Bricklaying Essentials for Garden Walls

The Essential bricklaying courses for Garden Walls enable students to learn the essential skills involved in building substantial solid brick walls. The course will appeal to those students wanting to tackle DIY and home improvement projects such as garden and boundary walls as well as non regulated outbuildings. The Essential Bricklaying for Garden Walls course will also appeal to the professional trades person looking to add bricklaying to their offered services.

Join the The Essentials Bricklaying Course for Cavity Walls for projects that are more focussed on cavity wall structures such as conservatories, garages and extensions.

It is the objective of the Essential bricklaying courses for Garden Walls that you will learn how to use a comprehensive range of tools and materials in order to build walls that are accurate, straight and true rather than getting as many “wavy davey” courses laid as possible. With an ability to build accurate walls you can then go forward and work to your own balance of height and accuracy depending upon your own needs and available time.

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

• Preparing your work area including materials, tools, mixing and waste handling plus spot boards.
• Make and use a gauge rod or staff.
• Set out Stretcher, Flemish and English bond walls including use of half and quarter bricks (bats) and closures etc.
• Integrate decorative patterns and features as well as soldier or capping courses.
• Build corners and pillars
• Use line and pins.
• Use levels and set squares.
• Use a cement mixer and mix appropriate quantities of mortar.
• Use mortar and gauging trowel to create even beds of mortar for straight courses.
• Dressing and pointing the wall and mortar.
• Freestyle day when you can tackle ideas of your own for possible projects or individual ideas such as curved walls.