Cost for bricking up a small window?
- Thread starter dazzystar
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A perfect, easy opportunity, to learn to lay bricks yourself. £30 for materials, on top of the bricks you said you have. You are on site, just an easy days work. All you need is a lump hammer and chisel, to ease the 1/2 bricks out, a long straight edge, a brickies trowel, sand, and cement.
Patching the window, you will be patching it again next year, then the next.
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There's an alternative way to brick in a window without cutting out any bricks.
You set the new brickwork back about an inch or so, so it's recessed.
It's seen as an architectural.feature, and is sometimes done on new builds. It's a feature that mimics the old houses with bricked up windows because of the window tax.
You set the new brickwork back about an inch or so, so it's recessed.
It's seen as an architectural.feature, and is sometimes done on new builds. It's a feature that mimics the old houses with bricked up windows because of the window tax.
As has been said, have bash at it yourself it's a fairly easy project to start with and as it's out the way won't matter if it's not perfect.
Another option is to measure up the opening and keep an eye out on ebay or the like for an old upvc unit that's about the right size, you can get upvc add ons to make a slightly smaller window fit a bigger opening.
Another option is to measure up the opening and keep an eye out on ebay or the like for an old upvc unit that's about the right size, you can get upvc add ons to make a slightly smaller window fit a bigger opening.
I had about £300 in my mind, for a days labour you supplying the bricks, they do all the work inc toothing in the bricks.
I could fit you in tomorrow.
Put some brick wall paper over it , tenner 
Clueless.
Lol.
It will take a day to get raw materials, bring and set up the trestle scaffolding, mixer, barrows tools etc, set up, remove the window, fix wall starters etc to the inside, tooth out the bricks (fingers crossed no collateral damage), lay the inner leaf with tie wires etc and another visit to finish the brick up the outside, doing all the header cuts and struck pointing etc, clean up and remove the gear.
£400 is a bargain, even if it was just the outer leaf.
Staple some polythene over it and save yourself a fortune.
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Thats not even a full days work, if any brickie dragged that into 2 days work, they'd be taking the pi%$.
Now you know how nosey spends half the year at the Après-ski.
My aprés these days is a good book.
Deffo less than 24 hours - correct.
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