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I’ll do it for £2000 😂😂

No Brickie, not that, just wondered in general. out of curiosity, why would they be mad not to do it on price?

What would a qualified bricky need to be laying a day? I know it depends on the type of work but, ball park what would a bricky need to be laying on day rate? Thanks 👍🏻

Thanks Declan. Which return? The block on edge? Can I cut 3/4 for corner to keep half bond?

Pain? How so? Cuts to keep the joints the same on both leafs?

Thanks Brickie 👍🏻 So like my rough drawing here?

I do if that’s what the drawing specifies! 🙈😂😂 Thanks for your input though. Great community here. 👍🏻

Thank you Declan. So to try sum it up in simple terms (for me) I would be best setting out the building with the block on edge. I then fall back and put the blocks on flat behind this. This will give me my first course. Then for my second course I build the block on flat over the block on edge and then put block on edge in behind the block on flat. I continue this trend until desired height. Regarding corners, when building block on flat or block on edge, I just bond as normal keeping half bond? And hopefully my last question on this - do the perps / cross joints of block on edge and block on flat have to align on each course? For example, should the first course of block on edge cross joint / perp but in line with the cross joint / perp of the block on flat? Or am I now overthinking it?

Ah right. No the rising wall I’m talking about is solid. It is a block on edge with two blocks on flat behind it. The attached image showing a section through, will hopefully clarify the type of rising wall I am talking about. I’m just so confused about how to build it. I’m afraid of doing something wrong.

Haha no problem. I appreciate your input. Ok, but the block on flat then goes over the block on edge the second course though does it not? And then, second course of the block on edge sits on the first course of block on flat?

Thank you for the reply. But that’s block on flat coming off an existing wall and probably being tied in with a starter kit perhaps? I am looking to know how rising walls are built in (325mm) and in particular the corners. How do you bond the corners so you have half bond?

Declan thank you for your replies. So if I set out one wall with a block on edge on the outside, do I continue this right around the whole build? For some reason I thought if the block on edge was on the outside on one wall, where the wall returns it would then be on the inside of the block on flat? Would you have any pictures of how corners are built in this way? Many thanks.

Thanks for your help. For clarity - should it be dry bonded out? or is it measured out with a tape?

When a bricky says he is bonding out brickwork before starting to build, does he mean dry bonding them out to see if it works out brickwork? For example, on a site that has concrete formwork I heard a bricky say he was going to bond out brickwork around the concrete. What did he mean? Many thanks for your help 🤗

Hey guys When building rising wall in 13 inch work, how do you decide where to put the block on edge? Do you start with a block on flat along the building line for the first course and then add the block on edge to the outside of block and flat? Obviously then reversing it on alternate courses? How do you bond corners when doing this type of work? Many thanks for any help and advice 😌