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Basic of Masonary and Concreting

The document provides an overview of masonry tools, categorizing them into roughing-up tools and surface finishing tools. It details various tools such as bolster, brick hammer, trowels, and floats, along with their specific uses in masonry work. The information is aimed at helping individuals understand the essential tools required for masonry and concreting tasks.

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Basic of Masonary and Concreting

The document provides an overview of masonry tools, categorizing them into roughing-up tools and surface finishing tools. It details various tools such as bolster, brick hammer, trowels, and floats, along with their specific uses in masonry work. The information is aimed at helping individuals understand the essential tools required for masonry and concreting tasks.

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BASIC OF MASONARY

AND CONCRETING
MARELIZA BORBE
and
PRINCESS REPUYA
MASONARY TOOLS
Two classification of masonry tools:
1. Roughing up tools
2. Surface finishing tools
ROUGHING-UP TOOLS
Tools needed in preparing, arranging, forming,
laying and shaping bricks, stones and
masonry blocks.
● Bolster- also known as blocking chisel, it is
similar with the cold chisel including its
services but has a wide blade edge.
BRICK COLD CHISEL CRANDALL
HAMMER Common tool used
for dressing or
Used for
Combination
hammer used for cutting stone, dressing
dressing and concrete and concrete. It
cutting bricks, metal. has sharp
stones or pointed steel
concrete blocks.
pikes
CROSS PEEN MASON’S AXE PATENT
HAMMER OR HAMMER HAMMER
Used for various Also known as ax- Head is composed
striking need in hammer, the axe of group of thin
masonry work. serve as chisel chisel used for
and the hammer dressing stones or
used to drive nails concrete.
and other rough
work.
STAR DRILL WRECKING BAR
Used for boring or drilling
holes on hard surfaces such Made of steel bar used in
as rock, stone or concrete. demolition work and in
pulling.
SURFACE FINISHING TOOLS
CLASSIFICATION
1. FLOATS – flat with 2. TROWELS – flat hand
handle at the back, tools used for applying,
usually made of wood. spreading and shaping
plaster or mortar to
produce a smooth finish
on concrete surface.
TYPES OF FLOAT

1. ANGLE 2. BULL 3. CARPET


FLOAT FLOAT FLOAT
For finishing Used to Used in
corners and smooth newly plastering to
other placed surface. produce a fine
plastering grained
work.
4. COMMON FLOAT
For producing smoothed
textured surfaces on 5. DEVIL OR NAILO
cement plaster. FLOAT
Used rough the surface
of plaster to provide a
key for the next coat.
TYPES OF TROWELS

A. ORDINARY B. POINTING C. BRICK


TROWEL TROWEL TROWEL
Similar in Used to With offset
ordinary float pointing or blade.
but with steel removing and
blade. laying mortar in
masonry joints.
TYPES OF TROWELS

D. BUTTERING E. EDGER F. MARGIN


TROWEL TROWEL
Used on the
Small trowel edge of the Its side a box-like
fresh concrete appearance
used to spread especially used for
mortar on bricks or plaster to
form a rounded working corner
and tiles before angles.
it is laid. corner.

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