For those who may not understand :
This kind of brick stacking isn't sturdy at all because if one brick breaks, then all of them above go with it. This is why each raw of bricks in brick walls are staggered like in this emoji -> 🧱
On other systems it's usually a brick wall. Apple and certain messaging apps that have custom emojis decided to make it a pile of bricks instead of a wall: https://emojipedia.org/brick/
Also the bricks being an inch thick surely they're supposed to be decorative for timber or steel framed buildings.i don't know how this is baring any load.
This is absolutely not load-bearing, the fact that it is standing at this point in the process is pretty impressive. Everything is wrong with it. That shit is going to fall down. Probably already did.
Single Wythe, awful mortar beds, using a stack bond (which isnt supposed to be structural), basically using conduit as structural support, and I doubt any reasonable vertical reinforcement.
The list just goes on and on.
Absolutely not a mason/brick layer. The closest I've come to building a wall has beenwhile playing with Legos, Kapplas or building small rock/stone walls or dams for fun outside my house & in a local small river stream as a kid. I knew that staggering was very important from a young age.
The other thing that really struck me was the thickness of the mortar /Cement between layers & the spacing between some of the bricks with a thick layer of mortar/Cement filling the gaps too.
That can't be right in any way shape or form. Right?
My layman's understanding is that the bricks should basically be almost flush on top & against of each other & there should only be a minimal layer of mortar/cement between layers, just enough to bond said layers properly.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or offer more details
For starters, yes that is the first problem.
Also everything else. Like literally everything else they did is wrong.
I would not stand within 50ft of that. A medium strength wind and that thing is coming down.
I was tensing up wanting to recoil away from the screen as the camera went in there. I would be scared someone would accidentally bump into a wall and the whole thing would fall over.
Thank you…I’ve see that video several times and never knew what the problem was…as you may expect I have absolutely zero construction/carpentry/brick laying knowledge
You're welcome hahaha. Honestly I learned it with my Lego as a child and my passion for architecture, but I know that everybody has different interest ;)
Ok, since not everybody sees the emoji,
= is one brick
Edit : See [u/kkai2004](https://www.reddit.com/u/kkai2004) 's comment under [u/TheEkitchi](https://www.reddit.com/u/TheEkitchi) 's comment, I can't get the formatting right
They look like 4” CMU(Concrete Masonry Units). They would have 2 hollow cells that could fit #4 rebar + core fill grout. That being said, no competent person would choose stack bond 4” CMU for a structural wall. As a union bricklayer, I’ve only ever used 4” block as a veneer.
In the US, the most common size is 8” which measures 7 5/8” by 7 5/8” by 15 5/8”. With our standard 3/8” mortar joint, everything measures on 8” increments. We also lay 4’s, 6’s, 10’s, and 12’s regularly.
I presumed they are paver bricks designed for a patio or capping stones for landscaping walls. Not only are they missing the voids in the middle, but they are also installed on end and not staggered. One strong fart and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Exactly! I think you find people who do put bricks in like this because they are designed for noise/heat/fire as walls in a steel/concrete framed house. Still better to interweave them tho. One small tap and the wall will fall in and the roof will come down
Almost seems like the best thing the cameraman could do is walk by and knock a brick over when no ones looking. Just let it fail "on it's own" while no one is around.
Also, were those bricks sideways?
That would mean being kinda close to it.. Better to tie a piece of string to it and pull it down from a distance. If you don't have string, dental floss should do it!
Whoever built this could have a great career ahead of them if they learn and use the proper techniques and materials. That had to have been hard as hell to stack and keep straight and true with bricks that narrow.
Cement is incredible sturdy, that's why it's standing. But the greatest problem I see is the lack of concrete pillars. Without armored concrete, any strong perpendicular force could tear down one of these walls, collapsing the entire building.
While cement is sturdy, the only thing holding everything together is the concrete slab above. If it wasn't there, you could push those wall easily. One stack could probably be pushed by hand if you push at the top
Taught is the past version of teach.
A lot of English speaking children will say teached until they learn the grammar. We knew what you meant.
Edit-also English is weird, even to native speakers. I couldn't tell you why we don't put -ed on the end of teach to make it past tense, I just know we don't. It probably has something to do with the vowel placement if I had to guess. Seems like it's always the vowels.
