10 Day Bricklaying Courses - Bricklaying Training Courses

This is a practical 10 Day hands on Bricklaying Course. These courses are designed to give you sound knowledge of brickwork for use at home or site but is also flexible and can be tailored to include any specific project you are planning. Our 10 Day Bricklaying courses are as good as it gets.

Our Instructor and Assessor not only teaches bricklaying but actually does it for a living. From Site developing to Domestic he knows his stuff which can only be advantageous to the students. You will be confident on completion of your course in tackling various projects having had the best training that Goldtrowel is known and respected for.

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The first two days of the course are fixed and consist of the following elements:

Day 1

Introduction to and the use of tools
Gauging & mixing mortars
Loading & setting out the site with materials
Trowel techniques and laying the bed joint
Buttering brick joints
Building corners plumb and level
Laying to the line & various pointing techniques.

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

Day 2

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.
From here the course is tailored to suit each student. There are two options.
Option 1 consists of the principles and practicalities of building brick and block cavity walls such as would be used for extensions, porches and new-builds.

Day 3

Construct 4 inch wall with 13 inch and 9 inch pier finished with soldier course

Day 4

Construct English Bond Corner and walling

Day 5

Construct Flemish Bond Corner and walling

Day 6

Construct 9" wall with piers and finish with Brick on Edge
Dog toothing, creasing tiles, dental coursing, scallops
Raking cut with brick on edge

Day 7

Cavity walling with DPCs
Air Bricks
Wall Ties
Lintels, Tray damps and reveals

Days 8 - 10

Herringbone and basket weave with panels
Radius work
Quarter Bond Pier

You wont find any better Bricklaying Courses

Some of the modules we use are similar to those used in the City and Guilds assesment and so will give you an idea of the speed and quality required should you wish to progress to that level in the future.