Cement needs time to cure and really harden. So a few days after laying can often be still easy to take down. I think in hotter weather stuff goes off faster.
Just hired a Bricklayer... Not happy after second day
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Told him to leave site after explaining issues. He didn't really argue. He wanted £600 for work. I said I need to get somone in to assess. I spoke to a builder mate and one other Bricky on phone and had onr bricky visit. All said rip it down which is what I have now done. I am not planning on paying him. Look at this mess I uncovered when I knocked down.
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That guy is a clown. You'd have done a better job yourself. If worse comes to worse, get yourself the 'Bricky' tool and crack on with it until you're comfortable laying to a consistent 10mm mortar bed yourself.
I was always going to do it myself but got a bonus from work and to speed things up I thought I would hire as its mostly blockwork so fairly straight forward
Take it from an experienced builder, do not take this advice seriously - don't get a Bricky Tool.
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"Experienced builders will hate you for using this!"
It's like a few plasteres hating the speedskim. Anything that could make the job easier, especially for a DIYer, automatically gets hated.
Given that the bricky was made by a qualified bricky, do a google search and makeup your own mind.
I think you will find he was an apprentice carpenter in the army.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carpenter-nailed-it-with-his-first-diy-invention-ngs7xxktg7t
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He mentioned in a interview that he's a qualified bricky. You'd have to search on youtube for it, I don't have the link to the specific video.
Exactly.
Do you have the link?
As I have provided a link from The Times saying he was a Chippy, not that it matters.
Andy
They rely on the bed requirement being uniform which it is not.
They rely upon the bricks being regular which they are not.
They rely on the muck being decent which it often isn't.
They rely on the bricks being of modest uniform suction which they are not.
They are slow painful contraptions which teach the user nothing about bricklaying. There are many of them (still covered in compo) gathering dust in the garage next to the bread-maker or filling land-fill sites. Please DIY'ers, for your own sanity, ignore Jimmy90210. He was great in the Oklahoma Kid, but should have stayed a cowboy.
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What you can do,to make it easier, is buy brick spacers then construct a section of wall using spacers, then when your happy use a pointing gun to fill in gaps, then point it up.
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