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How to build a brick wall

Whether you want to build a small wall or a wall around your patio, the principle is the same.

You will need

• Sand
• Water
• Bucket
• Cement
• Lime or Plasticiser
• Bricks

Bricks

Over 2m tall and you will need to check your councils regulations.

First thing to get right is your footings, these are what your brick wall will be built on. You need to learn how to lay foundations before you proceed.

Second, you need to buy your bricks. You can find bricks for sale. The types of bricks you buy will be dependent on the type of wall you are building. Roughly we are talking about 65 bricks per sq metre. If you are building your wall over 75cm you should be building a double thickness wall, which means double the bricks.

Third, you need to mix your mortar, this is what is going to hold your bricks together, you need to learn how to mix mortar. Use any mortar mix within two hours.

Fourth, always start at the ends of the wall and work in. Take two bricks and wrap a piece of string around them, laying them at either end of the wall making a straight piece of string. This will be your guide as you lay your bricks. It is essential that you lay your bricks in a straight line.

Fifth Take a load of mortar onto your trowel and lay the first bricks. Remove excess mortar as you go along, you can tap the bricks into position as you go along. Make sure the bricks are laid offset to one another. This is what gives the wall strength.

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Brick is a very common material for building houses, it is tough a durable and easy to obtain. Check out the bricks for sale list.

Bricks are pressed from clay and fired at temperatures of 1,000c/1,800c. It’s actually extruded as a long line of bricks and then chopped up.

The furnace from where the bricks are made are lined with a special heat reflecting brick made of stuff like silica and dolomite.

Bricks were being made way back in Mesopotamia, 8,000 years ago from mud, in fact mud bricks are still being made today in Mexico. Although making handmade bricks must be hard work.

Some people prefer it to wood build house frames due to limited flamability. It’s also less likely to get blown away in a hurricane.

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