How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please
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bouba
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How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please

by bouba » Thu May 08, 2014 9:51 pm

Hi everyone,
Newbie here.My name is Ray.I have purchased a 1930 end terrace house and wish to tackle some diy jobs which include couple of brick walls about a metre high in the garden.

Is there any tool to get a brick wall straight except string line.How does one mark points so that the wall is perfect.Are the laser tools any good in daylight.

Thanks..

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Re: How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please

by TheDoctor4 » Fri May 09, 2014 8:43 am

Hi Bouba

There are a few products on the market at present - some good, some bad. One that we looked at and reviewed a while ago is pretty good and we have a review on it which can be found here, see what you think: https://www.diydoctor.org.uk/product-rev ... -tools.htm

Hope this helps!

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Re: How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please

by welsh brickie » Fri May 09, 2014 2:08 pm

if you go on youtube there are some examples of how to build walls

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Re: How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please

by bouba » Fri May 09, 2014 4:01 pm

welsh brickie wrote:if you go on youtube there are some examples of how to build walls


Thanks WB. Sorry i was not specific. What I wanted to know how to get straight line from a point. What is the best tool except string line.

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Re: How to Get Straight Line for Brickwork - Any Tools Please

by welsh brickie » Fri May 09, 2014 8:00 pm

if its not a long length of wall you can use a straight edge, basically a long straight piece of wood, that you can use to align the bricks

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