This is a real genuine guy. He's encountering the exact same problems I come across with the same frustrations when things don't go to plan. It definitely calls for a fuck sakes

Thank you. You said "inspector." Yay! So this answers a couple questions for me with regard to the 6' wide opening I am about to do on a permitted remodel where I'm doing a new in an existing wall.

@crisc9280

3 ай бұрын

Yes please do your due diligence for inspections as required. Because if you don't they can make you rip out the work you already have done. It hasn't happened to me but it's certainly not unheard of

You did a great job. 👍

Awesome Video Marty!

Great job, thank you for the video! 😀

Looks good man

Masons are hard to find these days for a "small" job. Appreciated the video (and the "F" bombs) as I'm a DIY guy but no experience doing this. You've given me both courage and knowledge. Thanks!

Great Job , thanks for keeping FN Real 😆👍🏻😆👍🏻👍🏻

Great video

If you had done a larger, living room window, how would you match the concrete so that it matched the original decorative edge??

Thank you

I love the attitude, and the appropriate amount of swearing. Cheaper and you learn more doing it yourself. Did you cut away the flashing before you mortared over it, or do you mortar around it and grind it away afterwards?

lol, nice job. Ever been told you look like Steve-O?

I'm going to have to do this soon. How did you do your weep holes?

@HouseHustlers

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Scott, There are little plastic "honeycomb" weeper biscuits that you can buy at any brick supplier. You would want to weep at least every 2nd brick along the top of the window lintel. if you check out my latest video called "sound-proofing you basement ceiling" , there is a moment at the 24 seconds mark of the video where you can see me bricking in a different lintel and you can see two of the weepers in that shot. Check it out.

@worthlessnbreathin8005

2 жыл бұрын

what is that green-colored tape under the lintel flashing going across the window's head jamb?

Great job and loved the expletives!!! I am sure I will sound the same if not more!! -R :)

@HouseHustlers

8 жыл бұрын

LOL. Thanks for commenting!

Isn't that concrete a load bearing foundation wall?

I have a few lintels that need replaced. Do you need to support the brick above the window or no?

@HouseHustlers

6 жыл бұрын

Zach Provchy well if you intend to remove the lintel you should install the new one right away. Otherwise put in a temporary support.

Excellent Job and Video! Love the F***'s Sakes,Irish are we?

@HouseHustlers

7 жыл бұрын

kevin Harmony Ha. More scottish blood than irish.

Hi, can you install lintel from outside I mean the other way around. So basically you just open a line there and insert the lintel. I have seen some people have done that and have approved from the city.

@HouseHustlers

4 жыл бұрын

Well I have seen it done as you mentioned, but if I was an inspector, I would fail it. Here's why: When installing a lintel, code requires a flashing or membrane of some sort to direct water OUT of the wall cavity. The flashing requires that the lintel is installed the correct way. If you reverse the lintel, it will not allow for flashing, and will actually direct water INSIDE the wall cavity. Its not a good idea, although it will work from a structural standpoint, just not good for water proofing.

@Naz-kh9dt

4 жыл бұрын

House Hustlers thanks for the information

@HandyManMandy

3 жыл бұрын

Great question. Our home has an old addition done in the 1920’s and our bathroom door is unfortunately in our kitchen. I’m trying to install a Lintel and door in a brick interior wall so flashing isn’t needed. I’m happy I stumbled upon your video and could possibly to it in reverse saving myself from having to remove and add bricks. Thanks for the video!

shame you couldn't get a better matching brick. I would have replaced them all and done a solider course instead

@HouseHustlers

7 жыл бұрын

It actually looks much better after pressure washing it. The old brick had dust on it from the grinder, and when it was clean and everything was dry, the colour matched almost the same.

@georgekonstantino4219

3 жыл бұрын

@@HouseHustlers bullshit

what type of blueskin did you use? WB25?

@HouseHustlers

7 жыл бұрын

Scot Caraway im pretty sure thats what it was.

Next time you break the brick just form a lentil with rebar inside

Is the lintel not supposed to be lag bolted to the 2x8 prior to bricking?

@HouseHustlers

2 жыл бұрын

No. It needs to be sitting on the foundation. Its a brick lintel. Framing structure is separated.

just curious, will that lintel rust as it is exposed from the bottom?

@HouseHustlers

7 ай бұрын

Its painted red. But yes this type still does rust slightly when bare metal is exposed. Not that it matters. These lintels are required by code. They're in every brick house you've ever seen.

@deckard5pegasus673

7 ай бұрын

@@HouseHustlers Ok. Thank you for responding.

You could have put cardboard over the window there chief... And a few other things, drainage at base of wall at head of window, etc.....

@HouseHustlers

2 жыл бұрын

There is drainage

@arayahomes4308

2 жыл бұрын

@@HouseHustlers It's the head of a window, all window heads have a flashing with a drip edge hem bent into it so water doesn't crawl backwards, if there is no drip edge minimum 1/4" away water not only creeps backwards but it also splashes backwards on the materials behind it and than creeps as it will again, you could also have put down a drainage mesh below the first course of brick at the window head. Looks decenet and I'm sure it will hold up but the flashing details could be better and at the head of a window, flashing details are quite important, flashing details in general are important. Drain the bottom and allow water to escape and create proper flashing methods to let water drip off an edge and not crawl back.

I don't suppose anyone makes a lintel that's easier to install from the outside. I have a 5x2 crawlspace door that the home's original owner cut in the concrete block foundation, right up to the brick, using a wood 2x8 for a lintel. :(

Inspector? For that? LOLs

..definitely not no mason from what I seen in that few second glimps of him with that trowel in his hand and the bed up mud he had spread...

@HouseHustlers

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct about that. Im a general carpenter.

I wouldn't of broke the bricks. You need the right tools. The lintil install was fine. Just yellow bricks on a pink concrete brick wall :/

@HouseHustlers

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew I know it looks like they dont match but they are nearly identical after pressure washing the dirt off. There was no closer match i could find anyway. The original bricks were from the 1950's. Anyhow, yeah my grinder blade wasn't quite large enough to cut through the full depth. A full size concrete saw works best.

@artemiocortez719

2 жыл бұрын

Hammer drill those tight areas with a 3/8's bit but long enough to get to the back. Never failed me. And sometimes you can't help it because brick will crack from the lintel rusting creating pressure.

Grinder with no guard!?? 😩

@HouseHustlers

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is a 7" blade and cant fit if you leave the guard on. Surely you know we remove guards from a plethora of tools to suit certain situations. Grinders are the least dangerous of power tools.

Dude you broke some bricks and you swore a lot ..... Critical enough? Nevertheless great job

@HouseHustlers

8 жыл бұрын

+Sandy Simon LOL. I am in fact a carpenter. Swearing is quite natural on the jobsite!! Thanks for the comment and cheers!