Block laying skills

[local patios and driveway]

This is beautiful to watch. Like the way the settles the muck on his trowel each time, gonna try that myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0&sns=em

[rimexboy]

wow thats very cool

[lutonlagerlout]

he would be down the road laying like that in the uk
full 10 mm joint is required
pure bodging the way he is doing it
LLL

[seanandruby]

I say that's not far off a 10ml joint, he does double butter the perps'. Classy work.

[lutonlagerlout]

it has to be a full joint and also he doesnt put any mortar on the cross joints of the blocks
might be pretty to watch but the wall will be weak
LLL

[andpartington]

is the idea of the hollow block not to fill them with concrete after they have set ? :rock:
there is a pile or rebar on his spotboard towards the end


andy

[lutonlagerlout]

you lot dont cut grass by any chance do you?
its wrong and he would be sacked in the uk for laying block like that
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

gotta love internet experts haha

[dig dug dan]

whilst i cannot comment on his skills as i do not know how to bricklay, i once went to a job where a guy was building a retaining wall out of hollow concrete blocks.
He laid the first course on muck over the rebar, then dry laid all the rest, then mass filled with concrete.
:rock:

[lutonlagerlout]

its getting more like large gusset juice round here by the day
any brick or block requires a full 10mm joint of mortar
what the yank is doing is the equivalent of spot bedding for bricklayers
he has a nice action but technically hes wrong
LLL

[Noony]

ha ha ha

you tell em LLL

[local patios and driveway]

Tony, despite the regs, you know on monday you will be trying the bed bricks with the back of your trowel

[michaelthegardener]

you lot dont cut grass by any chance do you?
its wrong and he would be sacked in the uk for laying block like that
LLL

thats starting to get on me wick a bit ............ anyway you seam to be forgetting its not the uk hes in is it over there that might be fine you know what them there americans are like

[lutonlagerlout]

no disrespect meant to you michael
but lads get binned on sites up and down the country on a daily basis for doing what that fella is doing
a bricklayer lays a bed,butters the blocks then lays them??
it aint rocket science
I have done 250 of the 2 hole conkers in a day,i wasnt thinking about the art ,i was thinking of the £1 a block i was getting to lay them :laugh:
LLL

[mickg]

maybe you would feel more at home on the landscape juice forum then michael :;):