It's possible to do it for an hour with everything set up right but to continuously keep it up you'd need a wall a mile long . Plus he didn't say he can lay 500 every hour everyday.
Even on a straight retainer wall you would be hard pushed to lay any where near 4k bricks a day let alone site work with corners and window and door openings ? 8 hr shift averaging 8-9 bricks a minute impossible?
i worked for a joiner once with a little building business, he thought one bloke alone single handed should do what would take a full squad a couple of weeks to do in a couple of days, never again
Decent brickwork! If I lay like that my boss will be upset at me as one side of the brick is higher than the line. After the bricks are clean you will see it
Most brickies could lay 4 to 500 brick in an hour if the corners were already up and they could plough them in to the line on a strait run with no window or door openings and they had a good labourer keeping them on brick and gobo but what they don't account for and show in the videos is the setting out and actually putting the corners up! When someone does a video showing they can lay 500 brick an hour starting fresh from slab level putting up corners and measuring and setting out the window/door openings etc then I'll believe and gladly give credit we're credit is due!
At that slow lazy pace I guarantee you ain't even close to laying 500 an hour. .. You LIE, Boy!!😅.... I was gonna say, yeah, it ain't hard to lay a couple thousand on a double wyth garden wall, but hell you ain't even doing that. .. Stop LYING, Boy!!
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 hi kurt , wow that’s over £4K a week for urself, much tax on that? Not much brick across the water in ROI🇨🇮 mainly heavy concrete blocks so harder to generate those numbers, keep up the good work 👍
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 I lay on average 500-1300 max brick a day and my trowel only lasts a year before its half the size how is yours 5 years old 😆😆😆
@@jakethepeg1066 ok big balls get a video put up then. Same for mr paddledog, he is all over everyone’s videos telling them how shit they are and how good he is. All you find in his videos are drones and kayaks. If you’re going to talk shit about this guy at least get some videos up to show him and everyone on here how fantastic you really are knob
Nice work. And don't get me wrong, I'm not 'having a go', but there is a problem. Everyone and their dog is producing videos like this and no one is disputing that you laid 510 bricks in an hour. The problem is perception, by that I mean how the uninitiated (and some that should know better) view said content. They see videos like this and believe the hype. You said you average 500 per hour which means 4000 bricks a day. Oh, and that is every single day because you used the word 'average'. Now you and me know it's not possible, but they don't. And oh boy will they let you know, often, and at length. I've been on the trowel for 37 years and I'd be fully retired by now if I had a quid for every time some wally tells me I should be pissing a thousand bricks a day down or I'm not a proper bricklayer. Bollocks to the fact that their little extension is around the back of some terrace and their are a hundred other considerations in between the job and a good end product. Try pricing work when the client thinks you can lay thousands of bricks a day... Okay, moan over, as you were lol! ;-)
My dad was a bricklayer. I worked for him in summers till I was done school and went on to other things. Those years taught me all about hard work. If I laid 500 bricks in A DAY that was a lot.
Why aren't you buttering your head joint? Never in my life seen anybody lay brick like that. I guess you like tuckpointing before you strike. Full head joints make for a good leak proof wall.
Back in the day windows were laid below grade as an egress " a way out" from the basement. I've had to put a ladder built into the brick, backed by block. Of course these are only on high ground and always had a drain to get rid of any water that might get into the hole.
I've done bricklaying, and it's not for the weak or lazy; it's hard, demanding work, ESPECIALLY when you're on your knees, in the heat of Summer. I did it for a short time, while I was going to college, learning various IT related skills, and now I work at a desk, in an air conditioned office, on a computer, in a nice chair, with beverages and snacks, (making more money) remembering the time I had a much more "manly job" and being very glad I'm not doing it any more.
@@eddiehughes929 I needed the income to pay for school, and I was also doing some glass block too; mostly wild shower walls. The lime in the mortar gave me "hand rash" (even with gloves on).
17 bricks in 2 min? do the maths. Moving fast is not the same as actually going fast. He makes few movements and doesn't make mistakes, says a guy who works on an assembly line.
I agree with handycrowd, all this hype about 4000 bricks a day is nonsense. When surveyors/site managers/project managers see this hyped up bs they think bricklayers are earning far more than they actually are. They price with reluctance
14 bricks in 1 minute without the bed been put out( i timed it its not hard ) very possible i believe you. Some people just don't know what the fuck there going on about. Good work mate. Oh 14 bricks a minute × 60 is 840 an hour take some off for the bed and you ate not far off 😉
Not a bad bricklayer. I have been a bricklayer for 35 years.. I've never laid 500 brick an hour on my best day with someone spreading and handing me brick..lol
@@user-kh9nd9iv2t 40 yr commercial mason, I don't work on houses. There's a competition in the US called the Bricklayer 500, I know what kind of pace it takes to lay 500 brick an hour, and at it you won't last 2 hours. The man in the video is not moving anywhere close to that pace.
@@jamietwigg5152 no he 100% isn't laying 500 an hour, but depending on setting up lines and profiles and what he's running in, he could get to 1000 a day on site especially whilst using pick and dip.
Is laying out, building corners, cutting bricks, laying lintels, bedding wall ties, clipping insulation on all factored in to your dream rate or do you just pretend that all you have to do is lay courses of bricks that are ready to run in.....??
Laying out? , don’t build corners use profiles it’s not 1930s any more mate , bedding wall ties labourer does that mate 👍🏻, clipping insulation? Nahh mate gets pumped in after , so yeah none of that bollox is factored in mate 👍🏻
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 Laying out as in working out where the walls/windows/lintels are going, marking lines, working out number of courses for height needed, number of blocks/bricks to order & to stack out. Pumped insulation will never be as good as sheets in my opinion. Also what are profiles? Surely corners are the best way to begin a building with proper square, plumb and level starting points? Also you call a labourer over to chuck your wall ties in even though you're laying bricks in the same bed of mortar??
Yea ive spent my life in masonry and never seen anyone lay 500 bricks an hour lol ive seen some real crazy shit too, but mostly ive just seen liars, this is one of em.
