The art to bricklaying is to use bricks with clean faces and to plumb and level in a straight line from end to end.

The main reason for DIY bricklaying is to save on costs.

A good indication of quality bricklaying is to look at the outside of a completed wall and check the verticality of the perps.

In the UK a bricklaying labourer may earn up to £16,000 a year.

Bricklaying is a highly skilled trade that can take many years to truly master.

When learning the art of bricklaying it’s advisable to keeping checking and adjusting.

It’s unfortunate that the novice homesteader will often make the assumption that bricklaying is easy.

As well as being physically demanding, bricklaying involves long periods of standing and lifting of heavy materials.

Bricklaying is very important to the appearance of a house. This is because up to 70% of the house can be viewed as brickwork by the critical eye.

Bricklaying: The laying of rectangular pieces of baked clay called bricks one after another, layer upon layer until a desired height is reached. A composition of lime and sand called mortar is spread between each layer which hardens and bonds the bricks together to form a solid mass.