Massive Brick Radius Wall Repair on 19th century Wall - Tree Damage #bricklaying #construction

Hope there is a part 2 to this..looking forward to seeing the end result!

Great artisans are preparing for a great job as always from Stu and Dad.

The Victorians knew how to lay a brick or two.

My daughter's house in County Durham, built a hundred years ago, has black mortar and (had) black plaster on the inside walls. I ripped out a lot of the house out and refurbished it nine years, replaced a lot of blown plaster and modernised the house for her. The 'black' was achieved using what was cheap and available locally back then in 1921/2, coal dust from slag heaps. It goes incredible hard when mixed with water (and goodness knows what else) but the old wall plaster disintegrates back to coal dust when disturbed and broken up. Apart from most inside walls plaster coming off, we took out a redundant chimney too. I ended up looking like a miner most nights, and the bath sides took a lot of scrubbing to get them clean again. It was a job I was glad to finish, took me over six months but it gave a solidly built old house a new lease of life.

Top job again stu 🧱👌

Glad that you're back. looking forward to this one. KC is a proper grafter, I also like a Wigan kebab

love this channel presentation , just 2 people doing their work ,getting on with life. What age is dad ?

Great job Lads..Hard Yakka..looking forward to next vid following up.🧱

Looking forward to seeing it being built up again, lot of work there!

Salvaging brick blues. Another fine brickies day

looking forward to seeing the final~~

A blue brick with black cement railway viaduct in my town had to be taken down. Contractor had a big chisel thing on a big excavator and expected to have the job don in a few days. 3 months later he was still at it chiselling out one brick at a time. Then he went bankrupt and left the job as it is today. Blue brick are hard. The black cement is more resistant than stone. Old mill near me had the stonework deteriorating but the mortar stayed solid and hung out in ribs as the stone disappeared.

Great idea for dressing the bricks

Hello Stu they new how to build walls in the old days good luck when rebuilding the wall mate I know it's in good hands with you and kc 👍

Pure class they are godbless all

Looks a great job to do ,best of luck

I have done a fair bit of heritage and restoration work, the Clipper saw with a really simple wooden jig can speed things up a bit, as long as the brick has a clean face to start from. I suspect that this tip is a bit late and you have already finished the job, however, next time eh? I'm sure it will be up to your usual standard at the finish.

cracking work guys your old man is a Leg end.

Good idea with the saw stu

Is that a big enough shovel that Dad!!!!😂😂Nice one Stu.