Bricklaying Course
A Bricklaying course that will Save you Hundreds of pounds.
Special Offer course price and Free spirit level with the Bricklaying Course
Duration: 5 days, Monday-Friday, 09.00-1630
Full Cost: £350 including standard VAT
Deposit: £150
- The 5 Day Bricklaying Level 1 course provides the knowledge and basic skills to help you complete that important DIY renovation work.
- Save money by doing the work yourself
- Helps you get on with your project
- Do not have to wait for a busy bricklayer
- Work at your pace and make changes to suit your design
The basic skills course is a first rate hands on introduction to bricklaying with testimonials from complete novices and experienced bricklayers who have benefited from updating their skills.
The course covers:
- Health and Safety
- Tools and materials
- Setting a bed of mortar and laying bricks to plumb level and gauge
- Building a nine inch garden wall to plumb, level and gauge
- Garden gate posts, chimney stacks, archways and/or manhole construction
- Setting out from foundation for a small building starting from corners into Stretcher bond brickwork
- Brick and Block cavity walls
- Cavity wall, damp proof course, lintel, window frame and ties.
The five day bricklaying course has been designed to provide a full week of hands on bricklaying working on a number of projects all aimed at building trowel skills and speed.
All of the necessary theory work is completed as part of the hands on approach from swinging a trowel to re-pointing a wall. The first day bricklaying includes laying a bed of mortar in continuous standard thickness. The next stage is laying a line of bricks onto this mortar bed levelled and standard gauged.
Once comfortable with the basic use of the trowel a nine inch English garden wall is built to ensure understanding of using a spirit level, gauging rod and trowel. This is an excellent style of walling to build everything from ornamental garden planters to renovating the older properties with solid nine inch brickwork.
On the second day the garden wall is pointed using pointing trowels and brick jointers to a high quality. Once all this has been demolished much to your satisfaction (or maybe not???) you will move onto building a mock chimney or garden gate post with corbelled top and ornate brick toothing. This will build on the skills of ensuring square corners, gauging and levelling of the brickwork.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday continues with a choice of projects including for example a formed archway or a manhole. The final project is to build a brick and block cavity wall building from setting out the corners through to pointing the finished article.
Testimonials:
Past students’ comments
'An intensive but fun course providing exactly the level of skills I had hoped for yet didn't expect I would be capable of. The small numbers on the course made the training environment comfortable and a great experience.' K.Gotheridge...Southampton.
'Excellent basic course which taught me all the basics and principles of bricklaying. Presented as an 'on-site' project and very team orientated. Liked the small class and the excellent student instructor rapport'. Strongly recommend for any beginner.
Thanks for a great course.' Paul Freeman.
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