We removed all that ugly Tin Skirting, And Put BRICKS Under Our Mobile Home!

Hey y'all here we go. We're gonna start it right now laying down mortar. Everybody wants to see the first brick. There's the first brick. Basically he's trying to get it squared up with that next side there. Okay y'all we're having to cut out around these um whatever they're called tie downs. Cutting the bricks around them. So we'll uh we'll get those cut out. Okay y'all the first course is in. That's the hardest obviously. Get it nice and flat and get it you know if your footing's anywhere off you got to fill it up with mortar and get everything lined up and flat. So uh everything looks right. Everything looks good. There it is. He's putting the last two bricks in. Gonna put the last one at the end and then come back fill in the small spot. Basically what they're doing there they're holding that that level level to the we're gonna go right up underneath that piece of metal there. So he's holding it level on that piece of metal so he knows he can get right up underneath it. So that's what we're gonna try to do there. And uh have I said it was a heat index of 110 today and we're out here in the we're out here now wherever it is. So it's nice and hot. Ain't no shade trees around. You see the shade's way down there. It's a little uh a little hot today but uh we're making it happen anyway. All right well we'll get back to you here in a little bit. He's uh cutting bricks. I don't know if y'all seen this yet. I'll let you see this. This is how we cut them. This is a tile saw. MK Diamond. This is a 10 inch tile saw. What it is. Cutting four inch stick. Cutting bricks with it. Uh he'll show you in just a second. He'll kick it on. Got fresh water in this bucket. Keep fresh water over here. The pump out of the uh you're supposed to have your pump over here or you can have your pump over here. But I worked in the Home Depot rental department for many years and them pumps always gave us trouble. We had these same machines. Pump always gave us trouble and the reason the pumps gave us trouble is because you set it down in there and you keep recirculating all that dirt and sand and grit through it. So what what I've always done since I've owned one is run fresh water through it so I don't have a problem with it uh with it tearing up my pumps. Now them pumps ain't you know twenty dollars you can get your new pump. But I don't want to uh I don't want to deal with the problem of having to go find one. So they're just like a uh uh aquarium pump would be plenty. But anyway I don't want to mess with it. So I bought this thing second hand. I don't know how much problem that's had. But that's what we use this one for. I also use cut tile if I got any tile to cut. But I ain't had no tile to cut. Like I say it is an it is an MK. Manufactured in the USA. But anyway that's a uh Home Depot rental uh I went and got certified in these things. So I know all about them and can fix them and all that good stuff. So I try to stay with the products I know that are good. I know that one's good. So um right now it does need a uh a capacitor and a starter capacitor. I've got it. I just ain't put it in there. So every once in a while you gotta spin it with your finger to get it going. But other than that it's good to go. Hey y'all that's the second course in. Second course is all the way down. We're starting on the third. I got one over there working. One over here coming back toward them. So they're both trying to uh trying to meet the middle there. That makes it uh makes it go twice as fast obviously. But the bottom one you can only have one guy working on because there's so many of this stuff going on you got to get it all level. So what's going on? We're hoping we got enough sand. Don't know if we're gonna have enough. Might have to get another load in here. Okay y'all I'm being facetious. I got plenty of sand but way too much sand. That has took a wheelbarrow load of sand to do what we've done now. So I need 10 wheelbarrow loads and that's probably 40 wheelbarrow loads. So we got plenty. So the way we're mixing this mortar we're using Portland cement type S. Portland masonary cement type S. 75 pound bag. 75 pounds to about five four and a half to five five gallon buckets of mortar sand. That's what we're mixing. That gives us just about a wheelbarrow load and uh that's how we've been mixing it up. So if y'all want to do yours like ours that's what we're doing. You can do whatever you want but that's how we're doing. I'm not saying that's the right way. I'm not saying that's the wrong way. Just saying it's our way. So you can see how straight it is there. Pretty good line going across there. It's hot. Have I mentioned that it was over 100 today in the shade? So it's rough. It's rough on us today. Tomorrow it's supposed to be even worse. So we're getting it. Third row is done. Starting on the fourth row. Knocking it out one row at a time. 45 bricks across there. So they're on 90. No that ain't right. 45 bricks across there. They're on 90 and 45 is 135 and 45 is 170 something. 180 something like that. We're up there. Y'all if you hadn't seen the video where I got this stuff. It's old. It was on discount. That's why I got it. But that's what it is right there. We're looking up. But there you go. We use a regular brick saw. I mean a regular tile saw to cut it. We got a regular tile blade on it. That's what we use to cut. So we're still working on it here. I got one. Hardest one to do. So that's the hardest one because you got to get it tucked up underneath there. Make it look halfway decent. So that's what that's what they're doing now. Trying to get it tucked. It's hard to put your mortar. It's hard to do it all on that top one. So you got to uh you got limited space you're working in. So that's what they're trying. Okay y'all we got to the point here where we uh couldn't get the brick in. We measured it too close. That's what we're doing. We're taking all the brick and we're cutting them down to two and a half inches or three and a half inches. We're cutting about an inch out of them. So we have room to slide them up in there without tearing the skirting up too much. Or the whatever you want to call that little piece of trim. Without tearing it up. So we still got to bend it out a little bit and uh slide it up in there. But once we do that it's uh it's in there. So see what he's doing now to get it up in there. Got to move it around and finesse it up into place over top of everything. Then we get it tapped down and locked in and we're good to go. Basically you just want it up tucked behind that metal. So water or rain or anything hits up metal it'll it'll sheet off over the front of it. We don't need it. You want it up high enough where if it grabs over it won't go over the wall. So there again this is all for looks. I mean they passed the inspection with this. So this is all just for looks. We've got to come over here and we've got to cut all this off. And we'll be cutting these narrow so we can stack them up behind that skirting over here. So these will only be about that thick when they get up there. We'll cut this tongue off get it pushed back up in there and uh then we'll be good to go. So the uh that's what we're doing making the wall. Like I said we had to cut the height down on these and get it. Okay y'all that's the last one on the front. So we got it all done all the way across. Basically we had to cut each brick down. You can see it there. We had to cut the height of the bricks to uh get them to go. That's uh that's what we was doing so we've got it done and uh now we're going to get onto one of the sides and see what we can do there. But we will come back to you when we get it going. Leveling off all the dirt that we dug out there for the footing. Throwing it back in there leveling it all off trying to get it looking a little better there on the front. We'll get it done. This is high now so we're pushing that back cleaning it all up. Basically we've made a little ridge there now we're taking that ridge back out. We'll let that settle and then we'll come back and put some more on. Put some more in it so we'll be fine. We just gotta gotta get it moved around a little bit here. Ronnie, we're going to have to cut this one right here on these bridges. It's 105 degrees today. We're not going to keep working. We ain't trying to kill it. Yeah, we're trying to take it easy, people. It's 105 degrees. Something like that. We've got our teeth in here for our forks that we're going to put on in front of them. We've got most of this wall done. This one's getting long anyway. Give us a thumbs up for filming it. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already, and we'll catch you on the next one.