Tuck Pointing, Old English Heritage.

[@user-un7ll6mb6v]

I’m a bricklayer & I still find watching someone tuck pointing brilliant, especially a specialist at work.

[@davidvallerius4458]

I believe the term is called artisan 🤷‍♂ AMAZING SKILL and true CRAFTSMANSHIP. Well done lads for keeping the dying trade alive 👏👏

[@user-rl6vj6em7w]

My Dad was a tuck pointer…..he retired in 1988 RIP, and I am a career bricklayer and I have done loads of gauged work, I still have dads tools and he’s Frenchman was about 2” long and he’s tuck pointing trowel was about the same…..lots off memories ! And I won’t give the secret away either, but he used to make he’s lime putty up about a week before using it ! He used to say that ‘Fred Tuck’ invented it to replace gauged work !!! 😂……..enjoyed the video

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thanks mate, yes cherish his tools, i agree putty is always better a week or two later 👍👍

[@markbusby9709]

Keep it a secret Lads, protect your future, fantastic workmanship from retired (real Bricklayer) 70, your comment was bang on about cowboys, witnessed so many in my lifetime, five minute wonder trowls, the stretcher bond addicts !!!

[@hurtylfc]

Looks fantastic. Skills like this should be more respected

[@chips859]

That is quality work Andy !!! Looks beautiful

[@user-nn7cv2nj4u]

Great video Andy amazing workmanship

[@Yiddo67]

Top video again Andy...master's of their art them 2 lad's 👍👍👍

[@Nat1videos]

I have one of Jacks tuck irons, absolutely lovely tool !

[@glencortez6181]

That’s art that is 👏👏 Great video mate 👍

[@bradwright3409]

Great video Many thanks 🙏

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

I never even knew what tuck pointing was till you made these videos. Amazing art form Andy thanks for the video 👉🏼👉🏼🧱👍🏽

[@maxpower1797]

Years ago it was all part of a 7 year apprenticeship that was indentured. Did you get your indentures?

[@martin2466]

@@maxpower1797 Yes I did - and there are very few of us left now. 👍👍🧱🧱🧱😁

[@maxpower1797]

​@@martin2466but not trained in tuckpointing or gauged brickwork?. Not trained in all aspects of brickwork then😅

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thanks Boys 👍👍

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@martin2466 I always thought indentured was something to do with teeth and City & Guilds meant you had worked in the city of London and Guildford 🫤

[@bradleymcdermid3744]

What a wonderful job andy .maybe as a older bricklayer we appreciate these skills .I would love to do that but never done it .great skills. God bless yer mate

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Ime no expert Brad, don't do enough of it but I can show you how👍

[@bradleymcdermid3744]

I might take you up on that andy IM working in hertingfordbury at the moment .building 2 big houses .5000sq ft each house .I'll buy you a pint in the coach in Newgate St if yer ever in there be good to talk bollox for a hour

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@bradleymcdermid3744 Give me a call mate, ime working out that way and I've found a pukka pub on the route home 👍

[@brickrightbuildinglandscaping]

Love your stories and history Andy very good mate .As much as i absolutely love the tuck pointing and i admire the skills of the lads its brilliant bringing old brickwork back to life i couldn't do it ive not the patience. Lovely work though 👏 👌

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thanks Justin, yes i can only do so much of it before i lose interest.

[@benkimber8579]

Amazing being a bricklayer I’d like to think I can turn my hand to anything brick related but this is a skill I wouldn’t try on a job unless I was taught and tried on my own garden wall. Amazing lads 👍🏻

[@alanoconnor1610]

Hi Andy I’m a bricklayer from Dublin I worked in London for years great to see the lads tuckpointing I do it myself and in Dublin there is wigging pointing opposite to tuckpointing stoping mortar is applied last look at oldstone wiging but they are not doing it right it’s an old Dublin tradition I come from a long line of masons the restoration firms have the trade destroyed in Ireland.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Yea mate I know Old stone and the Wiggin process, could never get my head around it just seems back to front to me. Some spectacular buildings in Dublin all need proper care 👍👍

[@alanoconnor1610]

It’s easy when your shown my grandfather taught me it’s a Dublin trade but like most trades a watered down all the restoration firms just have labourers pointing it’s gone to the dogs here very hard to get proper money here but I stick to my guns and don’t drop my prices stick to privates and small to medium firms there is lots of bricklayers getting out of it due to money issues with subies @@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

[@lynnecromack4933]

We've got some tuck pointing where I live on red rubbers- absolutely gorgeous! Always wondered how you get the stopping mortar exactly the right shade.

[@andrewnelson3681]

Fantastic. 😊

[@davidfox7983]

Looks great

[@kennethmunro7480]

Brilliant 👏👏

[@user-tc1cr5jp2u]

Really cool video, very interesting

[@mjg6966]

Thats skilled work thanks a lot.

