replacing bricks mid wall?

ColJack · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:37 pm Post Subject: replacing bricks mid wall?

knocked some plaster off and found a bodge of half bricks and plaster filling in a hole that's ended up as about 4 bricks.. ( 1 over 2 over 1 ) to fill back in..
how do you do this?

how do I get mortar into the joints?
obviously I can get it on the top of the course below, but how at the sides and on top of the top brick?

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^woody^ · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:48 pm Post Subject:

There is an excellent post on here somewhere relating to replacing bricks in a wall, and how to get the compo in

Nige F · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:48 pm Post Subject:

fairly dry mix, on back of trowel line up with joint, push in with small trowel/bucket handle . For vertical joints ( perps) similar but make sausage in gloved hand ( to keep cement off skin) and because everyone wears latex gloves now

Nige F · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:49 pm Post Subject:

^woody^ wrote:

There is an excellent post on here somewhere relating to replacing bricks in a wall, and how to get the compo in

I just wrote it

ColJack · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:59 pm Post Subject:

no point using a mortar gun then? expensive for what they are if it's only the one small patch I suppose?

I was considering a cake decorating bag ( icing bag ) to try and get it in.. would that do?

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^woody^ · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:05 am Post Subject:

Nige F wrote:

make sausage in gloved hand ( to keep cement off skin)

Ouch ... I can hear my old instructor turning in his grave

stuart45 · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:09 am Post Subject:

When you are putting the closer brick in, butter up the sides and top of the hole and angle it slightly. Butter up the brick and angle the mortar the other way. Push the brick gently in and then push in more if required with a tuck jointer if you have one, or a pointing trowel.

^woody^ · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:11 am Post Subject:

As this is inside you would drop a lump of mortar for the bed joint, butter the bricks and slide them in, and for any other open joints just flick a dollop of mortar in off the trowel.

It's not outside the Town Hall holding 50 storeys up, its a hole which is going to be plastered.