Good advice lad I’ve been the hod in a 2/1 gang since I was 18 I’m 42 now and never really wanted to lay but I do lay now as I’ve learned on the job but mainly I’m sorting everything out so my guys are constantly walling.We’ve gone off house bashing and do prefer the footings but we earned a lot of money doing industrial units for years and not killing ourselfs either we actually have done with price work on sites and started our own construction company doing everything from new builds to renovations Barns Swimming pools conservatory’s everything it’s going great and the core is still us 3 who were mates from school and still going
I’m a bricky in Sydney. 3-1 gang building houses above damp. We all load the entire level first thing and help get a mix in and then labourer pumps mud all day whilst we lay. Labourer will do all the cuts by the windows. Biggest issue here finding a labourer is hard as fuk. Can find the guys but then they won’t turn up after the first day or 2. I’ve been with this gang for 8 months and we’ve gone through about 15 labourers. Too hard for em. What I’ve noticed is here in Sydney there are NO experienced brickys labourers… NONE! I was a hod carrier so whenever the labourer don’t show I’ll jump on. We don’t split the price. The labourer gets day rate, me and another bricky get day rate and the head guy gets the price. He $2 a brick and $6 a block (which aren’t really used on the houses here as they’re all wooden frames. ) The head guy also does all the set ups. Profiles, measurements, all that tack. We work well together and the dosh is quite big. Good gig: Going on my own next year
Hey Charlie, Fantastic videos. 65 yr old here who loves bricklaying, watching loadsa videos and self teaching in my back garden. Your work ethic and skill are great as is your passion to show new guys your skills. Cheers
Talking sense Charlie, Your gonna upset a few of the 'Supertrowls' out there. I've got 15 months left on my life sentence, then I'm 66 so it's off to the sun! All in All, For those of us who like to work with our hands and aren't afraid of a bit of 'Collar' The building is still a good life.
I find theres more continuity in supers due to subs being so sort after due to nhbc making supers more difficult, 100% you get more done taking your time n less mistakes, all bollocks are dropped rushing, ive only every uncounted moutain goat subs as of yet👍 Good vid 👍sober is the way to go👍
Money is made in the office, need to get the price right first then the rest is easy. Doing super fancy work is rarely financially rewarding as it is often to difficult to price and just ends up daywork.
@@CharlieCollison 👍thats the one thing ive never liked about site work is that the price is dictated to you. I know you can take it or leave it and when times are good it generally works ok for us but when things tighten up ive found the big subbies work as a cartel and bring the prices down together.Nice day off today rain fcst 😁
Footings def good less stress and sure of your money every week. Less lost time with the weather I do them by myself dead handy hard to get good men who show up
Tyler your going to have pull your finger out when they heal that is that could have been a very nasty injury I’m glad your ok though but start thinking safety first
Hello everyone, I’ve just finished my level 1 bricklaying course at college and have completed it and passed 🎉i absolutely love bricklaying and it is my passion and is the best thing and decision I’ve ever made in my life! I’m looking to do a level 2 bricklaying apprenticeship for this September but one thing I am worried about is , when working on a building site will I be working on my own? Or will I be put with a “gang” or do I have to create one myself or find people and make friends with them? Or will I be invited to a gang to work with, it’s the only thing I’m not sure about, I’m sure it is common sense but as I have only been in the trade for 10 months I’m Not sure about this type of thing. Any help and advice will be highly and greatly appreciated, thanks 😊👷🧱
Best way is to contact bricklaying companies wether its going to a site and speaking to a site manager or phoning the company local to you so you can be put with a gang or if you did it through a college get them to reach out for you goodluck and all the best!
