G'day and Welcome back to Buildsum and
As you may remember from the last video
We have been working on a slab on ground brick veneer structure and in the last video
We got the slab in we've got our
wall fame built trusses on
We put the sisilation on and we've got the tiles and the on the roof and the Fascia is in there as well
So now we're ready to come back down to the ground and start to build up the brickwork now
Realistically once your wall has been constructed you could
Start to lay the bricks
But a lot of job sites they wait until the roofs on and the guys are finished working on the roof
Until they get the bricklayers started otherwise you've got Tilers
working above bricklayers, and just gets messy as far as work health and safety goes, so
We've got the tiles on now. We're going to go back down to the bottom of the wall and
Have a look so what we've done it in the meantime. Why we were doing the roof?
The Bricklayers have came in and they've put in the first row of bricks
and what this does it gives us the opportunity to put in our termite protection, so
Depending on what system. You're going to use you can use a crushed granite system
Commonly called granite guard, so the cavity is just filled up with the granite guard material
Or you can use a termi mesh system
or a stainless steel mesh
so this is just a steel mesh that gets stuck to the concrete without what they call a Parge which is a
cement based adhesive
it also get tacked gets tacked on there with concrete nails or Mickey pins and
It gets laid into the bed of the mortar of the bricks
also this layer you're going to put in your
DPC or a flashing
Okay, so it's going to run from
the
Brickwork sorry from the bottom plate into the Brickwork and
What that does is any water that runs down
Will go through your bricks into your into the cavity will run down the back of the brick and then it will come out
Through what they call
the weep holes
so
Any water gets in behind the Brickwork across the bricks are porous it will eventually work its way through the bricks
it will run down the back of the brick it will hit this flashing and
then it will run out through these weep holes which are just the
Perp of the brick this is the perp is left out so we create that weep hole that lets the water come back out
Okay, and then we can start of course before we get too much brick in but I put our window in windows have
a flashing and
We should also put in our sarking or sisilation as well
All right
the sisilation actually runs down and
Laps over the top of the flashing so again any moisture that was to get through the brickwork and across
The cavity would hit the sisilation run down onto the flashing out through the weep holes
Okay, we're going to start our Brickwork every fourth layer of Brickwork we need to put in what we called veneer ties
So these actually tie the brickwork to the timber frame the video ties should be sloped up
Slightly so this end
should be higher than this end and
What that does it just means that if any water hits it it's going to run back towards the Brickwork
and not back into your building, so
they should be actually slide up a little bit
Okay, so as I said every fourth course and they should be the last rows should be at least two
courses of Brickwork down from the Top
Okay, so there's couple close there because I didn't want to have them too close to the top of the wall
And then you can put your brickwork in
Okay, so your bricklayers the Brickwork they lay that up to a level which is
given to them by the carpenter, and it should be the same level as the
recess in the fibro so that the eave will go in show that and sec
Okay, you'll notice
That when the bricklayers lay the bricks they leave
underneath the Window low by about two courses and
They embed the flashing into the wall
So it's all bedded in and any water that gets
through the window or down inside the brick is not actually going to run out into or back into the building
the brick sill goes in
okay, the brick sill was cut they cut this our angle on the bricks they put a
fairly thick bed of mortar normally they lay
one bed first let it dry
And they more let's stick down with the second bed
to give you the brick sill on that just lets any water run off. You can see there the little rubber
fFlashing that's attached to the window is also. Make sure it sticks out over the top of your bricks
Then go up to the eave and you can see we've put in the eave line
I've got a
timber running along the inside of the brick and also the back of the window so we can nail our quad up to it
I have
bearers soffit bearers running
Every off the end of every truss
so that we can nail our eave sheet in the center and
That's all supported on droppers
Which are generally just off cuts of tile batten that dropped down from the rafter or the truss itself
So once the eaves framed out you can put in your soffit sheet
and
To finish that off which is still going to have a gap here
You put in a quad mold and that finishes that off it may return to the window depends what you want to do there
So thats the outside done. We can then go inside and
Put on our plasterboard
Or whatever our lining happens to be
our ceiling
Our cornice s to finish off the corner
You have a window in with our reveal finishing flush to the plasterboard so we can put an architrave around
our window and
Down on the floor we can put in our skirting
Okay, and as I said at start we end of the job we would landscape
Hopefully this membrane still pretty much intact, so it can actually do its job. Not allow any moisture to pass through here
and
We're done
so that is a
section through a brick veneer slab on ground
building