Hi, would like your verdict on this brickwork. It is a wall which will have a patio layed to it reaching up to the first brick. The mortar layer looks massive, and looks like an attempt to correct the level of the wall, which surely should have been done at the base of the wall. To make matters worse this tapers down to a normal thickness further round. How bad/ good is it?

by o_monkey

24 comments

  1. Looks like shit but I’m assuming this won’t be visible when complete right? I hope.

  2. >It is a wall 

    Thanks for clarifying 😉

    Honestly? As someone with long, practical experience of fucking up building walls, this looks exactly like something i would have done.

  3. It’s good to see you’ve been spending quality time with the toddler who build this

  6. On the next episode of amateur drunk builders: This Wall

  7. Not very professional if you’ve paid someone to do it!

  8. Which winklespanner did that? It’s absolutely shocking

  9. I am not a bricklayer. I am not particularly good at DIY beyond decorating. I built a wall once. It was terrible.

    It was better than this. Get your money back.

  11. Not good, it looks like they were struggling with the rain washing the mortar out for the first bit then tried to correct it.

  14. That Stevie Wonder gets about a bit doesn’t he , last week he was doing Skirting boards

  15. For your first attempt it’s almost passable. Keep practicing and you’ll get better.

  18. As long as it stands up and does the job.

    I’m sure there are one or two Century old Greek/Roman/Egyptian architects and builders on here who will give you a fair and honest opinion.

    However as a educational support practitioner for college construction courses… I’ve seen way worse.

    I once saw me a project where a learner had made a toilet out of bricks.

  19. Never built a wall in my life, but I reckon I could do better than that.

  20. Didn’t know Stevie wonder had moved on to bricklaying

  21. That is pretty weird what they’ve done with the mortar. I wouldn’t be happy with it, personally. I don’t know enough about this sort of thing to know if that’ll cause structural issues.

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