Brickwork with own hands

If you are the owner of a suburban area or plan to acquire it, then sooner or later you will take up cement and start building a wall. This is not necessarily a large brick wall along the perimeter of the site. Sometimes this is just a small fence for the garden or the beginning of the garage. Anyway, and decorative brickwork with their own hands will necessarily be in your country life.

Brick masonry by one's own hands - the subtleties of work

It is clear that hiring a specialist even for a small wall is the simplest version of the solution of the problem. But the work is not so difficult and after getting acquainted with the main points, you can really manage it yourself.

1. First of all, we purchase all supplies and the right tool. In any construction market with a good reputation, consultants will prompt you. There are even whole forums where experienced masters share their experience and suggest which brands will please you with quality today. From the instrument you will need a trowel (it is also called a trowel), a shovel with a solution tank, a so-called hammer-pick is needed to cut the brick. Also, do not forget about the quality of the masonry, which is controlled by the level.
2. Masonry brick walls with their own hands begins with the preparation of the working surface. The brick should be laid on a flat and sufficiently firm surface. This can be a foundation, a floor made of concrete. Next, you need to make the markup. If this wall is only in the street, markup is done on the ground, and in the room it is also necessary to make marks on the next wall. Use the level and plumb line, so that the marking was made as accurately as possible.
3. The next point in the topic, how to implement brickwork with your own hands, is to prepare a mortar. It is enough to follow the recommendations for cooking on the package itself. For mixing, an additional nozzle for a perforator of the mixer type is usually purchased.
4. As a rule, ordinary or decorative brickwork, carried out by own hands, is performed in a quarter of the brick . The technology is also used in half or whole brick. If you need a wall that will not withstand any significant stress, it is worth using a scheme in half or a quarter of the brick, which will significantly reduce costs. If we are talking about partitions in rooms, then the technology is used in brick.
5. The preparatory stage of the process of laying a brick wall with one's own hands consists in wetting a surface or foundation for better adhesion. Then, from the two ends of the wall, the first two bricks are laid on the mortar. As the drying out, the brick moves a little to put it as firmly as possible. With this movement, the solution will also fill vertical seams. The distance between the bricks when laying should be about a centimeter.
6. After laying the first row, you should check on the pre-planned lines. This moment can not be missed, because the first row will be something like an indicator for all subsequent. To do this, pull the thread between the first and last bricks, then all the waves or protruding parts will be visible.
7. Next, build a second row. Every three to five rows should be controlled by the level of the horizontal wall. If it is a question of an internal partition, it is necessary to do laying of each subsequent level after drying of the previous one, then there will be no deformation of the masonry.
8. Another important point in the process of building a brickwork with their own hands is called the dressing of seams. This means that the joints between two adjacent bricks should be located approximately in the middle of the lower one. This dressing is done to ensure that there is no delamination of the masonry in the vertical direction. There is also a so-called seam groove, used for the inter-groove pattern.