I'm going to show you how to hard plaster
a brick wall. The tools I require are, I've got two buckets
of water, I've got some sand, lime, cement, my hawk, trowel, a scoop, paint brush for
cleaning, safety gear, my screed and my level, and my mixer, of course, to mix up the products. Prepared my wall by giving it a brush down
so that there is no excess dust stuck to the bricks. Also giving that a little bit of a wet, so
that there's some moisture in the air especially on hot days. It improves the adhesion between the products. Got my drop shade down, so let's get started. I'm about to add some water to my mix. I'm going to mix up three buckets of sand,
about half a bucket of cement, and a touch of lime, and I'll mix up more if required. When it comes to mixing my cement and lime,
it's best to put my safety gear on. When I pick up the mud, I usually go with
the corner ring first and then you can scoop it up quite nicely, so it comes out just like
this. Resting the trowel in the hawk, I can tilt
my hawk back and scoop up a load, just like this. Now apply my mud to the wall, starting from
top to bottom and right to left. So I'm just covering a large area at the moment. As it dries, I'll fill in all the little spots. When applying my mud to the wall, I use a
brick join as a guideline and I'll go upwards about two to three bricks, and then I usually
veer off to the right. Once applied my mud to the wall, I've now
let it dry to an appropriate feel. It is now touch dry. Using my straight edge, I now make my wall
nice and flat and plum, that way I will be taking off any of the excess and get it back
to a nice, flat finish. This process can also be known as screeding. I'll start by shaving a bit of the excess
off either side and get my level, check that it's plum, and then I'll go the opposite way
to match that level. So now using my trusty lever, I'll check how
plum my wall is. So my lever is telling me that my wall is
not as plum as I would like it to be. It's saying that I need to take a bit more
off the top, so I'm going to put a line and that will let me know how much more I need
to take off. I'll do the same on this side as well. There we go. Now I can roll back to that line and then
I'll check it again afterwards. Now that I've finished my screeding, I've
got left with a few imperfections here which I'll now patch up with my leftover mud. Obviously where you can see the difference
in the colors here, where this one is still smooth from where I pushed it on with my trowel,
and here just wasn't quite thick enough, so we'll chuck a little bit extra on there. And you will see that there are few holes
here where the mud haven't quite bonded nicely, so we just fill them ones in too. So now that the base of my wall is now harder,
it makes it easier to strip off the patches. Now that I've screeded off the patches, I
can now finish my wall by cutting all the corners and taking all the excess droppings
away. Now that's how you hard plaster a brick wall.