I served my time with a 74 year old bricky taught me loads I'm 53 now and still remember my precious time with the legend Mr Holmes from newport south wales
I had 2 old gits teach me! 52 now! My father and his cousin were a 2 n 1, with Wally the hoddy! They both started age 15, cycled to Duxford every day, 6 or miles each way, but uphill back home! Loads of great stories of them learning a trade in the late 1950's near Cambridge. No young gang could keep up with them in their prime or do a nice clean tidy job. I feel very lucky to have been able to learn from them and their mates 👌🏻👍🏻🏴 Ps, thanks dad
Gents, as always great content. Total respect for the graft you put in, customers don’t quite understand what it’s all about at times. I left the big bad world of subbing and managing people, but hey we do what we do. All the best
@Theoldbricklayer just imagine if they had hall been laid in place/on one "building" - it'd be huge! I'm just about st0n3d enough to work out what size of property just 1 million bricks builds! And you're only paying him £350/day, scandalous mate, easy worth double bubble on that!
@Theoldbricklayer yeah just being ironic after you thought I said you were too dear on another comment yesterday I think! One things for sure, if he hasn't learned to lay bricks and point up by now then he never will! I really enjoy yourns content and his dead pan delivery- never know if he's serious or joking lol! You always get your subbies breakfast and wot not too which says a lot about the character of person
The old boy has been up all night keeping his bird happy after a great drinking sesh and could have done with his favourite day Friday Off but is here/there Ready and Raring to Go ! 😂😂
Brilliant Ben the old bricke as well tell less golf more work tell I got some old stone masonry tools if he ever in my manor Shepperton no charge tell him thanks again love watching trades men 👍
Nice tidy job could rush get it done in 2/3 but it would be a mess nice and tidy no wounded use are busy and the old man’s mattress is full hats off lads
Before any young wannabee brickie comes out of their time, it should be mandatory that they spend time with the old brickie or one of his kind...perhaps you should franchise him Ben! 💰
I’m a site manager and I would pay any rates to get the old Brickie as a black hat on my job 🤣 the fact he can multi trade and don’t mind cleaning up. He will get extra
I could write a book on today's clueless foremen. Very few have got where they are purely out of merit but the rest have spent years kissing arse until they get thrown a bone by the subby.
They will get longer in time I’m happy with the progress I’ve made (this channel is all about having a laugh with my dad and making long lasting memories, the amount of subscribers and views don’t matter to us . What matters is the viewers that watch like the content . Have a great weekend
You should be Caddying for the Old Bricky on the course, you can't expect a man to be slaving away like that and expect him to carry his golf bag around. Where's the humanity!
The longer vids are doing well. Far better than I thought they would do . Hopefully I can get them to 15 mins daily in a few weeks …. Have a great weekend
Some jobs we do are sand and cement. All jobs done by hand the machines they make are not for us. They make a mess and you have to put the mortar in like soup which can cause shrinkage and looks a mess in my opinion.
Best way to get off cement builders has left on brick? There really rough textured dark brown bricks and the cement has gone into all the texture been there 20 years so solid now
What brand blade's are those Ben? I been using the erbuaer screwfix ones 4.6mm or 6.4mm, and they've been pretty good compared to most I've had. Hilti are a class of their own, but so expensive to let idiots use and mistreat 😂
You and dad are so right about formans of today they cant do the jobs now days and they are fall of shit and talk shit where have all the real man gone who new what to and use to give and take a bit but they was not bad to work for
We don’t clean after we repoint I think it’s very bad practise to acid wash a repoint If the bricks are dirty we offer a clean before we do the repointing at an extra charge 90% don’t want to pay
@@Theoldbricklayer thank you Ben, we sometimes use to do chimneys on the outside in New construction on the wash it made them look cleaner, but we didn't use lime mortar, used grey mortar,
Still trying to figure if golf is just banter or if the old brickie really does play. It sometimes looks like he has a bad back and I'd guess that doesnt goes well with golf
@Brickwork101 Done a couple without the intercepter and will definitely use one in future if you recommend,based in brighton so I don't think your miles away,great videos mate!
