Hey, I’m an apprentice and I’m 18 turning 19 on the 27th of Feb… but speaking from the little of experience over the past 2 years I’ve been working with piss wet threw bricks, blocks etc and then had piss wet sand, when you press down on the brick or block you can literally see the water dripping out the said materials.. and then not ONLY THAT I’m laying in the fucking rain where all the beds are being washed out and it’s dripping down the wall.. then I get moaned at that the perps and beds aren’t filled then not to mention you can see where the blocks have moved and sunk.. like it’s literally a fighting battle.. it’s pathetic. But Charlie watching your videos has helped me improve my laying speed so much, I can now lay 250 bricks a day and that’s even when I’m making everyone’s mixes getting my own bricks and everything else, so I thank you a shit ton❤️
You are so right,the majority of site managers when it comes to practicalities are totally useless.its all about H/S,PPE,designated walkways,and sticking up posters in the toilets telling us what colour our urine should be does my head in to the point where Ive avoided site work for years,preferring to work for private developers/customers.one things for sure todays younger Bricklayers will never know what they’ve missed.forgetting money the best days in the industry are long gone.
42 years on the trowel and it’s always been the same, they’ve never covered anything up but it’s worse now because we seem to have more rain, all these house builders are just worried you’re wearing the right coloured viz and you haven’t got your hood under your hard hat, site work seemed to be far easier when I first started. 👍🏻
Even the builders merchants don't cover bricks and blocks. Materials aside, which I happen to strongly agree with you on, each year the quality of the drawings supplied on the big commercial jobs steadily deteriorates and site agents straight out of college aren't any help either. I was running a basement blockwork job in central London a few weeks ago and none of the dimensions off the gridlines worked and had to be re-appraised... which took four fucking days. "Put your feet up for a couple of days mate", is what they say. This attitude and culture of "just fuck them off for a few days" is wrong and isn't sustainable.
not a brick layer but a plasterer who done site work and the amount of pallets of plaster and plasterboards left to rot in wet plastic wrapping out in the open is unbelievable. trying to fix wet plasterboard to stud walls and spreading lumpy plaster because the bags were wet. its the site manager who should be held accountable the sh*t c*nt, no wonder new builds are rough
I built a brick garage before Christmas bricks turned up from huw grays soaking wet not on pallets drawing water up plastic ripped letting the rain in no chance to dry out no let up with this rain. Just hard work. Well said Charlie.
I’m not a brickie but a plumber. I stopped new build large sites 3 years ago as the materials were missing, damaged and it was like feeding frenzy when new materials arrived as no regard was given to what materials went to what plot etc. it’s a total mess and I felt like the site agent and manager has a responsibility to manage the site and that includes storage of materials. We were told to fit damaged items anyway and claim day work hours to refit the replacement when it arrived. What I’m getting at is that if everyone is doing the same thing then the profit margins are lower at the end product due to mismanagement. They quickly dispense of anything not considered essential and cut backs are made which impacts the quality of the build all over. I haven’t had a good site manager that wasn’t either a brickie or carpenter etc in a previous role. These young uni graduates are the real problem as they have zero real world experience and they give them huge bonuses for doing an average job
Every load of materials we have had delivered is soaking wet at the moment, Been a bricklayer for 37 years and it has always been the same. Wet weather, wet materials. Sadly this will never change. To costly to place the materials in a dry environment, better just to dump them in the merchants yard, and let them get soaked. I feel for you lads.
