Bricklaying How to Brick up a garage door

Another job on the house, urning a grade into a music studio- I show you how to brick the door up to make it into a room

[@stevemcilroy9518]

It would be funny if the camera swung round to see a group playing live on the lawn, great music, and job

[@Chind92]

Another great video. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge.

[@Daemiex]

nice to see the specialist chiseling with his safety goggles on his forehead lol 0:25

[@anthonyboxerward6453]

Daemiex 😂

[@chrisrocky3429]

Thanks for sharing Chris u got nice style .....good job

[@stevehornberger6675]

Hey Chris great job! I really enjoy watching your brick work. I've been a mason for 19 years now and everything looks really good what you're doing. Keep making videos and never mind all the negative and immature remarks!

[@foundationgood123]

Steve Hornberger Thanks appreciated👍

[@motodaniel5760]

Hello, I love the video. I was wondering how do you glue the backing up all that?

[@TAKM90]

keep up the good work Chris, excellent video as always 👍

[@foundationgood123]

Many thanks

[@icespeckledhens]

Excellent video with some very tidy brickwork. Is the brickwork built up from the garage slab? Thanks

[@stevens5541]

The first person I've come across that spreads mortar and butters their cross joints properly.

[@bradparker4275]

very good bricklayer but sometimes you have to watch your colors . remember bricklaying is a art. don't want to many black bricks in one spot

[@peterjanjanin9883]

Brad Parker labourer ' s job

[@yasminghani2073]

Enjoy watching your video

[@thomasgeraghty5374]

Camera man great for getting your back.

[@cloudstrifeification]

Do you all put anything in that air space between the inner block wall and outer brick wall?

[@VicsYard]

Nice work.

[@tpsrenovations546]

Nice job. Good to watch nice work

[@foundationgood123]

Thank you

[@benbax5990]

Nice video mate..... how much bricks do you lay on a day??? Greetin´s...

[@jasonwilliams5542]

Great work on these videos I'm learning a lot cheers

[@foundationgood123]

Cheers bud-:)

[@dimitribirko91dimitribirko90]

Jason Williams

[@gbsgbs5697]

Jason Williams your learning from the wrong person !!!!! Not even qualified to be a bricklayer let alone teach !!!!!!!

[@liviubutnaru9503]

Heloo! I see 2walls(outside and inside house).betwin is not come isolation?where i see in UK tehnic rools for build houses?thanks

[@carmelpule6954]

Good basic structural work, but what about using unit tie placement to tie the inner and outer wall together? Matching in a softer optical manner the old bricks with the 'blacker" bricks could have been given some more thought. Again, Sir, matching utility with elegance would win you higher class contracts. Note:- have a look at some work on super-yachts and associated buildings.

[@belessobvious7808]

Nice job I enjoy your videos. One question though. Why didn't you attach your wall to the cinder block?

[@foundationgood123]

they have tie wires connecting the two skins- its closed off with plaster boarding

[@Messimagician83]

How deep do the foundations have to be when building brick walls? I have a single skin garage wall but would prefer a double skin wall, however our pillars are only 1 brick wide so it would not have a cavity

[@foundationgood123]

A foundation is only as good as the ground under it-Clay is called "Builders gold"...Make sure you go down enough until you are on firm ground where ever you build You can still form a cavity as I did on the garage I bricked up!

[@viktorsukharyev7108]

good job Chris Are you ever going to do some videos on how to plaster? thank you

[@foundationgood123]

Thank you -:)

[@TheAudiostud]

Hi Chris, enjoyed your vid, can I ask you what ratio was the mix & did you add any additives ? I'm in the middle of repairing cascading steps as one side has broken away, I'm enjoying the experience taking my time as I'm retired, regards the mix stiffness is it like custard or cream cheese ? For some reason I cannot seem to get that bit right! Any advise would be great, thanks again

[@foundationgood123]

Hi ThdeAudiostud ell done for having a go-:) and thank you again for watching the video adding your positive input which is appreciated. I use the plaster-sizing agent called, Febmix..You can purchase this from any local builders yard or DIY Centres...It is an art in getting the mix to the right texture....My advice would be to add the sand ration 4 sand and the 1 cement and let them turn in the mixer whilst adding water that has the recommended plaster-sizer amount and let the mix turn whilst slowly adding the water...The plaster-sizer will aerate the mix as it turns around. Regarding the texture of the mortar mix, it should be like whipped cream...I suggest you test it before rolling it out of the mixer, if its to wet add more cement and sand visa versa if its to stiff the work then gently add more water..good luck and I hope this small advice has helped...regards, Chris..

