Thank god you are carrying on the fabulous brickwork tradition of the UK. Quality always shines through. Beautiful on the eye too.

Absolute top job Chris. Well done pal. Loved the video and how the old buildings were done. Top man 👍👍

I am a retired bricklayer, and I just can't get my head round the new way of laying the block work first. just seems wrong! 😊 good job by the way.

The attention to detail is awesome, nothing is taken for granted or fudged, craftsmanship at it's best.

Chris, your eye for detail is amazing and I only wish all builders were the same.

I did a job in New Zealand on an old chapel . The owner had sorted the bricks . They were like southwaters made in Aus . It was Flemish bond . My brikie mate was happy . 'I got a dollar a cut ' . Happy days !

proper old school lancastrian brickie,love the old bonds learn them all at tech decades ago top man 👍

This is the first summer that I have not worked in over 40 years. About 20 years as a Union Bricklayer then over 20 years of owning my own Masonry construction business, we're I did all fazes of Masonry construction, brick, concrete and stone work. Not a big Flemish bond guy, I think that the normal half bond that is the more common of bonds. You do very good work and I find most Bricklayers are very proud of there work and should be.

Nice work mate, here in Australia that’s a standard size brick. Old solids can be even bigger again. Less chat chat and more tap tap! Get rich or die trowling.

Let's bring the smiles,,chris looks like c Eastwood..make my day..😎

Great to see new work being tie in to old brick 🧱 thanks for sharing to Chris

Massive respect Chris, your work is art. I would be happy handing money over for this quality of work.

I remember in the 50s 60s using a mortar mill on jobs and mixing lime sand and finally crushed cinders on tight joints 1/4 inch with Accrington and Glossop and Staffordshire blues, nice job matey takes me back that dose.

Massive respect Chris for taking that one on ! Especially on your own up on the scaff too 😳. Brickwork looks spot on mate and like it was always there… as it should 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🧱

Master at work. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience

Always wondered how you match the mortar to existing brick work, brilliant video as always Chris 👍

Excelente trabajo Chris saludos 👌👍🧱⚒️💪

Fascinating vid and a very knowledgable and studious bricky/craftsman.

nice work Chris looking proper Victorian authentic.

Exceptional quality and amazing skills!

Way back when it was OK to move the window a couple of inches to avoid closures on window reveals.

Nice job. Fascinating.

That's some good going on your own for a day Chris. Top work.

Looks like it grew there!

looks way nicer then a modern brick.

6.23 the left hand side of the middle pier is in correct. Instead of the closer at the end it should have been a header against the reveal then the queen closer next to it. Time served bricklayer now retired.

I dont watch much tv but I could watch this guy all day...

great progress 👍

Great video and lots of time taken with bricks and correct bond. Only suggestion I would make is cover the stone cill with plastic or wide damp and cut ott at the end. Do stain especially with coloured mortar. 👍👍

Such a pleasure watching someone work who knows what to do and is bloody good at it.

Quality work!

Nice job mate...well done.

Looking good quality job 👍

Fantastic work, as always, Chris.

Hallo Chris Longhurst, I have been watching a couple of video s of yours. Very nice to see all the techniques explaint! I had a question. I saw that you have to cut a lot of the stones. How do you know how much to cut of do you use the same measerment or do you cut to fit when your need them? Thanks for the videos

Tough job this mate, well done

That noise was the Flemish headache.🤬

Solid brick wall I assume? My W London house of that era had to have the chimney rebuilt because it hadn't been keyed into the wall and was about to crash down through the bedroom. And a chemical DPC. What DPC are you using in the new part, bituminous membrane? Nice brickwork. When does the insulation go in between the blocks and bricks? I've given up working with bricks, I got de Quervain's from building my pizza oven.

Do building regs ever allow you to continue with 13 inch thick imperial-sized walls with no cavity wall, on an job like this? So that you don't have to create a load of half-sized headers / queen closures? It would certainly be more in keeping with the original builds. It looks like they had to ad-lib a lot in those days too, with having to put in different cuts everywhere.

Hope you gettjing s gd price, thats head wreckin job, with tha size varients on those bricks, love your videos, keep up d gd work,🇨🇮🇨🇮

What a challenge. Top class work

Awesom, love that bond and love your bricky skills as ever. That brickwork is amazing too🧱😎

So important to take your time and do a job where you are fully satisfied with the project you’ve done..thanks ..excellent job…

"dont drag it"... exactly!

Lovely work pal 👏👏

😂 kittens 😂😂great job 👍

Super job, though you do sound a bit fed up at times. Very well done.

Would you do this bond again or is once enough? It is great to see different bonds but it must be difficult to match, especially when the original has faults in it. Well done.

Great job Chris, A very challenging little project all around, looking good despite the original gauge being so inconsistent. What did the bricks cost to have especially made?

Tradesman at his art.👏👏

What's the general quality of bricklaying in the UK? I work in construction in Australia, its generally pretty terrible here..

Lovely detail you are putting in! Would the Victorians have used a lime base mortar?

