 there we go quite obviously knackered. What I always do is when it's a timber lintel put three four inch nails into the timber lintel against the back of the new lintel and it stops it tipping which it always tries to do is that nasty nasty lintel. Good Monday morning Monday the 24th of April and we're back on a lintel job. It's been a while and quite a while. As you can see we're all loaded up ready for a lintel job. We're a bit late getting here because we've been to James Steel to order the next lintel for the next window which is going to be a 200 by 100 angle line 2770 long so that's going to be a pickup job on the roof but that's been ordered and that's going to be ready in the morning and then we'll get this loaded and I'll show you around the back. There we go quite obviously knackered. It's weird how it's sticking out it's almost flush with the face but yeah it's a 1.8 window blessing so it's a 2100 angle line which we have in the van and then we've got this one to do the big one across the other side. The customers decide whether to have the house rendered or repointed. If it's getting repointed then all this brickwork is going to be patched up. Well that's going to be patched up. If not that doesn't need patching up because it's going to be rendered obviously and then when we do the lintel we can just put block back in but it's the old discontinued bricks and for some reason the bricks in the pike stroke gable don't match to the bricks at the bottom so up to the lintel along brick above there are different ones which is a bit strange. So yeah it's getting on for nine o'clock so I need to stop the waffle and get helping Alex get the solar stuff off the van. So we're catching a bit. It's almost flush with the surface which is bunker. You can see the rust stains on the window which run down off the lintel. There's the damage there's the telltale sign of a lintel. Big fat, big fat cross joint, bed just keeps getting repointed which doesn't solve the problem. I've been siliconed as well that's why I won't come out. Yeah won't come out because it's silicon. But anyway you get the gist. It's supposed to be that big and there's the crack. Get close with that. To the weakest point. So let's get this trim off. So there's no gap there look. It's leveled the brickwork there and when you look at the other end the window is 50mm away. So I'm guessing the wind has been putting straight. So we've got to pack this up when we put the lintel in. We'll pack it off the mullion there that's where the strength is and that stops the lintel sagging. We'll also put a couple more in just for safety but that's going to take most of the weight of it there. That one's going to be the heavy duty lintel on that side. So we're going to get this covered up this window and have a quick break and carry on after break. I think we'll need some cream today. So this is our first lintel job. We're with cable 3. Pretty much we only need the cable for charging batteries. Got our Hoover, our Sawzool, that's the beast that got our blower which is like a jet engine and then we've got our drill. So with it only being soft lime water that's plenty powerful enough that drill. So we get started with the drill, make our hole big enough to get the stats thing in and then we're away. Yeah, no extension lead, no cables to ship over on the scaffold. So let's get going. It's been a while since I've spoke, hello. So I'm doing my usual slung and dance while these getting the bricks out and getting all the stuff brought around, getting the mixer ready for mixing and then once those bricks start coming out I'll be polishing off with the scotch ember, my usual slung and dance. So I'm just out of the way while the dust is happening. So yeah, we'll catch you when some progress happens. As usual, all our plans have fell at the first hurdle. This stuff, as you can see this is the classic cavity tray. Sorry, that shouldn't be going there, that should be going in there. This isn't, well I don't know if it is or not but I always thought, yeah, I always thought sand lime water was very soft. This stuff looks like it but it's given like three to one mortar, sand cement mortar. So it looks like lime water so I don't need to put cement in it or something, or too much cement but it's rock hard. Sozo's not touching that, we've had to grind it. There's the rust. Don't dry at the moment but look at that, there's your rust jacking. You can't see it there but the big joint's gone. It's a big stir for the inwards before it was expanded. So yeah, no insulation in the cavity and the dodged the bullet there with the Sozo because we've got this in the cavity. Right where the Sozo first went through. So we've been looking for that. There's the end of the joists, those stickiness of those joists. That's three inch then, solid timber. And