[@TheAudiostud]

Yes Chris use Febex Wickes employee told me of it & its use, I don't have a mixer I use a wheel barrow & a rake, I give it a real good mix get plenty of air into the mix, today I've finally got it right, followed your instruction from a previous video I think that this rain may have washed my work out! Will see in the morning, thanks for your quick response it's really appreciated

[@Garyck88]

TheAudiostud plenty of air lol!

[@zedman442]

Loving your work Chris, if you can't tooth out such as a rendered wall would you still persist in removing render or stick with metal ties?

[@foundationgood123]

Hey Zed Man, thanks for your kind remarks-:)...I assume you mean "Wall Starters" or "Crocodile Teeth" if so, these are recommended by the local Building Control and are sufficient for most jobs and are compulsory if you are tying an extension to into an existing house if the FND is a Raft style. Hope this is helpful buddy..

[@zedman442]

OK great thanks for clearing up :) Although converting a garage is sacrilege! lol There would be tears running down my face if I had the job of your bricking up the garage!

[@iswarnathmangra7927]

Zed Man 

[@jharris947]

7:26 the original sides have no dark bricks and looks like only one dark brick was used along the top. Far too many dark bricks used on new brickwork and they're all grouped together. This makes the new brickwork stand out like a sore thumb.

[@brianoneill350]

Chris how did you match in the mortar colour. Old Victorian house here 1870's . How would I know if I have lime mortar or sand cement

[@liamwalters5029]

It will be lime mortar from that period Brian !

[@dalitrademk8022]

szia milyen falazó anyagot használsz? köszi

[@2bsure407]

No tray damp?

[@ruskiryan2398]

Insulation ?

[@eduardouk]

hey great vid. do you work around the stoke area?

[@foundationgood123]

ST1 to10

[@eduardouk]

+Chris Longhurst nice you got a website?

[@eduardouk]

***** i need some work doing so give me some contact details and i'll be in touch

[@garyharris184]

I would have built some polythene into the bottom course to keep the drive clean and stop all your droppings into the aco drain then cut it off with Stanley knife when finished

[@flashboredom9326]

good point would have looked much cleaner.

[@MrchampionsLeague141]

yes ! outside ground is screaming for some protective Cordex to be put down , takes 2 minutes

[@stevens5541]

Gary Harris ...shut up knob head

[@blakeclemons4042]

They are destoring those pavers. Lol..

[@michaelkeogh1735]

Why haven't you put in damp proof course ?

[@foundationgood123]

michael keogh Have you watched the video!!!!! See 1:20-35 minuets in and it's clearly visible as are the wall ties LOL

[@splash5974]

0:30 always make sure to protect your forehead with goggles, to stop flying pieces of brick or mortar... lmfao

[@foundationgood123]

LOL

[@anthonyboxerward6453]

splash 😂

[@graceakinje4965]

Was the engineering brick done in a day

[@stevenharrhy74]

The young lad had safety glasses on top of his head.

[@Garyck88]

Steven Harrhy yeh that’s where they go when your not using them

[@michaelkeogh1735]

Also no damp tray and no wall ties built in on the inside leaf ?

[@foundationgood123]

No need for try-DPC in both sides....see1:11 for wall ties, oh and insulation put in too....All passed by local authorities...

[@agt155]

The wall ties are clearly visible.

[@roygregory8334]

Did you put a colourant in your mortar. I noticed that it was brown.

[@foundationgood123]

Roy Gregory Yes, red dye to match existing build

[@roygregory8334]

@@foundationgood123 Great thanks for the info. I Enjoy your video's.

[@thomasgeraghty5374]

As they would say....a bloody proper slober.

[@michaelkeogh1735]

Nice work then muppet 👌

[@neilspedding5880]

Hi , do you need any planning or building permission to brick up and put a in window in, instead of a garage door.

[@foundationgood123]

Neil Spedding This job had building regs- you’re best calling your local Council office and check your area!

