Used to do pointing work not so much now Andy .Your work is exemplary my friend. The knowledge you have is inspiring for those young bricklayers out there 👌👍🧱🧱🧱

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Justin👍

Proper bricky is Andy absolutely full of knowledge ❤

Beautiful work Andy . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In 35 years I’ve never been shown how to do that Andy and the specialist tools you used . Beautiful job mate 👌🏼👍🏽🧱

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve 👍

Nice that

Proper bricky 2:20 kept concentration like a true professional

Proper job, the times I’ve seen people do it with a pointing trowel all uneven no uniformity at all, even cutting left on one perpendicular right on the next 🤮tidy ✊

You don’t smudge a single brick , 1 hours work because you worked 40 years to make it 1 hours work ! Love it

Wow cool technique with the straight edge and cut 👍 shit hot mate

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

👍

Proper Legend is our Andy

Beautiful job mate looks spot-on👍👍

Lovely job Andy neat and tidy 👍🏻

am impressed.......love learning simple but effective technique's 👍👍

Quality, I don’t know what you got paid but pound to a penny it weren’t enough, client probably don’t realise how lucky they are. Well played sir

Great video, really enjoyed that Andy👍

Top job super bricky 👍👍

Bloody lovely well done Andy

Lovely job Andy. 👍

Lovely job Andy nice work that's how it should be done !!

Now theirs a skill,a journeyman @ work top notch andy👍

Quality Andy love watching your videos mate

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Really neat.👍

Nicely done bro !

Grand job 👍

Excellent work Andy real top quality.

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Quality craftsmanship Andy 🔥👍

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

❤

Quality work. Was that one of your home made Frenchman tools ?

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Yes mate

Awesome

Top job

Cushdy....top job

Sweet

Nice job Andy. Is it possible to do that pointing as you are building with the mortar the brick are laid with? Or, perhaps the wall needs to have been previously built so it's strong enough to be leant against. Seems like that kind of pointing is a job in itself separate from laying anyhow.

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

It is a job on its own, in Northern Europe its a trade on its own as it was in the UK untill maybe the late 1950s. Yes you can do it as you go but only on small jobs if using sand an cement. I built a big school project some years ago and we struck and cut as we whent but we were using NHL3 Lime

Lovely finish, not as easy as Andy made it look I wager.

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Another top upload by Andy showing us how to do weatherstruck and cut pointing and tools required top workmanship as usual thanks for the upload

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thanks John 👍

Andy hope this is ok to post ...what are the thoughts on the RAAC CONCRETE , i didnt know much about it till local schools have been shut down , thing is this stuff cant be limited to schools what about tower blocks /office blocks /factorys etc. seems strange its only come to light in the last few weeks

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

I watched a TV programme on it a few years back, typical underfunding by the government as they knew it had a 30 year lifespan, the problem with it is that some of the planks were under calculated and the concrete itself is very porous so if allowed to get wet water in ingress can rust the reinforcing. It was used in schools, offices and some housing but ive not heard of it being used in tower blocks.

Top job mate ,can you give us a little close up of that Frenchman ? Is it made from an old school table knife

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Go through my vids, ive done one on it 👍

Great work ...any holidays or days out coming up Andy..

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

October fishing Senegal, revamping the bedroom at the moment, big spend on a new mattress and some fitted wardrobes.

@delscorey8727

9 ай бұрын

Good luck with the home improvements...look forward to the fishing..cheers Andy

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

@@delscorey8727 👍👍

Twice as quick with a pointing trowel.

What was your set up to grind out ? The cyclone thing , blue tub and...

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

The tub with cyclone, there is a video on it i think and many more in depth ones on youtube.

Nice job Andy, out of interest, what mix do use for that?

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

I keep it the same as the build normally which is always 5and 1,the pointing mix was 5 and 1 with a little bit of hydrated lime in it, I wouldn't use the lime myself but the builder wanted it.

I got to say Andy class.

Top job as always Andy...why do they call it a French man

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

I dont know for sure but have been told that the hook on the knife looks like a Frenchmans nose.

@Yiddo67

9 ай бұрын

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 😂😂😂👍....and why is it called a frog in the brick 🤔

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

@@Yiddo67 ive seen a few answers to this the one i think is probably correct is the Dutch were the first to make clay bricks as we know them now, the protrusion in the mould that forms the frog they call the kicker, the Dutch word for a frog is also kicker .

@OutofPlumb-ic5pl

9 ай бұрын

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 'kikker' is the dutch word..... and frenchman is not given its name because of the nose shape of a french person.

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

@@OutofPlumb-ic5pl What is the correct answer then ?

How deep ? Did you take it out , roughly, what mix did you use please ? What is that work on the square meter, these days … thanks

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

It's raked out between 12 and 15mm, the old rule is the depth is one and a half times the width of the joint, so if it's 10 miil the depth is 15mm. Standard mix for me with sand and cement would be 5 and 1, Lime mortar is a completely different Animal. I don't discuss prices on here as everybody's needs are different 👍

The old woman will be looking for her butter knife

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

7 ай бұрын

😁

Just out of interest whats the going rate for something like that ?

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Dont really know to be honest, i dont price by the M2 as every job is different.

Hello andy mate what mix are you useing thair🤔 looks smart as fuck ❤💯👊👌

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

8 ай бұрын

It's 5 and 1 yellow building sand and white cement.

@robbertdeboer7715

8 ай бұрын

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 ahh i see looks proper that mate 💯👌 what mix would you say gives your a real wight joint ? Thats not to rigid and cracks if you know what i mean🙃. Ive used some duch stuff in NL before but its like you said in one of your vids "porridge" 😅regards Rob 👊👊💪

Everyone one here seems to be implying you're old mate😂😂

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Thats because they are all cunts mate 😉😄

@spudlong3044

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂👍🏼

Looks good on london stocks. But lbcs. Get the barrel jointer on em lad❤

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Matching the house mate 👍

how many knew that was a frenchman

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Not many.

@davebarrow2194

9 ай бұрын

Andy isn't French 🤣🤣🤣

Nice clean job, they're not the easiest bricks to do weather struck on either!

@bricklayersworldwithandy6277

9 ай бұрын

Very true!