Today the word "builder" has many meanings and includes many different specialties. Previously, a word like "mason" was equivalent to a builder, since if a person could not build a house of stone( brick), then he could not be called a builder.
Contents
- The main view of the brickwork
- The process of laying the brick
- Video of the brickwork with your own hands
The main view of the brickwork
For the person who decided to build a brick house, you need to know how to lay the brick yourself. This is very important, because if you do not comply with all the rules about the reliability of the whole structure, you can not say. Any brick laying is possible only when the foundation is strong and stiff. Before you start the erection of the wall, you need to put a roofing material on the foundation in two layers.
To make brickwork look beautiful, you need to choose its look. Here it is necessary to take into account that the wall should be not only strong, but also have an aesthetic appearance, have your own picture. The simplest way that many builders use is a chain-laying, when each row alternates, and there is a half-brick difference.
The process of laying brick
To know how to properly lay a brick, you should get a little acquainted with the information. First you should decide, the wall will be erected in one brick, one and a half or two bricks. Here a big role will be played by a bunch between rows. If you look at the video available in the article, how to put a brick, it will be much easier to know where to start and how to link the rows.
For this you will need special tools: a trowel, a construction hammer, a square, a vertical and horizontal level. And also tools for mixing the solution. The solution must be mixed so that it lasts for several hours. Before you learn how to lay a brick, you need to learn how to mix the solution, since the quality of the mortar will determine how strong the wall will hold.
Before laying the walls of bricks, lay the corners. This must be done with a vertical and horizontal level. If you do not succeed in laying out the corners by level, then the wall will also be a curve. But the corners should be laid out in several rows. When the wall will rise, then the corners should be raised higher.
When the corners are laid out in several rows, then a cord( fishing line) is stretched from one corner to the other, and a mortar is laid on the foundation. And after that, a brick is placed on the cord.
If the cord is not well stretched, then how to put evenly a brick is already a question. Before each brick is laid on a wall, a mortar is applied to its end with a trowel, and only then it is put in place next to another brick on the wall.
The cord must be pulled over the top level of the brick. To keep it tightly to each other, you should put a little more mortar on the wall, and tap on the brick end of the trowel, leveling it under the cord level. The protruding solution is selected by the trowel.
If you practice a little, you can quickly understand how to lay the brickwork to make it smooth. Of course, not everything will be immediately obtained, and 1-2 rows will have to be re-laid, but after 1-2 days it will be possible to do everything quickly.
To understand the process of brick laying with your own hands, it is worthwhile to look once again video - so the theory will be combined with practice. The main thing in this work is the correctly exposed angles.
If you know what kind of mortar a brick is placed on, the wall will hold tight. It all depends on the brand of cement: if it's M400, then one bucket of cement should use 4 buckets of sand, if M300, then 3 buckets of sand. Water is added, and everything mixes well, so that the sand is not visible.