we've got a timber link behind this knackered. So Alex has a broker break, a brick's broke while he's been kind of cleaning them because they are hard to clean. And they've been cracked down in the middle to begin with as soon as it touched it. Yeah. Let's give up. They're not the best bricks. And the mortise is tougher than the bricks. Yeah, which is not good. You can see the bricks are full of cracks anyway. Crack, crack. They definitely look like seconds full of chips. I mean we weren't forced to do about brick work back in the 60s and 70s, another one cracking it. The face is going on that it's not pretty. So anyway, I'm going to crack, crack on. We're really going to put two accros in because this stuff's absolutely solid. And for once, there's the old, I think they galvanize them. They're the old tires. They are nasty. They're in good condition then. Not a bit of rust on them. Usually they rust through and they blow as well. You get a tow-eye jack-in. So it's when you see a crack in the brick work in rows. But it's all the tow-eyes have lifted and cracked the brick work. They're in great condition. So there's going to be another set up there somewhere. Yeah, about three or four courses up from there. So they're doing the work holding the brick work and the actual mortar. It's rock hard. So we're going to put two accros in. One about here and then one about there. Splits into thirds basically. So I'm going to get a couple more out, get this accro in and then carry on. I'd get the grinder and take this joint out because it goes right through but I can't physically lift it up at that height. Because that is, you can see how high it is. So it's holding the grinder up level and if it catches, it's a bit dangerous. You need to get a scaffold up another three foot to keep that safe. They just save a lot of chipping anyway. Anyway, that's enough waffling. Just get you set up somewhere on time-lapse and you can carry on watching. You've got the radio, pal. So I'm going to put this right down the other end of the garden now. Other side. Do you want that patching? I don't know what's going on there. You've changed the window and made it right. Pigs here of it. But that involves all two then out and what have you. And then you've got the window. There's the lift up. It's even lifted up the tiles and gone through the verge. So that's a lot bigger that one. So we're going to be a lot earlier to start that one. It's weird because it's like a plainish brick with a sand line mortar up to lint light and the bricks change and the most changes. That is rock hard that. I'm really difficult doing this and we've had a five I think snap because the bricks are really poor quality. So the time of the idea of having it rendered or pointed and I think I'll advise them to get it rendered because it's not nice. Even if you point this, the bricks are still all chipped and a bit of a mess. I think I'd go for the extra expense and get the rendering done. That means we don't have to do that instead of trying to make a decent job of this render over it and it's going to save them money with us not doing that. It can be money off the rendering then. But we'll speak to them later. But yeah, update. It's one o'clock. I've had to get a bag of nails for 12 quid because I needed three nails because what I always do is when it's a timber lintle put three four inch nails into the timber lintle against the back of the new lintle and it stops it tipping, which it always tries to do. So that could be done. I've measured from the cavity tray. Yeah, cavity tray, which is going to be 2.6 meters long, which allows for an upstand at each end. The wheat vents, sorry, and here. I think they call them peat vents because you don't see much of them. Two types in here. That's all you see sticking out. That's why a lot of people say, well, where's your wheat vents? Because they can't see them. That's the whole idea. So, yeah, the water's that hard. We didn't even need to. We could take those props out, fine. No problem. It wouldn't move anywhere. But obviously, you don't risk that. I just got you a few more to clean and he's getting a mix in. So I'm going to put some insulation behind the lintle. I know there's no insulation in the cavity at all, but if ever they decide to get it blown in after, then if we don't put it behind that lintle, that's going to be a cold spot because they can't blow in behind the cavity tray, which you see a lot of on the old houses. So it's just proofing it really. It doesn't have to be done, but it's just why not do it while it's open up like that. That's there. And, yeah, we're going to have trouble putting the trim on. The window's about 15mm at a level, probably even more. And it's not straight in the opening. It's about 15mm back over there. It's about 25mm back on here. So it's