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Masonry Tools

Roughing up tools are used in masonry work to prepare bricks, blocks, and stones. Common tools include hammers, chisels, and bars. Mason's axes have both hammer and chisel ends. Brick hammers have thin chisels in the head. Patent hammers have pointed pikes. Crandalls and cross peen hammers are used for striking. Cold chisels, star drills, and bolsters are used for cutting and drilling. Wrecking bars are used to pull out nails. Floats and trowels are used for finishing plaster or concrete and come in various shapes for different purposes. Other tools include spades, pails, mixing boards, brushes

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Masonry Tools

Roughing up tools are used in masonry work to prepare bricks, blocks, and stones. Common tools include hammers, chisels, and bars. Mason's axes have both hammer and chisel ends. Brick hammers have thin chisels in the head. Patent hammers have pointed pikes. Crandalls and cross peen hammers are used for striking. Cold chisels, star drills, and bolsters are used for cutting and drilling. Wrecking bars are used to pull out nails. Floats and trowels are used for finishing plaster or concrete and come in various shapes for different purposes. Other tools include spades, pails, mixing boards, brushes

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Roughing Up Tools

Surface Finishing Tools


ROUGHING UP TOOLS

Roughing up tools are the tools


necessary in the process of preparing,
arranging, forming, laying and shaping of
bricks, masonry blocks and stones.
Tools for this type of work
are mostly striking tools

 Masons Axe or Hammer
 Brick Hammer
 Patent Hammer
 Crandall
 Cross Peen Hammer
 Cold Chisel
 Star Drill
 Bolster
 Wrecking Bar
Masons Axe or Hammer


 It is also known as Ax-
Hammer used in two different
ways. The axe to serve as a
chisel and the hammer for
driving nails and other rough
work in masonry.
Brick Hammer
 It is another type

of
combination hammer used
for dressing and cutting
bricks, stones or concrete
blocks plus other driving
operation.
 It is a hammer wherein
the head is composed of
group of thin chisels
used in dressing stone or
concrete.

Patent Hammer
 It is a tool with sharp
pointed steel pikes
Crandall also used in dressing
concrete.

 It is a crosshead hammer with


one sided formed like a wedge
intended for various striking need
in masonry work

Cross Peen Hammer


Cold Chisel

 It is common tool for
carpentry and masonry
work used for dressing,
or cutting stone,
concrete, metal and
other materials with aid
of hammer.

 It is used for boring or Star Drill


drilling holes on hard
surfaces such as rock, stone
or concrete.

 It is a similar in
appearance with the
cold chisel including
its services but has a
wide blade edge. It is
also known as blocking
chisel. Bolster

Wrecking Bar
 It is a very useful tool made of
steel bar used in demolition of
work and in pulling off large
nails.
 FLOAT  TROWELS
 Common Float  Ordinary Trowel
 Bull Float  Pointing Trowel
 Devil or Nail Float  Brick Trowel
 Carpet Float  Buttering Trowel
 Angle Float  Edger
 Margin Trowel

SURFACE FINISHING TOOLS


 Floats are tools with handle at the
back usually made of wood …

FLOATS
Common Float  It is used to smooth or make textured
surface on cement or plaster.

 It is used to smooth or make textured surface on


cement or plaster. Bull Float
 It is used in plastering to produce a fine
Carpet
grained texture in sand finishes.
Float

Devil  It is used to roughen the surface of


plaster coat to provide key for the next
or coat

Nail Float
 It is used for finishing corners
and other intricate plastering
work.

Angle Float
TROWEL
 Trowels are flat hand tools used for applying,
spreading and shaping plaster/ mortar to
produce a relatively smooth finish on concrete
surface in the final stages of plastering.
Pointing Trowel
 It is a kind of trowel
used in pointing or
removing and laying
mortar in masonry joint.

 It is similar in
appearance as the
ordinary float but
with a steel blade.

Ordinary Trowel
Brick Trowel
 It is a trowel with an offset
blade used to pick up or
spread mortar.

 It is a small trowel used to


spread mortar on brick and
tiles before it is laid.

Buttering Trowel
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 It is a finishing trowel used on  It is a trowel where its sides
the edges of fresh concrete or has a box-like appearance
plaster to form a rounded especially used for working
corner. corner edgeds.
Spade
 It is a basic construction tool used in
many of the dirty work of concrete
mixing and plastering.
Pail
 In the absence of buggy or in a narrow
crowded space where buggy or wheelbarrow
could not serve effectively in delivering fresh
concrete, PAIL will do.
 Mixing mortar for block laying,
plastering and other small mixing
operations were done by hand on
Mixing
a mixing board. A mason doing Board
the plastering work needs a small
mixing board for his mortar
mixing ready accessible to the
work.
 It is very useful tool by mason
to obtain a fine texture
concrete plaster. It is also
useful in various tile work
operations and cleaning.

Rubber or Plastic Foam


 It is another tool
used by mason
similar in function as
the rubber foam for
furnishing touches.
Painter’s Brush
Plastic or Nylon Cord

 It is used for guiding, and marking vertical


and horizontal lines. Cord is very useful
in laying out building lines on the ground,
bricks, CHB and tile laying.
 A wooden stick with
straight edge used by
mason to check the
horizontal and vertical
alignment of concrete
and plaster.
Aligning Stick
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