint (although I know that just uses a lot of mortar - but back to the initial question - if you aren't going to scrape the mortar back into your bucket and use it, what's the benefit of raking it?).

nice work mate. here in Canada required black paper first

the reply about the vapour barrier that i commented on was when you were laying the soldier course on the back wall, not the pier i know that as i am a brick layer myself in Canada, all our houses up north have vapour barrier ,deu to our climate

The first segment doesn't talk about ending height calculations and how to figure foundation/footing starting elevation in regards to brick bed joints ending at a precise height. Second segment has the rebar being placed in the middle of the column AFTER the concrete is poured... the column isnt anchored at all.

Just started school for this

nice

Roman Corners will touch a wall up nicely.

Quality workmanship. What year is this though? Feels early 90's.

The second column is just going to be a big sponge... Hopefully it doesn't go through any freeze/thaw cycles. Would be best to use a half 8" block, stack that upto height, then fill it solid with grout and rebar.. Blue skin and flash your block, Then put your brick veneer around it and leave a few weeper holes...

This man knows his shit....

muito legal parabéns.

Хочу заказать такойже мастерок как у вас, как это сделать

Boy them soldiers though. Man do you know how long it took me to learn how to lay them properly. Laying soldiers and headers use to have me frustrated 😂

Is that a W.rose trowel

is that a w.rose trowel

i like the mic cord from his back.. must be a while ago? we have had whireless for sometime now... lol but he is damm good!!!

THIS MAN IS A GOOD MACHANIC....my old LOCAL 3 instructor had his attitude and skill

How does the column carry the load of the gate when the rebar is not part of your footing it’s just floating in the pier

No moisture barrier?

Brick and 1/3

just keep a strait edge for the level bashing.and use a level to check the plummet .

Wow i shouldn't have watched this video, all the pros are here in the comments.

like good

No moisture inside house?

No AVB behind the brick veneer? House is going to leak like a sieve.

I'm still waiting for my trig

Good video.. are you in Hawaii

Phil Simms is a pretty good mason.

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