like on an angle going across. So the trim fits under the lintle there. It goes past the lintle there. I'll have to show you that to explain it, but it's a pain in the arse anyway. It might just end up just putting a silicone seal in it. It'll be a big silicone seal, but we can't really get a decent trim on top of it. There's my boy. Yeah, a bit of extra points to do where it's moved and cracked. And the cavity tray is going to be nailed onto the brickwork and a beader silicone product to seal it. Because if it was blocked, we'd chase it in or we had a joint, but we can't chase it into the brick. You just can't get in there to get the ground in. And it's so hard to try and get it into the gap. So that's it. I think I'm going to have to edit this down because I've ruffled on long enough. Yeah. So I'm going to get up there. Well, I'm going to get this thing put first. Then I'm going to get up there and get it fitted in. And by that time out, let's have a mix ready. Oh yeah, there's the old lintle. So, I'll see you in a bit. Can you turn the radio down for me, though? You've had the mic, so I wouldn't need to turn it down. Thank you, Alex. Right, there we go. That's nailed in. That's no nails. That's been smeared on with the trial, so it's all sealed. There's nothing going down behind that. Got insulation under there. Got a upstand, both ends. DPC's cut back. No, it's been a while. It's been a couple of months, hasn't it? It went from lintel after lintel to nothing. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's ready. Got both upstands done. By yourself, you did well. Yeah. So, I've just remembered now, I'll just need to pack it before we start. You've got the packages around here. Yeah. So yeah, we'll get this packing in and then I can get bit laying. That's the main part where the mullion is to stop any flexing. So yeah, we'll get that packed up and we'll get the moth up and we'll get the bit laying done. Goddamn bricks. So, aside from those five, we're done. Obviously, tomorrow I'll probably get them patched up while Dad's doing all that. So I'll get that sorted. But the lintel's in there at least. And as you can see, with some nice... We've caught out by assumptions. Hmm? Caught out by assumptions. Assumptions? We assumed it was soft lime water. Yeah. And got caught out there. But tomorrow, we're ready for it. So, we'll have... Yeah, we know what's coming. And obviously, trestles are like... We're going to get the trestles sorted out properly tomorrow as you'll probably watch us do. But that's our task tomorrow. So, catch you then. Right. Excuse the no mics, but there's no wind. It's very peaceful, so you should be able to hear me. We're all set up with our scaffold, which is higher than normal. We've got this big rascal today. I think the customers are airing on the side of rendering, which I don't blame them really, because you've got two types of bricks. Crack bricks everywhere. It's repointing. It's not going to make it look much nicer. So it needs a good scene to it. It needs the dry verge re-doing. I think they've got a bit of roof and what it needs doing. But our bit is obviously the lintel first job, which we didn't realise is that light. I've got to take that off and lift it up two courses, and I can do that straight away so we don't have to come back and fix it to the old brickwork. We've got five bricks to put in there. We've got bricks left over from two of our jobs down on the lintel estate. So we're going to use them for patching up. Hopefully, if the customer gives the OK for render, we can keep our bricks and go get some concrete commons and just do concrete commons. Those bricks are very rare. The holes are knocked down so we can do keeping them if we can. And then this bit here, I'm pointing, this bit here is the right mess. So we need to take at least three courses out of that and then tie that back in so it's strong for taking the lintel. You can't set the lintel on that because that lintel would be sat on a six course straight joint there. So the hole would be stuck on that little section there, but it's moved as well with the lintel's lifted. You can see the size of that joint. There's your classic lintel jack-in. If your windows are doors look like that, not necessarily that bad pointing, but big joint either side of your window, that's what's happening. And there's the lintel doubled in depth. And someone's put a bit of mastic over it, hoping that'll fix it. So, and there's the crack. It just follows the patholeast resistance. So basically the whole pike has been lifted up slightly. So we'll rate that out and repoint that because obviously we can't drop it back down again because once it's moved, it's moved. So light first and then we're going to cut all the way through that with the saw and take it out like we did yesterday. There's