Retired now and was in the building trade al my working life, this guy really knows his stuff and knows how to explain the solution perfectly, well done 👍

Another great video pal 👍 really like the way you take the time to explain stuff, I’ve learned so much over the last few weeks after I came across the channel 😁 excellent looking forward to the next one.

Always look forward to seeing your uploads, always full of information and banter 👌 keep up the good work and keep the videos coming, wasn’t a long video 👌😎👍

Great stuff, loving it !

Great work Izzy👌 The explanations of how to build e.g. cavity trays, weep holes, are very interesting. Learning lots and enjoying the content at the same time👊👏

Thx for taking the time to explain the process and why, your videos are a step above the rest in that regard, brickwork always looks so clean and tidy and prepared for the next step...thankyou

Izzy’s right up there with all the brickies I like to watch.

Izzy these videos are mint mate keep it up, loads of great knowledge here!

you have rare combination of being v clever, personable and good at bricklaying. wish you could work on my job

Just pure Art. 👌

You have definitely saved the house owners bacon here good work mate💪💪💪

Charlie spreading mortar and pointing thats a great start for him. When he's mastered that then onto laying bricks to a line ? Job coming on thats for sure 👍👍

That’s so true course in pig worst nightmare! Well done for getting around it!

Well done Izzy, problems are the spice of life and after we've overcome them we are wiser and have more experience to pull on. I think that was the best option ie knock the offenders down and run it through as you did. Happened to me last year and I spent half a day taking down and re building it back up, I was a bit behind afterwards but happy and could sleep at night hahaha👍

I needed you as a boss lmao, recently I was a brick masonry helper. Was making $60 USD an hour. Quit after the first day as I was told to shut up after I asked a couple questions which they knew I was new, I have a construction background but mainly in roofing and ask for safety reasons. Then the breaking point was being up 45ft on a bent up scaffold with no harnesses too use. There was people crawling on the skylift crane when they raised brick up and they also hit the scaffolding 3 times with the skylift crane. I liked the hard work and money but I couldn't work with an unsafe crew. Keep it up man, you all are doing great work. Keep posting videos as brick laying is a necessity. Soon I'm going to start building pizza ovens with my dad to start making money. Hope it works out, going to use clay firebrick and refractory cement etc. Hope it works out lol

Haha yeah good old hammer n nicker all worked a trick, good job your near ground level 👍

So how do you get the "wall ornament" clamp? Hacksaw? Thanks for the great video really interesting seeing you explain how it all works.

Hi Izzy, nice bit of remedial work, is the original FFL level across the width of the building?

Hate coming off other peoples work, happemed to me did this except it was me who put the pig in. Footing was all over the place, had block flat, sailor courses and bits of roofing tile to get it level and had three or four steps in the concreteso couldnt get far in any one step. Thought id got it pretty level, bubble was within a fraction off the center, trouble is the wall was long as a monday so by the end of it, there was a 30mm descrepency at the end. Needless to say i do things a bit different now, and i have a good whinge if the footings out before i start! Another tip for lintel height, build those 3 courses immediately after lintel height about 5-10mm high, saves so much heartache after and you can get it back down over the next 4 courses with nobody the wiser. Another lesson learned after discovering the brick we were using for soldiers turned out 5mm longer than the facings. Doesnt sound much but it hurt the aesthetic a bit.

Great video again

Appreciate the time taken for the detailed explanation of the pig. I'd never heard of it before today. At what height difference does it become a pig and not something you can make up with a thicker bed? With the lintel, if you just had a single skin block wall on which the roof joists were going to sit , say for a garden room, would you still need the dpm? Asking... for a friend.. 😅

sign of a good tradesman is getting over stuff..good lad

Nice one Izzy and Charlie. I take it the groundworker ran the side wall courses out of level? Also - weren't there supposed to be weepholes every some many perpends over the lintel (for the cavity tray) or did I miss them going in? A great watch as usual - keep up the good work.

Great video mate , One thing though ,I always put the block course in the back of those style lintels first before I do any work on the front , The strength comes from the block-work inside the lintel , and it stops deflection.👍

Great job as per izzy Done it before myself, nothing worse than a pig! Was down in a hole on existing, bringing footing pillar upto opposite end to corner building with a laser level and started with a brickette! Other end did not! Could not for the hell off it get our head around it. Inevitable it had to come down. Learn from your mistakes mate and always learning in this game mind.

