So you want bricklayer to go slower earn fk all just to please you bunch of opinionated clowns who known nothing ...blame the robbing contractors and builders the brickies gotta slam the numbers in to earn but you already know that
@AwakeNotWoke AwakeNotWoke I see the Victorian and Edwardian homes all the time as a roofing contractor around London. Their beautiful features on cornices etc which must have taken an age to do with no power tools etc have been left to rot and often crumple to the pavement below. The landlords have no interest in the buildings only the rent and just want everything felted over or whatever is cheapest
@@Nutsarooba that's not true, mine froze before. I knocked mine earlier though and now the bubbles not working so I'm off to buy a new bubble for my level. Good day.
And the work van, and the petrol, and the insurance, and the liability insurance, and the time to travel between jobs. I where near as good as this makes out! 😂
Lightweight blocks, profiles instead of building corners, it can be done mate. Where I am only lightweight blocks we get to use are trench blocks in the foundations everything else is dense 6 inch concrete blocks.
I'm a brickie,39 years old and I've been doing this since I left school. I run two 2 & 1 gangs and this kid is correct, when you're running lightweight blocks in you can earn decent money. But if you average it out over the whole house/every lift and take into account all the days you aren't on Rockstar wages,I.e setting out corners,under DPC, loading out (yes some brickies still pitch in and help out the labourer from time to time),fitting window jambs and heads,gable cut ups etc etc. When you average that for every house over the course of a year and factor in bad weather,unpaid holidays you need days like this to make it worth while. I make a decent living but I've got 15 years left if I'm lucky, the only guys I've ever met who've made millions are brick barons with multiple gangs. Millionaire brick layers still on the trowel,I've never met one. These young brickies remind me of myself in 2008, 24 and I thought I had this game figured out, that recession was a humbling experience and the next one is going to be just as bad, let's see how many are posting videos next year boasting about how much money they are earning. I thought the same thing in 2008, they'll never shut the site,too much demand, they moth balled most sites overnight and we struggled for 18 months until things started back up again. Include a couple of recessions and forced early retirement and tell me how much you've actually earnt over your career and I guarantee you've not averaged £ 360 a day.
With brickeys and scaffers there’s always one man that keeps them going strong. And that one man took all that money and exchanged it for coke an hour later
But how long did it take you to get the blocks and muck up there boi? That £1.50 per block includes loading out and mixing up. Suddenly that £360 has got to pay 2 blokes for a day.
Exactly...and a nice straight run ...no windows or doors or openings...also its a young man's game most masons have chronic back pain by the time they're 45/50 . Great job in the summer but the winter is a whole different ball game .
Now take into account the loading out, the getting the muck sorted then all the down time weather it's being fucked around by a forklift, silo broken or waiting for materials or rained off. Now the hourly rate drops dramatically
You can only work in particular conditions, it's not always these blocks, this work takes a toll on your body, long travel can be needed depending on where you live, the pay might be good when you do work but that's just it, you never know when you will or won't.
The amount of chefs I’ve met who bang on about how much they used to make a day on building sites. Sure Garry, and that’s why you’re washing Kale on a Saturday night for £10 an hour
@@Dan-fv7cp I don’t need to do the glory hole shifts anymore because I chuck rubble in a skip for £350 a day. And my boss gave me £8k at Christmas and a new Volvo. I’m just really good at shifting the rubble into a skip.
Same here mate.. I once 600 in 2 hrs and 30 not 300 pounds per hr.. Painters prices have doubled.. People will paint themselves now as painters are wanting far to much money..
@@eggeggeggegg3077 depends on what you do with your money really. If you get into the property game you won’t be doing much lifting in your later years.
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 lmfao. Btw, I'm 23 and thinking of getting into bricklaying for maybe 10-15 years (incl. Apprenticeship). You reckon itd give me back/knee pains?