Hi Ben is the bh dinger jointer worth getting I've got Marshall town at mo like to try different things is the 19mm tge best to get for standard joints ?, keep the old bricklayer working hard 😀 👍
Yes 19mm is the best size . I like them but they do wear out fairly quick . I like the fact they’re quite heavy compared to a Marshall town and they make a shallower finish . They can be reshaped with a belt sander tho …
@@Theoldbricklayer I meant in general... Is it something to do with erosion and risk of damp? Edit: I know about as much about laying bricks as I do about life on the moon
I hate them fukin yellow ladders ,if you got someone behind you with them it can look like a police car with the blue ends ,what make is the wall grinder ? I remember the old brickies wearing top hats and waist coats but that was probly after the old brickies day 😉
New video Sunday evening or Monday . Hope you all have a great weekend …
Enjoying these videos
You two are class great working relationship
Thanks have a great weekend
Keep the vids coming ben, really enjoy watching you guys @@Theoldbricklayer
Thanks hopefully a new vid this evening
"Foremans are kn0b eds, most of em are just time keepers (short pause) cmon, its ten past eight, let's get going!". Cheers guys, keep em coming.
Steptoe and Son Laurel and Hardy Morecambe and Wise little and large and then there's these two😂😂😂 great stuff
Brilliantly put Clifford
Yes , you know the old brickie is off to get his club polished 😂😂 why not its Friday.
Pair of legends ❤
Have a great weekend
@Brickwork101 you too lads
Gofundme for the old brickie's breakfasts, sushi, wheelchair repairs and trips to Thailand.
😂😂😂
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Old brickie seems like a great person.
Ben I'm sure he's taught you all you no😂😂
Have a great weekend
Thanks have a great weekend Yes he did
I served my time with a 74 year old bricky taught me loads I'm 53 now and still remember my precious time with the legend Mr Holmes from newport south wales
I had 2 old gits teach me! 52 now!
My father and his cousin were a 2 n 1, with Wally the hoddy! They both started age 15, cycled to Duxford every day, 6 or miles each way, but uphill back home! Loads of great stories of them learning a trade in the late 1950's near Cambridge.
No young gang could keep up with them in their prime or do a nice clean tidy job.
I feel very lucky to have been able to learn from them and their mates 👌🏻👍🏻🏴
Ps, thanks dad
comedy gold both of you
Thanks have a great weekend
@@Theoldbricklayer brilliant videos ben
Thoroughly enjoy watching you two.
Im a resin floor layer so haven’t a clue about bricklaying but enjoy the vids/shorts none the less 👍🏻
Thank you hopefully in a couple weeks they will get longer
The old brickie giving us abit too much information about his weekend 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Gents, as always great content. Total respect for the graft you put in, customers don’t quite understand what it’s all about at times. I left the big bad world of subbing and managing people, but hey we do what we do.
All the best
Get the old bricky down to RUclips headquarters..he'll sort 'em out😂
Have a great weekend chaps 👍
😂😂😂 would be great to see security remove him have a great weekend
Old brickie is an absolute legend. No other brickies on you tube compare
Would like to see a demonstration how you point and finish the joint please ben. Lovely stuff
Might include some in next weeks vids
He will be polishing the brass next! Never mind Thailand 😂
You can see he’s had management experience the old Brickie
Imagine how many miles of pointing he's done throughout his years - I bet he's probably pointed the circumference of the earth by now bless him
He’s laid more bricks than repointing . Millions and millions of bricks
@Theoldbricklayer just imagine if they had hall been laid in place/on one "building" - it'd be huge! I'm just about st0n3d enough to work out what size of property just 1 million bricks builds! And you're only paying him £350/day, scandalous mate, easy worth double bubble on that!
@@gnomethegamer9706 that would make me bankrupt 😂
@Theoldbricklayer yeah just being ironic after you thought I said you were too dear on another comment yesterday I think! One things for sure, if he hasn't learned to lay bricks and point up by now then he never will! I really enjoy yourns content and his dead pan delivery- never know if he's serious or joking lol! You always get your subbies breakfast and wot not too which says a lot about the character of person
This is coming from a Muslim, I respect your work and you both, ❤ some blinding work going on ere ❤
Thank you have a great weekend
@@Theoldbricklayer likewise bruvva
Keep up the good work Ben good insights as well as comedy… maybe once a week give a tip away or bricky trick or summit…
Thanks might add some
The old boy has been up all night keeping his bird happy after a great drinking sesh and could have done with his favourite day Friday Off but is here/there Ready and Raring to Go ! 😂😂
Great extended edition. Great job. Cheers.
