Cost for bricking up a small window?
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Brick it up yourself. If its out the way as you say then even if its not perfect it won't matter, and you've gained a new skill.
1 bag of cement, couple of bags of sand, s drop of fairy liquid are all you need.
Chop the half bricks out with a bolster if you want, or as suggested inset it a little bit to look like a blocked window, then you just need 1 wall starter kit for £15.
As it's solid wall you don't need to insulate as there is none anywhere else.
Just watch a few brick laying videos on Youtube, you really cannot go far wrong. Finish quality may not be perfect but no issue where it is
1 bag of cement, couple of bags of sand, s drop of fairy liquid are all you need.
Chop the half bricks out with a bolster if you want, or as suggested inset it a little bit to look like a blocked window, then you just need 1 wall starter kit for £15.
As it's solid wall you don't need to insulate as there is none anywhere else.
Just watch a few brick laying videos on Youtube, you really cannot go far wrong. Finish quality may not be perfect but no issue where it is
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Mate, If your selling the house, dig deep and get the job done to highest order..Yes a decent brickie, matching bricks and pointing, and toothed out either side of the jams....potential buyers mindset (mine included) is that a persons standard is generally written right through them, A good Job here shows a good job on any othe parts of the house that you may of modified.
Agree with this 100%. Here's one I did for a customer last week and she's delighted.
It'll look even better next week when I tuck point it.
Oh no, last thing you should be doing to find someone.
Friends, family, neighhbours recommendations, Facebook Local Group recommendations etc. Definitely not Checkatrade or Mybuilder type websites.
Looks like a doable job if you take your time?
Checkatrade, and their similar sites, attracts all the chancers, and wannabe tradesmen. Keep well away from such sites. You would get a better job, less stressful, by simply doing it yourself.
Thats fair enough....I know an old builder who has retired he loves little jobs like this.
Have you not got a local next door neighbour app, post it on there you might find someone similar.
It's no more difficult than Lego., but using mortar. You gain confidence by doing....
You have wall at either edge, all you need is a straight length of timber to align the bricks, as you place them, between rest of the wall. Use a small empty pan/paint container, etc., to measure your sand and cement, 4 sand, 1 cement, mix on a large board, with a spade or shovel, add water, and a drop of Fairly liquid. Then you need a trowel.
Work slowly, then lower levels need to set up a little, before you add more weight on top, and so plenty of time between courses for you to take a break, and admire your work in progress. Point the mortar, as you go, and rag any which has got onto the brick faces off, before it sets. After the first two courses, you will have got the idea, and will be working like a pro..
Your prep., involves taking that window frame out - sawing through the fixings, fixing the frame to the brickwork. Once out, you need to tease out all the half-bricks, at each side, to tooth your new bricks in. You might find it easier to drill the mortar out to free them, depending on how strong the mortar is, or they might just come out with a bolter chisel and lump hammer.
Long ago, my first brick-laying was to build a BBQ. I then followed that, by taking out a door, and bricking that up, all properly toothed in, then forming an alternative door. I would challenge anyone to identify, where I had bricked up that door. I just used a length of straight timber, to align the brick course straight.
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