Animated Cavity Wall

The following animation shows the construction of a Cavity Wall with internal return-corner. The corners of the brickwork have been racked back for 7 courses

Fig 1. Internal Corner

Fig 2 shows how to lay the first course of a cavity-wall
with an external corner and two stopped-ends

Fig 2. First course of cavity wall

Once the first course has been laid plumb, level and to gauge, the block-work can be build, see Fig 3

Fig 3. Process of building up block-work

The brickwork is constructed by building up the corners first, and then 'running-in' the rest of the courses using
a line and pins

Fig 4. Constructing corners

Building up the corners more than about 6 courses is not efficient, because the fastest way to lay bricks is to use a
string-line

Fig 5. Building up the brickwork

When setting a corner, it is better to finish with a full brick, since it is often difficult to fix a line to a half-brick

Fig 6. Completing the wall

This project contains about 220 bricks. It is similar to the test-piece at college. An experienced worker on-site could easily finish this in one day

Animated Blocks

For a variety of reasons, this blog has been inactive recently. However, here's something I made earlier...

It's too big and the colours are a bit drab, but hey, it's only my first attempt

Have you now learnt how to bond-out a blockwork corner?
Or just watched it go up and down ... too many times...