Nice job 👍

It's like getting a black belt in karate. (A kick up the nuts wakes you up and so on) You need to experience this before you can calm down and keep an eye on what is nearly always a team effort. A sloping site, existing buildings with different gauges etc. Tiny little things give this one away and it's nearly always caused by rushing. I have had a few in my time and as the mummy on the job they where my fault. Great video and a lot of youngsters will learn from it.

And I thought Collison was rough 😂 😂

Awesome job. I haven't seen you guys putting in those little plastic vents in the walls that the inspectors are always blabbing on about. Weep vents I think they are called.

A great job.

Hi mate top job as always 🧱 👌

Nice recovery ! But why all the dead space surrounding one small room ?

run your corner round level just throw in a stop then fire in a brick on edge to get the pig out ....

Love your videos and workmanship, brickie from 🇮🇪🇮🇪 what make is your green level,?

First problem you have,in Sweden we call it "Mura Skruv" 😅 as you say every bricklayers nightmare when you have 1 course left and your comrade has 2 courses left 😂

Ball ache ! Your a better man than me, I wouldn't take over some thing some one else started.

Bro when you get stuff like that early on the bottom near foundation, its better to just do one course with splits if they are gonna be covered.

A lovely pig ! ……NOT ! They really mess with your head and what makes it worse is it’s somebody else’s shit you have to get over ! The laser is an absolute god send in these situations . . Nice,y done as ever Izzy 👏🏽👏🏽👌🏼🧱👍🏼

doing great ! lintels you're using form their own tray so no need for dpc just stop ends and weep holes 🙂 If you do install trays over lintels they should go past the lintel by a minimum of 150mm ( stupid but that's the rules). the tray you installed was short of the lintel end. You've put damptrays in the splash that are not linked and turn up is at the wrong end allowing water to flow back instead of out. I know people hate me but if you're gonna teach it get it right.🤣

Izzy, just a question, why do you use the dark grey bricks? Why not just use all red bricks? I am not from the UK. Excellent bricklaying! Clean, neat and tidy. You are a very good tradesman.

How come you use enginring bricks and concrete blocks up there so much.

Buenos días excelente trabajo 👍 🧱💪👌🏻👊💯

Lotta guys wouldn't put this on camera. Respect.

was hoping to see how you uttered up the soldiers, but the fast forward put paid to that! 😆 I was shown to only butter up the front third, leaving the back alone. I’m not sure why, I’ve probably forgotten! Do you use a full bed Izzy? 🍺

Tidy work Izzy after a lot of head scratching ! Has the original house got a basement in it that is going to connect up to the new ?

Putting a pig in the wall stays with you forever, generally a once-in-a-lifetime experience if you're lucky 🙂

try putting the profile at the top of the soliders rather than the bottom it stops them tipping forwards

Any tips on hpw to get into bricklaying without doing an apprenticeship and earning hardly owt a week

What area is this one Izzy?

👍🙏

Well explained.big property is it going to be normal residence.

You doing the block and beam as well, Izzy?

Alright izzy class job before you got that job what type of brickie was ther before u MY GOD . But you and Charlie are aswome bro have a good one brother 😎😎😎🤘🖐

60mm out of level? All you had to do was take the level off the existing property's DPC course, and work out the two extension corner levels down from that at each course of brick?

do you cover north london?

Need datum pegs and gauge rod all that measuring leveling accumulated error...

A course out. Happens easy on a long run. Especially if the footing is out

Looks good from my house.

The F clamp you left built in I noticed it then you done about 30 seconds after that you built it in, but use a T clamp, can leave it in for few hours of need be then,

good man

Only watched a few mins, not end of the world since your at dpc effectively, get the bigger hammer out boom 🤣, gonna watch on

Who set the footings ..get them level and you just need a tapemeasure to stay in gauge ..simple

YO 👍 IZZY ✌

only one way to fix it is pull it down and start again ...

