Decorative Bricklaying

Day 1 Introduction to and the use of tools gauging & mixing mortars loading & setting out the site with materials trowel techniques and laying the bed joint buttering brick joints building corners plumb and level laying to the line & various pointing techniques. Days 2 10 Brief outline what is incorporated in each module of this rewarding Decorative Bricklaying Course Decorative brickwork Raking cut Putting a 45 degree drop in a wall finished with a Brick on Edge. Accuracey of the cuts of the Bricks is absolutley paramount. Scolops Putting a Gentile Dip in a wall making sure it stays on a nice even curve. Finished with Creasing Tiles and Brick on Edge. Vertical Herrin Bone Arguably the most difficult and most Striking Brickwork Pattern. All Bricks to be layed at 45 Degree Angle Staggered to each other. Inverted piers 440mm piers with one face of the Pier having 215mm recess created by a CAnt Brick. This Pier will be Bird Beak Pointed and dressed out with Creasing Tiles completed with Brick on Edge. Twisted Piers 440mm Pier, Each Course set at slightly different angles to the course below, to point where it does a Complete 360 turn Creating a Spirral effect from top to bottom. Bullseye Building a complete circular opening in 9 inch wall. Wrapping a Brick on Edge all the way round the circumference. Archways Setting out and Building an Archway into a wall using a furring piece. Radius Creating a Half Moon Wall with interlocking diamonds projecting from the Face. This is finished off with a recess Joint.