'bricky tool' - Bricklaying

[dave w]

has anyone an opinion re a so-called revolutionary aid for bricklaying called the 'brickytool?' (www.brickytool.com) It certainly looks okay on their web site but does it really work?

[Stuarty]

Used it once, and only once. Im not a bricky, nowhere near, but i didnt find it that useful, and it felt like it took me longer. Could be useful if you are a diyer, but for me i didnt find it beneficial at all.

[lutonlagerlout]

oh dear
i cannot even start with this piece of crap
20 % materials 80% labour ???
dream on
what if you need to bump up the gauge to match something???

totally worthless,dunno what that award was it won but thats worthless too

LLL

[dave w]

I get the message!! Thanks very much, i'll leave it where it is!

[lutonlagerlout]

sorry to sound so negative dave,but wet trades (and i would include paving ,with platering,bricklaying,concrete work etc) take a couple of years at least to learn and at least 7 years to be really good,this people are selling false dreams and the yoke would end up in the back of the garage with all the other odds and ends
cheers LLL

[matt h]

it is ideal for some small little garden wall project for any one who has never laid a brick, and who has all day to lay three courses, it enables the complete novice to lay a reasonable course, so I suppose it has a use, but anyone wanting to do a job properly and in good time can do better without it.

[Tony McC]

I had a heated discussion with some twonk selling these at a trade show a few years back. He was full of the spiel and was trying to tell me that he was an ex-brickie and, just by using this bit of nonsense, he could lay around 5,000 bricks per day, whereas without it, he was only managing 2,000 per day. On his own. And he knocked up his own muck as well.

As I said: he was a twonk!

Can you imagine turning up on site and taking one of these yokes out of your kit bag? Roofers would be falling off the trusses after losing their footing while laughing. Joiners would be sniggering behind your back. Even the plasterers would taking the piss!

They are the sort of thing that the over-keen amateur/DIYer buys at a show. He takes it home, makes a place for it on his pegboard in the shed, and draws round the outline with a felt tip so he knows where it goes after he's used it, which will be roughly once.

[dave w]

i'm convinced, thanks again fellahs!!

[surreyhillslandscapes.com]

Just had a look at the promotional vid for the brickie tool, looks like bricklayers will be out of a job soon because according to the video " An average ordinary person can lay bricks in an acurate and cost effective way"
I just hope thet don't come up with a paving tool coz we could be jobless too...

[lutonlagerlout]

most i have ever laid in a day was 1400 facers in an 18 inch boilerhouse wall,and i was in pieces the rest of the week
and about 250 solid 9 inch blocks with the same results
avg for a trade is 5-700 facers and 100-150 blocks depending on many variables
LLL :;):

[matt h]

most i have ever laid in a day was 1400 facers in an 18 inch boilerhouse wall,and i was in pieces the rest of the week
and about 250 solid 9 inch blocks with the same results
avg for a trade is 5-700 facers and 100-150 blocks depending on many variables
LLL :;):

with bricky tool they'ld be there all week doin that

[mikeadelic]

I myself have not laid bricks/blocks before, however I am about to start laying concrete blocks tomorrow morning (weather permitting) and am afraid I have purchased one of these tools (dont all shout & mock, yet any way) Let me a complete novice try this tool out & report my findings!
Cant say fairer than that surely. I will even include photos.

Mike

[lutonlagerlout]

good luck mike
mortar consistency is of the utmost importance especially to novices like your self
cheers LLL

[James.Q]

next theres a brain surgery tool dont bother learning just follow instrutions:p

[matt h]

I myself have not laid bricks/blocks before, however I am about to start laying concrete blocks tomorrow morning (weather permitting) and am afraid I have purchased one of these tools (dont all shout & mock, yet any way) Let me a complete novice try this tool out & report my findings!
Cant say fairer than that surely. I will even include photos.

Mike

are you still buildin that wall or what? :p