Cutting brick wall, this blade any good?

[Seadog]

I don't see why not. As long as it keeps the moisture in.

 

[Morrisman]

Tarp stayed on for 3 days, but OSB arrived today so I’ve used the tarp to keep that dry. I don’t think it will be good to get it soaking wet in the rain forecast today.

I managed to carry a few sheets into the back yard on my own, but decided to use a jack and wheel dollies to get the rest under the car port. Didn’t go quite as easily as I’d hoped.....

I came close to dumping the lot on the floor, but managed to sort it eventually.
Now I need to make a small trolley device to get the rest in the back yard without tearing a muscle or having a heart attack.

 

[DAPPH]

Jobs done.

The old drawers were there to break the fall if the wall went over in one piece.

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Rubbish brickies.
My C&G course told us to always build frog up so the brick has the full surface area to sit & suck on . Inverted you only have an inch or so of mortar holding the bricks in place. Yeah , I know it's cheaper & faster to build but would you want your own home jerry built like that?

 

[Morrisman]

Rubbish brickies.
My C&G course told us to always build frog up so the brick has the full surface area to sit & suck on . Inverted you only have an inch or so of mortar holding the bricks in place. Yeah , I know it's cheaper & faster to build but would you want your own home jerry built like that?

This place is 30 years old, but I guess the ‘cheap and cheerful’ rot had set in even then. The ease with which these bricks knocked apart was a little worrying too.

 

[DAPPH]

Great job, makes me think I should really get on and start to look at fitting a window in my garage

Once I'd cut my openings I'd use an 8 mm 200 mm long masonry drill with a hexagonal body at the drive end to take out all the mortars surrounding the bricks with cut faces . Then once cleaned up and from a few bricks out of the bit taken out I reversed the bricks taken out and cut bricks so that I was able to used faced ends of bricks back in the wall to give a better finish to the opening .

 

[DAPPH]

This place is 30 years old, but I guess the ‘cheap and cheerful’ rot had set in even then. The ease with which these bricks knocked apart was a little worrying too.

At least they are easier to clean up for reuse if you use a small angle grinder with a BOART diamond brick blade in it .

 

[gaz1]

if you build a trolley right you can have a board trolley /sand gravel bag trolley

just make the base and have 2 slot ins at the sides where you slot in an a frame angled then remove when not needed
just like this below and has many uses and can be leaned up against the wall out of the way

 

[Morrisman]

I knocked together a quick dolly to move the sheet wood, worked quite well.

if you build a trolley right you can have a board trolley /sand gravel bag trolley

just make the base and have 2 slot ins at the sides where you slot in an a frame angled then remove when not needed
just like this below and has many uses and can be leaned up against the wall out of the way

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I knocked up a quick device to transport the wood. It worked quite well. Just an old castor wheel and a couple of offcuts.

 

[DAPPH]

I knocked together a quick dolly to move the sheet wood, worked quite well.


I knocked up a quick device to transport the wood. It worked quite well. Just an old castor wheel and a couple of offcuts.


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I made posh version of yours it had two 100 mm lockable castors on it & only needed one G clamp

 

[Morrisman]

I made posh version of yours it had two 100 mm lockable castors on it & only needed one G clamp

Poser.

 

[Morrisman]

So, two months on, my new door arrived. And I started fitting it. Only problem is the rather large gaps down each side.

They recommended measuring up the hole, subtracting 10mm for the frame size, except the made it about 6mm even smaller still.

Wickes supplied me with some nasty expanding foam, and I have carefully squirted the stuff everywhere, all over me, the floor, several tools, the dog, even got some in the gap around the frame.....

Tomorrow I shall go have another look, see if it is solid. Might get some PVC trim to cover the mess up, but I'm glad its a garage back door though.

I did remove the door from the frame first, as advised before. It has made things a hell of a lot easier.

 

[DAPPH]

That's useful ....... was the door & frame bespoke made for Wickes and your order or was it a standard off the shelf door & frame ?

 

[123hotchef]

So, two months on, my new door arrived. And I started fitting it. Only problem is the rather large gaps down each side.

They recommended measuring up the hole, subtracting 10mm for the frame size, except the made it about 6mm even smaller still.

Wickes supplied me with some nasty expanding foam, and I have carefully squirted the stuff everywhere, all over me, the floor, several tools, the dog, even got some in the gap around the frame.....

Tomorrow I shall go have another look, see if it is solid. Might get some PVC trim to cover the mess up, but I'm glad its a garage back door though.

I did remove the door from the frame first, as advised before. It has made things a hell of a lot easier.

pics man we need pics

 

[Morrisman]

That's useful ....... was the door & frame bespoke made for Wickes and your order or was it a standard off the shelf door & frame ?

The door was custom made by a company, upvcdoors or similar, not Wickes. My hole is fairly square and plumb, and the gap isn’t ‘huge’, I just lack the experience with this squirt foam.

It didn’t help that you are supposed to hold the can upside down when using it. It says nothing anywhere in the instructions, but I worked it out, and after I finished I scoured the written word and eventually noticed, written upside down, around the bottom edge, ‘Use this way up’.

I only put three of the 10mm ‘frame fixings’ down each side, might throw a few more in tomorrow.

Is it possible to get trim strips, maybe 3/4” wide by 1/4 thick, radius down one edge?

pics man we need pics

I’ll get some tomorrow, show you what a mess I made.

 

[Ali]

Late to the party, sorry

 

[Pete.]

I saw that video the other day. Given that I've seen one of those tear itself off the track feet and do a couple of 5metre circuits of the slab, he was very lucky not to be eating that blade.

 

[Morrisman]

pics man we need pics

 

[Westfield-builder]

That is a neater job than I have seen many ""pro's" do with foam

 

[Morrisman]

That is a neater job than I have seen many ""pro's" do with foam

Cheers.

How best to neaten it up? It looks to big to cap with silicon, so some neat edging seems the best way.

Trying to use an aerosol upside down was not the best idea Wickes have ever come up with.... you can see on that last pic how easy it is to miss the orange ‘this way up’ line around the base of the can.

 

[123hotchef]

yes that looks ok seen far worse and yes you always use the can upside down, you could silicon it or use the pvc trim how wide is the gap