Maria das Santos Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

C Jackson . Thanks pal your very kind 👍🏼

David Burt . Oh was there a wedding today ? 😂 thanks for your support as always pal 👍🏼

Jim Jam . Thanks pal , thanks for the support it’s really appreciated 👍🏼

Jack jr cheers jack 👍🏼👍🏼

Brendan Mcgivern Thanks again pal 🧱👍🏽

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MrTipple09 Thanks very much pal , we really appreciate all the kind comments 👍🏼

chilli3 . I wish I “used” to be a bricky sometimes , usually when it’s raining 😂 Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

That’s very kind of you , thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

kevin byrne . Too late for that 😂 . We can’t give up now, we’d have no content for the channel ,🤨, really glad you enjoy our videos Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

First few courses busted knees. Mid courses busted back, after a day laying blocks the morning after i feel like ive been run over by a bus! I think its my build im 5'10 and only 10 stone... Bit weedy for this game . oh i almost forgot, tidy block work. Block laid flat works well for a cheap garden wall or retainer too. Ive got a full pack of heather rustic to lay tomorrow on my own i can't wait!

oldmanfromyork . We love doing these garages , it’s a nice break from trench block . Poor Alex is 6’ 1” and 10 stone so it is hard for the first few courses, he is doing really well though 👌🏼, good luck tomorrow with your heather rustics 😬 👍🏼

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex A hardworking bricky is a slim bricky! Ive got it set up laid a few hundred today, You know what its like first course is almost always the hardest when laying off an old oringinal footing.

MÃO NA OBRA MIRO STARSUPER ☀️we miss the sunshine 😔🧱👍🏼

Ali Baba Thanks pal . Have a look back there is one we did last year 🧱👍🏽

Albertdog101 . What your seeing is probably a bad habit , we do fill the joints up after and the beds for the next course help to fill them too . The block work in this video will be completely buried so need to repel water . We will be showing us finishing the garage off but we ain’t built it yet . Thanks for watching and for commenting 👍🏼

Bob Hendry . Oh they are available alright but our lot won’t pay for them to do it ! We get £15 for it instead 😟 Thanks for watching and commenting pal

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex that’s bad too bad 😦

No matter how tight you make the joints swapping the bond puts a piece in the wall . It’s a lot quicker to lob 2 bricks in than cut a block every course . The only cuts on the whole footing are the halves in the party wall . Thanks for watching and commenting 🧱👍🏽

bric bybrick . Hi mate , the guys we work for like us to build them this way . The party wall is left where it is for the slab to sit on . It’s not clear in the video but there is brick tor left out for bonding 👍🏼

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex . Very good Steve. I notice your nice shiny new mixer that you mentioned a while back ,looks the job . What make is it.

bric bybrick Yep 2 weeks in and still clean ! It’s an Altrad belle with fancy electric, key ignition doing a fine job so far , it bloody spits a lot though as it has 3 paddles 😡

m. m . Brick tor is a brilliant invention. Thanks for watching and commenting pal 👍🏼

m. m your 100 percent correct it can . But the easier way to do it is to double course the block on flat .

Wayne Bailey . Price work mate , we do like doing the garages . Our bosses go a funny colour when you mention day rate 😡 Thanks for watching and commenting pal 👍🏼

Ha ha..day rate...love your videos...look after your backs..:)

Wayne Bailey . Thanks pal we really appreciate all the support , it’s nice to see regulars in the comments section 👍🏼

Rod Fair It’s actually a double but shared between 2 plots . It’s in lowton near Wigan 🧱👍🏼

They are ok built properly or in 7 Newton. We use Fibolite blocks which are 3.5 n but as light as aerated blocks but way way stronger 💪🏼🧱👍🏽

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Okay, thanks for the reply and info!

@@Macro_Abuser No probs good luck pal 🧱👍🏽

Sorry never heard of that one 🧱👍🏽

Amateur Vegan Hi mate , yes they are on their sides . The outside edge 100mm holds the wall and the inside edge supports the concrete slab . Thanks for watching and commenting and subscribing 👍🏼

@@SteveAndAlexBuild why didnt you just lay 12 inch block?

Mark Meadows . Hey mark the answer above should explain, that’s how our boss wants it done too 👍🏼

bloggs692413 . To be honest we’d rather mix our own because to put it bluntly our silos are shite . The brickys on site keep borrowing our feb because the latest batch is rubbish! We can get our mix just how we want it and we can still work when the silos run out ,( which happens quite often)😳 Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex Good call..... labourers on my old site used to keep blocking the screw on em by not washing em out properly

bloggs692413 . Exactly 👍🏼. They are always bashing them with a piece of 3x2 when they block up too !On an old site up near Blackpool the forklift driver used to extend the boom to the top and pound them very hard with the forks 😳

Don't sites still use readymix anymore?

Wayne Bailey . Yes most of them do but the stuff they use isn’t suitable for below DPC. We have been on a site where they had a silo for below DPC, but that stuff was useless !

gerard mo . Thanks for watching and commenting pal 👍🏼

con aran Nice and strong though Thanks for watching and commenting 😊

Mike Mackinnon . The laser is a brilliant tool . The firm we work for own it so it’s used a lot . It’s very fast and accurate. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

Ryan Lewis I cant really comment on details of a job I haven’t seen I’m afraid it never works 😬🧱👍🏽

toddsjaws todd that method of construction you describe would not be used on this side of the pond (assuming your in the u.s.a or Canada) . I’m in Ireland and the lads in the video are in the uk . our building regulations and methods of masonry construction would be for the most part the same as the u.k .A lot of houses were built in Ireland from the 60s using 8 inch c.m.u or as we call them 9 inch cavity blocks ( our blocks are a bit bigger than the ones you use .in imperial measurements they would be 8.5 by 8.5 by 17.5 approximately . Even when they built houses out of them they would as far as I know use the solid 4 inch block below damp proof course and the cavity blocks from d.p.c up . From d.p.c to wall plate in a 2 story house (22 courses + a 4 inch block on flat to close the cavity at the top that the wall plate was bolted to .there would be no bond beams no steel no grouting . They built them in blocks of 2 ,3 or terrace rows and they are still standing as good today as when the where first built. There are government grants available in Ireland today to retrofit them with exterior insulation because they are thermally inefficient . But other than that they are good to go. Party walls between the housing units I believe were built with 4 inch solid block on flat with fireplaces chimney breasts built in to them.

bric bybrick . Thanks for the back up , you explained so much better than I could 👌🏼

toddsjaws todd . Hi mate I’m not sure what you mean I’m afraid ? Brick by brick has done a reply as he has some idea about how you guys work . The simple answer is we do it this way because we are told to . This is just the foundation so 4 course of engineering on top of this and we are done . We only sub contract to a groundworks firm so we only do foundations . Any other videos are from our weekend work . 👍🏼

Mark Meadows . They aren’t to bad laid flat , much easier than the trench block . Our boss doesn’t like using 300 mm wide trench on garages . Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏼

@@SteveAndAlexBuild I'm from the eastern US. Are you guys required to put in anchor bolts? We have to have them every 48 inches and one foot off the corners both ways. Depending on the placement of the bolts we wouldn't be able to use them with solid 4 inch block. Sorry I dont know metric lol.

Mark Meadows . No we don’t need those in the uk , I suppose your structures need to be hurricane proof ?

@@SteveAndAlexBuild yes eastern part of north carolina gets hurricanes. Also is that work exposed?

Mark Meadows . No the only part above ground is the top 2 courses of bricks . All the block are completely buried.👍🏼