Nothing worse than a pig mate saw one on a brick terrace over 100 years old the other day looked awful. You did all you could knock it down start again right move .they dont call it a pig for nothing 🤣🤣 top job 👍👊🧱🧱

There SHOULD be a LARGE air space gap in-between the face of the insulation and the OUTER WALL inside the cavity ; this includes an air space gap in between the face of the insulation and the cavity-wall-tie drip point which points downwards in the centre of the cavity. Cavity wall ties are laid with a slight downwards slope across the LEVEL mortar joints from the inner to the outer walls. Ask N.V.Q. BRICKWORK teachers for PROOF of this !With the cavity-wall being bridged with insulation (insulation touching the outer walls), damp will travel from the outer wall through the bridging insulation to the inner wall ! ALL cavity-wall insulation batts require the air space gaps !

Thought I could smell bacon haha, nightmare.

We call it a "hog" in the wall.

Instead of pfaffing about with mobile phones, laser levels etc, try using Datum plates, and 1 gauging rod! Take it down, start again....

O look a crash deck.... only get them on site 🙄

Where do u start with pricing that job😂unless day rate?

Izzy what lazer is that ?

Your mate? He’s a good friend

Seen a course of Pig go in a manhole fella,seen headers missed on a 9" corner return by a 30 year Brickie,you will get over the embarassment with being young!

🙈🙈 the absolute worst thing ever to discover a pig in the wall. You’ve certainly had your work cut out on this job mate, but it’s good to see it’s getting there so great stuff 👍

If you don’t build up from your lowest point first you are risk of a pig in the wall

why u taking all my work down and slagging me off I thought I done good job. don't know why customer got rid of me to be fair

Brick laying is not an easy trade in construction industry

Unreal or not kosher,take your choice.

Put your datum up properly and use your gauge rods ffs PIGS IN BLANKETS

worked on a big roof in 1984 and the wall plate was all place because of bricklayers using differant gauges but its ok the joiners sorted it. no lazers in them days . i always wanted to be a bricky but when i found out the the half days training required was not paid i became a joiner instead and i retired on friday . loads of stories working all over europe would not change a day all good bannter

The sound of your laser level really upsets my old dog! Can't you just humma a bit? Ta.

Should of checked all the heights before ya pulled off it

OINK OINK !

All in all its just a pig in the wall

oh dear you’ve got a grunter in the wall. Oink oink.

I really find it difficult to understand how and why a bricklayer would put a pig in a wall.We’re all taught to gauge down, then that way you cannot f.ck up.Any bricklayer that puts a pig in a wall should throw his tools away.It’s embarrassing 😳

purse shyit

Oink, oink

Good work but you are still taking over someone else's work

look underneath rough

The second I saw your level I knew you had a hog in the wall

We’re you 65mm high or just 20 mm low ??

Oink oink 🐷🐷

Hi Just like to say the water in the cavity doesn't come from inside the house, any water in the cavity comes from rain, as you know face brickwork isn't water proof the cavity acts a defence against water ingress to the internal skin, DPC trays are installed above lintels for two reasons 1 to prevent water tracking to the ends of the lintel and dripping into the cavity and 2 to prevent corrosion to the lintel, weep holes are used to allow the water to egress the cavity due to the fact that in cold weather if left in the cavity it could freeze and cause minor cracking to the brickwork mortar. The cavity wall insulation is designed to prevent any cold spots internally and to keep the property warm, the cold spot is created or limited to between the external skin brickwork and the external face of the cavity wall insulation, a persons breath will only condensate if the room temperature is below the body temperature, but this should be alleviated by the use of trickle vents to all internal door and window frames which is a must for all building control inspections, there is the exception where people tend to dry clothes inside during the winter months this can cause condensation issued but is easily dealt with by good air circulation, I could go on about whole house ventilation systems that are becoming more and more widely used but that for another discussion. Most condensation issues are due to poor insulation in conjunction with poor ventilation. I believe it takes about 75,000 gallons of water (Not including rain fall) to build the average 4 bedroom house for use in foundation concrete brick and block work floor screeding plastering painting etc so this water needs to dry out before the property is occupied to ensure the house is livable, for example a sand & cement screed will dry at a rate of 1mm per day so 75mm thick screed will take 75 days to dry, so many builders fail to allow drying times in there programme which is a fatal error and can lead to many months of return visits, including relaying timber flooring for example and how many time do new home the builder get called back to sort out damp issues that are simply water inside the building that hasn't dried properly. black mould on internal waters is caused by build up of condensation, hope this helps to explain damp issues and prevention.

Did you cook the pig after all that bullshit

That's no prob while you're below ground. Just blockbond into existing.