@@delinquente1444 all depends on genetics mate I’m 25 and only had a bad back once in my career and that was last year due to using other back muscles whilst trying to plaster 🤣 my knees are pretty strong still I suppose
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255hey Kurt, I’m thinking to go into the construction sector, what areas pay well? What would your advice be to someone who wants to start a career? Thank you
I can install a double, overhead garage door and motor in 90 minutes. That is $300. But. It takes another 120 minutes to collect and deliver, then go home. I also have forty thousand dollars invested in gear. I warrantee my work and pay my own supperaanuation and insurance. I'm on call 24/7.
@@andriusdabulskis2278 watch the video, he's laying to the line and put his level on after, his level was straight because his wall was. You must be stupid if you lay every block using your level because that's the only way his wall could be off.
No wonder people hire polish a lot these days, that’s absurd amount of money for people barely doing anything, thanks for this video because I will never hire scammers like you
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH BRICKS YOUVE LAYED ON THE WALL MATE. YOU REALLY HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB MATE. I REALLY REALLY DO WISH I COULD WORK AS BRICKLAYING MATE I REALLY REALLY DO.
@@SeaJayBelfast You're absolutely right here, this guy is going to fuck up so many foundations if he stays in that mindset of "fast = better money for me"
Plumber in the US. Everyone doubts the money we make working in the trades because we don’t drive around in Mercedes or own other such expensive things lol. The real problem is that they’re just incapable of hard, physical work. All good, more money for us and more money for retirement. Actually, it’s more money for beer and parties after the bills are paid 😂
The British houses are typical bank products. Now In brief- in appearance uk houses are looking nice and beautiful, but inside are absolute shit- full of mold and humidity, they are very cold, lack of isolation, a lot of leakages. That's my honest and general opinion
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 when you do base lift take out a block every 3rd as soon as you've slapped it up and you can just reach in ever lift and pull the shit out or get your labourer to do it everyday
So 240 blocks an hour between two men, so 120 each?, let’s take off the 40 and round to 100 each, so your telling me as a pair you lay 1600 blocks a day 👀
If the runs were that big yes 👍🏻 a normal semi detached second lift has around 900-1100 in though and we do that in a day easy all cleaned up , we also have breaks and have to joint up don’t forget
And that boys and girls is why your new build will fall down after the first gust if wind or down the line you'll be so far out of plumb you can walk up the wall
It’s because of the whitework and pug. The whitework doesn’t sit on the pug ad tarmac is the worst for it which is probably the main company that gets used.
We all know it’s swings and roundabouts, we make on the gables then it’s panels front and back , anyone in the trade knows , then murder us on the cut ups with corbels, dental etc all on a count , no extra for us but we all know the subbys are paid for it ! Lintels , damp , FEATURE WORK!
I've heard and know these price work boys earn top money and it compensates wet weather days, but these houses the owners have moved in been there 3 months and the lads are still waiting to get weighed in for purposes of problems if any from the brickwork, ridiculous,.!!
Ah yes the best employee mindset, there are no expenses, work as fast as possible because "I'm not paid hourly LOL", and everything was already done for you. I bet your boss loves you!! Take pride in your work you damn clown, someone could be living in that one day. How would you feel if you found out your speed job ended up collapsing?
It’s bollocks, yes if you literally just laid bricks constantly on a pre prepared line you’d get that, no mention of the set up time, travel, other expenses tools etc, the doctors and lawyers would all become brick layers if you early that much but they don’t do they.
Who’s taking the time to land the jobs, order materials, prep job site, get materials on site, lay out etc . This is the same shit that Uber drivers do. They use their car to drive people around, thinking they’re making 20 an hour but after gas, wear and tear, auto insurance they’re making less than minimum wage. This fool only counting time actually laying bricks
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 I’m originally from London/south east England. Australia is a great country but turning into a cotton wool wrapped horror of a place. I’m working and prices are going up so I shouldn’t moan. Haha
No wonder you work so fast, lad if I could brick like that id be tryna smash out 20 blocks a minute. Id start training at home builting walls and working out just for that kinda bread.
