What trowel you using?

Ready mix delivered to site. Frees up 70% of my time to be actually helpful 😉

Depends on sand type/quality 🤔

3 Sand 1 Cement here in Germany^^ and a little bit of Plasticiser

I like to make mine in different colours every mix just to keep the trowels focused 😂

God bless ya mate I was a real grafter myself until covid hit then all my health problems surfaced. I hope your all good now mate having bad legs in any way is the worst kinda pain I think in the construction game

@@jonnyhyndman5298 Thank you for the kind words mate - I'm all good now thanks fella! Hope you make your way back to full health mate and you're right, aching joints in the legs when you're on your feet all day is the worst! All the best!

@@cantabrian1009 the feeling is mutual buddy I'm not too far from getting back to myself I'm just hoping it doesn't take a turn like last time. Cheers bud legend

And most don’t even seem able to knock up a gauge suitable for any bricks or blocks 😂

Exactly

Done in 15 mins but 5 mins for a good gauge?

Great tuition on knocking up Give it time to turn 👍🏻

Fuck that shit

If you are using old London stock or Accrington norie a stiff mix with a cement to sand more sand than cement. Modern cement will snap some bricks

Lime based mortar for 60 year old brick.

I’m from Southampton, does our building sand come from local sources then? And is different around the country? I assumed it came off massive boats from wherever had supplies at the time

@@simonshotter8960 our sand used to come from fair oak pit many years ago and was quite yellow , now it comes from a pit in Romsey.

3to1 below ground 4to1 above

this is all in accuracy, lay a nice even flat 12-13mm bed so as you lay it the block can squeeze down a few mm straight to the line. Your blockwork shouldn't be need to be forced down to the line, this is because there is too much muck there and that's why 90% of walls have a belly in them because someone's been heavy handed on the wall.

@@brickpug6088 I'm a fledgling DIYer and was always having to tap and press the block down to the line. Sometimes as much as 15mm! As the block was being moved and pressed to get it in position it was slightly moving the block laid before it. Had a conversation with a time served brickie and he said I was putting too much mortar down. Did as he said and bingo! The blocks went in much easier, and quicker, and didn't disturb the previous block. The advice of too much muck was invaluable. The other thing i found was when the mortar got too stiff then you'd still need to bang the block the final bit so best to chuck the last bit of stiff mortar and mix another load. Easy to do on a DIY project I know. I also gauge with a bucket but, and you'll all laugh at this one, I also started off measuring the water and plasticiser mix in marked up 6 pint milk bottles. After a few test mixes I knew how much water I needed by looking at how much I'd used from the bottles and the marks. Odd? Yes, but worked for me... but I was only mixing up 24kg in one go in a rhino tub... and the mix was at least consistent.

@@jp6975 there's no right or wrong way if the job is finished at the end and it's satisfactory to what is required youve done it.

Knew it

Bet your the life of the party

Zzzzzzz

@@sbuxcey1803 stop it you’ve had us all in stitches!!

12-1?

Paul weller.lights go out walls come tumbling down😂😂😂

If its wet sand I usually mix everything dry then add small amounts with a measuring jug and keep track how many jugs you use.

@@martin2466 hello :-)

20 what

@@alextomlinson shovels maybe ? Oh could be handfulls

@@fruitpunchbigga3251 haha yeah

Yes you are, but don’t tell the others

😂

Correct, If he spent as much time mixing his own batches as he did looking at a camera he wouldn’t need a hoddie

@@davieferguson202 😂😂😂

Jeez bit touchy mate fuckin hell

Chip on the shoulder pal 😂

To be honest I think I've seen every brickie do it to scrape off the mixing paddles or use shovel to pull back contents to front for an even mix

@@alextomlinson read my comment again pal. Then think about what I’m saying. 🙄

@@fabiandegussion5134 To be honest I've read it about 4 times and I think it's drivel. 1. If someone breaks their arm it's their own fault not some stranger from a video he seen. 2. Every brickie or labourer I've seen has a shovel and a square guaging trowel that they use to scrape off the dry shit that is caked on the paddles. It's absolutely necessary unless u want it to come out when ur tipping it into the barrow meaning you'll have random pockets of unmixed sand throughout the compo. 3. If you can't do it without somehow breaking your arm maybe you're in the wrong job. It's not spinning that fast, quite easy to time it and if the trowel or shovel gets caught let it fucking go

In fact my old man a very experienced brickie was always telling me/showing me to get a couple of well timed swipes with the square trowel in the middle and from back to front of the mixer to speed up the mixing process. Was shown how to scrape the mixing paddles. A few times the trowel got jammed because one of the three mixing paddles had a broken weld and the trowel would slide in and get stuck. I just used to let it go and then time the grab on the next turn. Then swill in the water bucket and go again. You must work for the HSE lol

@@alextomlinson drivel !! Ok pal good luck.

I handled the brand new Husqvarna battery saw with 300 mm blade, feels unreal,it cuts about 120mm and great power too. Shocking expensive €2400 😮

@@andrewmorrissey8478 120mm depth of 300mm wheel and not a 350mm wheel impressive.