[@lmilne4859]

Lovely stuff Andy cheers.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

👍👍

[@waveylp4722]

Amazing mate always learn something new with your vids. Makes me even more fed up of house bashing though😂

[@Mark-oy9lw]

Great video 👌

[@peterthomas120]

Hi I really enjoyed the tuck pointing I have never seen it before amazing skill and patience I would rather do that than slogging bricks down all day thank you

[@kdbrickwork]

Great video Andy

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thanks Ken 👍

[@brucetindal7399]

After watching this I feel like an imposter . Amazing level of skill.

[@maxpower1797]

2 sharp sand to lime😂 good one lads. That will keep them guessing😂🎉

[@plummetplum]

He said white cement 😂

[@maxpower1797]

@plummetplum oops im giving them a clue. haha white cement even better,

[@plummetplum]

@@maxpower1797 indeed giving the game away 🤣

[@derek6637]

thows bricks you were commenting about when tuck pointing look like red rubbers,they were a soft brick that you could easily rub down or cut to shape.

[@kingofthetrowel1725]

Any jobs goin there Andy 😂 looks lovely 👌

[@KevinMuldoon-re4ks]

Very neat 19:37 work, it's an underatted skill ,hope it can stay underground

[@danielbates9922]

Boys make sure we all like the videos if helps Andy

[@DylanGSXR]

Bloody fantastic love it , im in my 50s and Been around a while in this game, love to see this type of stuff, proper bricklayers works . I work in city on big commercial jobs its totally shite and not bricklaying imo . Fucking ancon,fire barriers and stone bands , total crap . Great content mate .

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

👍

[@plummetplum]

I went on a tuck pointing course. Its actually hard work and very hard to do. I'll be practicing on my house again when the summer comes 😊

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Stick with it, slow becomes fast 👍

[@plummetplum]

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Thanks 😊

[@stones105]

Heard those bricks called ' moulded piano hinge '...

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thats interesting, thanks 👍

[@traveller017]

In joinery terms that moulding is called a Staff Bead. Mopstick is the name used to describe handrail because it is isolated.

[@Jonathan-mk1ju]

Great content Andy, them lads do a cracking job great. You got to have some patience’s to do that. The mortar they use to blend the bricks together, I’m guessing that’s lime too ?

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

All lime mate 👍

[@tvm8794]

Quality

[@jeztickles4361]

😂 you only went to London for the Harry Potter shop!! Tell us the truth Andy!

[@garysmith9877]

This has hits upon why I’m not keen on KZbin, your giving your skills away.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

To be honest i had the same sentiments as you but over the last couple of years pointers have been putting vids of there work al over social media so i thought it was ok to put this vid up as ime showing nothing that hasnt already been shown recently.Ive have my knowledge of Tuck Pointing from being shown how to to it in Australia 1982 to studying Historic books and putting it to practice. These skills were nearly lost in the 60s so i dont have a problem showing part of it most wont take it up but are just interested👍

[@Wgnwtb]

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277something similar happened to scagliola if I’m not mistaken (in terms of skills being lost, mixes etc)

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@Wgnwtb Big time,not much call for it to be honest maybe just repair and restauration, Hayles and Howes in Bristol still do it a Google search tells me.

[@Ireland-bc2gx]

👍

[@allforclout2040]

Looks amazing, what’s the stopping mortar gauge?

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

I don't know the ratio they were using.

[@allforclout2040]

Probably 1:1

[@mead6754]

Andy if the building was ever to get pressure washed at a later date will the tuck pointing survive or blow off

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Possibly but why would you do that ?

[@mead6754]

Down at street level it will get grimy

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

​@@mead6754yeah but thats life over the years people like that patena and wear.

[@phillips_heritage3660]

We jet wash it when we finish a lift to see if anything comes off and if it’s done properly I won’t

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@phillips_heritage3660 👍👍😉

[@markmaddison5312]

I knew that there was a way to stretch a brick back in My Day that is what the foreman always used to yell at me

[@peteringram476]

This is very much alive in Australia, I did the tuckpointing course at balga tafe (college) in perth

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Nice one, i did a tiling course there in 1982👍

[@peteringram476]

​@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 small world Andy, I know calmarc industries in bayswater in perth stocked all the ochres needed for blinding out the joint .....it seems half the world has worked in perth

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@peteringram476 Yep most isolated City in the World i believe and everyone wants to go there, i still have good Friends in Perth, need to get out there really.

[@peteringram476]

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 yes I think you'd be surprised how much it has changed ,new rail lines everywhere, the city is finally connected to northbridge .I live in dorset now which is beautiful but I couldn't help being impressed with how much perth has moved forward the last 8 years since I was there . The likes of kinross and burns beach was Bush land when we went ,it's classified as inner city living now .

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@peteringram476 Yea its crazy how its spread, Micks Sister lives in Wanneroo and that was all bush in the 80s now all built on.

[@williamturner6366]

in manchester we call tuck pointin fkin ard to do.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

About right Lol

[@hbpw857]

looks very pink the stopping mortar and the ribbons are scuffed

[@jimford6901]

As Andy said and mentioned in the video it dries a complete different colour as.you would know this if you was a tuck pointer. Scuffed ? Never heard of it... Looks sexy amazing job as well 🎉

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@jimford6901 👍

[@richardfitzgerald4812]

Great video Andy

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Thanks mate 👍👍