BRICKWORK NEARLY COLLAPSED... THIS IS HOW WE AVOIDED DISASTER !!! PT 1

[@charleslewis1357]

Loved Mark and Lard, ‘ when Radio One was good’ …couldn’t agree more! Happy days when we were allowed to have a sense of humour !!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Absolutely Charles so true 🧱👍🏽

[@nigelweaving9045]

Your approach is surgical, cut out the crap and mend with new. So skilled!! Just wonderful to watch and to know there are guys like you to keep our houses from collapsing.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks very much Nigel 🧱👍🏽

[@marcwalters7541]

Forget the day and a half book it as two days , you and Alex must be the cheapest around but do the best job . If people want a quality job they will pay a bit extra and you two are quality.🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Marc 😬🧱👍🏽

[@johnboy2984]

Hi Steve &Alex. That was a bit scary there for a minute. But I know you get I sorted. Well done on Alex for spotting that. Good job as always guys. Have a good weekend 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers John you too 🧱👍🏽

[@riptiz]

I bet when the soldiers started dropping you thought crumbs. Always good to stand back and think then and use your problem solving experience. Looking good , the customer is very lucky to have you, could have got a disaster from someone not so experienced and conscientious. Regards, Dave

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Very true Dave , it was a brief panic 😟🧱👍🏽

[@TyphoonVstrom]

The soldiers weren't the only bricks on the move when Steve found out😬🧱

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😬😬🧱👍🏽

[@leebowley6953]

well done, looked like a tricky one. Why do you have to support the lintel when you start rebuilding and why do you not treat the end of the lintel when you cut it down? Any galvanizing protection has now been compromised and will rust and the lintel is lonely 3mm. Can't see that lasting 70 years.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@richardwilliams8953]

"When Radio One was good" ...lol....that was forever ago Steve........made my morning.......😆

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁😁🧱👍🏽

[@ChronoVersatur]

Well spotted Alex. In hindsight it's probably a good standard thing to add a timber wedge going forward to avoid surprises.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Definitely 😬🧱👍🏽

[@davecleggett9371]

Steve, I know you have explained previously how 'Triangulation and Friction' stopped bricks collapsing when you remove courses - but Holy Shit, that's taking the theory and practice into un-chartered territory! But, wise head gets it right again, stop, cuppa, think, then act decisively. Hope you showed the Customer the videos of what you had to do! Thanks for sharing, keep safe both of you! Oh, and, bloody well spotted Al, you may have averted a calamity!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Al the main man 🤜🏽🤛🏽🧱👍🏽

[@Doug....]

That was the old trick of removing wooden window and fitting pvc with no lintel, but adding virtually free hanging soldiers i think. Good job on the recovery. 👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

So common Doug 😫🧱👍🏽

[@SteveBernard42]

Nothing like a bit of drama! Well sorted fellas, looking forward to part two.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😬🧱👍🏽

[@michaelevans2975]

I like that technique of limiting the depth of old concrete lintel you chipped away by making the initial horizontal cuts using the grinder 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😁🧱👍🏽👍🏽

[@yvonfem]

Great vid lads youre experience shone through that pig n a poke job .

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆🧱👍🏽

[@andycornish9704]

what a ball ache of a job. great work boys

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Andy 🧱👍🏽

[@tomstovell7425]

Steve you did a Mark & Lard there ‘STOP! Carry on!’ If you didn’t it would have been a potential disaster. Well done Al!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🤣🤣👍🏽🧱

[@JamesMears76]

Mark and Lard were awesome

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

They certainly were 😍🧱👍🏽

[@nigeltoon1848]

Yep, love Mark and Lard.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Got tickets for their live show 😁🧱👍🏽

[@smarty0604]

Biggy biggy bong !! Mark and lard never get away with what those two got away with lol if you’ve not ever listened to the feature (missing words ) simply red moneys too tight to mention then your in for a treat . Keep up the good work and videos Steve and alex

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Mustn’t grumble 🤣🤣🤣🧱👍🏽

[@StephenBrown-ti6mm]

Good video guys that was close👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks Stephen...too close 🥵🧱👍🏽

[@davecooke914]

Great video Steve and Alex never miss your videos keep up great work 👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks Dave 🧱👍🏽

[@eddieMurphy11111]

what were they thinking when they built them houses it a wonder the have not collapsed, no doubt you are putting it right , thanks for the video

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

A whole estate like that 😟🧱👍🏽

[@Reverend-Rodger]

Thank god no one got hurt.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@v8motors.]