all blade. It's not to the task, I'm afraid. This stuff's soft. Once you get that lintel light, there's a lot of different bricks for some bizarre reason. So we're all set up. What time is it, Al? 10 to 9. So we're pretty much arriving here yesterday, weren't we? Yeah. So we've gained an hour straight away because we only just got here this time and we're already set up and ready to go. Everything's plugged in. Just need to get the PPE and get cracking. I think I've just filmed that. So the time lapse isn't so hopefully... I haven't. But there you go, look at that. We're all opened up. Here's our cavity debris. A bit of floorboard. Standard mortar. This bit's destroyed because this bit was in the brickwork but look at that bit. You know what I did with that? What was supposed to be doing? Absolutely nothing. Just a huge... Looks like it was built in and it's fell out and that wasn't built in there. But look at that. That cavity tray's doing absolutely nothing apart from catching shite. Not attached anywhere. All curled back. And then it's just a trough. We're about a third of the way across. Maybe a bit further. Light's done. So... There's our lintel. Oh yeah. Alex is showing the bricklayers before us in Verticommas. Must have had a tough pointer. There you go. Wonder why the water was getting in the rust in the lintel. Oh yeah. He'll beat me. So you go, I'll take this all in one go just to show my bad days. But that's done out long now. I can't get it out. So we'll come back to that when we get further along. So safe to break. Right. We're at the demolition part. 90% finished. Oh! Just got this bit to knock out now. Take that half out. Take the down to there. Build that back up. It's tied in. It's actually attached to something. So... There's that nasty, nasty lintel. Well there's the tray. Now this edge... This edge is gone because this was in the brickwork, but if we're looking at that edge, it looks like that was never in the brickwork. But anyway, we haven't torn that. So far so good. It starts to dish a bit there, which you don't want because it holds water. It's supposed to send water down. Just a bit more. About halfway now. Shit loads of rust there. It's so brittle like this, but under compression, it's like a car jack. And it's perpetual. Once it starts, there's no stopping it. It just gets worse and worse. And we've got a hole there. So... And then we've got this. You can see they're okay. It's... From about there, it's fell out. It wasn't very well built in. I don't know if it's torn or what. By the look of it, it wasn't even built in. At the middle there. Clean edge, no mark. Sort of in with a wing and a prune with it. Just snot's holding in up there. And then here, the heat. It goes soft in the heat. But it used to. And it's just sagged. So it's been in the brickwork, but it's not been on the back wall. You see that? That is what you call a chocolate teapot. As much use as a nice big bulk of timber. Always... Oh, never found a rotten timber yet. In the inside. And we'll keep them one of these. We've found one in the cavity. One of these old tie wires to show you. So we've got about 8 inch seating over here. We've got over a foot that end. So, obviously they didn't have grinders. Just cut them down to size back then. So it went in. So again, we're going to take this one out. Put a full brick in there. It's a nice seating. And then, whip this thing out. Get it round to the van. I might even cut it in half. So it's more manageable. Oh yeah. All the debris that come out, we also found this kebab. A motor kebab. Cavity. Cavity tray shaped. Nice bit of reinforcement in the motor there. I thought it was a dowel, but it's not. It's just a branch. So I'll hand it over to Alex. How? So yeah. We'll get Alex up here. Here he is. I'm going to take the kebab off me. Thank you. Say hi. Hi Neil. Say hi to YouTube. Hi. Hi. Yeah. Once he's finished on the phone to me. We'll get this out. And get that one in. Pretty heavy. This is 150 by 75 roughly. I think we're putting 100 in by 200. So anyway, let's get this out. And get the other one in. And go and have some lunch. It's up and down. Yeah. I'm trying to mark the bottom pavers. I'm going to go down a bit further. I was going to flip it over. Are we? Yeah. The camera is in. You can flip it over. Okay. We're going to put it down once you flip it over. I'm going to carry it out. It's heavy. It's going to be too much to carry this. I carry this one on my own. This is heavy. This is thicker steel. This is about 12mm thick. Okay. I was thinking about cutting it in half as well. Yeah, I was thinking that too. If you put a couple of bricks down again, we'll slide it along and drop it down to the bricks. Other blocks. Put the blocks up. You've got them at your height, haven't you? Two blocks here. Just put one of those