How to lay a wall of bricks

If you need to lay a brick wall, not necessarily to pay for the expensive labor of hired workers. Realizing the technology of manufacturing of brick, you will easily be able to do it, especially if we are not talking about something serious, which is difficult to do alone, but about simple things, for example, interior wall, or a small brick structure.

You will need

• - brick;
• - cement;
• - sifted sand;
• water;
• - shovel;
• - capacity for mortar mixing;
• - trowel;
• a special hammer;
• rule;
• - plumb and thick lines.

Instruction

1. For a start, you have to try and pull a thick fishing line that marks the border of the wall. They need to ensure that the clutch is smooth as "by eye" do not work. Such guides can be conveniently mounted when working indoors. If you put a wall outdoors, then pull the rail line above ground between the two pegs, and the wall , check a plumb and a rule every three or four rows of masonry.
2. An important step in creating the brick is a batch solution. To do this, first fill a container for mixing cement and sand in the ratio 1:4 and mix with a shovel. Then add the water and knead the solution. It is not recommended to do at a time more than 20-30 litres of the mixture as it gradually freezes and thickens.
3. The easiest way to put a wall of one brick. To do this, just lay out row after row, each shifting bricks at ½ along the direction of laying. In this case, every second row will start with a half brick, so you have to cut. For this you need a special hammer with a sharp head. It is easy to cut the bricks and cut them as needed.
4. If you are going to put a wall of two rows, then you need to do is connecting them the dressing, otherwise you will get two parallel thin walls. Here you can apply two ways. The first is to put the bricks in every second row across, then they will join all the bricks. The most important rule – do not allow cracks in the ranks coincide. Always try to lay bricks so that the seam in one row overlap at the center of the bricks to the next. The second way – in every fourth row rotate across multiple bricks in a row, but not the whole series. Both options are good, but the first looks more beautiful.
5. More difficult variant – the laying of the three series. In this case, you definitely need to make the dressing all the rows alternately in either of two ways described above.
6. The process of styling is simple. Just apply the solution on the already laid row, then a little of the solution on the side of the brick, which will be applied to the existing in a new series, then put the brick in a row. Firmly press his hand to the right place, then gently tapping with handle of trowel, move the bricks into place finally. Don't worry, the solution does not freeze at once so that you have time correctly to lay the bricks, but gradually you learn to do it right.