No brick smaller than a half bat up reveals chris, nice job, but not impressed with how u set the bond out. You cant have closers up a reveal buddy👍

Are you using metric bricks or imperial?

Excellent brick work Chris 👍

if you think flemish is a headache try quetta bond lol

Well done big fella! Those jobs are always a headscratcher! They look hard bricks!

Very nice work that could not be easy to do specially on your own i always admire a great brick layers work. 🍪☕

How did you lift those sandstone heads on your own,??

A tip about the die ... put it in your water it goes though the mix better

Great job !! It is as they say, attention to detail that matters. I have heard too often that we don’t build like they used to, and I say thank God. We have the benefit of the laser level which picks holes in the quality of the old work as you found - 20 to 30mm difference in level at the other end of the extension. It takes an experienced man to get over this. The ordinary man in the street doesn’t know what to look for, they just see a brick wall - how difficult could that be to put up, oh yeah, if only they knew! I had a 10” solid greenhouse 24’ x12’ base to build a few years ago in Flemish bond, all whole modern handmade bricks which varied in length by 1/4” and width by 1/8”. It was a test that I enjoyed to get both faces looking good without using snapped headers, all done on my knees as the top was only 3’ high. Cursed it sometimes, but the customers were delighted with the finished article - made my day😊 A very good earner for customers who wanted a quality job and were happy to pay. I turned up to meet the bespoke greenhouse installers who said it was the best base they’d ever seen. I walked away with a happy glow😊

Good work Chris would the original mortar in house be lime and sand cheers

I would have not had a closer at the door opening but 2 heads to maintain quarter bond which is what you are working in or .am I wrong 😕 S

My days, those bricks are beasts. Our Victorian friends didn't make things easy for themselves. I am surprised you had to have them made and couldn't find them in a salvage yard. Maybe it was cheaper to have them made than scouring salvage yards. Nice job though dude.

Hi Is the oversite done after the foundation? Can you build the Brick frame before the internal floor up to screed?

Hi there. Interested to know why you don't cut the cavities before joining onto original building with extention?

Up north dont flemish bond start with a 3 quarter and down south like you have there header closure? just wondered where you are?

I was always shown to add the water to the rear of the mixer not the front as don’t mix fully

50 bricks to a square meter what are the average size of the bricks? cheers great watch

Beautiful work. Hopefully you’ll have facia boards to cover the gable ends as you’ll have some very tricky cuts to do. Maximum respect to you

So nice. I wish we built nice stuff like this in north america.

Quality workmanship 👍

Where did you say the bricks were made?

skills

Don't forget a queen closer is 46mm wide , otherwise you get tiny joints on the corner and it looks bad . Also you don't put a closer on the end of anything . It should have been header closer by the door and not closer header .

Nice to see you don't ping the line,old school

I bet this man is excellent at Lego:)

A brickie with brain is rare

So refreshing to see quality craftsmanship. Expert at work, here👏🏻 everyone else seems to want the easiest job...done in quickest time. SHITE!!!!! What an excellent job👌🏻

closure up against the frame..wrong

really nice job you know your craft .... ive seen some fairly poor victorian work often covered up in decorative moldings but to be fair to them they didnt have the accurate tools we have today .....

Brilliant job mate, very complicated brickwork and takes a lot of care to get right, done awesome

Being a non-brickie, what is the purpose of this Flemish bond , is it purely a decorative thing? Must be expensive to do. Excellent looking work.

The purpose of the Flemish bond was to strengthen the wall, where you are using half bricks the original wall was nine inches thick and the headers went front to back. A very sturdy wall that stands for hundreds of years. Time will tell how long modern walls will last.

Great to see people paying for a quality build. I like watching work like this

Don't make em as good as that no more , good luck wi nori an keeping plumb perps

A challenge Chris especially them bricks and in flemish bond .Gauge on the existing was out aswell did it send the wall plates out aswell? Looking really good a job that needs patience and planning which you managed very very well didn't panic your experience did you well a cracker of a job brilliant mate loved the video 👏 👍 🧱🧱🧱

You got a black eye at 11:54

You sir, are a Master of your Art.

How nice to watch a proper brickie ! A true skill we are sadly loosing !

They certainly don't make brickies like this now.

no labourer?

Better to pay someone an extra weeks wages to set out and do the job right, rather than rush the job, "save" the money and be pissed off with the tradesman at the finish. Live to see proper work...skilled work done..with someone who takes real pride in their work. Robin Clevitt is another one.

You should be rightly proud of what you have achieved here, your skill is impressive to watch.

Top notch work, and many thanks for the upload. How did the original builders manage without a laser?

Them weeps won’t work 😂

Great brickwork, shame about the plastic windows. They should be thrown in the bin and replaced with weighted sashes.

Very nice brickwork there!

These brickies these days have never obviously heard of the good old threaded bumper course ,invented in Merseyside around the 1980 ‘s by a chancer doing cash jobs ,too lazy to cut the bricks .