We used to run gangs and our QS used to get us extra for everything. From bedding lintels to bedding on a damp course. There is a rate for every single thing even plumbing reveals and putting in wall ties and insulation. This was never passed on to the subbie. 10% was taken at face value but in reality it would be near 25%. We only knew this when we got a QS involved in pricing and was an eye opener to how the subbie gets a rough ride. Good video and your a proper pro.
I'm a sixty year old bricklayer and I couldn't agree with you more, do what ever suits the different bricklayer I think profiles are a massive improvement keep up the good work, I'm still learning at sixty
Thanks guys, all i want to say is each to their own I think the young bricklayers are brilliant like changy but I can see the other traditional ways aswell it's up to the individual you can stay traditional or you can pick up new ways there is no right or wrong, let's all pass on knowledge of bricklaying a good way, like I said I'm still learning with enthusiasm
@@GaryLodge-ql3sl yes mate still learning after all these years, learning to adapt as I get older now that ive got arthritis in my hands knees and hips and still learning off these young people like changy who's a pleasure to whatch like he says let's drop the macho bull shit
Brilliant advice Changy.. As you know I was a hod carrier many years ago and the brickies I worked with where exactly as you described..... "The old ways are the best" and "Proper men build corners" Glad to see you back doing what you do best... Bricklaying and churning quality videos out. Atb Always mate👍
Could not agree more. Great advice. I know the RU-vidr you’re on about “salt of the earth, real men.” I was taught by real bricklayers. They could lay bricks stood on their heads, but they always got the profiles up where they could. Work smart not hard.
We've got some houses going up at the back of our house. The brickies are a different breed from when I was a lad. Respectful to the public, clean & tidy, not loud & shouty. It's good to see because the trade will get far more respect from the public.
Profiles all the time,guaranteed to 10mm consistent bed level and plumb wall guaranteed it's not only quicker,but much more importantly you are getting a quality job that will be fit for purpose.
The bit with the stanley blade cutting the membrane triggered my PTSD..... .....Carillion banned all knives on site unless they were retractable.....I was a Site Manager for them and had to enforce this ridiculous rule or face disciplinary action from the Health and Safety bellends in the ivory tower. The number of pointless arguments and run-in I had with having to enforce this amongst the trades was unreal. My favourite one was when a project manager confiscated a bread knife that the laggers were using, claiming it was dangerous....have you ever seen a proper lagging knife? Crocodile Dundee would be scared of it. Carillion also brought in a rule of tethering all tools to the person or to a fixed point, so it couldn't fall. Poor old brickies looked like they were all auditioning for spiderman at one point...... ....could never figure our why Carillion went under.
@@jcoul1sc I was inferring that Carillion were more interested in wasting their energy in enforcing pointless IMS policy in an effort to minimise any potential litigation against them to zero, to the point where project site teams became focused on risk management rather than actually getting the job done. Of course, lets not mention the smoke and mirrors, downright lies, and pocket stuffing the higher levels of self serving management did in their latter years...which included messing around with the pension money of their employees. Sadly, they deserved to go under and there are calls for those individual higher levels of management to be taken through the justice system.
when we do gables with a tray we always lay another dpc tray ontop but not stapled down just to catch the mortar then just slide it out when the gable is finished
So the spandrel profile has a membrane on and then overlaps the second DPC. Do you put foam in after building up the gable on the outside of that spandrel membrane? Trying to work out if there's a continuous membrane layer just after the blockwork or after the insulation (looking from internal to external).
I am 77 years old bricky and what you say about using profiles is spot on. My gang invested in set of profiles back in 1973 and using them resulted in building the houses we were on being completed in 2.5 days quicker. No brainer. Use profiles!!
Changy I'll agree with you mate on some of your points. Bricklaying has made me very wealthy,never used a profile in my life. The time the new breed of bricklayers set their profiles up we're already running in two corners built 6 course at a time. 40 years I've been in the trade,regard myself as a top pro , take it from me the best,skillful bricklayers are all old school,retired or in the ground. Of course there are some young lads who are a class act also. Building corners,at pace and accuracy is an awesome skill to have. Many younger trowels today are lacking,they can't build a corner/plumbing quickly this is the problem for them. Anyway, small corners and run it in/burn the line. The art of building the corners all day,everyday. When you know,,,,,,,you know.
