Bricklaying is easy. Blocks

[@stuartcraigon2003]

At least it's not pissing with rain or snowing in there! Very quick and tidy job.

[@whoopwhoop1207]

What is it with brickys slagging of other brickys! He's a decent bricklayer! Most people that talk the talk don't walk it. I've worked with hundreds of brickys over the years and this lads sound.

[@rickytaylor4441]

It's called banter mate am a bricky and we always slag each off haha

[@TheNixbrix]

cos when its dec-jan at the back of a farmers yard your trestles are uneven and you have a lazy pol laborer ... bricking is not fukin easy

[@MrMagsimus]

Well said bruv ! Nice one 👍 you are bang on bro

[@mickybrennan3489]

He's a little better than sound,up there with the best I'd say. But well said mate.

[@ianhoward4246]

Number 9, I thought you were a goalie 😷😷

[@borjastick]

I watched because I am about to block up the end of my open wood barn and I have never done it before. I learned something and that's good. Thanks.

[@steviboi7629]

borjastick It's not as easy as it looks trust me lol

[@lendavidhart9710]

Seems like a humble guy! Thanks for posting

[@carlconner1166]

Great job nice clean work you are a master stay safe godbless Carl in london

[@marijan5briic849]

safe space clean is first on construction

[@giulianacr2638]

Wish I had the skill and strength to do this. It's like an art :)

[@param_putr]

I can watch this all day. Thank you for your work good sir! ☕

[@wilkyahzee2335]

Pretty good bro. Negative comment guys are stupid. I been a mason 20 yrs. I know a real mason when I see one. And I know a WANNA be when I hear him talking lots of trash. Keep up the good work. 💪🤙👊👍

[@MatthewGreenway]

Wilk Yahzee thanks pal. The negative comments make me smile. Anyone who says don't use a hammer on 140 paint grades,have obviously never laid one before.👍

[@Lord-Brett-Sinclair]

He's a grafter and gets my vote . I would lay blocks this way.

[@nevillejones9197]

Good work mate, been a brickie for 46 years semi retired now. Your smashing those in they are not easy to lay.

[@chrisbooth1998]

Makes building my garden shed look easier. Thanks Matt.

[@MatthewGreenway]

Chris Booth when running blocks to a line. Line the bottom of the block flush with the one below before tapping the top of the block down to the line. If you haven't done it before I suggest you only go up 4 courses, let it set and then carry on the next day. Even more so with lighter and thinner blocks. The ones im laying in the video are heavy 140 concretes and believe it or not are easier to lay although some brickies would disagree purely because off the weight ! Good luck

[@MatthewGreenway]

just to say boys and girls that this was fair faced both sides. plastered work would be all hands no hammer.. Unless the wall /footing you're coming off is a proverbial mile out 😂

[@Plastic_Sole]

So relaxing!

[@AGeteS]

i like it, hes good enough

[@abdulmalikali4359]

Nice work man. Keep it up!

[@MatthewGreenway]

cheers pal

[@mickybrennan3489]

Good trowel, good pace. 👍

[@TheBenzer9]

I'm always amazed how people build with wood and cement it's amazing, why hasn't this old traditional way of building survived, I love the way he dost use any nails or screws just pure old-time skill, here in the states it's all timber sheeting, we should just go back to wood blocks and cement, are the wood blocks treated or are they ceder?

[@bombaclut7458]

Arsebox 1974 wood blocks?

[@barnabyg6808]

Stephen 1974 they’re made of concrete mate

[@unhingedleprachaun]

He's good and earning his money laying those 140. They should be off the market.

[@StanOwden]

Yeh... 160 will do a better job

[@TJ-eq6dl]

This guy jumps in his Rolls Royce at the end of the day To go home to his mansion.

[@KemalOzgen]

Nice work Matt.Very nice.

[@26raa01]

nice neat working it's a nice steady pace to be able to work like that all day

[@JohnSmith-bb9pv]

This a fun to watch, I switch over to framing because Bricklaying is usually good for at least 10 years before you start fucking up your body. Framing is a little earlier on the body but requires a little more thinking which is fine, the money is a little less but it's still worth not fucking up my body. Framing still pays well, I'm at 34$ an hour with 50 hours a week which is already way more than average. You should try framing

[@jimg3145]

Good shit dude. You the man.

[@b0xing123]

Lovely work

[@itsmewayne428]

Once built a wall in 210mm back in the 90s couldn't move my arms the next day...

