How To Lay A Brick Concrete Block Wall
Do not use mortar for this test run since you re only trying to get an idea of what you need.
How to lay a brick concrete block wall. Lay out a course of concrete block on the dry footing. Spread the mortar along the corner. Use your trowel to spread a few slabs of mortar around the corner s base of the. When you are ready for the second row of bricks lay the bricks crosswise in relation to the underlying row while at the same time staggering them so the middle of one brick is over the joint of the lower one.
Again use a corner block if they re. Laying the concrete blocks 1. Lay the first course of block after the poured foundation has fully cured and hardened mark an outline for the cement block wall onto the surface of the foundation using a chalk line. How to build a block wall lay the blocks.
Apply mortar to the side. Set the corner block. Use corner blocks where they are needed and cut blocks as required to make it all fit. Use a piece of scrap 3 8 inch plywood to fill in the mortar joint between each block.