Tip. Ping a chalk line along the vapour barrier to get a straight clean line neat finish. Remember to keep the chalk line holder dry. It’s always the same when there’s a crossover of work from trade to trade, that’ll do attitude. Like the channel 👍
I build corners with my profiles and lines as it gives my hod chance to load the whole plot out, the next day it’s just smashing the gables in everything loaded and hoddy spreading
Frank Gehry's Paper bag building in Sydney is the only premium brickwork I have ever seen, with 100 year old brick/clay recipe. The bricklayers became engineers on it
There all retiring now no apprenticeship are coming through. It’s all hoddys jumping on trowel . Ive just got my NVQ lvl3 paid for buy goverment so get on it now if you can
this is like plasterers who swear by trowels and hate anything like sponge floats, speedskim etc since it makes the job quicker without sacrificing quality. If you're in the game to make money, embrace efficient methods and keep up with the tech.
Spot on video that champ! I provide PCC it’s a battle with tradition bricklayers getting them to appreciate the modern techniques and getting them executed correctly profiles picking and dipping every time! Amazon don’t have pickers anymore haha neither do we have carrier pigeons haha!
On high four story buildings in the USA they used to set jack lines and every corner pole had better be right with those lines. Now the kid foreman just measure off the plywood and worry about window depth. So if the plywood varies, they just guesstimate and try to keep the storypoles (profiles) plumb. So if the poles are first set always plumb, they migrate a little after that. It's not everywhere but when you have precast involved, your window gaps better be within the limits and so plumbness is secondary consideration. So the setting of profiles is supposed to be to run with jack lines. And if jack lines are set, you can build a corner fast and mark highth right on the line.
Absolutely spot on , I couldn’t agree more and I’ve been in construction for 40 years this applies across the trades , the macho b s is usually a cover for insecurity
@@planetyouranus22 yes exactly mate, I was on a big job few years ago, the roofing game is a farce aswell, that was once seen as a hard game which is bullshit, there was a bloke had his wife in roofing, nothing hard about the building game, never has been
@@jonb12321They train as banker masons. Then normally go carving in cathedral workshops. The Minster in York had them. That was back in the early 1990s when I trained.
so what you are saying is laying a brick is the same rate where ever and whatever the event? what about underpinning a building? what about patching up around needles used to support a bulding that has been supported with arrows so it didn't collapse? Change every extension is bespoke
Any bricklayers out there have a rough idea on blocking up an extension double skin rendered externally 7.5 x4 downstairs back wall bifolds 4m 1st floor 4x4sqm flat roofs. In Kent, if no costing a rough idea on how long. Thanks
While "bespoke brickwork" is not really a thing, I'd say a bricklayer doing larger one off homes with features and fireplaces needs to have far more about him than a bricklayer doing copy and paste square box homes that have been done a million times across the country.
Was going to say something similar. I get where hes coming from in terms of ripofff brickies using bespoke to rip clients off, but bespoke to me is like you say, anything that deviates from common brickwork design and practices thats unique to the clients requirements.
@@davidhopwood3590 you are putting words in my mouth, I never said that. You charge what you want for your own standard brickwork, I said there should be an extra over rate for detail. Comprendė esă
Lol just watched whole vid again ffs! Now your saying that the weep vents you have installed on top of the cavity tray at wall plate height is for ventilation hahahaha.....come on really mate, I'm sure they are to let any water out if any was to penetrate through to the cavity, hence the name 'weep' if it was for ventilation a air brick or similar would be used, your vids just get better, well I've now subscribed so can't wait to examine any future videos 😂
The beginning of this vid was f-kin Class, so true nail right on the head buddy honest and you don’t wear pants like the singer in the band cameo (1980s) 😂😂
Im building a house in ireland. My block is working away fine however there was one area that he didnt half bond the blocks. It was 5 or 6 blocks where where ge stacked up on top of the row underneath. The DPC was going through this and he said it was fine the DPC breaks the bond. Is this correct? It was at the subfloor level
@@Changy_Chall ya not sure why he did it. Im sure the house wont fall down but might be a crack in the plaster there in future, its below the subfloor level tho so not the end of the world
I guess it comes down to one thing. Everyone is on this platform to make money. Whether they use fancy terms, tools, music, techniques, it's just content being created to make money and to capture the imagination of their audience.