Great job, lucky you had a toolstation nearby for the weep vents, you need to get Alex driving if he doesn't do so already.👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@edhunter84]

Loved Mark and Lard. Still go round saying “Mushn’t GrrGrumble” to this day. You won’t get away with doing Fat Harry White on the Radio anymore. Take me back to the 90’s when things were fun

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Absolutely 🤣🤣🧱👍🏽

[@baldyslapnut.]

Little and Large, the 3 second memory span goldfish.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@baldyslapnut. 🤔????

[@baldyslapnut.]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild They were a pair of characters Mark and Lard did on Radcliffe's evening show sometime in the early 90s. They lived in a goldfish bowl. The conversations never went very far as both of them could only recall the previous 3 seconds of anything.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@baldyslapnut. Ah missed that one 🙁🧱👍🏽

[@the_royal_drop_short.]

When I was fitting windows, I used to grind out 3 or 4 perps above any loose brickwork and drive in hardwood wedges to lock the bricks horizontally. take out what you need to fit the lintel, then rebuild.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@shadow_bandit403]

Is it ok for your props to bend forward a little in the upper section when using strongboys?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

They will always bend a bit as they aren’t very thick steel 🧱👍🏽

[@shadow_bandit403]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Jolly good, was concerned my bay would fall on me. Love the show, watch it every night! In fact, Imma gonna watch it now!

[@shadow_bandit403]

Bugger, there is no new one.

[@Nick-ov9vf]

Back in the 1990s I was getting £45 for 2250mm £30 for 1800mm and £20 for smaller openings labour only

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😟🤯🧱👍🏽

[@badad0166]

11:36 When is a window not a window? When it's a Lintel.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@badad0166]

Alex, try some "Motion Blur" on the zippy parts. Makes things blend.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

???

[@badad0166]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Your editing software should have "motion blur" available that you can dial in to make the fast motion look more "fluid" like in super hero movies.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@badad0166 . Not on the free I movie it doesn’t. Ste is the editor 😏🧱👍🏽

[@badad0166]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Unfortunate. It would look great if you find the budget. fyi I don't read emoji...All the best. Cheers. I'll link refs if I think to find them.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@kbultray]

Waited ages to see lintel being placed. Why is this part of jobs nearly always omitted ?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

There is a lot going on and we forgot to record sometimes 😬

[@carllockpick6179]

Please hit the like button guys.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Someone replied with No last week so I deleted them. 🖕🏾🤣🤣🧱👍🏽

[@carllockpick6179]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild yes, I saw that on my replies, all the best Gentlemen.

[@TheMrBarso]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Like button hit as always...........

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@TheMrBarso 😁🧱👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@petertyler9796]

Hi Steve and Alex, was there any damage to the inner wall breaking out the concrete lintel

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

No it was fine . 🧱👍🏽

[@Nick-ov9vf]

Surely the extra work you lads have done should be compensated by the clinent

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

We did price properly for a change on this one 😁🧱👍🏽

[@TyphoonVstrom]

Good move to stop and regroup when everything started moving. Like Mike Tython says- ""Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the fathe" 😆

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆😆🧱👍🏽

[@sgtmark8844]

Small job but big problems Holy crap Batman the Joker must have built that one. 😊

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

And all the others too 😟🧱👍🏽

[@kevincorbin6273]

That looks like a really easy job 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😏😏🧱👍🏽

[@stuartfarrell6729]

what brand and model cemente mixer are you using

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

It’s a belle 240 volt 🧱👍🏽

[@stuartfarrell6729]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild ill have to see if i can get one here in the states

