Bricklaying for Cavity Walls

The Essential Bricklaying Course for Cavity Walls enables students to learn the essential skills involved in building substantial cavity walls. The course will appeal to those students wanting to tackle DIY and home improvement projects such as porches, conservatories, outbuildings and garages which will require a concrete block inner wall and a damp proof course which usually require building regulations. The Essential Bricklaying for Cavity Walls course will also appeal to the professional trades person looking to add bricklaying to their offered services.

Join The Essentials Bricklaying Course for Garden Walls for projects that are more focussed on solid walls including boundary walls, decorative retaining walls, hard landscaping walls and simple out houses.

On the Essential Bricklaying Course for Cavity Walls we enable you to learn how to:-

• Prepare your work area including setting out materials and spot boards, tools, mixing mortar and waste handling.
• Make and use a gauge rod or staff.
• Set out the outer wall (skin) utilising Stretcher, Flemish and English bond walls including cutting bricks.
• Integrate decorative patterns and features as well as soldier or capping courses.
• Fitting Vertical and horizontal damp proof courses, wall ties, concrete lintels, steel catnic lintels as well as window and door openings.
• You will also practice maintaining a constant cavity depth, installing cavity installation and accommodating joists.
• Tools used - Gauge rod, mixer, line and pins, levels, builders and pointing trowels, pointing tools, cavity guard, spot boards.
• Materials used - Brick, Block, Sand, Cement, DPC, Wall Ties, Catnic or Lintel
• Physical Demands - High. Prolonged bending