Nonsense. No one gives away money like that. Even on price work the most I’ve heard a bricklayer tell me is approx £400 per day. But they don’t get these year around. Most of the year they’ll spend on a day rate, working at a pace that appeases themselves & their boss. These tiktok videos are all lies. Almost all.
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 I have a feeling you have a criminal record so no Texas for you! Although you would fit in with the other cowboys out there Yeehah 🤠
Damn, can we promoted this as the new "get rich quick" scheme please. Get these Tik Tok kids doing the, "who can build a house" challenge. Get these housing prices down a bit
There's a robot that can do that job 24/7 no tea breaks, no shit breaks ,no lunch breaks and no holiday nor pay rise . You still need bricklayers to tidy up the mortar joints the days of 1000 bricks a day are over .
@@kingol4801 Indigenous birthrates are below replacement level and tens of millions of foreigners, ONE MILLION last year alone, now almost exclusively from the 3rd world, are being brought into our lands against the will of native Brits. Absolutely, our sacred land IS being concreted over to house the 3rd world. What's inhumane is to dispossess and replace one population with another. What's gross is calling people names that object to the genocide of their people. The British deserve exclusive living space and self-determination just like every other racial group. When the Chinese replace Tibetans it's genocide... when the same things done to the British we're supposed to celebrate it? What sort of psycho cheers on genocide? You're on the wrong side of history... what an awful person!
Bullshit. What about rain days recessions, winter, trust me 57yr old bricky here 41yrs bricklaying still living paycheck to paycheck, been repossessed twice declared bankrupt after earning sometimes £1000 a wk, but remember its not every wk of yr. Nobody shows vids of the bad stuff.
I don't know why people lie like this, it's so sad. I've got a painting and decorating business and we supply to barratt, wimpey and persimmon. My best friend is also a contracts manager for Wimpey, so I can say with certainty not only are your prices bollocks but you're misleading people about how quick you work. If one of my blokes did this they would be finding someone else to work for
it does not work like that. us brickies are more skint than shop workers, and that the truth. we pay for everthing our selves, like tax, and national insurance, unlike you guys in a normal job who has it all paid for by your employer. You may slag us brickies off, but by the end of it you have earned more working in a supermarket.
People talking about built quality. I tell you one thing,when you start building house you start from the corners,look at the corners,others maybe don't see that,but if you know basics of bricklaying,you know that corners must be bricked first with whole bricks or blocks,not the split ones,split ones goes in a middle of line.
If he owns the company then the sky is the limit, I know people who started on the trowel as apprentice now have over 50 men working for him with a roofing and scaffolding company later on added and he turnt over 65mil last year
Man these brickies got heads blown up like balloons these days with the money... £200-400 per day ain't all that and the client gets a shit job as a result 🤦. If you want to earn good money then start your own business and do things the right way.
builders should be paid a fixed rate daily. If they get paid per brick, they just gonna rush it which would cause the building to be made messed up. and dangerous to live in
Good luck to you, personally I'd keep it to yourself fella before HMRC put 2 and 2 together and then suss you've only been paying peanut tax and NI ....
There is one very simple and easy turn in this: if the rates would be like that 40h per week, 12 months a year...I doubt any of the "better" educated bank boys would sit in London trading stocks. They would be out in the wild laying bricks 🤷♂️ But never the less, respect for all hard working man out there that build house, streets and all the construction we need to live in 👍👍👍🥃
Everyone watching thinks anyone can do... In reality, not many are cut out for it. I've been doing it for 25yrs and had many a young lad. Good one's are FEW AND FAR BETWEEN!!!!!
Keep that pace up all day with standard concrete blocks....I'm doing it 30 years ...I'm sorry to God I didn't become a sparky...my bones are sore from it