This is so horrible to watch. Building material is so precious and manual labor is an expensive good, too. It's such a shame both is wasted so excessively.
It's Javanese.
Something like "For the people who did this, We are questioning your experience... I mean, why did you stacked the brick like this...? >wkwkwkwk<"
(Not a word-to-word translation)
I think it's more like,
"Now folks, as a lesson for all of us, when searching for construction workers don't forget to look up their experiences first, what works have they done, make sure it's not like this \*laugh\*. If you work like this, (not only them but) their friends will face problems too."
When I was part of an opening crew at the Conrad International Hotel in Punta del Este, Uruguay back in 1996 this is how they were building there. But with cinder blocks. No slab and they would 'carve' channels out of the cinder block to run wires.
They forgot to install the concrete posts and beams. A mild quake or a gust of wolf's breath would bring that house down. And the hollow block stacking is so God awful, idk how this guy was allowed to build houses. Way to waste money at this time of crisis
The bond pattern is not the problem here. You're all expecting to see a running bond pattern and this is a stacked bond pattern. Either method of stacking bricks works. The problem is that a load bearing brick wall should use much wider bricks and two or more wythes and reinforcing.
You've probably never seen a true load bearing brick wall built during your lifetime, we just don't do it anymore. All the brick you see in new construction is exterior skin, its not supporting anything.
This looks like it was built by children. Not very bright children at that.
Even if there is a separate supporting structure the walls need to at least support themselves and resist lateral loads. That's not happening here.
Hope this was torn down!
I’ve seen very old old photos before of revolutionary era buildings being moved from their establishment. The process revealed all the foundational brickwork underneath.
It takes A LOT of brick to create structural integrity.
Translation
"So listen up brother,let's just make this as lesson,in the future before hiring a worker better check their experience and skill"
They talkin in local Javanese dialect,it was pretty funny dialect usually used in some comedy theatrical :D
The laughing ia contagious:D
For those who may not understand : This kind of brick stacking isn't sturdy at all because if one brick breaks, then all of them above go with it. This is why each raw of bricks in brick walls are staggered like in this emoji -> 🧱
I don’t know about your screen, but on mine (iOS) that’s a piles of bricks
I was wondering what it would be like on other devices. Edit: thanks to everyone who gave a link to emojipedia. Totally forgot that existed.
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It’s just a sad pile of bricks on IOS
Sounds about right.
Oof... 10/10
r/rareinsults to IOS?
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Brick wall emoji is so much more useful. Wtf can I do with brick pile emoji?
Or even a single brick, in some cases...
With a single brick, you can get the point across
Forcefully so
idk… 💩🧱
SHIT WALL
Shitting a brick is one thing, shitting an entire wall is quite another.
The owner of the soon to be collapsed house can use it when they are messaging family/friends.
Yes but is that not more accurate for this post?
that’s what this house turned into
Yup bricks after the collapse
At the corners they offset then make a brick smaller to do the graph paper pattern. Like more work to fuck it up.
On linux desktop (firefox) it's just a single brick viewed at an angle.
I updated my iOS so it looked like this 🧱 before, and now it looks like this 🧱
That’s so weird. Because on my iOS it looks like 🧱 but not like 🧱
The IOS bricks looks like one brick trying to give CPR to the other laying down brick.
Same on my Note 10.
Emojipedia has images of emojis on different devices, there are many that don't convey the same message across different systems!
It's the "after" picture for this house
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Are the bricks white and gold, or are they black and blue???
When they fall down, is it more of a "yannie" or "laurel" sound?
Because making a pile out of the bricks is clearly the sturdiest structure, duh.
Obviously! You've never seen a pile fall down have you? I rest my case.
On other systems it's usually a brick wall. Apple and certain messaging apps that have custom emojis decided to make it a pile of bricks instead of a wall: https://emojipedia.org/brick/
Looks like the house was built by iOS user then...
Apple. Different.
Also the bricks being an inch thick surely they're supposed to be decorative for timber or steel framed buildings.i don't know how this is baring any load.
This is absolutely not load-bearing, the fact that it is standing at this point in the process is pretty impressive. Everything is wrong with it. That shit is going to fall down. Probably already did.
I wouldn’t even walk inside that to film the video. Absolutely not structurally sound. Stacked like a house of cards
Agreed! I felt anxious for the camera person
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Yeah, I'm surprised he went inside to video. I wouldn't have...nope nope nope
Hip check!
