Bricklaying Made Easy
These downloadable and FREE guides have been made available by The Clay Brick Association of Southern Africa.
May it serve as your foundation for many rewarding bricklaying ventures in the future.
1. Introduction & Language Of Bricks (PDF / 595 KB)
2. Bricklaying Tools (PDF / 1 MB)
3. Terms In Brickwork (PDF / 293 KB)
4. Working Drawings (Plans) (PDF / 276 KB)
10. Bonds In Brickwork (PDF / 400 KB)
12. Building In Doors, Windows And Window Sills (PDF / 1 MB)
13. Construction Of Walls (PDF / 472 KB)
14. Brick Reinforcements And Roof Ties (PDF / 232 KB)
16. Circular Or Curved Walls (PDF / 281 KB)
17. Garden Walls (PDF / 223 KB)
20. Practical Projects (PDF / 2 MB)
21. Calculating Volume Requirements (PDF / 128 KB)
Many of mankind’s traditional crafts and skills are fast disappearing from a machine-age world in which sophisticated technology has become the watchword. It is particularly gratifying therefore when one such craft defies all attempts to reproduce mechanically that which can still be best accomplished by human hands - i.e. the craft of the bricklayer. Throughout the centuries the basic skill of bricklaying has remained virtually unchanged because it is simple, efficient and not too difficult to acquire.
For the professional bricklayer, it is a skill, which no machine can out-perform; for the amateur bricklayer, it is a hobby which few can equal for its sense of accomplishment in building with one’s own hands projects that will last for many decades.
For the hobbyist there is also the added benefit of building whatever is involved at no greater cost than that of the required bricks and mortar. Indeed, there could hardly be a more timeous occasion to introduce this completely revised and updated edition of “Bricklaying is Easy” than in today’s high labour-cost climate.