You think you can lay bricks?

[mark]

Have a look at this :

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[Andy Burns]

That's impressive "suction" ...

[mark]

Seems to be setting it all out by eye.

There's a link to how they make the mud on the same page, explained in Mexican Spanish. So I'm non the wiser.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

1/. The camera is is speeded up

2/. I've never seen a Mexican works that fast. Must have been for the camera..

[GB]

I'd always assumed there was some formwork to hold the bricks in place whilst the mortar sets. I'm sure that I could never make them stay in place like that.

[Artic]

GB scribbled...

Looks like the bricks are heavily concave front and back, making it easier to create suction. The bricks are probably lightweight too.

[harryagain]

I think they are very light bricks. Doing by eye is impressive.

[stuart noble]

And to think that people go to extraordinary lengths to hold overhead tiles in place! They assume gravity will prevail but, particularly with modern adhesives, it doesn't even come close. Even with conventional bricklaying, there is no bond without suction. Those little taps they do to position the brick are insufficient to break it, whereas my somewhat bigger taps often do!

[meow2222]

They're not hollow at all, theyre like our bricks but no frog, no holes. They have to be to handle the high compressive loads.

The mortar mix is:

3-5 20l buckets of sand 25kg bag of lime 12kg cement

The mortar is made extremely wet. If you put it on a board it would mostly run right off.

Must put heavy sideways loads on the walls. Don't neglect repointing!

NT

[jackolivas]

Never fails to have an inept instigator turn a positive into a negative. L ook at these experts trying to understand how Florence' s cathedral dome wa s built over 600 yrs ago. They should have asked this guy instead of spend ing all that time and resources doing it on their own.

Nova had a nicely laid out documentary..

tA

[Graham.]

We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions.

Most of us here are in the UK You appear to be posting from Texas.

[F Murtz]

Weird, works in Australia, do the yanks not like pomms