[@tahoetom9932]

Closing up a garage should be illegal. No wonder most men have no idea how to fix things anymore. I would just start building motors in the kitchen till that wall got taken down.

[@elmodiddly]

Please, please remove the music. The scrape of the trowel is lovely. Excellent vid though.

[@TheBellEnd]

Why fill the Aco drain with pug ?

[@jasongentle9588]

what's with high vis are you on site lol !

[@foundationgood123]

No, the company I am doing the job for require us to and if I don't they could be in trouble seemingly.....

[@keithdavis2818]

Where is the cavity wall insulation?

[@helenplathe2709]

I want it started from the beginning, not middle of project. This is for those who already knows a little on how to start or bricks helpers. little, perhaps.

[@filipvintila5842]

The bricks with holes you don't need to create void 😀 Make sense?

[@tigertruckerman]

why you not tie them into block and what about insulation

[@myatix1]

What happened to the insulation and wall ties? A shame you filled the aco drain with mud!

[@gbsgbs5697]

THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF ALL THE GEAR BUT NO IDEA !!!!! #badbuilder

[@foundationgood123]

GBS GBS, where matey, just explain your self...Please note I leave all negative comments on unlike a lot who edit them out...I let the audience judge and I find it balances out

[@abdulazizfukad9094]

Hi Chris I'm going to study bricklaying at i heard is good pay work you can earn 150 to 200 a day

[@saporob]

150- 200 bananas a day maybe...

[@TheBellEnd]

A good brickie can command a very decent day rate, Chris is not a qualified Brick Layer , More a jobbing builders labourer ..

[@thorp.n8998]

How about spending 1-2 days going out and asking bricklayers before settling on ur profession for years to come because "you heard" something ;)

[@wilkyahzee2335]

$272 a day.

[@michaeloliver3547]

With bricklaying you earn more the rougher you lay bricks, rough bricklayers earn 280 a day and good bricklayers 200 a day

[@Order-in-Chaos]

You seem like a good brick layer but how come you're sloppy on the brick header faces with your vertical joints? You're stingy on filling that area which can cause leakage and efflorescence. BTW, your building official must be extremely lenient to allow a conversion from a garage to a living space not to mention zoning! Do they do it differently in the UK?

[@Blueskinedbeast]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

[@rosscartwright715]

have you got a new trowl

[@foundationgood123]

hahaha yes

[@wajhathussain4023]

Hi chris where do you live?

[@foundationgood123]

Wajhat Hussain Stoke-on-trent area!

[@gusaccheni65]

there is mothing worse than toothing, have you heard of the festo tool

[@gusaccheni65]

and for each peir for level it will never be right just got to make it right by eye as rough as it sounds

[@jamietalbot7254]

In all fairness Chris toothing is not a specialist job😂😂

[@35k66]

Very bad work! Quick question, where did you hang your stetson?

[@iamaGod357]

The first course of block has gaps in the mortar of the vertical joints, very sloppy job.

[@johnp.delaura6008]

Why do you Brits ferrow so deep. The mortar will not go into the holes to form a good bond.

[@gbsgbs5697]

JOHN P. DE LAURA it will when furrowing spreads the mortar it also pushes any excess to the side and below when it pushed below it bonds white the bricks below the only time we don't furrow is when laying the course directly on top of foundations !!!

[@SilverTrowel631]

No wall ties? No DPC? 300mm Foundation? No tarp on the floor to protect the paving and Aco? C'mon pal, you're better than that surely.

[@jacktanser2012]

The bricks didn't match

[@user-to2pf8rb5m]

itz Jack you can’t always get the exact match sometimes companies stop making them or there’s only a limited amount left spread around the country so you just find the best match possible plus the others are weathered which the new ones will be soon and the colour will die down.

[@fordy2604]

You got more chance of laying a fuckin egg that is dog rough fella 👍👍

[@anniebailey2871]

so many critics on here!

[@matthewwinson7645]

Where's the ties

[@lesgill8490]

Rough and messy, i hope you did not charge money for that?

[@miltonchee7655]

Mud spreading needs work.

