Ah I know, cameraman was sacked after this! P.S….you have great taste in cars going by the picture

Thanks. I love using reclaimed stone and bricks

Yea can’t beat the fine material on those sponges! I hadn’t seen the one I’m using until a friend had one, works well and saves your hands a bit

😃😃 thanks

Thanks! 😃

I don’t need to use spacers with these…I can get them perfect with a 12mm joint. You don’t need to primer this type of slab if you have a decent wet mix like this. However, if you’re laying porcelain then use spacers and use cement based primer on the back of the slab :)

That’s called an ‘indispensable tool’. It’s a castor wheel off a trolley fixed to the oven floor and then a piece of wood attached to that. You can then fit a angle bracket to the end of it to help support the brick

Not sure exactly what they were as they came with the BBQ kit but they were at least 100mm long (50mm into the brick and 50mm out) and 50mm wide. They were a galvanised metal so they don’t rust and didn’t bend easily, but I’m not sure sure the thickness

Thankyou, glad the video was of help to you!

Thanks. I use building sand although we don't have much choice of sand round here in West Wales. What would you be using the mortar for?

@@SamDaviesBuilder thanks for getting back. Repointing a sandstone patio.

@@Wayne-pb5zx I’d get a sand suitable for building/bricklaying. You don’t want a sharp sand as it’ll be too coarse

@@Wayne-pb5zx and there’s a few videos of repointing patios on my channel if you’d like to check them out

Thanks :)

Thanks, can’t wait to get stuck into the build!

Thankyou 😃

@@SamDaviesBuilder Ofc!

Glad it helped! 😃

What part of the world are you in? Loads in the UK

@SamDaviesBuilder Scotland , av just never happened to come across blue bricks throughout my five years of bricklaying 😂

🤣🤣. They are a very good brick and soak in very little moisture, they are used a lot on plinth courses on houses or at the bottom of garden walls. Nightmare to lay in the winter as they take ages to go off as they don’t draw the moisture out of the mortar like other bricks

I got mine from eBay second hand

So do you mean if there is an arrow there is a faulty cut edge?

4:1 sand and cement with plasticiser

I just do them by eye but when I started out I used 12mm ply cut into strips as a spacer. You’ll be fine following my way… a good mix is key!

@SamDaviesBuilder great! I've made a gap bar out of old wood. It's about 11/12mm too. Friday is the big day. Thanks for the video and replies.

@@ryandoherty6174 no problem at all. If it’s really warm, don’t do too much at once. Once you get a feel for it you can do more of an area at one time

@SamDaviesBuilder I see. If it gets roasting, I could do it in the evening when the sun goes down, maybe. Looking at your mortar mix and a couple of others on here, it seems like patience is the trick. Let it mix.....

@@ryandoherty6174 yes patience is key, let me know how it goes

Thanks 😃. It’s great to have a young labourer that is keen back on the scene!

Thanks! New GoPro so that explains the better quality. Yea Danny is turning out to be a quick learner but he’s going into the motor trade in September. Ties are to grip into the concrete backfill yea, just to tie it all together a bit more. I didn’t do the foundation but that is a huge pour and at least 400mm like you say, it was because when they dug out the first bit it was lower than the house next doors shallow foundations. I think the guy that did the shuttering and pour was glad to get that concrete in before any movement happened!

Nice job Sam you are gone back to Marshalltown i see.

@@brickbybric Yea, sadly both those Bon trowels broke on the handles so they exchanged the last broken one for the Marshalltown. I need to break it in now though as its like using a shovel!

@@SamDaviesBuilder the Bon trowels are forged in Slovenia Sam ,but from what I’ve heard they are shipped to the u.s.a with out handles . So the handles may be sourced in china and may not be the best quality if they are splitting like that .

@@brickbybric from what RhinoBuild said I was just very unlucky 🤣. (Or heavy handed!!)

Are you rendering or skimming? The trowel you’ve been given will be fine for rendering! Sometimes you’d want a more flexible trowel for internal skimming but for outside that will do you fine, it certainly won’t be too flexible in my opinion

@@SamDaviesBuilder Sam thank you for your reply. I'm rendering, using hp12 base coat then a top coat for pebble dashing..Just this morning a builder/plasterer stopped while I was making a mix and he said exactly what you said when I asked about trowels. He's using the same trowel I have the marshall town. Told me to keep my mix like cream and do two coats a thin first one and then a thicker one to bring it up to the 13mm I'm putting on. So again thank you buddy and my very best wishes 👍👍👍👍

@@davidbuchanan3374 no problem at all, all the best with your project

@@SamDaviesBuilder Thank you pal. It's people like you willing to share your knowledge and skill set that allows amateurs like me to build the confidence to tackle work like this. Very best wishes to you and your's buddy👍👍👍

@@davidbuchanan3374 😃😃 thanks

🤣🤣 yea and 30 mins mixing. About summarises the quality of mortar on the big house builder sites

I don’t think my pizza skills will ever catch up with my building skills 🤣

Yea I know what you’re saying, I leave a slight gap so when I tap the slab down the mortar has somewhere to move into and closed the gap up

Yea these are just your standard garden slabs

@@SamDaviesBuilder just got my first house never done something like this and wanted to test myself any tips

@@BradJamie-zz3pf just ensure you dig out so you can get minimum 100mm of sub base (mot type 1) in and compacted and then lay your slabs on a 30-40mm mortar bed (5 parts sand 1 part cement with plasticiser). Make sure you get the mix right, there’s a few videos on how to mix on my channel. Any more advice just ask

Not sure exactly but it wasn’t far off your measurements

Oven size is fine 😃

Full video is on my channel 😃

I used an engineering brick but I’m sure clay brick is fine if you are just using charcoal. The instructions came with the BBQ kit I bought. What part of the world are you in?

​@@SamDaviesBuilderwhere did you get the BBQ kit do you have a link? I'm on the UK

@@EndCodeTv I had it from Very.co.uk but I can’t see any on there now. Argos do one for a decent price www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiY6evTp-CGAxVZilAGHW_hDMkYABAMGgJkZw&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImOnr06fghgMVWYpQBh1v4QzJEAQYASABEgJh8vD_BwE&sph=&sig=AOD64_29BjXOZr9L6z6PaeQyCVbzkOayHQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjusefTp-CGAxW-XUEAHRMOBlUQwg8oAHoECAYQEw&adurl=

No need on concrete slabs like this if you use a mix like I do. However it won’t harm if you do primer them. Porcelain and natural stone must be primered

What way wouldn’t be overkill? Plus council slabs are 50mm thick, these are only 28mm thick

Thanks, yea I’ve seen people using plastering trowels to do the bed I may give it a try

So which way is the right way if you’d like to explain?

Hi, thanks. I don't have any measurements or how many bricks I used I am sorry - this oven was for a customer and he supplied everything. I am building my own oven this summer and I will keep a record of everything so please subscribe for when I do.

Yea, this is foreplay 🤣🤣

@@SamDaviesBuilder ffs 😂

Problem is with resins because they are brush in, people think you can literally brush it in 10 minute job and walk away. If you ensure it’s compacted properly and take time with it it’ll last for years.

🤣🤣 Mr Whippy for me

Yea exactly that, plus they stick to the mix with this method whereas with dry mix they don’t stick to it - you’re just relying on the weight of the slab

It’s lovely to use 😃

Yep, never come loose!

Definitely not!

Thanks. My new one has a white head 😃

@@SamDaviesBuilder 🤣 judging by the time you sent this reply while having a shit 😂

@@user-uw7uh5rk8z 🤐🤣

Yep, the only way!

Thanks - you know the score!