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Cold Weather Brick Laying

The bricklayers are on hand to dress up the foundation. Bob notes the "anti-freeze" that has been added to the concrete to compensate for the cold weather installation and discusses the brick laying techniques used.
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Cold Weather Brick Laying

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" Thanks for -- I don't know as well it's really at all a cold day. How older than have to get before you guys really can't work about twenty degrees the cut off we don't -- and so this again marginal -- 125 rapid and it's just knowing right and the forecast this board accumulate so I guess we'll probably -- half days work here probably yeah. Now don't have to worry about this mortar just freezing up before you get it out of the out of the bed right rivalry goes we -- it's basically an eighty degrees Nam. Which gives it -- technology Cox radiator get ideas for that in my to a good thing. Now it's not the same kind of -- that goes into your car radiator right I actually looks like the blue stuff that you're putting your windshield washer but it's not the right product that. And what is it different about it it's got -- I thought right where it's gonna use. It's going to make everything -- pass them on -- about an hour and a half off to work with everything and then it goes up. So it sets up but it gives you longer grace period with Wright the mortar rice makes it set report reasons that actually that's important -- otherwise you just yet I stepped up following are graph and let's talk about. The job you're doing is. -- the first step is to dress up the foundation right and what you've laid out is here starter -- airport have been here. There will be the finish wall inside me the green copper conservatory area right and then that does. In between that you've got two inches of rigid insulation. And we've already been in a number of conduit for electrical wiring for lighting here. And then of course beyond that is about nationwide right what happens on the outside we have a couple causes the Breck. And then we have what we call -- the role of locked horns right and that's basically on an angle and would go under the water's gonna come off the glass. That this angle and roll up and get away from the building exactly shed the weather in the Woodward the -- is gonna be brought right you're right the concrete will be."

" What sort of bring justice done this is a Boston City Hall bailout. Yeah maintenance in about thirty years to write a tragedy on the tape that I'm Bob there are actually this type of -- didn't get into very gotten rid of great web yeah right. And coming. How did you get started here. Well I haven't -- as Mike with a bucket. -- Basically we laid out. And you know follow know what up on was -- we -- some leads these are called leads. Now what women when you say I'm not what -- bond who has what right let me why don't whether it was -- half brick -- nine -- I was laid out Brian where exactly and that it starts here where we will be building systems that -- a masonry brightness as the starting right right so the leads a level. And they stagger back and we that we labored -- line in the -- I think level it's okay you don't need to actually use a level and putting on an inch -- you've got a level line right stretches from one -- one in Bosnia and -- the -- you've gotten terrific little -- right plans -- all of -- and placement -- celebrities -- the picture -- or one that right. I'll watch you do a couple that maybe you'll let me do about him. -- That you're you're not bachelor Bob that's habitable tons of water down there right because the bottom we'll break. As a because rock whereas -- indentation. Right takes up a lot of up a lot of more of and I just happen down the line. And there we haven't. I don't know you can do an island OK. And an island right next there you. I'll -- the joint end. Who is bonded done is close allies again. -- very nice. Okay let me trial -- just big event. NN. You're laying in her right down to act. And you're not actually put a lot down this is the part that's tricky. -- It takes a lot of it."

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