I suppose most tradesmen could recreate that sort of pointing over a small area, but to keep the precision and quality on every joint is no easy task. Looks pin point everywhere.

Brick are sponges. Engineered brick are made to stop water egress. Horses for courses and all that

How do you connect a modern 110mm pipe into these old clay manhole foul half pipes?

Class.. great video

Top class

Building engineers and inspectors taking pure bollocks, well said andy ,mold and damp is caused because people are too @ucken cheap To buy oil to heat their house

Good straightforward info. Thanks.

I got 2ft ,4ft and 6ft ribbed levels for £160 from monk tools

No such thing as rising damp its more to do with condesation lack of or blocked air bricks. To much plastic in houses now

Crack converters

Perfect argument

Every time I've seen it... when the cavity is full from the footing ti above the damp.... fired clay don't let water in.....maybe through tge mortar bed... but it's always a filled cavity... if its not another cause

Good point mate 🤔🧱👍🏽

👍 you legend Andy!! Couldn’t agree more! I’m off to show this video to Mr Roger Frisby! 😂

Leonard Rossiter ........ Great actor . 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Have you used fishing line?

Very Concisely Put.

Rising Damp is an industry, not a physical thing. If you have damp walls, you have a source of water that shouldn't be there.

I've had to replace damp rotting joists that have been sitting on sleeper walls. I've had to put a dpc in a internal wall on my own house to stop the damp and there are certainly places where it doesn't rise. More proof we are in a simulation/matrix 😁

Nice feature on this lovely old building Andy ,I remember it well from the old days when me and my mates used to cycle to Rye House to watch the speedway . I have a question for you . Someone wants a 9 inch wall built at entrance with a wide gate . The wall is to be on a radius with piers at the gate and at the other end . Customer wants the wall to gently sweep up from the first pier to the pier at the gate . I don't know the method for getting the wall to gently and evenly rise up from first pier to second . The wall will be capped with brick on edge . Can you help me please or recommend a good book with this information . Many thanks Andy ,Nick.

Very good point Andy never thought of that before with brickwork built in rivers etc

100 per cent right -and well explained 🍀👍

What do you mean second hand? Stolen

That’s a good point sir

Repointing house built in lime mortar with sand and cement is the biggest problem on most houses. Then the big Scam comes of injecting rods

Just bought a new 96-2 Stabila 48 inch’s .75 euros shipping included .

A soft red will suck a pint of water up easy. Not sure on a pint or beer? Lol. Be a waste. Damp sure so many factors. Leaking guttering or broken guttering the biggest cause. Did a re-point in lime mortar and put weep vents in the purps outside low down. Wall breaths and really helps. Customer has no damp at all

Really interesting point mate...clear as day, no damp there! Perhaps it's to do with the type of brick as you mentioned. Softer clays vs engineering maybe. I remember watching the "Skill builder" KZbin channel regarding rising damp. He seems to have some really valid points explaining why it's a thing. Hope your well mate and enjoying the "Summer" so far😂

Depends on the Swans

Totally agree 👍

you are right andy

Wondering how you came to that conclusion.

Totally agree, it's a myth 👍

Surely it depends on the bricks and the gobbo used

Yeah very good point Andy when you think about it 👍🏻

Controversial ɓut correct.

No need for dpc dpm then

That river needs some barley straw in it.

Keep walking Andy...😂😂

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I'd be so pissed off, not only ruining the mortar with the dust and then painting over lovely brickwork. Insult to the craft

This is the finish I have to replicate on the zeal house job I showed you 😊 I love the finish personally I roll the bed but I use 3” filler blade for the perp and press it but as you say roll is better next day or in the summer as late as possible 😊

Great video, Andy. I used to live on Balmoral close at the end of park lane in the 70s, me dad used to drink in The Plough pub most days and i remember me mum got so pissed off with him always in there that one day she toke his dinner down to him in the bar and throw it at him lol im sure he was never late for his tea again after that lol.

Great vid andy, only just found your channel 😊

I dont suppose you know the names of the last landlords of the Jolly barge man pub do you??. As my dad lived there when he was young, I was told he was adopted by the owners/landlords of the pub. My dad's name was John, but he was also known as Jimmy James. He would have lived there in the 50s/60s.

How much per sqr mtr you charge?

I am going to be doing something very similar but smaller for multiple open french drains. I have conpacted down some hardcore for where it will sit as there is soaking wet clay where i am putting it. I am worried that when i pour the concrete base and build the brick walls the water will want to go under the chamber where the hardcore is. do you think this will be a problem? Its annoying because i was planning on doing this tonight but this worry has entered my brain!

Winchester would be a good place to visit “loads of gauged stuff.

Andy did you use lime when repointing the bay if so what type of and where do you get the brick colour wash