Building A Brick House
Made by the National Film Board 1946. Directed by Eric Thompson. This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares working plans to the completion of the house itself. It was originally intended as an instructional film to be shown to Australian servicemen taking courses in the building trades as part of their rehabilitation for civil life after World War Two.
October 9, 2010 @ 3:14 pm
this just shows how well things where made back in the day
February 24, 2011 @ 7:00 pm
These guys are BEAST!
March 13, 2011 @ 8:20 am
@soup1223 I was thinking the exact same thing.
July 22, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
CEMENT MORTAR
September 18, 2011 @ 6:35 am
I worked as a framers for 4 years . So much goes into older homes . Brick
over wood house any day
September 29, 2011 @ 5:01 pm
How a house should be built !
January 26, 2012 @ 3:06 am
classy…ass…fellas! lol no hard hats in the bunch, and I bet that house
is still in better shape than half the new ones around. I’ll be building my
house with brick, thank you very much
April 3, 2012 @ 11:39 am
Things to watch out for when buying a Solid brick home of this vintage.
Check the depth of footing. These days it’s 600 deep and further depending
on the clay bed. My 1946 home has 2 solid walls on each outer footing and
average 250mm thick. Check the inside walls. They used to use “Dough boys”
cheap seconds that weren’t cooked properly. They were lighter and more
pourus. They crack easier. Inside walls were in some cases not cross
bricked and lots of off-cuts were used causing cracking.
May 14, 2012 @ 10:53 am
Um, yes, your point?
June 23, 2012 @ 6:01 pm
Am i the only one who can see the irony here. People are so hell bent on
saving the world from global warming and excess resources etc that they are
convinced to using cheap materials. If their global warming tornadoes do
start wreaking havoc around us perhaps then they will wish they had wasted
money/time. Using bricks might be wasteful and costly but i will feel far
more secure for my family in a large house built by brick compared to all
your pussy weatherboard homes, little piggy. 😉
October 1, 2012 @ 6:55 pm
A proper coordinated effort correctly rammed, nailed, plugged and laid
securely for inspection. Where’s the equivalent ‘how-to’ for bankers?
November 22, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
Any idea as to the suburb where this house was built?
January 19, 2013 @ 5:46 pm
weird question but what trowe would they have used?
August 29, 2013 @ 2:36 pm
wow, thanks for upload. i too cant believe how hard the roof tiler works.
Now they are done with conveyors and packs of young men.
November 26, 2013 @ 11:13 am
I love this video
Good job on the house Lads and i bet it will last a life time!
January 18, 2014 @ 9:54 am
Real workers!!!!!!!!!!
March 27, 2014 @ 7:52 am
Terribly theraputic.
March 30, 2014 @ 1:09 am
at 5.31 1 of the builders working in jandels lol what nutter haha
March 30, 2014 @ 1:18 am
id love to see more of these videos of how the lads did it in there day, im
a bricky in chch n.z & after the earthquakes ive spent alot of time
repairing these era of buildeing & houses, not the funnest of building
sites to work on thats for sure
April 28, 2014 @ 12:27 am
Installation?
April 28, 2014 @ 12:28 am
Insulation I mean
January 21, 2015 @ 3:18 am
definitely how to build a house. definitely not how they do it today.
January 29, 2015 @ 1:07 am
I feel as if all of their outfits were designed for the film, instead of
being what they might have actually worn.
I also have a suspicion this is simply how people dressed. It looks like
everyone is cos-playing.
March 22, 2015 @ 7:44 am
I enjoyed it! Going to show it to my workers!
March 24, 2015 @ 8:59 pm
wheres the jcb sitemaster and telehandler lol