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@stuartfarrell6729 Ah you may struggle plus they are £500 / $650 ish 😬😬good luck 🧱👍🏽

[@glynnepritchard2526]

We used to listen to radio city ... kev seed

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😆🧱👍🏽

[@garypritchard865]

Steve is known dad vader with the mask on,may the forces go with you. You are my son Alex.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😷🤣🧱👍🏽

[@tonyosborne56]

Steve, I tried cutting a doorway with a carbide blade in the recip saw but it didn't last very long at all (Old 3" ash blocks). What blade do you use?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

We use carbide but the material still has to be on the soft side 😬🧱👍🏽

[@philstation335]

Abit if a brown pants day ther Steve lol…ere Steve if u had a 3 story house and say middle floor lintels needed doing how do you support as props wud t reach from ground floor

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Not sure how we would do that 🧐🧱👍🏽

[@kasper52173]

👍🏾

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

👍🏽

[@sgtmark8844]

👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@johnb-beneficiary]

#GeoEngineering #Chemtrails #JustLookUp #WeatherModification #UN #ClimateChange Ignore me. Good work lads.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@Andrewp696]

The window in the house next door has 'stepped' cracking above the lintel.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

And many more will be the same 🧱👍🏽

[@DannyHarris-vc4ct]

Bloody ells bells Steve it was bad enough when yas had that incident with the bricks falling on ya building that wall son and Alex pulling ya oot quick like before ya hurt yasel badly now yas nearly done it again rushing the job till Alex had his eagles eyes on and saved yas again, now come on Lad Head fer thinking and ya feet fer dancing son!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

👌🏼🧱👍🏽

[@johncollier7744]

As Mark and Lard would say " Stop....Carry on. You certainly missed a bullet there. Great video though . Full marks to Alex for his estimate skill 😊

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

I miss those two on the radio together 😔🧱👍🏽

[@andrewsalter2681]

I've never priced a job up half days. Because you would not go and do half a day's work somewhere else

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@DennisAinsworth-xj9jb]

You did not need to cover the house number up, because all the bins have the house number written on them.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Yep 🤣🤣🧱👍🏽

[@FugitiveRazor]

The haters say Alex does nothing 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🔔ends 😒🧱👍🏽

[@carllockpick6179]

​@@SteveAndAlexBuild well said.

[@mickshillito2199]

He's a proper little soldier 😅😅 needs to get driving soon take pressure off his dad x

[@martin2466]

Chaps, Our old sparring partner, "Elon - the troll" rocked up on the "hairy-sweary" ones channel recently. He was being all obsequious to Mr C...... I replied to Elons, comment - but for some strange reason he did not wish to engage me in conversation🙄 I cant think why not? 😆😆😆😆😁😁😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

👅🕳️💩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤌🏾

[@bryanb1259]

👍💥👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@kenpinion8108]

Thanks for your video Steve, What would you do without Alex ? I'm sitting here in admiration, you need to listen to that son of yours hr is getting more and more into the jobs that you do. I know that your hip is very dodgy but in this video and the last you seem to be quite mobile. At nearly 80 now I have given up driving I now use a Mobility scooter with some used scooters changing hand for as little as £60 is this an idea for your lack of walking? Just a thought old friend, please don't be a#offended all the best My regards as ever Ken

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Definately one to think about Ken 🧐🧱👍🏽

[@martingaynor5017]

little trailer on back. sweet 😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😏😉🧱👍🏽

[@garymallard4699]

🇨🇦🤓🤟

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🙌🏽🧱👍🏽

[@michaeldoxey1240]

I noticed your hawk stand/two legs were placed on a narrow strip of wood. I would drill a hole in each/leg-foot. Large enough for a beefy screw. This way if the hawk or wood should shift, it will shift as a single unit. That's my two cents. Omaha Nebraska USA

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

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[@tonydalton6756]

What a poor design, no wonder it was failing. Well done again lads.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

A shocker indeed 😧🧱👍🏽