"Property sellers are being forced to slash their asking prices in droves as the housing market struggles under the weight of surging borrowing costs."😮
Walk before you run, known many with pound signs in their eyes, get any one to labour, before you know it you're fucked, you've a good team of dependables, who want to work long term, not just quick money for a piss up every weekend. Well said Charlie 👍
Less hassle subs as silos always breaking down... 😢Then other gang rob the lintels... Window formers always broke waiting for damp weep holes.... Then scaffold doesn't turn up.... Delays on the floor joists... Just one think after another so subs are best and gang size 1+1 but we're a 2+1 so happy days
"The key question for housebuilders is just how much further affordability will get squeezed, and what impact this will have on prices and housing demand. In the first half of 2023, house pricing remained resilient. But recent data from Halifax has shown the first annual decline in average UK house prices since 2012, with the typical UK property now costing around £286,500. On top of that, mortgage rates have eclipsed 6% for the first time since December 2022, contributing to a lack of urgency for buyers to sign on the dotted line."....... JUST BEWARE YOU YOUNG PPL TUNING IN. ITS NOT GOOD ALL THE TIME.😊
Bricklayers in the USA are mostly self entitled primadonnas who need a boom crane to pick up block that are sorta long but not heavy now. I knew a little 150 pound kid who used to lay 40-50 lb. 12’ s by himself and never liked the 2 men on a block nonsense and I can’t help but wonder what he must be saying now that he’s an old miserable ornery old geezer like me now if he saw the crane boom thing picking up block that can’t be more than 50lb? And no one is teaching anyone anything since the liberal run unions here are absolutely Clueless about teaching basic 101 shit. I see apprentices 5 weeks into “ training “ and don’t even know how to hold mud on a trowel or even hold the trowel . America is so far gone and Woke broken beyond belief Diversity and special needs affirmative action and whatever else is all That the bricklayers union in this doomed nation is about. Try to start your own bricklaying gang Here and you won’t get far. You multi thousand brick a day Real ones in England wouldn’t be allowed in the door at my Sorry union hall, You’d all put Way too many special needs kids out of work
Good advice lad I’ve been the hod in a 2/1 gang since I was 18 I’m 42 now and never really wanted to lay but I do lay now as I’ve learned on the job but mainly I’m sorting everything out so my guys are constantly walling.We’ve gone off house bashing and do prefer the footings but we earned a lot of money doing industrial units for years and not killing ourselfs either we actually have done with price work on sites and started our own construction company doing everything from new builds to renovations Barns Swimming pools conservatory’s everything it’s going great and the core is still us 3 who were mates from school and still going
Mate that’s a good set up. Good stuff
Been doing Supers on Price over thirty years now , few bad days , but on the whole wouldn't change anything !!
I’m a bricky in Sydney. 3-1 gang building houses above damp. We all load the entire level first thing and help get a mix in and then labourer pumps mud all day whilst we lay. Labourer will do all the cuts by the windows. Biggest issue here finding a labourer is hard as fuk. Can find the guys but then they won’t turn up after the first day or 2. I’ve been with this gang for 8 months and we’ve gone through about 15 labourers. Too hard for em. What I’ve noticed is here in Sydney there are NO experienced brickys labourers… NONE! I was a hod carrier so whenever the labourer don’t show I’ll jump on.
We don’t split the price. The labourer gets day rate, me and another bricky get day rate and the head guy gets the price. He $2 a brick and $6 a block (which aren’t really used on the houses here as they’re all wooden frames. )
The head guy also does all the set ups. Profiles, measurements, all that tack. We work well together and the dosh is quite big. Good gig:
Going on my own next year
I’m in melb. I don’t even bother trying laborers anymore, can’t find apprentice. Just me and another brickie. Single storeys, works good
Your spot on Charlie...
Hey Charlie, Fantastic videos. 65 yr old here who loves bricklaying, watching loadsa videos and self teaching in my back garden. Your work ethic and skill are great as is your passion to show new guys your skills. Cheers
I reckon a 3 and 1 is the perfect size gang
sos fed up with the war-paint
3:30pm
monday 4/11/24 cant do this any more
Top man as usual Charlie, get well soon Tyler you plonker !! But at least you have got all your digits and you have learned a valuable lesson
Talking sense Charlie, Your gonna upset a few of the 'Supertrowls' out there. I've got 15 months left on my life sentence, then I'm 66 so it's off to the sun! All in All, For those of us who like to work with our hands and aren't afraid of a bit of 'Collar' The building is still a good life.
You got plenty on mate
I find theres more continuity in supers due to subs being so sort after due to nhbc making supers more difficult, 100% you get more done taking your time n less mistakes, all bollocks are dropped rushing, ive only every uncounted moutain goat subs as of yet👍
Good vid 👍sober is the way to go👍
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Money is made in the office, need to get the price right first then the rest is easy. Doing super fancy work is rarely financially rewarding as it is often to difficult to price and just ends up daywork.
I’m talking about site work really
@@CharlieCollison 👍thats the one thing ive never liked about site work is that the price is dictated to you. I know you can take it or leave it and when times are good it generally works ok for us but when things tighten up ive found the big subbies
work as a cartel and bring the prices down together.Nice day off today rain fcst 😁
What do people pay hod carriers… good ones ?