[@MatthewGreenway]

Wayne Bailey laid loads of em mate on supermarkets and factories glad they banned em. Prefer laying 140's than 100mm though

[@stasbagvin3174]

@@MatthewGreenway 100mm is pretty hard to stay still, its light weight is bad side of it. But men. Did you lay 400mm?)))

[@simonlomas686]

Like your style mate, fantastic

[@Beaver-b1v]

Decent!! Can you show you building some retaining walls? And some setting out please? Also what gauges and bonding you decide to use 👍🏻

[@davidcowe9220]

nice work 👍

[@jimdoc6102]

After 55years doing this stuff, ican assure you this cat is the dogs.

[@zedman442]

Nice work mate.

[@thomasgeraghty5374]

Something therapeutic about the sound of the trowel...watching in Down town Chicago! Not venturing out , glass braking and bricks flying ....I have never laid a block in my life. I hate to have carry them up to him.

[@jimdoc6102]

I was a banjo player for 51 years nine inch concrete blocks for Jack wall's .concrete boot lintels !no fork lifts.shit sand no optomix .now I have cementia I'm sitting in the garden drinking beer Cheers!!

[@MatthewGreenway]

Jim Doc i remember the 9" conblocks..good riddance to em😉

[@JohnSmith-bb9pv]

Not bad, at least in this video you did a pretty good job. It's good enough to impress the supervisor.

[@itsmewayne428]

Man...you butter like me with the left hand.not seen many do that..:)

[@MatthewGreenway]

Wayne Bailey didnt realise I did,seems natural to do it like that. Don't do it higher up though 😉

[@maxstaber9397]

I layed those once not easy to lay great job anyone talking trash probably wouldnt even be able to lift those things good job no wasted movements

[@muahthaibjj6653]

Good bricklayer 👍

[@jordanholmes4052]

What trowel you using here boss? Whs leather handle?

[@seanmclaughlin4039]

There should be an annual get together in some big warehouse of all the KZbin brickies to put all the slabbering to bed and go toe to toe. These 9 by 6s are no joke the fact hes even lifting them without one hand underneath is a challenge in itself.

[@MatthewGreenway]

These are 10n blocks as well dude. I don't proclaim to be the best, but nobody would ever destroy me on bricks or blocks unless they sacrificed quality for speed.

[@excadent1967]

@@MatthewGreenway keep calm always there better than others

[@Fromupnorth46]

Matthew Greenway you’re a good bricky mate 🧱👍 some 🔔 ends out there who are perfect but yet don’t film themselves. 🤔 nowt wrong with your technique and I always put bigger bed on for grunters. Fuck laying them twice.

[@PaddleDogC5]

You can only spread for one block with one trowel full. That is a short spread so you go back to the mortar board or tub more often while you dodge all the scaffold poles in your way.

[@RockStarMasonry]

like your style mate

[@wolfhachmuth7731]

U're ambidextrous mate.

[@themanftheworld8439]

Bricklaying is not as easy as it looks.Its an art.

[@builderbricklayer6380]

keep up the good work😎

[@brian.7966]

Collison is the man .

[@stephensmith1630]

looks well Matt

[@MatthewGreenway]

stephen smith thanks mate 👍

[@GamingGuides4You]

Laying wet 140’s just above head height under the line and it slipped out my right hand my left thumb took all the weight and it snapped back out it’s socket. Safe to say I will never lay em like 100’s ever again.

[@craighahessy9602]

What weight are those blocks

[@amadol0co]

what kind of pants are those???? do they rip easy by bending down while having a striker in the back pocket???? thanks for the response!......if i get one though! thanks!

[@plummetplum]

Are block walls weaker than brick walls as there are less bonds and longer joints to fail?

[@deangriffiths9740]

Take no notice of the wannabe brickys bro nice work hard yakka with the solid 6 inch mate .👍👍👍

[@jasec8701]

How much you getting a metre for those lumps mate?

[@MatthewGreenway]

Jase C 15 dude

[@jasec8701]

Matthew Greenway Good on ya. Keep horsing them in 😊

[@vistron888]

I've learnt bricklaying through my own practice. Not professionally, nor am I professional, just DIY stuff. I take my time but make sure it's done right. Younger generation are spoilt with internet videos on how to do stuff. I had no clue what I was doing to begin with. More mortar on the floor than the wall. Pretty much every property I've done refurbishment on has poor brickwork. Most of the walls look like they were thrown up by a prisoner of war using their thumb as a level and mortar joints riddled with gaps, which rats love to exploit across lofts.

