Irish Rover

Hahaha cheers for the reply Marvin, much appreciated it. Most my mortar ends up on the floor or down the cavity ??

Hi all, I hope your well? I’m just wondering if anyone has any reading recommendations for house building and or general construction? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I hope your all well? Has anyone got an accurate mortar calculator or explain to me how to calculate mortar properly? I use this one https://www.source4me.co.uk/calculate_brick_block_mortar.php but I often find it inaccurate and I'm often left with a surplus.

Cheers. I was going to do it myself but my back is gone. Ground prepped so just getting someone to lay them. Cheers.

Hi guys, hope everyone is well. Would anyone have any idea of the cost of laying flagstones? They're granite - 600 x 400 x 40mm. Cheers

Hi all, I'm going to be laying flagstones (600mm x 200mm x 50mm) and I'm wondering what's the best method of bedding them down? Just screed the fine sand and lay them on that? Screed and whack the sand and then lay them on a lean sand and cement mix? Bed them down with a regular mortar mix? Or what would you recommend? Cheers.

? Cheers lads.

Thank you all for your input. Greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm a bricklayer who's back on the trowel after several years away from the game and I must say I'm finding it tough. The physical side of it is fine (after a few hard weeks mind) but it's the information / theory side I'm finding most difficult. Even the bonding of blockwork (blockwork so far has been 80% of my work) I find a bit difficult being truthful. Has anybody had any similar experiences? How did they find it? Did you feel like I do sometimes, like your serving your time all over again? ? Would anybody recommend any literature for me to read? Also, regards to quantifying blocks - how would you do it? Lets say I was asked to build a block (440 x 215 x 100) on edge shed and they sent me the dimensions of the slab that they wanted it built on Do I just add the length and width of the proposed building, multiply this figure by 2 and then multiply that figure by how many courses high it is going? I then deduct the door and window from this figure. Now if they now wanted to change the spec of the shed to cavity work with a 100mm inner leaf, 100mm cavity and a 100mm outer leaf how would I calculate how many blocks they would need for the outer leaf? This is probably a really basic question but I just cant get me head around it! ? Genuine thanks for anybody who replies. Cheers, IR.

Hi one and all, Bricklayer who's back on the trowel now after an extended break. I love the site and it's great how helpful people are. I'm hoping to help people where I can but to also learn and relearn as I'm a few years out of the game. I look forward to chatting. Cheers