Great rant Charlie, happens time after time, on my site bricks are just dumped getting wetter,it’s a bloody struggle and as you said nhbc are picking me up on dust on a single bloody wall tie 🤬
Many brickies used to sprinkle the wall and the bed with dry cement . But once they employed one inspector for every two trowels, that illegal trick was slung into the bin of history. The stacking of bricks in the honeycombe design is a good idea that most newbies don't know about, because instead they were being taught how to strap their hardhat on and what the best product to use when their Ipad gets dust on it. By the way, this video was very powerful.s
Totally agree mate had a repointing business for 38 years now and you can not get dry sand to mix . I want to do a fantastic job but it has never been harder to make money in this shit climate we have to work in. People need to know the problems we have to contend with.Good channel mate
Agree with everything you said Charlie, I came into this industry 46yrs ago we had one fella running the building site he organised the job had a proper compound everything covered nowadays we have more men in offices than the men building the job all driving around in company cars and the organisation is zilch , the bricklayers were top of the tree now we are bottom due to Subbys dumping you on a job and not fighting your corner just taking the money if you complain your a trouble causer
Our nhbc inspector now wants us to jet wash the ties after every lift😭😭 thats after pointing the back of the block work AND back of the brickwork. Then after you done all that with soaking wet gear you get that welsh twat snagger coming round with a 6 foot level saying this is 10mm out of plumb🤯🤯🤯
I always was taught to look after my own materials. I dont expect anyone to do it for me. If im going in on Monday to lay blues im there the week before to prep, load out and cover my kit. Trouble with sites is by the time i get there on Monday somebody has got there early and boosted my dry kit. If my stuff is wet i ent laying. Same with laying in the rain, cant do it!
100% agree charlie mate. we got pulled up on “dirty blockwork” not too long ago. was a first lift and everyone knows how the water sits on the concrete slab after it has rained. went tidying up after and yes it splatted all up it and we had to go round rubbing bits of block up it to clean it all up. not very good when you’re on price
Could not agree more. Multi million pound sites and we’ve been brought packs of bricks over that have genuinely been dripping as they are being boomed over! Then we get moaned at for the messy look of our blockwork, absolute joke
Trouble is they know we will not do a thing about it and if we said we are not using these bricks someone else will and that's our own fault for not standing together
Bricklayer in Australia for 30 years and total agree, constantly having to work with wet materials, but builder want a quality job, near impossible, I won’t lay wet material. Good job
Great point Charlie. Every pack of bricks we get are soaked and can hardly use them, 8 coursers max and they start to run. Sites expect the most from us and then give us problems like this. You see all the Chippy's wood all covered up and in garages, cause they will rot and won't use them. However our bricks don't even have plastic on no more and are out in the pissing rain. It's a joke bud.
well said charlie.we are a bit like steve and alex (ie self builders) and the amount of times we have had to strip the packs of bricks and block down and re pallet them in honeycome design so that we can put a gas blower through em to dry the buggers out. does mi head in. bout time the manufacturers were made to sort things out. as far as site work is concerned if they arive on site and they are clearly wet then send the buggers back. if they arrive on site and are fine then tarp them.👍
No one wants quality anymore. When you have brick that range in length from 1/8”-1/4” it’s hard to keep your head joints in a line. Not to mention twisted, smiled, not square product, And also wet. Makes it hard for everything. I don’t worry about controlling that shit anymore because I don’t have enough time nor the space to keep material in an adequate space for heaters and so forth. Sucks but these general contractors get what they get.
Spot on mate.They are told every winter.There only interested in pulling work not why it's a mess and has moved.They want a silk purse made out off a pigs ear.
Well said!! Completely agree they don’t give a fuck about the bricklayers and never will and that’s a shame really because everyone sees the brick work first!!
Charlie i feel your pain mate and all Brickie's . I'm retired. The last 15 years of work i was as a site Manager for a Bricklaying contracting company in the Northwest . On pre start meetings i alway asked for a drying shed in our lay down area . Just so the lads had a chance of some dry materials . Did i ever got one did i f--k . laying wet concrete block on a piss wet thourgh damp tray what chance have got . They don't give a F--k .
Same on our site the brick got that plastic shit on it but if there’s a little hole in the plastic water gets though then bricks are fucked they need to get delivered and a proper cover put over them
A feel your pain Chalie been using wet brick myself nightmare to stop bricks sinking and oozing mortar stains down the face. Especially when there storage on site full off joiners materials and never too let brick inside to dry out. And them they come back about all the efflorescence come out the wall and say how did that happen. Nhbc should put there foot down and make sure no wet materials get built on site and deliveries cover when they arrive. 🤞🤞👌
Your very true.. I now take it upon myself to cover the bricks i have us on my house build with tarpaulin and brick jackets... Developers won't the best but don't help the bricklayers
I've been housebuilding bricky for 34 years. The house builders make so much profit that materials being wasted has no impact on them. Every major housebuilder has never cared for materialsand they never will.
