I’ve learned in the past few year any time I’ve disagreed with Rodger…. I’ve been wrong when I looked it up.listen to this man 👍🏻. Great channel and great guests

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

It is healthy to disagree, even I don't agree with everything I say. I change my mind especially when it comes to women.

The work your doing helps so many of us not get mugged off/ diy it properly. You should be on the honours list. Great work and thanks

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Roger Bisby on the ball as ever. Thanks Roger!

Great content .very informative

Cracking video again. Have to say I love that front door, goes well with the old Victorian looking brickwork. It needs some serious TLC. Would be good if this person could come back after work is complete. 👍👍

@fluxington

2 жыл бұрын

'Cracking video' - very good!

Your knowledge is unbelievably amazing Rodger!

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

It is just the product of being old.

You could also cut the brick straight down lined up with the outside of the windows and install some raised panels below the sidelights where the brick was taken out.

Got a cracked wall in the basement since 1964-it’s on the outside, and every time it rains, the basement floods (and I cry)

With all the wind & rain we've been getting lately, I reckon you're gonna be flooded with these cracking questions Roger .... (Or maybe just Flooded) .... Sound advice as always 🤠

Love that portico Tom - once the repointing is sorted out, maybe potter down to the shed and dust off those paint tins and brushes? ;-)

Very informative

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Thank you for your brilliant videos on building ... the best I hve come across. Not sure if this is similar but here goes .. .I live in a house (built aroind 1918) on London clay .... the bay window has cracks where it meets the main house - in t 2006 I was youonger and got all worried about subsidence - the insurance company put some little things to measure movement and concluded that the neighbours little tree was tacking water and drying teh soil - we had some builders fill the cracks - they said with some flexoble stuff. We have carcks again .. about 3mm wide and the double glazed windows have shifted forward and down a bit so they don;t close properly and I have taped one up to stop rain getting in the botteom. Watching your videos I will avoiid filling with a "rock hard" exterior filler and maybe use some flexible filler or weak sand cement or find a lime product ... what would you advise.

@SkillBuilder

Жыл бұрын

Hi Martin This is a very common problem with bay windows. Fortunately they are very easy to underpin. If you dig down you will probably find the brickwork is straight on the clay. I would wait until the end of the drought and then it is just a question of digging one hole in the middle and filling it with concrete and then when that is set and dry pack a couple more on the corners and the same routine. It might even be possible to jack the bay back into position but if not you can fill in the cracks. Given the fact that there is no real weight on the footings it should be easy to put back.

Get a bricky to sort out the brick work and a chippy to make sure the door latches nicely without slamming the door. My first thought was I bet the bottom of the door or the leading edge bind on the frame on the side of the crack.

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

I think the door frame is probably not tied into the stone step.

Good advise as always Rodger. The brickwork is (looks like) Flemish bond, most likely not 9" and is fake but that is the reason for the headers and queen closures

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

That is a lot of trouble to go to snapping all those headers, I am thinking it is 9 inch work but we may never know.

Love your videos Roger. What's your main trade?

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Plumber but I got bored and branched out

Roger - the main man 👍🏻

Whoever made the thumbnail is having a laugh. Roger's looking like a madman! 😂

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Roger is a madman

Pretty sure the house we're living in is slowing falling into oblivion (landlord is rapidly coming to the same conclusion). Things are in motion to hopefully rescue the situation before it goes to far, but (of I can get photos that show the situation properly) would you like some photos and details that show what is happening for a video? Figure that some of what is going on with this house may help demonstrate things to be looking for.

I have just done a bit of dotting and dabbing but used foam seemed to work a lot easier, what are your thoughts.?

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

I have used the foam and some months later some of the boards came loose. I think you need to wet the wall.

If the crack is going across the brick, then that must be one hell of a vibration...

@SkillBuilder

9 ай бұрын

slamming a door will do that

Roger, a related query...... Here you say the mortar was 'too strong' and when repointing use a mix that uses lime which will make it more forgiving. On another video, you mentioned mortar between thermalite blocks should also be soft. Why put soft mortar between bricks or blocks? The 'general rule' that mortar should always be softer than the brick/blocks. Why? Thanks and regards.....

@jannenreuben7398

2 жыл бұрын

The idea is that the mortar is "sacrificial", so if there's any stresses in the wall it should break and not the brickwork. Traditional lime mortar was usually quite soft and slightly flexible so it was able to flex along with the building. Modern portland cement is rock hard and cannot flex in the same way so it cracks. That's why you see modern strap pointing falling off old stone walls. This hardness is not an issue on modern buildings with hard fired bricks and concrete slab foundations but it is the kiss of death for an old building. You should NEVER use cement on a building that was built with lime mortar.

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Better camera Rog.

I specialised in heritage brickwork and back up what Rodger was saying. Do yourself a favour and get an experienced person on to it.

I have a similar issue with my house. Ok if I send a pic?

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

yes please do

What is the difference between hydraulic lime and hydrated lime?

@jannenreuben7398

2 жыл бұрын

Hydraulic lime is used in a traditional sand/lime mortar mix and sets upon contact with water. Hydrated lime has a small amount of water pre-added and is usually used as a plasticiser in a portland cement mix.

@amazing451

2 жыл бұрын

@@jannenreuben7398 Thank you for the information.

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin We will be doing a whole video on lime and some of the myths. Hydrated lime won't set on its own so you need to add an equal amount of cement. Hydraulic lime will set on its own and is used with sand and no cement. It is unlikely that a merchant will stock hydraulic lime because it is a slower way of building so not popular.

My goodness, is there anything you don't know about construction, Roger? 😂

@SkillBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but I don't know what I don't know. The one thing I do know is that I am still learning and I love learning.

Are you passing a stone in the thumbnail?

Drink responsibly. .

A customer of mine has a massive crack 😳

@jiggely_spears

2 жыл бұрын

Front or backdoor??? 😝

Might be an opportunity to build a porch.

I have a problem with a vertical Crack on my garage wall