Your a joy to watch. How do you get your mortar so creamy, have been mixing small amounts of mortar premix in a bucket and could never get it like yours. Is it the cement mixer or Addition of plasticiser or fairy liquid?
Live the videos. From the 7_13 minute mark you were laying a couple courses. I've watched a lot of. Id's but you're the only one to run a course with the same method I use, buttering as you cut and hitting the back as well. So many want to play around uttering at the mortar pan, which has always confused me. It just seems so slow.. Also, you adjusted a few joints at the end in order to make the head joints uniform,, grade A work
I can't get over how molly coddled brickies are compared to my day with purpose made spots and stands and everything else designed to save your back! 🙄
I reckon u lose more than 2 months through the year, bare in mind that most brickies probably end up turning up for work 7 days a week just to get a 5 day week in, due to either weather, materials, dark mornings, etc..... Hardest job going mentally as well as physically....
My mates all have to wear long sleeves and trousers, they don't adhere to it when it's hot . Theres a shortage of good trowels down south roofers as well, they turn a blind eye if they want them to stay. You know how it is health and safety goes out the window when theres deadlines that need meeting.
You can tell the age of someone with tattoos... Every decade had its styles and now they live them everywhere, but in 10 years time they will be out of fashion and look dated and laughable to the newer generation. I actually regret all Mt tattoos now but luckily I can cover most of them...
@@Madmancrock yeah my old man always told me that about tattoos. He had loads n like fashion have a date on them. Spot on, so whatever looks good today will be shocking in 10 year time 👍🏼
Your team has come on so much love it mate brilliant to be fair .Looking really good for all of you your shit at pull ups though 🤣🤣🙂 nar i couldn't pull my large lump up and do 1. Good luck from Justin brickright 👍🧱🧱🧱💯
Hilarious channel. Can't believe I'm watching a UK bricklaying channel of my old job. Look forward to learning more about the channel. Much love from Aus🤟❤
not a bad pace and rythm to be fair, i started bricklaying about 1980 on a "TOPS" (training opportunity scheme) course at hastings college and did about 30 years as a bricklayer. what strikes me most about your video's is the way you you pick up the muck, pug, mortar, compo. my first two days in school was "rolling the pug" from the left side of the mortar board, a habit that stayed with me and all the bricklayers i have worked with over the years. i know the mortar is different now, as sand reserves have changed and most sites use a silo, which is fine till you get to the "nutty" bits !! i like you for using a sensible size trowel, there was a fashion back in the day to see who came in on monday with the biggest trowel, i have had them all and have still got them from the first to the last going rusty in the shed! WHS (work hard and starve) london patern, wooden handle, canadian leather handle, Marshalltown, wooden, leather, plastic, rubber handles. if you had a shit labourer that could only knock up stiff pug you would get "pug on the wrist" or tendonitis, such fun. keep up the good work mate. and ask amy to give us a big smile.
You make it look easy. Done my apprentice at HMP Onley in 2015. Couldn’t get a job so went to college and became gas safe. No one would give me a start because of having a criminal record. Still stuck in the cycle going nowhere fast.
I've got a question for you bud my daughter done carpentry at college now on second year she's loving plumbing whats your thoughts on girls learning the trades
My daughter is training to be an Audi technician , they are positively promoting girls in the work place . If she is enjoying plumbing encourage her as we will always need plumbers , can't get a robot to fix a leak under a sink .
Makes me smile... I was a Hod Carrier through the 90s and the brickies and hoddies of today have it so easy. Seeing the bricks and muck boards stacked on little trestles is hilarious.. We just chucked down 2 thermalites for muck board and bricks on the deck. Us hoddies had to knock up the muck and run it up ladders(which you have stairs for now lol) as well as all the bricks and blocks and sometimes it was 9 inch concrete blocks, that's without the 78k lead I had to run up ladders for trays. I honestly don't think your generation would of made it back then. And on top of all of that there was no hi vis or hard hats or even steelies... And we were always drugged up from 7am then beers at dinner followed by more drugs, then back in the boozers Great fun and loads of banter...
@@ForgottenLore There wasn't any accidents on site, well nothing that was life changing or serious. That's all a load of lies made up so you pay for CSCS cards.... You need tickets for everything now on site.... And it's all about money. We had common sense on site... No hard hats or hi vis.....just your old going out clothes,. It was all common sense... Something alot of the younger generation don't have because everything is wrapped in cotton wool before you start. You younger ones wouldn't of lasted half a day on the old sites... Be crying you need gloves, or your back aches, or a bit of dust in eye... Its hilarious....
Despite the bad reputation brickies have, you actually come accross as a very nice dude and a very decent no-nonsense tradesman, Charlie. I also appreciate the high quality of your uploads and the clarity of your spoken English. Amy is a skilled tradeswoman too but probably she doesn't handle starting rows from scratch very well.
Cheers Charlie. I read a few of the comments on previous videos. I’d like to encourage you not too listen to ( I’m sure you’re not bothered anyhow) negative comments!! I’ve been laying bricks for 34 years. Always trying faster and neater. Until I watched you I thought I was the easily the best. All those plodders criticising are embarrassed. We had an old boy who’d worked in Africa teach us what we now call the pile up. It’s similar to what you are doing. Instead of making a valley in the muck we make a peak. In the South Africa heat it stops the muck going of before you lay the brick on it. Have to say we didn’t practise this till the old boy from S.A wasn’t with us because of ego. Good work and thanks for your input All you negative lot shut up and speed up. LoL 😝