Got out the game last year. Seeing these videos makes me feel sick, so glad I got out. You seem so dedicated and concerned. By the time I left I couldn't careless about the quality of my work and the house builder is to blame for that. Years of being mistreated
Danny turnbull-yeah it's a mugs game mate. I got out of brickies labouring 20 years ago,my lower back is completely fckd,im on a disability pension at 55 years old ! My dad is 76 and he is riddled with arthritis. He averaged 800 bricks a day-some days getting a good run 1000 bricks a day ! I was literally running to keep the bricks and mud up to 3 bricklayers in 40 degree heat here in sunny Australia.
Haha yeah in a way , when these videos pop up on my feed it's a good thing in the sense it suddenly brings it all back in an instant an reinforces the fact that the game is a total farce, worrying about not getting paid and putting up listening to all the bullshiters on site, shit working conditions, messed about, no holiday pay etc etc , piss farting around like this isn't work man
Yep I hear you I'm 60 now and I packed it in ten years ago got into roofing by accident and stayed at it. I got so fxxking sick of the BS chasing my money and the same stupid customers. All my family are still in the game and don't understand me regards from Ireland.
@@patkearney9320 my dad is from belfast northern Ireland, came to Australia during ww2 and was a stonemason bricklayer for 40 plus years. Its a mugs game,i brickies laboured for 20 years and learnt how to lay bricks but my lower back couldn't handle it. Im now 55,on disability pension with 3 collapsed discs.
using profiles is for unskilled workers 🤣 that's like saying track saws are for unskilled workers not chippies. 🤣 no they are both for tradesmen who don't want to faff about and likely want to do the best job they can efficiently
Don't mean to be contrary. Here is the but. Each customers extension or house is bespoke because it is tailored to their needs. You are correct that is no excuse to raise the rate unless as you say they ask for a special bond or layout involving odd angles or more corners. All of that should be taken into account by a quantity surveyor and priced accordingly. Anyone can lay bricks to a line how many can go into a field and set out from profile boards?
Your right to most lads just want to go in make a good wage from doing good work.. and go down the road with no hassle... profile's all day.. can't go wrong with them once they are set up right..
Another thing about the so called old school salt of the earth blokes is back in the late 80s early 90s when I got into the game was they all thought other people should be doing all their heavy work for them, I worked with loads of them, they would never dig out or hump gear up ladders, plus there Brickwork wasn't even that neat either, total farce
Bespoke as I understand it is a one off. Don't happen on site work Changy, its more specialised , like Stu Compton, not a line jockey, a true artist in brickwork, Traditional bricky is right any arsehole can run a line in 2 days of picking up a trowel dont make them a bricklayer, try building a fireplace in an outside bbq area thats your info, is that not bespoke?
Glad i got out before health n safty madness started. but yes profiles are better, a lot of the older guys would not use them, you guys have it easy compared to when everything had to be carried up a ladder. i was a bespoke brickie i was a 1200 hundred bricks a day man, lol now i cant stand up straight wish i had slowed down now, if you want a bad back carry on.
Profiles are fine for line monkeys but I'd love to see their profile set up for a fireplace or a feature. That is bespoke brickwork people pay move for because line monkeys can't do it quick enough because they're not used to ranging and gauging
wow i was going to say the exact comment below i love detailed work hate half bond like to to be proud of what you have done ghagy mate keep it up take no notice of emm
i got out when the health n safety came in it drove me around the twist i always was my own safety officer and ime alive lol. but i always done the easy option sometimes any wooden straight edge as a profile would do. the way i looked at it was if i was laying building a corner was just as quick most of the time just depended on the situation, like the blower idea though was a pain trying to brush water off of the damp.
Agreed..I do agree when he says about de-skilling, but that is to do with building design. We use lintels not arches. You are right, the world has changed.
I'm a 100 year old Brickey, I use the wand instead of the trowel find it goes up magic! What a great brickey I am, will squash all you muppets egos with my Gucci Work Boots @windyourneckin @skaglayers
Modern houses are nothing like 1930s one's, the bricks on my house are acrington front and back with a cavity, I've never had any damp issues, there putting new ideas in the new homes that are not tested , and aren't gonna last as long as my 90y old house as lasted, and its still going strong. Interesting vid lad.
Yes and no, I'm a builder, I also own a 1930s house, some of the joinery work within roof rafters is shocking , they weren't that good back then, you are right about modern house being crap, however some are very good but most house bashing sites are crap
