Bricklaying & Repointing

Imperial metric brick aliniament.

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.51 PM

The bricklayer laid 17 course of external leaf metric bricks not vertically aligned to the existing house imperial bricks (67/68mm high). Neighbouring exact copy of our house have been extended, between 4 and 10 years ago, all have aligned existing imperial and new metric brickwork, and mortar join looks good. I would like the new wall rebuilt due to poor quality along with the misalignment. Few lateral join are 25mm on one side of the brick and 10mm on the other side, many other lateral join are between 15 to 20mm wide. Pointing look terrible and from the inside of the leaf, is visible there is no enough mortar between bricks (some gap are 90mm deep)., Also BC agree the wall does not look like it has been professionally built. The bricklayer insisted he did a good job and aligning is not possible due to the imperial/metric difference, talking about insulation installation problem without specifying what problem it is. I would appreciate any comments or advice.

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Dunstable

Hi a decent bricklayer will have perp lines very similar to keep the bond accurate as well as to look good this doesn't sound like a good job bed lines should be even if not it means that something isn't level aswell as pointing not being good sounds like a right mess brick should be matched and found before the jobs starts if we know all this the building inspector definitely does and will not be happy I want to say I hope he doesn't ask you to take it down but sorry to say by the sounds of things it shouldn't be up if all is bad at first who knows what else hasn't been done properly

Answered25 July 2017

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Anonymous user

First off this sounds like terrible workmanship,mortar joints should be filled on both sides. Metric & imperial bricks won't match up as imperial bricks differ in sizes any decent bricklayer with experience in this area would have sourced imperial bricks and if building control are picking up the fact that the wall isn't professionally built there's a good change it will have to come down anyway This also sounds like the horizontal mortar beds aren't running level If you have anymore questions or require any advice please don't hesitate to contact us

Answered25 July 2017

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Romford

The simple fact is metric and imperial can't be matched to much difference in size , as for any good bricklayer you should have uniformed joints and full joints ,affects weathering and insolation .

Answered29 July 2017

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