Simple devices for laying bricks with your own hands

What man has not thought about building his own house, surrounded by a flowering garden, a solid and beautiful home for his happy family! Of course, everyone dreams of this, but not everyone is sure that he is able to fulfill this third item of a man’s duties with his own hands. In addition, everyone wants the walls of their house to be reliable, and this requires the builder to have certain knowledge in the field of brickwork. After all, it is the brick house that has the most impressive and attractive appearance. Uncertainty in one's own abilities is quite justified here, but with a great desire and with faith in one's own hands, absolutely everyone can do it. Of course, you will need not only hands and building materials, but also more than one device and fixture that will simplify the entire bricklaying process.

At the initial stage of laying the walls, orders are made so that the sides with marked rows of masonry are directed inside the building (towards the bricklayer).

Tools to get started

It is very important in construction, in fact, as in any other field, to gain initial experience.

For laying bricks, you will need such tools as: a plumb line, a level, a bucket-shovel, a trowel, a square, as a rule, a hammer-pick, a mooring cord.

You can receive it, for example, by taking up the construction of the walls of yours. The process of laying bricks is a rather interesting and simple matter. But it will only be so if you always have the necessary tools and fixtures at hand. Here is their complete list: bucket-shovel, trowel, hammer-pick, jointing, plumb line, level, square, rule, mooring cord and ... and that's it. These are the basic tools, and with their help you can do all the work related to bricklaying. There are not so many of them, and learning how to work with them will not require excessive effort from you. Now you need to understand what each of the above tools is intended for.

The solution is applied to each brick in an even layer, and then the excess is removed with a spatula.

The bucket shovel is used to deliver the prepared cement mortar from the container in which it is mixed to the rows of your brickwork. The solution with the help of such a spatula is quite simple to distribute, observing the uniformity of the thickness of the mortar joint. It is necessary to lay out the solution taking into account that between the rows you should end up with a horizontal seam about 10 mm thick. Further, when you acquire more or less serious skills, you can put the bucket shovel aside and perform the same manipulations with a trowel or trowel.

Trowel (trowel) is a small flat metal spatula. Both sides are sanded. This design makes it easy to work with cement mortar. The trowel is used to level the mortar, fill vertical joints with it, and remove its excess. In order to prevent the mortar from sticking to the trowel, it is recommended to moisten it with water during the masonry process. This tool is the main one, if you learn how to quickly and accurately perform all the necessary manipulations with it, you can consider yourself an experienced builder. But even experienced builders do not lay bricks by eye. To control the verticality of walls and corners, the horizontality of the masonry, instrumentation and devices are used.

Process Control

Methods for checking the verticality of brickwork: a) - the angle between the outer and inner walls is checked with a square; b) - c) - the walls are checked by the rule and the level; d) - the masonry angle is checked with a plumb line.

Not everyone is able to master and use in construction such a complex device as a theodolite, although with the ability to work with it, you can achieve perfectly even walls. To control the impeccability, a simple building level, a mooring cord, a square and a plumb line are usually used. When choosing a level, pay attention to the fact that its characteristics allow you to measure both the horizontal position of the masonry and the vertical one. As a rule, for this, two flasks with a control bubble are placed at the level, or one, but swivel. The level is a rather simple device, and it will not be difficult to figure out how it works. You set the level on the top row of masonry and determine the horizontal position by the position of the control bubble, the masonry will be considered ideally horizontal when the position of the control bubble is in the middle of the flask (between two risks). Verticality is determined by the same principle, only now we apply the level to the wall vertically.

A plumb line weighing 200-400 g is necessary to check the correctness of the brickwork in tiers at the height of one floor. Plumb bob weighing 600-1000 g - to check the outer corners at a height of several floors.

To check the verticality of corners and walls, there is such a device as a plumb line. The principle is also simple: at the moment we fix some kind of load on a thin rope or a strong thread as long as the height of the masonry and hang it at a short distance from the wall. The load ensures the absolute vertical position of the thread, so the distance between the thread and the wall must be the same throughout the thread. If this condition is met, then your masonry is not littered. In addition to the fact that the walls are checked for vertical and horizontal position, they must be drawn even from one corner to another. It is especially difficult to avoid deflection of the masonry in or out of the building when you are leading a long wall. In order to achieve straightness of the walls, it is necessary to use a mooring cord. This device is a regular cord with a thickness of about 3 mm. It stretches from the adjacent corners of the wall set along the square and is a straight guide line.

Accessories

Scaffolding can be built around the entire perimeter of the building, or along one wall only.

Usually, already in the process of masonry, some difficult moments are identified that require additional devices and devices. Let's consider these points on the example of a couple of situations. One of them is connected with fixing the mooring cord on the corner bricks. When the fence fence is nailed onto the veiner, the fences are stuffed to the selected height on one and the other side of the span and carnations are already driven into them from above in order to wind the mooring cord around them and nail the rest of the fences along the cord. The difficulty in the case of brickwork lies in the fact that it is almost impossible to drive a nail into a brick that has just been laid on a fresh mortar and not move it from its position.

To fix the cord, you can quickly make a simple device from a metal thin plate with your own hands. To do this, cut out a T-shaped plate with metal scissors. Then we bend all the ends of the letter "T". You should get such a metal crab, which should be tightly put on the brickwork from above. The dimensions of the crab depend on the thickness of the masonry. We put the resulting fixtures on adjacent corners, tie a mooring cord to them, so as to provide a slight stretch. In a straight line, provided with a stretched cord, we lead a straight wall.

There are already several rows in your wall. At this moment, you will begin to understand that it is already difficult for you to reach the top of the masonry, it is simply inconvenient to work. It is necessary to erect scaffolding. The device of this device will take you quite a lot of time, but with the help of scaffolding you will win it many times more. Scaffolding can be built along the entire perimeter of the building, it can only be done along one wall. In the latter case, you will have to constantly move the scaffolding in turn to each wall. In this case, it would be better to make two wooden goats. Putting two wide and thick boards on them, you will get easily moved scaffolding.

Remember the main thing: when working at height, observe all necessary safety measures. Make scaffolding reliable. It is better to spend more time on their manufacture than to spend it on constantly catching the balance on the structure swaying under you. Having learned how to make brick laying in the walls of your garage with your own hands, you can safely proceed to the realization of your dream.