Two absolute legends love watching d videos keep it up lads yous two together =brilliant stuff
Thanks have a great weekend
Great video, great banter,you bounce of each other. Nice workmanship delivered from you both very tidy.hope you both have a nice weekend.
Thank you have a great weekend
Brilliant Ben the old bricke as well tell less golf more work tell I got some old stone masonry tools if he ever in my manor Shepperton no charge tell him thanks again love watching trades men 👍
Thanks for you comment have a great weekend
Great videos,all the best fellas
Thank you
Nice tidy job could rush get it done in 2/3 but it would be a mess nice and tidy no wounded use are busy and the old man’s mattress is full hats off lads
Usually I would grind them 3 sides in 3 days but sometimes they take longer when the mortar is cement based
Great content mate always love the videos
Thank you have a great weekend
Keep subscribing and liking these 2 top blokes all !!
Great channel great banter bud 👍
Thanks that’s what the Chanel is about have a nice weekend
You too pal 👍
Great funny jokes, i like it. greetings from holland
Thanks have a great weekend
Before any young wannabee brickie comes out of their time, it should be mandatory that they spend time with the old brickie or one of his kind...perhaps you should franchise him Ben! 💰
Love the old 🧱,❤
Old time the foreman all way get you out of trouble 🍺😁👍
What a great old gentleman. In the railway works the foreman wore a bowler hat? Always interest, keep it going please. Regards to both. A. R.
Not sure about that . Have a great weekend
The crafty old brickie makes sure he gets paid before he finishes his favourite day these days he’s predominantly on foreman duty 😁
Most important part is the money
I’m a site manager and I would pay any rates to get the old Brickie as a black hat on my job 🤣 the fact he can multi trade and don’t mind cleaning up. He will get extra
He’s seems to go where the money is 😂😂😂
@@Theoldbricklayer if he can’t strike a deal with RUclips then I’ll enter contract talks with ya both 🤣
😂😂😂😂
I ground out pointing in the 90s but without the vacuum 😬 got bollocked a few times by people
I’ve done it a few times 😂
I could write a book on today's clueless foremen. Very few have got where they are purely out of merit but the rest have spent years kissing arse until they get thrown a bone by the subby.
👌👌👌👌 few good ones but most are…..
According to the macmaster the videos have to be 8 minutes or longer to trigger the algo thingy to spread it more
They will get longer in time I’m happy with the progress I’ve made (this channel is all about having a laugh with my dad and making long lasting memories, the amount of subscribers and views don’t matter to us . What matters is the viewers that watch like the content . Have a great weekend
@@Theoldbricklayer Fair play Ben , I love the quality and very tidy work you do ... Top marks
You should be Caddying for the Old Bricky on the course, you can't expect a man to be slaving away like that and expect him to carry his golf bag around. Where's the humanity!
Golf buggy he ain’t walking 😂
When you get a chance could you pass on the make and model of the grinders - I'm upgrading mine?
@@NAFO_Badger_Brigade my battery one is dewalt. But the other 6 are Makita …
this channel is something special i love a video from u and i’m clucking for the next one…
Thanks more vids next week. Have a great weekend
Absolutely raking in the views lads. 🎉🎉
The longer vids are doing well. Far better than I thought they would do . Hopefully I can get them to 15 mins daily in a few weeks …. Have a great weekend
@@Theoldbricklayer makes sense mate then pay old boys wages out the add revenue haha. Yes sir…you to
Love watching this guy belter
@@james8268 thanks have a great weekend
Do you always use lime mortar for repointing and do you always put the mortar in by hand ( finger trowels ) or use a machine? Stuart.
Some jobs we do are sand and cement. All jobs done by hand the machines they make are not for us.
They make a mess and you have to put the mortar in like soup which can cause shrinkage and looks a mess in my opinion.
Top one lads have a good one
Thanks have a great weekend
he's definitely a character unfortunately there's not many like him around no more with uncle Albert stories of laying a million bricks in half hour.
Yeah deffo a character
Best way to get off cement builders has left on brick? There really rough textured dark brown bricks and the cement has gone into all the texture been there 20 years so solid now
I always get my mate to come and clean the brickwork if needed I have no idea what he uses sorry
What brand blade's are those Ben?
I been using the erbuaer screwfix ones 4.6mm or 6.4mm, and they've been pretty good compared to most I've had. Hilti are a class of their own, but so expensive to let idiots use and mistreat 😂
North clipper they are about £85/100. Very good blades
Nice golf course village welton Lincolnshire
You and dad are so right about formans of today they cant do the jobs now days and they are fall of shit and talk shit where have all the real man gone who new what to and use to give and take a bit but they was not bad to work for
Old Brickie = PM.