[@jasec8701]

V T strong words champ

[@dekonfrost7]

Dude are all the block in england and europe solid?

[@MatthewGreenway]

dekonfrost7 no mate. Construction sites are mainly dense solid. Housing are usually thermo lightweights 😞

[@michelelanni9205]

Matthew Greenway but they are not hollow like the ones we have here in America right?

[@smackflack5771]

So no grouting? No rebar every 2 foot inside block cells??

[@s4ms0n1t3]

@@michelelanni9205 dont usually use hollow blocks in the uk no

[@abnerramirez4508]

How do you prepare the mortar?

[@paulbutler3469]

Press the button

[@mauri7306]

Look at that left and right handed your a Fuckin machine bro 👌

[@gerrardhehir3610]

I wouldn't slag his work off. The only thing I would say is, he obviously gets everything done and then presses record. Also doesn't fill his joints!!!!!! Like i said, I'm not slagging off his works(we all do it) but just don't get why he gets the views when all he does is what I do every day. I would however be up for a challenge. If he was man enough to take it on of course. £500.00 big boys in the middle of the line. winner takes it all. Just him and me on the line. No one passing blocks or butting up, just me and him and our trowels. winner takes the pot. Lets go for it 👍🏆🏆🏅👌👊

[@MatthewGreenway]

😂

[@MatthewGreenway]

im up for it. never had anybody beat me on the line on 140 blocks,few have come close so unless you can lay 400 fair faced in a day then id keep your money in your pocket . as for full joints . I suggest you watch the video again.

[@gerrardhehir3610]

don't need to watch again. I'll be doing it myself today and every other day of my working life. Day In, day out. you sure you want to take me on. I'm game if you are!!!!!

[@rhothgardenviking7851]

400 fair faced in a day! You're working at almost 180 an HOUR at that rate! I've been a mason for 4 years now and still not laid one block... Just watching videos online to try and learn to lay blocks as I have some remedial work to do on an extension built by cowboys in the 1980's!

[@adamdinsdale4155]

top job pal. don't get why everyone on here has to slate every fucker else on here. I use a hammer on them blocks. so what? its what suits the individual laying them. who give a fuck who's the fastest? more often than not the fastest is the roughest that's been my experience

[@howdears2114]

Adam Dinsdale Correct fastest usually means roughest. In my experience

[@neckarsulme]

good guy

[@adamhamblin7627]

makes me miss bricklaying already. I finished my apprenticeship this year. but no one one would let me lay after i finished just gave me excuses and made me hod carry all the fucking time. I did enough on my apprenticeship bbut i pushed through, only to be treated like crap after lol went with a few gangs and they all did the same stuff. Would hardly let me on the line made me carry because they wouldt find a hoddy and then pay me a shit wage. Decided to try plastering but miss actually laying.

[@MatthewGreenway]

Adam Hamblin I was the same. went to college on a 6 month block and worked for a firm who didn't do bricklaying. I was fortunate to have an older brother who was already in the trade otherwise I may have packed up myself. I'm better than most now so don't give up!

[@jerryscary3098]

Adam Hamblin masonry sucks. Hard life. only gets harder with age. run while you can. you're one of the smart ones...

[@ryanwheatley5280]

Adam Hamblin I know what you mean mate going though some thing man me you can't give up bro if its bricklayeing what you want to do got to keep looking for bricklayeing what im doing good luck whis you all the best let me know how you got on

[@jerryscary3098]

Ryan Wheatley take it from somebody in the trade for 18 years........NOT WORTH IT!

[@howdears2114]

Ryan Wheatley Bricklaying. See what i did there. If you cant even spell it who the fucks going to take you on pmsl . Most wet ears are to slow on the line to earn enough money . Hence the demotion

[@richardthorne5142]

Top dog on them 6 inch

[@hotpoker4212]

If you put the line,on the other side,no need for all the lifting,that's how I got repetitive strain injury,

[@alanfitzsimmons]

Mathew I agree....ha ha

[@MatthewGreenway]

fitzy no you don't lol

[@stevekelly7194]

no harm using a lump hammer on 140 concrete blocks

[@MatthewGreenway]

Steve Kelly it is the only way with heavy blocks on pointed work. anybody who says different has never laid them👍

[@RH-hb7zs]

@@MatthewGreenway I get slagged off for using a hammer. One bricky tells me to use a hammer, another bricky tells me to rub the block down. When I lay the block, one bricky is telling me not to touch the line at all, even when my thumbs touch the line. I also have another bricky telling me touch the line with the block. Can you tell me what I should do? Urgent need an answer

