10 Day Bricklaying Course

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course Content

Goldtrowel can teach you the basics of bricklaying in just one day, but mastering the skills takes much longer. With our 10-day bricklaying course, you'll practice laying mortar beds, bricks, and blocks several times, allowing you to develop safe and consistent skills. You'll also learn essential bricklaying techniques as part of the course.

What you can expect to learn from this Bricklaying Course

• Understanding footings and foundations
• Setting out masonry structures inc cavity walls
• Learn brick bond types and usage
• Understand block types and uses
• Build and understand building corners
• Build and understand building piers
• Mixing mortars and additives
• Lay mortar beds for bricks and blocks 
• Understand brick types and uses
• Lay and understand DPC's
• Types of jointing and finishing
• Plumb, level and range

Sure! Here’s a simplified version:

"During your training, feel free to ask any questions — there are no stupid questions! We will take our time to ensure everyone learns well. You will train in large open areas, both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting), to understand how environmental conditions affect bricklaying. You will work with the same standard materials used in everyday construction.

10 Day Bricklaying Course - Content Breakdown

• Each technique is demonstrated before you  proceed with your first practical exercise. With this day over you would have built a single skin brick wall in Stretcher Bond with returns and piers. Correct footings for walls are also discussed.

• There will be a demonstration of various brickwork bonds proceeds your practical exercise for today which will be to build a double skinned wall with a pier and a return. 

• We cover English Bond, Flemish Bond and a variety of Garden Wall Bonds. We also cover using creasing tiles and brick on edge coping. 

• We start with theory on damp-proof courses and cavities, building blockwork corners.

• There will be a continuation on cavity brick/block incorporating external brickwork and internal blockwork corners. The methods used are typical of new - build properties across building authorities within the UK. We show you how to use door/window profiles and close the cavities using a traditional vertical dpc or cavity closure. 

• Completion of the brickwork on the module and setting the lintel with a cavity tray and weepholes. Laying a soldier course above the window is also covered.

• Removal and cleaning of structures built, tools and equipment, end of course re-cap and distribution of course notes and awarding of Goldtrowel training certificate.