Do you use muratic acid and water solution to clean motar off face of bricks, as some can't keep bricks clean with out smudging them,
We don’t clean after we repoint I think it’s very bad practise to acid wash a repoint
If the bricks are dirty we offer a clean before we do the repointing at an extra charge 90% don’t want to pay
@@Theoldbricklayer thank you Ben, we sometimes use to do chimneys on the outside in New construction on the wash it made them look cleaner, but we didn't use lime mortar, used grey mortar,
City brickwork....you've only got yourself to blame squire .
City brickwork was great to work for I liked my time there
Still trying to figure if golf is just banter or if the old brickie really does play. It sometimes looks like he has a bad back and I'd guess that doesnt goes well with golf
Can you ask the old brickie if he can remember where he was when Elvis Died. cheers 👋
He was probably in the cafe
He said he was laying bricks in a foundation in Windsor brerskhire ….
your videos are class mate
Thank you have a great weekend
Might sound daft ! but what's wrong with the cement that you are taking out... ? ( I AM NOT A BRICKY) so interested to know. 🤓
It’s cement mortar and it should be like but anyhow if the customer wants it repointed we do it 😂
Hahahaha old brickys. Who makes your pack up in the morning mate. My mum why? Tell her not to bother your sacked
Have a good weekend guys
Thanks same to you
When you pay old brickie in cash? He need a pay raise as it seems he is working hard
He’s gets paid far to much I’m cutting his wages next week he might quit 😂
Have a good weekend lads
Thanks same to you
What style of pointing is going back?
I hope flush but have to wait and see
Golf and cafe visits are deducted from his pay right???
Nope 😂
Brick Thias
Does the interceptor make a difference to just going straight to the hoover?(serious question).
Yea the dust goes into the interceptor
@Brickwork101
Done a couple without the intercepter and will definitely use one in future if you recommend,based in brighton so I don't think your miles away,great videos mate!
@@adamhillman2781 I deffo like using it as it saves me bags and it’s easy to empty when full . Not far away …
Hi we're did you pick up your
Grinder shroud and dust extractor from please
Grinder Shrowd and interceptor and mortar raked are all from sunrise tools
Thanks great videos@Brickwork101
Hi Ben is the bh dinger jointer worth getting I've got Marshall town at mo like to try different things is the 19mm tge best to get for standard joints ?, keep the old bricklayer working hard 😀 👍
Yes 19mm is the best size . I like them but they do wear out fairly quick . I like the fact they’re quite heavy compared to a Marshall town and they make a shallower finish . They can be reshaped with a belt sander tho …
Thanks Ben I think I'll try one 👍
He will no get out too long way the bird on RUclips
If you think foremans are horrible then their doing their job right
May as well reveal my ignorance... Why does brickwork need to be re-pointed?
It was sand and cement over lime. So we are going back to original lime
@@Theoldbricklayer I meant in general... Is it something to do with erosion and risk of damp?
Edit: I know about as much about laying bricks as I do about life on the moon
@@granitesevan6243 usually we repoint because it’s worn out .. we live on the coast so the weather batters the buildings
@@Theoldbricklayer I see. Nothing lasts forever, I suppose (except for your grinder blade...)
@granitesevan6243 that’s a dam good blade it’s done nearly 60 square meters and still life in it
I hate them fukin yellow ladders ,if you got someone behind you with them it can look like a police car with the blue ends ,what make is the wall grinder ? I remember the old brickies wearing top hats and waist coats but that was probly after the old brickies day 😉
I use Makita grinders for this
@@Theoldbricklayer nice one wondered if it were refina
So no one liked those hats he was foreman at 22 respect he’s a dark horse and there’s more😮dig deeper😅
The next section could be in the Monday video …..
Fuck me. Seeing parts of the original pointing....did this even need repointing?
It was cement over lime ….
Why doesn't the OLD brickie start pointing while your grounding out !
Because I haven’t brought the stuff yet
Alright don't growl 😂
May as well go play golf all he done is lean up that bin. Not bad for £450 a day.
I don’t let him grind out 😂
May seem like a daft question, but how do you know when you ground enough of the old mortar out for the new lot to stick?
Needs to be 20mm grind out on a 10mm joint
30%!!! Jeeesus