where the lead is. You just take the weight and I'll steady it coming down. Are you okay? You're going to put your own weight there, aren't you? You need to stand to the side of that steel. I might need you to come down. Okay. Just so one of us can lower it a little bit. Move it. Let's put this out down. I can take that bit if you want. Okay, just watch yourself. Take the weight and I'll direct it. Okay. It's in the shadows here. All right. Swapping it over. We'll get this one up now. Okay. So, this end is pretty sweet. Although it has a brush here. And then let's take it along. Stand back all your shadows in the way. Red five going on. Yeah, red five. Meaning red for rust. And back along what we're putting in. It's all about the upstand, which is probably triple what we've just took out. Predictions 100. Okay. Yep. Right now, if I stay here, well, much of that plane doesn't slide. All right, one sec. Bring it in a bit. Got it. Go on. A bit more. There we go. Now it's not. Do a push. We'll use stuff out. This is the mid-right hack job of it. There's the original jam. And we've reduced the dough for some reason. We need to get that half out. That half out. And bond this all in. So it's strong. One bit too through there. And then you've got a couple missing there. But it's going to be rendered. That's not a problem. This is going to give it a lot of strength. If we put it in now. Try and get the silicone off here. We're going to build up to it and reseal it. But yeah, of course, we've got the shit to be removed. I'm going to get this brick bricked up. Once we get these halves out, these are really slowed down now. Five to one. So that bit section's been rebuilt now. Ready for the lintel. And he's chopped off that mortar up there, underneath those brick and edge to get the cavity tray tucked under there. And then we'll get the lintel after dinner. And get a brick in it back up. So that's how it's going to be done. That brick's been reset. All nice level plumb marks, etc. Bricks just keep breaking. So we need to speak to the customer and just say we need to get commons. Because I think 99% are going to be rendered now. So we're going to go for dinner and get back on it after dinner. There we go. Just after three. Yeah, just after three. Yeah. We can't make this look pretty. The bricks are all chipping as they've been cleaned up. So we've gone for builders of the face brick wall. We're going to get rendered. You see all the weak vents. That one's higher there. See that one's higher than that one. That one's on the mortar bed. That one's on top of the lintel. That's why it's higher. It's still doing the job. We're going to cut that off tomorrow with the angle iron. The cavity tray where it's sticking out. I've got a trim to put underneath tomorrow. Well, I've got a few jobs to do tomorrow. So we need to get air early and get cracking. I'm going to have to go and get some commons to finish this because we're wasting bricks short. We brought 20, didn't we? I think so. Yeah. You can see there's nothing you can do with this. Look at the state of it. The brick works a mess anyway. The bricks are blown. Crack bricks. Everything's moved up. So we can't make it look nice even by re-pointing it. So it's probably better to render it. Because it's just horrible. Some jobs need rendering. And the mortar's rock hard. So we'd spend longer to make it out than we would quickly back in. We'll go for a few blades on that one. Yeah, the rendering's definitely the way to go. Well, it is hard, but it is. And yet it looks like lime mortar. Yeah. But there's loads of bits in it. Yeah, that's cement that. Yeah. Yeah. It's stronger than three-to-one, isn't it? Definitely. But it's not brittle. Three-to-one pops off in lumps. Because it's brittle, but this stuff isn't. So let's go on with the blinks. Yeah. So like I said, just have to do them on it. See if we're able to get some more bricks so we can get this finished. Get as many bricks as we can today with whatever mortar we've got. And then we're going to take stuff away tonight because there's a lot of stuff to take away. Yeah. Try and get the accros out tonight. Definitely take some planks back, I reckon. Why? If you can get up to a section. If you can get up to there, yeah, we'll take that section out. You can take one section out. Yeah. Right. Enough talking. Let's get off to foods. Are we winning? No. No. But that's about as far as we can go today because we've used up all our bricks. Essentially, we've had a talk with the customer and even though they are likely going to render it, they still want bricks to match. So we're just going to see what we've got left at home and bring them tomorrow. Pick up some more cement from Fairwoods and then get this finished tomorrow. We'll come back tomorrow anyway, so it's not a big deal. So while