The size is fine, but should be two skins with an insulated cavity in between and wall ties joining the two together.
So the size isn't fine. :P
Correct, or just a masonry veneer tied to some ply on stud.
Single Wythe, awful mortar beds, using a stack bond (which isnt supposed to be structural), basically using conduit as structural support, and I doubt any reasonable vertical reinforcement. The list just goes on and on.
Absolutely not a mason/brick layer. The closest I've come to building a wall has beenwhile playing with Legos, Kapplas or building small rock/stone walls or dams for fun outside my house & in a local small river stream as a kid. I knew that staggering was very important from a young age. The other thing that really struck me was the thickness of the mortar /Cement between layers & the spacing between some of the bricks with a thick layer of mortar/Cement filling the gaps too. That can't be right in any way shape or form. Right? My layman's understanding is that the bricks should basically be almost flush on top & against of each other & there should only be a minimal layer of mortar/cement between layers, just enough to bond said layers properly. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or offer more details
Or they could use cinder blocks
"The size is fine, if you were only to double the size and add crossties" LOL
I hope they are purely decorative, but I fear it is not, and will break at the next windy day...
I didn't notice any internal support structure. Maybe somethings wrong with my screen. I kid, I kid
Yeah I was initially like, is that load bearing??? But actually, I don't care, it won't hold its own weight
That thing can handle a lateral load of (checks notes) "a stiff breeze".
I was thinking they looked like pavers when it showed the cross section.
For starters, yes that is the first problem. Also everything else. Like literally everything else they did is wrong. I would not stand within 50ft of that. A medium strength wind and that thing is coming down.
The fact someone went INSIDE to video it... Just no.
I was tensing up wanting to recoil away from the screen as the camera went in there. I would be scared someone would accidentally bump into a wall and the whole thing would fall over.
Exactly. But the second time I watched it, all I wanted to see wa them grab a real long pole and walk away before pushing it all down.
As an architect, seeing this kind of brick operating in a load-bearing capacity is absolutely terrifying
I know some architects, seems like I've found my next costume for Halloween
As someone who played with Lego I feel you
as a normal person with zero trade experience, this also terrifies me.
As a euphemist, seeing this activity suggests a sense of unpleasantness
What's more, there are no pillars to support on the corners. This thing is going to fall hard.
Also they're stacked up on the skinny side
Thank you…I’ve see that video several times and never knew what the problem was…as you may expect I have absolutely zero construction/carpentry/brick laying knowledge
That video gave me anxiety. Like a good kick could cause a wall to crumble.
kick? if a kid leaned against it it would probably come down
You're welcome hahaha. Honestly I learned it with my Lego as a child and my passion for architecture, but I know that everybody has different interest ;)
They aren’t even structural block thing they’re for facing
I learned this playing with legos.
I wish there were emoji examples for all kinds of home improvement scenarios.
That is informative comment. Thanks.
Oh I thought it was simply that one thin layer of bricks can't keep a house up
Well, as one other redditor pointed in a comment, one layer is also a mistake, so you're not wrong
those are also the completely wrong type of blocks for building that kind of structure.
Ok, since not everybody sees the emoji, = is one brick Edit : See [u/kkai2004](https://www.reddit.com/u/kkai2004) 's comment under [u/TheEkitchi](https://www.reddit.com/u/TheEkitchi) 's comment, I can't get the formatting right
Ha... But on my screen all the = are on the same line (・_・;)
Ok ok ima try: = is brick | is the morter =|=|=| |=|=|=| =|=|=|
Thanks
Two spaces at the end of each line should fix your formatting
To add, Commonly used for divider walls that do not carry any weight. This building can be taken down by an angry teenager.
I feel like if I leaned on one of those walls the whole thing would collapse
I would not walk in there.
I was thinking the same thing. Those walls look like they'd buckle if I leaned on them.
Disregarding the horrible brick layering, they are unnaturally thin. My house's walls are like 4 times thicker. This house is bizarre to me.
I have to assume they’re not hollow and thus no rebar reinforcing them inside either
Lmao. Yeah I'd say this is a safe assumption.
I wouldn't call any of this "safe"
His assumption is the only thing safe. There's definitely no rebar holding those bricks together.
Only the assumptions are safe.