[@tonyo6066]

Dont need any music on the job

[@owenjerzak4878]

That’s so Siri that’s up that’s that’s that’s of of

[@gbsgbs5697]

Why is every one in the comments saying no wall ties all you need to open your eyes or go to spec savers

[@bigears4426]

GBS GBS I can't see them i must be blind

[@danjacobs1896]

Fuck around with laying the bed and buttering the brick will never earn decent money like that

[@mikeberry7460]

pretty bad job. bricks are not half bond. you should of cut the bricks at the start . all amateur mistakes. didn't hear one word about wall ties either

[@navzaffar20021978]

Mike Berry does it matter even though it's toothed in to the other brick work just asking

[@mikeberry7460]

Nav Zaffar I ment cut the bricks at the bottom.instead of a massive bed of mortar

[@anonymous-ho2mo]

Mike Berry where arent they half bond

[@danoking69]

Just look 1/4 sometimes.

[@foundationgood123]

Camera angle fella, look at the end where you see front on...no 1/4 bond lol

[@nagababu7202]

g,k

[@SuperJammygit]

Not a very good match of brick,

[@tsb4u30]

Bricks are a bad match,,, all in not a bad job...

[@willgilly50]

Not the best matching

[@foundationgood123]

!980's housing but, bricks discontinued so these were the best match!

[@d44nny]

Chris Longhurst you said it's a pretty modern house so you can get matching bricks tho 😃😃

[@andrewo3428]

be honest would you be happy with that. bricks wrong colour not good enough unfortunately no protection on pavers etc.poor

[@hoddymon10]

Where ya insulation you muppet

[@findtail]

where is the brick ties. so dodgy

[@foundationgood123]

findtail Are you blind, or I suggest you.'re to quick to make assumptions bud... See 1.20-31 mins on the video, they are plain to see! LOL

[@myronsmith2114]

Those bricks don't match it looks like someone is playing tick tack toe

[@laylacooper3848]

No wall ties! No insolation! Compo in the ako drain ! Mate WTF!

[@foundationgood123]

layla cooper Are you blind!!! Ties are visible as is the DPC “if you look” at 1:20-30 minuets in...The Insulation is added after this filming if it wasn’t it wouldn’t pass the building regs...drains are being changed to metal ones afterwards!!! lol

[@laylacooper3848]

Can't see no insolation. Even if you you change the drain covers to metal ones you still do not fill them up with compo! Why would they change the drains any way? What is wrong with the ones that already there. Hope you not telling Porky's

[@laylacooper3848]

Nice window reveal what did you plumb that up with banana lol

[@foundationgood123]

layla cooper As I have explained insulation added later- Did you see the ties bu the way!!!! Nothing wrong with the drains they just wanted metal not plastic

[@foundationgood123]

layla cooper No an apple lol

[@CantE8tCheese]

Haha has eye protection uses it to protect forehead...

[@adeclewes2721]

No ties from block work to brickwork,rookie

[@jimslack5611]

Mix ya bricks ya novice.....

[@danjacobs1896]

2bob bricklayer🤦🏽‍♂️

[@andyg9691]

Very slow

[@Prawnchowmein]

Real brick layers use the Bricky tool, all 34 of my brick layers use them. No Bricky tool no work. I pay £1.50 per brick and £1 per block on my sites, just won a massive contract building the west wing of the new Westfields in Birmingham.

[@140rware]

Prawnchowmein you're liar.. No decent bricklayer would ever need a brickie tool.. You employ unskilled labour. You are a bragging bodger and fool

[@derekcook780]

fuck off

[@jimdoc6102]

Prawnchowmein plastic rubbish don't be fooled

[@Garyck88]

Prawnchowmein some bricklayers lay over 800 bricks per day, that’s £1200! No one pays that’s! At least make it realistic if your going to bullshit

[@jimdoc6102]

Prawnchowmein your nuts there's more to brickwork than spreading a bed you dummy

[@mikeberry7460]

also no mention of damp course in the floor or up the window jams. you should of started with a tray damp at the very bottom instead of a 40mm bed. very bad job.

[@joejupp123]

Hi Chris ive been watching your videos for while been a great watch. Could i message you for some advice please.

[@foundationgood123]

Hi, yes mate.

[@joejupp123]

@@foundationgood123 thank you ive messaged on facebook hope ok as couldnt send pics on here

[@josedelgado3561]

Very slow