he's getting that bit finished up, I'm going to quick tidy up but we will probably catch it tomorrow when we're still working. So see you there. Day three. I've just been to get some silicon to seal them at the top of the doors and a bag of sand. And when I've been away, Alex has got those last five brick patched in there. Lovely job. Pointing this last little bit here. Alex is just doing those off a ladder. Alex, do you want to move the trestles over? Okay. So I'll give you back your tools and then we'll shift these over. Right. Okay. Yeah. Once these trestles are down, we can start tidying up and get the trim in. I've left the DPC hanging over there because watching Izzy the other day, he mentioned about, I think it's three mil of DPC should be left over the lintel which I thought I might have heard about but not really took any notice of. So I've left it over hanging so we can cut it back with a tiny overhang on it because you can see how much of that angle line is exposed. There's a good 18 mil of that angle line exposed outside of the door. So when I tell the customer, it's only done with a galvanized paint at the moment so that will need painting as well to protect it. Probably a good hammer-iter to do that. Yeah. So it's just the finishing touches and then we're off to the the farmhouse job this afternoon. We've got a few jobs to do there including concreting the floor which we'll have to have a look at. So that's it. This brick won't be moving anymore. It is where it is now. And then, yeah, let's get cracking and get this job finished off. Right, didn't realise I was filming I thought I was looking for a match and so I'm going to have to cut all that music out. Yeah, so we are done. I mean nearly. Our brick relaying bit's done. We've just got this gap to fix. As you can see, that gap, I believe, about 10 down to 25. So I've put these packers in to stick the trim against. So I've got to go off and get a trim. You see, this wall, this is set right back so you can see the underside of the lintel there. So that needs painting. But a little tip, I've got a fizzy the brickie. He's leaving a few mill of the cavity tray sticking out. So thanks for that Izzy. And obviously, I didn't do it on this one I watched this video before I did that one. Always picking up tips from other bricklayers. Very handy. And again, this one, team mill dropping it. And also the window's cocked. It's set back further that side than it was on this side. So the window sort of does that. So the trim is going to sit under there but it's going to sit in front of the lintel there. But there's nothing I can do about that without refitting the window, which we don't do. And obviously, it's not feasible to do that. So I'm going to stick the trim on and seal on the top of it. Just do as best I can. It won't be pretty, but you've got to work with what you've got. The lintel's in straight. So we can just make out all the one-week vent there. That's the upstand one. You can just see the damp course where the upstand is a bit as well. Every two bricks. It's nice and tight dancing. There's the other one with the other upstand is. Same with this one. Upstand. Every two bricks. That's not going to leak and that's going to last a long time. So what I'm going to do now is nip to Amiga Plastics which is just down the road in the bootle. I'm just waiting for Alex to come out. He's just in the toilet. Once he gets back I'm going to let him know what's going on. We can do the final tidy up in the swill down and I'll be there and back in half an hour. Assuming the traffic isn't too bad down there. So that's it for now. I will be back shortly with a 30mm trim to stick on there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you have it. We're finished. How are you doing that? You can't just stay right. I'm done. Get somebody else to fix you the trims for you. Nah. I thought you were just doing it. Yeah. So trim one in silicon with glue. Trim two in this stuff. It's a super glue. It's super duper glue. And this stuff is dangerously fast. I've never used it before. It definitely does the job. You get one shot with that. So I know obviously two new lentils. There you go. So a bit of a tedious one but that's just how it is, isn't it? The main thing is the John and they have the wheat vents in so whether they decide to render or not they're set. I think if it's rendered they'll just render over them. Yeah, but if they don't then the wheat vents are in. So it's prepped for either or. So that is the end of our video. If you enjoyed be sure to give us a thumbs up and if you're new to the channel or you want to see more be sure to hit subscribe because that's a massive help to the channel. We greatly appreciate all the support. And we're aiming to 50,000 this year. 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