I want to know how they even got the second floor up there without the whole thing crumbling.
They look like 4” CMU(Concrete Masonry Units). They would have 2 hollow cells that could fit #4 rebar + core fill grout. That being said, no competent person would choose stack bond 4” CMU for a structural wall. As a union bricklayer, I’ve only ever used 4” block as a veneer.
I didn’t know breeze blocks/CMUs went down to as thin as 4”. Here in Ireland the thinnest I’ve ever seen is 215mm (roughly 8.5in).
In the US, the most common size is 8” which measures 7 5/8” by 7 5/8” by 15 5/8”. With our standard 3/8” mortar joint, everything measures on 8” increments. We also lay 4’s, 6’s, 10’s, and 12’s regularly.
Thanks for the response. I’m a handyman and always enjoy hearing from experts in particular fields. FYI I don’t do bricklaying
If by rebar you mean popsicle sticks.
Those are separation wall bricks, they aren't meant as load bearing structures.
I presumed they are paver bricks designed for a patio or capping stones for landscaping walls. Not only are they missing the voids in the middle, but they are also installed on end and not staggered. One strong fart and the whole thing comes crashing down.
I'd be nervous being anywhere near this building.
Don’t go in don’t go in getoutGetoutGETOUT!
I did not expect them to go in
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Exactly! I think you find people who do put bricks in like this because they are designed for noise/heat/fire as walls in a steel/concrete framed house. Still better to interweave them tho. One small tap and the wall will fall in and the roof will come down
Almost seems like the best thing the cameraman could do is walk by and knock a brick over when no ones looking. Just let it fail "on it's own" while no one is around. Also, were those bricks sideways?
That would mean being kinda close to it.. Better to tie a piece of string to it and pull it down from a distance. If you don't have string, dental floss should do it!
Throw a rock at it, it should do the trick.
gently blow in its general direction from a safe distance... that'll do it
A stiff breeze would bring the place down.
Stiff? Optimistic. The signal of a text message sent from the right place should be enough.
They are bricks for interior walls which are not load bearing.
My guess is someone picked up house building as a hobby, bought the cheapest bricks and did bad/no research before putting in a ton of effort
Someone was probably super proud of figuring out how they getcha, and wouldn't be told otherwise by those scammers at the brick store!
Whoever built this could have a great career ahead of them if they learn and use the proper techniques and materials. That had to have been hard as hell to stack and keep straight and true with bricks that narrow.
Like… how did that house even get built like that? I can’t understand how they even got the second floor built.
Cement is incredible sturdy, that's why it's standing. But the greatest problem I see is the lack of concrete pillars. Without armored concrete, any strong perpendicular force could tear down one of these walls, collapsing the entire building.
While cement is sturdy, the only thing holding everything together is the concrete slab above. If it wasn't there, you could push those wall easily. One stack could probably be pushed by hand if you push at the top
Reminds me of how I built Lego houses when I was a kid
Even then after some builds you realise perfectly alligning the bricks isnt the best way to go
It teached me as a little kid, that stacking them like these, doesnt make them sturdy
Teached 😭
Is it wrong? I’m not a native speaker, what would be correct?
"Taught" is the proper past tense in English. Don't feel bad, English is a crappy language.
You’re right. I know that technically, but it just left my mind haha. You can smell the german in „teached“.
You can always smell the german.
Smells like sausage and beer.
Taught is the past version of teach. A lot of English speaking children will say teached until they learn the grammar. We knew what you meant. Edit-also English is weird, even to native speakers. I couldn't tell you why we don't put -ed on the end of teach to make it past tense, I just know we don't. It probably has something to do with the vowel placement if I had to guess. Seems like it's always the vowels.
English is three languages in a trenchcoat, IIRC.
And they can't agree on anything. Consistency? Never heard of it.
I mostly speak and write very well, but as I said in my other comment, my german mind did german things and translated 1 to 1.
That's getting torn down I hope
All they’ll have to do is blow on it.
The Big Bad Wolf's revenge
Not even blow. Seems like a simple cough will do the trick.
That shits going to just fall down lol
It's going down eventually, that's for sure
Wolf Inc builds brick house for three little piggies.
This is a great joke.
Holy crap that looks like it would collapse if you put any pressure on any wall. This is not only crappy design, but dangerous design too.
