TradeSkills

House Construction Bricklaying Course.

• Every one of courses in this section covers essential bricklaying techniques.

However to ensure you get the most out of your intensive week with us we have split bricklaying into two distinct categories.

House Construction and Hard landscaping, House Construction Bricklaying obviously covers all the bricklaying skills you would expect, trowel skills, laying bricks, blocks, stone etc straight, level and true.

It then additionally covers the particular skills you need to construct domestic house walls for projects like extensions or home renovations or remodelling.

If you need bricklaying skills for building tasks around the home then this is the course for you.

Course Content

• Lay bricks and blocks

• Brick and Block selection

• Selecting Materials, kit, tools and machinery for the job. Trowel techniques, mixers, industry products, catnics, lintels, installing insulation, fixings, ties, creating padstones for beams, explained and demonstrated.

• Choose and Create the correct bonds, quarter, half, English Flemish, closers, headers, all explained and demonstrated.

• Single and double Walls, cavity walls.

• Use a variety of bricklaying techniques to match a range of jobs

• Create brick patterns, using speciality bricks.

• Mortar beds, techniques, special finishing techniques, mortar skills.

• Content is based on ability to progress and preference of students and is therefore subject to change