[@MatthewGreenway]

@@RH-hb7zs if a bricklayer is telling you to never touch a line then he's a fool. I rub down blocks on plastered work but pointed 18kg 6" blocks i always use a hammer as I feel more in control of the block. Everyone has different techniques, I hope this helps

[@RH-hb7zs]

@@MatthewGreenway thanks a lot mate. I guess every site job has different bricklayers with different ways of things. I know if I go to another site I won’t have any confusion with people

[@PaddleDogC5]

If you spread the right amount of mortar you would't need a lump hammer to hit them down. It's a rough spread and short. Scaffolding sucks for production. Voids in the joints so you're into another restoration job of pointing voids.

[@MatthewGreenway]

PaddleDogC5 just when I thought nobody could come out with anymore shit than I've already heard, you appear. give yourself a round of applause for being the biggest nob in the trade.

[@PaddleDogC5]

Never use a hammer to lay a block because I spread to much mortar.. You spread the mortar on the wall and go back and pick it off the wall again to re-spread it. Waste of time as is your furrowing the mortar. You lay the bock without cutting the mortar from the face before you place the joint ob it. That means you have no clue where the bottom face of block is aligned. Every time you need to switch from trowel to hammer you lose time.

[@MatthewGreenway]

I bet you'd struggle to pick one up. My technique works for me and I'd bet as much money as you could get your hands on, that if you come on the line with me I'd make you look foolish.. Especially trying to lay the top course without a lump hammer 😂😂

[@PaddleDogC5]

top course you can rub down too. But it doesn't take rubbing if you can spread. You would be going to the bank for a loan to pay me after your got trounced..

[@jimg3145]

You guys are idiots thats good shit

[@alanfitzsimmons]

My hero... who's jef

[@mickybrennan3489]

Quality trowel doing an honest days graft .

[@fishingvideos7351]

Stop putting your blade down keep it between fingers...... I love 140mm blocks sorts the men from the boys

[@wolfhachmuth7731]

How? U need 2 hands to lift these blocks.

[@sundance2421]

Them 6'' blocks should be banned. I haven't been in construction for donkeys years. Honestly thought they were banned years ago!!

[@s4ms0n1t3]

Laid my first 6 inch concretes this year, things are like 30kg, absolute beasts.

[@MQ-gz2of]

Mortar looks very sandy

[@MatthewGreenway]

It's ready mix mortar with 10.4N/mm2 140 con blocks. I can give you the address if you want to try and knock a hole through it..

[@sean550]

6 inch block ...lifting them like a 4 inch...i tried it...failed..👍

[@heatherfeather2711]

Hi. How come you don't scrape the other side of excess mortar?

[@MatthewGreenway]

its pointed both sides, it keeps the joints from drying out and easier to point as you can push the mortar in without taking any off the trowel..if that makes sense. if it was plastered then id flush up the back as I go

[@jordanlee3378]

Good brikki like this shouldn't have to swap hands when battering

[@jordanlee3378]

Buttering

[@keepitmoving5440]

OMG!! What happens to his hard hat, safety Goggles. Never the less pritty flat out! Good job

[@tadghmurphy7807]

Bloody 6" blocks should be banned

[@luistovar4755]

Maybe if you put less mortar u wont be tapping with the hammer😂

[@HarryWarren1]

you ever laid 140's?

[@Joseph-qt1om]

Are these bricks pre-Soaked

[@Joseph-qt1om]

? And if so for how long and when where they pulled out so you can start the build?

[@gerrardhehir3610]

you gone quiet on me boy. a fair match. muck exactly how both of us want it. blocks loaded ready to go. First one to that middle get the dollars. or does Mr " I can lay 400 6"blocks a day not fancy laying a course with five hundred big boys riding on it.

[@MatthewGreenway]

Gerrard Hehir put your video on,if I think you're good enough I'll consider it. I deal with comedians like you all the time 🙄

[@gerrardhehir3610]

Matthew Greenway oh dear. let's just say I'm a Bricky time served and been doing it over 15 years. I'm not the one giving it ten, by announcing to the world that I lay 400 6" a day. ( you, me and anyone else in trade, knows that's not completely true) Let's say I don't put videos on KZbin announcing how good I am, because I fear someone decent would just rip me apart. like you should. if bricklaying is easy then, let's see how easy it is

[@MatthewGreenway]

its obviously got to you how good I am ....