150-160- a day
Fair talk and I'm on subs right now and hear you
Footings def good less stress and sure of your money every week. Less lost time with the weather I do them by myself dead handy hard to get good men who show up
Where are you working old boy?
@@sammy_bw Edinburgh
Don’t fancy footings but appreciate you making this video 👍
Very honest Charlie..!
Well said..!!
Great advice as usual
Good lad Charlie boy
Don't bother building trades struggling at the moment
Need a video on this 👌🏼👌🏼
Spoken like a true professional. Plod on my Brother!
Tyler your going to have pull your finger out when they heal that is that could have been a very nasty injury I’m glad your ok though but start thinking safety first
Is it just me or does his head look a bit large at the start....must be the lenses 😂
I thought that 😂
The fisheye lens looks wierd.
Top video, top man
Great advice.
Charlie tell us about your house what's new buddy.
Rents mental
Hello everyone, I’ve just finished my level 1 bricklaying course at college and have completed it and passed 🎉i absolutely love bricklaying and it is my passion and is the best thing and decision I’ve ever made in my life! I’m looking to do a level 2 bricklaying apprenticeship for this September but one thing I am worried about is , when working on a building site will I be working on my own? Or will I be put with a “gang” or do I have to create one myself or find people and make friends with them? Or will I be invited to a gang to work with, it’s the only thing I’m not sure about, I’m sure it is common sense but as I have only been in the trade for 10 months I’m
Not sure about this type of thing. Any help and advice will be highly and greatly appreciated, thanks 😊👷🧱
Best way is to contact bricklaying companies wether its going to a site and speaking to a site manager or phoning the company local to you so you can be put with a gang or if you did it through a college get them to reach out for you goodluck and all the best!
@@b_s_dirtyharry7535 thank you a lot for the advice, appreciate it thanks 😊
@@diybricklayer I’m 18 years old
@@diybricklayer thanks alot ! I really appreciate that, thanks 😊 🧱
"Property sellers are being forced to slash their asking prices in droves as the housing market struggles under the weight of surging borrowing costs."😮
Walk before you run, known many with pound signs in their eyes, get any one to labour, before you know it you're fucked, you've a good team of dependables, who want to work long term, not just quick money for a piss up every weekend. Well said Charlie 👍
Love the footings why mess around on supers when can earn more on footings dont make any sense
Ready spread is a downfall in subs
Get ready for the coming slump
Wud like to get a caravan and work vwith you. Even for a month or 3
Less hassle subs as silos always breaking down... 😢Then other gang rob the lintels... Window formers always broke waiting for damp weep holes.... Then scaffold doesn't turn up.... Delays on the floor joists... Just one think after another so subs are best and gang size 1+1 but we're a 2+1 so happy days
Bossman 😮💨
If only more brickes had half the common sense and respect you have
"The key question for housebuilders is just how much further affordability will get squeezed, and what impact this will have on prices and housing demand.
In the first half of 2023, house pricing remained resilient. But recent data from Halifax has shown the first annual decline in average UK house prices since 2012, with the typical UK property now costing around £286,500.
On top of that, mortgage rates have eclipsed 6% for the first time since December 2022, contributing to a lack of urgency for buyers to sign on the dotted line.".......
JUST BEWARE YOU YOUNG PPL TUNING IN. ITS NOT GOOD ALL THE TIME.😊
Any jobs going Charlie? To someone who’s willing to learn.
What happend to the training videos mate...
Squeaky bumbum times still lay ahead
Your notice board got your address on it.
Bricklayers in the USA are mostly self entitled primadonnas who need a boom crane to pick up block that are sorta long but not heavy now. I knew a little 150 pound kid who used to lay 40-50 lb. 12’ s by himself and never liked the 2 men on a block nonsense and I can’t help but wonder what he must be saying now that he’s an old miserable ornery old geezer like me now if he saw the crane boom thing picking up block that can’t be more than 50lb? And no one is teaching anyone anything since the liberal run unions here are absolutely Clueless about teaching basic 101 shit. I see apprentices 5 weeks into “ training “ and don’t even know how to hold mud on a trowel or even hold the trowel . America is so far gone and Woke broken beyond belief Diversity and special needs affirmative action and whatever else is all That the bricklayers union in this doomed nation is about. Try to start your own bricklaying gang Here and you won’t get far. You multi thousand brick a day Real ones in England wouldn’t be allowed in the door at my Sorry union hall, You’d all put Way too many special needs kids out of work