what you teaching some one to point or render

Smudge

Gonna try this on the next wall I build, thanks for the tutorial! -Will (your student from last year)

The Idea behind this was purely to get two cuts out of one block (440 long) to give a pretty accurate and acceptable half bond. I went for 330 and 110 for arguments sake. Easy !!! For some reason, I have had a couple of comments which complicate it and suggest that I have no idea and don't know what I'm talking about (now deleted😉). The most recent was that the three quarter should be 11 5/8" 🤣🤣🤣🤡. Let's keep things simple shall we 👌.

Thanks for that. I assume you mean 190 mm trowel ? 👍

Still got it Andy nice 1

Nice job from one andy d to another!

Hi can you share how to make training mortar

Really useful demonstration of key trowel techniques for bricklaying. For practice purposes what mortar mix do you use - is it simply sand : lime ( what proportions?) Many thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise!

Awesome, lots of skill in those hands!

Subby corner

Morning Andy saves alot of cutting which is a nightmare hate it 😢ive used the 3 quarter on many job's but fair play to you for showing people the option 👏 it will help loads to a young apprentice 🙏👌👌👍

12 inch piece..

Luv ❤️ it mate been brickie 38 years and never heard a Welsh arch and i thought i knew my stuff 😂 keep up the gud work mate 👍 😊

Pic and dip 😏

There was me expecting a miracle 😅

Nice...

I'm retired now,but never new why most lads on sites just kept cutting loads of 100 mm cuts.Over the years never came across anybody who could show me in construction books with proof or explain the differences in strengths if we 1/4 bonded then changed to half bond instead of half bonds all the time.. Cheers Andy Malcolm from london

I showed Lewis this last week coincidentally 😊

I’d just strike the herring bone on cardboard use lines and figure out best looking for the job purpose

Nice, you forget about the simple solution on site

No line pins corner blocks

Well done and a good effort. The speed will come with practice and experience. I always used smaller trowels when "picking and dipping" and its important to have your bricks and mortar as close together as is viable - depending on site conditions. So you are picking the brick up at the same time as the mortar - and its becomes one fluid motion onto the wall. The mortar consistency has to be perfect for pick & dip as well. Well done though. 👍😁🧱⚒

If your gonna practice you should start by going forward left to right and the overhand you should go right to left if your going for speed your doing it backwards a bricklayer should be able to lay from each side but if your right handed left to right is going forward I know guys that will spot a twig in the middle of the wall just so we can both go forward left to right I knows your not the only right handed bricklayer that likes going right to left but it is backwards the short super trowel video you posted Charlie and Ash are doing it like I said the reason for that is obvious the girl is going backwards and she has to perp the bricks in her hand

What angle should the cuts be?

Charlie's a Machine.!!

Impressive I could do 30 in a minute with empty perps aswell

Pick and dip will never win. That's what makes Charlie so good, he's not stubborn, and knows what it takes to get the job done. Still wins after dropping the line twice.

This takes me back to my apprenticeship 😅

😂😂

Happy days, Mr Collison 😂😅

Used it loads

NEAT

Andy, you are a true Artisan. 👍

Haven't done a Welsh arch for years.

Done several of those over the years. My theory on the name is because they say the welsh are tight so this is a quick and very cheap arch to construct . No offence to the Welsh people thou👍

Ty

love it , going outside to make one now :), nice detail for kids play house 🏠

I love the Welsh arch, but I haven't built one since college back in the nineties.

Been a bricklayer for57 years never seen this magic always learning 👌

That’s great mate and probably stronger than a concrete beam. Thanks for sharing that.

That’s bro

Nice idea, but most of the video was of your arse! Better camera angle required me thinks!

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Have @Wonderful New Year's!//thanks

😂 brilliant one that

Them Romans taught the welsh summut ir did the welsh nick it 😂

Sid should remember them, they're something you don't see or hear about anymore with ONLY 2 references on Google images.

I’ve never seen that before very similar to splicing timbers to create a joint and I’ve never heard of a Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Arch. I will forward this onto Sid I’m sure he will find it interesting 😂.

Very good I find it all interesting good day yesterday the FA Cup Final was good ended up in The Merstham Village Club in the evening one of my old haunts in Merstham. Head down now for six weeks and back to school 🏫 I’m actually looking forward to it I’ve got a feeling this could lead onto good things in my future .