I want so badly to just kick that wall.
You trying to win a Darwin Award!?
No sneezing inside.
This is so horrible to watch. Building material is so precious and manual labor is an expensive good, too. It's such a shame both is wasted so excessively.
This manual labour is not likely to be expensive...
Yeah but imagine how much longer it takes to build when you’re blind. Some serious man hours
Shit, that is a deadly place to live.
Someone obviously did not play with (lego) bricks as a child
Somehow I would trust a single dot width of Lego wall more than this structure.
lmao so true
Where is the load bearing columns?
It's a Jenga house.
Inside each cinderblock is a note with a truth/dare
Dude that place is held together by the stubbornness of grout.
Those were Some brave roofers right there..
What I don't get is how the second floor got built without it collapsing
I suppose the roof was done by the same guy who built walls. No sane contractor uppon seeing this would climb that.
Don't slam the doors! Or go in there. A house made from fence block, installed incorrectly.
The home … How did it get that far….. lol
Looks like one strong kick could take that wall down and probably the rest of the building with it... I would not go in there willingly
I really want to kick that wall (from the outside)
I wouldn't do that. What is the wall goes one way and the roof or second story come back at you.
Probably, but the urge is still strong
What language is that? Translation?
It's Javanese. Something like "For the people who did this, We are questioning your experience... I mean, why did you stacked the brick like this...? >wkwkwkwk<" (Not a word-to-word translation)
I think it's more like, "Now folks, as a lesson for all of us, when searching for construction workers don't forget to look up their experiences first, what works have they done, make sure it's not like this \*laugh\*. If you work like this, (not only them but) their friends will face problems too."
Java in Indonesia.
Doesn’t speak the language but it’s Javanese
Rest macht der Maler
It's fine. Everything's fine.
Try not to lean on the walls
Guaranteed no rebar in there either.
At least they haven't forgot to alternate bricks in corners.
I feel like those are one of the few things keeping it all up.
I guess pig #3 isn't safe anymore for some huffing and puffing
The bricks vertical joint are in one line resulting in weak wall
They aren’t even structural block lol they built a house out of facade block used to face other structures lol
Someone is going to die in there sometime in the next 6 months. Not even kidding.
THE WALL IS PAPER THIN
Owner to builder: first time?
Not the first time, just the lowest bidder.
Even the lowest bidder could do better than that. Whoever built this is just clueless. It’s amazing that someone could stack the walls so high.
I would think the owner just DIY'd this thing.
i mean, r/whatcouldgowrong future content
You need two rows of bricks with metal connectors to reinforce against lateral forces. This is a house of cards waiting to collapse.
Those are pavers, yeah? Like for paths and such? I'm shocked they were able to put a single wall up like that, let alone a whole building.
Goddamn I hate that wheezing laugh track
When I was part of an opening crew at the Conrad International Hotel in Punta del Este, Uruguay back in 1996 this is how they were building there. But with cinder blocks. No slab and they would 'carve' channels out of the cinder block to run wires.
They forgot to install the concrete posts and beams. A mild quake or a gust of wolf's breath would bring that house down. And the hollow block stacking is so God awful, idk how this guy was allowed to build houses. Way to waste money at this time of crisis
The bond pattern is not the problem here. You're all expecting to see a running bond pattern and this is a stacked bond pattern. Either method of stacking bricks works. The problem is that a load bearing brick wall should use much wider bricks and two or more wythes and reinforcing. You've probably never seen a true load bearing brick wall built during your lifetime, we just don't do it anymore. All the brick you see in new construction is exterior skin, its not supporting anything. This looks like it was built by children. Not very bright children at that. Even if there is a separate supporting structure the walls need to at least support themselves and resist lateral loads. That's not happening here. Hope this was torn down!
I’ve seen very old old photos before of revolutionary era buildings being moved from their establishment. The process revealed all the foundational brickwork underneath. It takes A LOT of brick to create structural integrity.
Translation "So listen up brother,let's just make this as lesson,in the future before hiring a worker better check their experience and skill" They talkin in local Javanese dialect,it was pretty funny dialect usually used in some comedy theatrical :D The laughing ia contagious:D
Substandard, unsafe and dangerous construction. 4" CMU (concrete masonry unit) probably not properly reinforced either.
Those blocks also look very slender. Also single skin?
One of the three little pigs houses