[@gerrardhehir3610]

Matthew Greenway oh yeah exactly. That's why I'm putting you to the test with 500 big boys on the line. 😉😂. so come on then Mr Internet sensation. it's one thing getting the cameras ready, but completely different in real time. ready when you are. Mr 400 6" a day 😂😂😂

[@gerrardhehir3610]

2 kok yeah ok then. You are either some apprentice giving it loads on line. or someone bored with no intention of putting even 10p on the table let alone 10k.

[@leeetchells6372]

Your hands would be like raw meat laying those blocks without gloves all day.

[@perhoeck9526]

Lol, who the fuck use gloves anymore. Do it enough without them and You won't feel a thing

[@dinky2553]

Get rid of that fluffing hammer!! Tap, tap, tap!!! Otherwise great work bud.

[@MrCharlan1]

You want him to push a 140 block to the line?😂

[@alanfitzsimmons]

Yours is the rhythm method

[@sdhmasonryandservices9488]

It's called laying blocks, not beating them into submission.

[@philip013]

No gloves?

[@builderbricklayer6380]

no slagging but watching him he could have collected the morter then buttered and to much tapping with Hammer

[@MatthewGreenway]

Builder Bricklayer have you ever laid 6" con blocks fair faced? i'd say no... 🙄

[@alanfitzsimmons]

Sledge hammer.... Just sort out the outfit now buddy and you'll be fine..

[@sammy_bw]

£2.50 a block now getting them smashed in

[@lukeweirs6655]

It can't be that easy for you ... Semming you said bricklaying but that's bloxs😂

[@davidcowe9220]

it says blocks

[@chrisburland3334]

140's should be banned.

[@MrTipple09]

Chris Burland agree 100%

[@howdears2114]

Chris Burland Why ? Are your spaghetti arms not capable?

[@mikespears1738]

Chris Burland ya

[@RaTeeBoom]

Rotten bastard things

[@alanfitzsimmons]

Paddle sounds like he's American.. ha ha

[@jerryscary3098]

fitzy no, he sounds like a fucking douche bag with no life.

[@gerrardhehir3610]

sssshhhhhh

[@billyg3300]

mong

[@jejsndbshjakswjjs7916]

Speed up Rooney

[@alanfitzsimmons]

Blame it on the tubes buddy... still dirty but your filling your joints ....last block butter all four joints and joint won't fall out..little tip

[@PaddleDogC5]

yep!

[@Callofdaddyduty]

What's he on day rate or something. you wanna slow down bruv.

[@Fromupnorth46]

Nowt wrong with that 🧱👍

[@garydouglass9577]

There blocks not bricks??? Change title. More muck on ground than on boards 😬

[@jimg3145]

e it says block and its better to have more mud than not enough

[@michelelanni9205]

This guy is really good but those blocks man, wtf are they?? I know in England they have a very strict law on fire hazard and fire safety since the great fire of London...but THE DAMN FIRE ENDED IN 1666 These damn construction laws should be a bit more up to date wtf U guys are killing ur self’s like crazy I mean i wouldn’t judge the guy for laying 50 blocks a day 50 of those blocks are equal to 700 normal blocks

[@MatthewGreenway]

They're heavy that's what they are Marra..and lay about 300 of them a day on a good run lol

[@excadent1967]

@@MatthewGreenway if you put 300 a day you are not a mason to a wall so right and long at least 700 a day so you call yourself a mason

[@MatthewGreenway]

@@excadent1967 you make no sense at all. Are you on heroin by any chance..and I'm not a mason I'm a bricklayer.

[@excadent1967]

@@MatthewGreenway I tell you that you can for someone like me who works only bricks for twenty years You know where you're wrong, where you do not stretch the lime and why it leaves too much lime because you're using the hammer because you're starting on the other side etc.

[@MatthewGreenway]

I really don't know what you are talking about. Come back to me when you have an English translator with you.

[@gavloft]

Where are your googles, knee pads, helmet and ear guards. I am a site agent.

[@jimg3145]

gavloft you guys a fu#$% up the trades di%^ go back to your office and college boy

[@enlightenednews5265]

Good enough for block but not brick. To much smudging on face. But I'm sure your different on brickwork.

[@MatthewGreenway]

......seriously? You can lay a 10N paint grade block without smudging..and probably a blue aswell. You're obviously the man👍

[@builderbricklayer6380]

no never ......I'm a bricklayer 35 years I wasn't putting you down your work is neat you could lay a lot more if you didn't pick up so much muck and use that mash like that. blocks are to near you to much to move .just a few points that's all

[@MatthewGreenway]

You're obviously on drugs