We used to rip the plastic off the bricks and throw old chipboard or polythene over the top, or whatever was lying about to cover the top of them, but at least the air could get through them..
100% there mate, ive been using coni bricks again for the last few months, had the gear like bell metal everyday, even feel heavy on tile setter 🤣, im in firm believe you cant make concrete bricks or wet bricks looked decent laying at a decent pace, just have to keep trying our best 😂
Currently been working with a small builder doing extensions/renovations etc and going back on site in the next few weeks but now I’ve watched this I don’t know what to do haha
I asked our site agent if we could cover the bricks ,his answer was ,don’t worry the rainy season has finished now !!! . They make you laugh some of these clowns , and he’s another who wants top quality work just for marks off the NHBC to make him look good and help him pass his assignments.
Not a brickie, nor in the construction trade, but I totally agree with what you're saying Charlie. Your frustration is clear to anyone, and I feel it for you. I've been watching you for long enough to know that you're proud of what you do; it's soul destroying when your chances of doing a good job are compromised by the ignorance and laziness of those higher up the food chain - and don't get me started on the red tape BS 🤦♂
Hello mate, I totally agree with you mate! Would u explain me please or make a video about how to price private jobs? Brickwork garden walls extensions etc
Ye totally right mate , building industry needs a shake up when it comes to keeping materials dry for us, the to busy talking h&s , programmes ,and getting things up quickly instead, they rather spend money on crap to make the site look pretty to win awards but say the can't afford to spend to keep bricks and blocks dry🤔 the a joke
35 years ive done this and it doesn't matter if your on site ,picking up from the merchant on privates or getting a lorry of sand or stone delivered. Its always soaked through always been the same . Nothing more infuriating than having two weeks off cos of rain then its dry . You go back to work cant lay on a dry day because the materials are soaked. I been telling the merchants for more years than i can remember if they had dry materials they would sell more than anyone else .People would go out there way to get to them . All on deaf ears every thing is absolutely soaked its really frustrating and annoying and it costs me money . They sell em and the dont care . As for site its a no brainer to keep em dry as you say they want quality etc but ?? Never change Charlie there dickheads mate 👍
We are on a site where every pack of bricks (Weinberger) which are very dusty as it is , absolutely soaked due to not being covered . Luckily we are on durox blocks inside so it’s not so bad but the 7N are a pain and suprise suprise there going for pride of the job 🤯
I worked as a site manager for a few years and the sites where the main contractor provided the materials were exactly as you've described. When on projects where the subbies are supplying their own materials they are taken care of. Not really practical with brickwork with the lead times etc.
Im fed up as well , wages have halved with the wet bricks and they are dropping prices next and not releasing plots im seriously thinking of getting out this is worse than 2008 for me
Well said Charlie it’s the same at the builders merchants bricks blocks timber the fucking lot all left outside uncovered to get piss wet through. We had to put a house up to dpc with blue engineers last week we had bricks stacked and lined up all over the place to try and dry them out looked like a giant game of domino rally
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The material world ensnares the 99% . They live in the notion they are free. They are mere slaves to system which at every turn will gobble them up . NPC s .
I was on the hod for 15 years and now in the forks . And only one subby I work got me and the other hoddys the tarp up brick. Cos no one else does it. But as a forky I do try to get the boys the dryest bricks
Your so right Charlie mate the site I'm on at the moment everything is shit would love you down there just to sort out the sylo muck I'm sure they send it out with no plastersizer it's crap👏👏👏
the answer to your question is no, materials on site now are not coverd up, they may have plastic covering, but nine times out of ten they have been in the builders yard for months getting soaking wet, then they are delivered on site and you are expected to try and lay them, NHBC state all materials should be covered up, and kept dry, but you dont see ten year ted giving house builders an RI for this, but they will give bricklayers an RI for bad workmanship, rule for one and not another
Most melts in this country settle for mediocrity and less because that's the level of standard they expect in their lives, lack of foresight is also a massive issue.
Honestly i think it's because the people that should be making that type of decision dont have any hands on experience they can read a set of plans really well but as far as having hands on experience thats just not happening any more
If subbies were charged for any losses due to damage, or protection from the weather at the moment they left a dry 8 storage area to a loading bay or loading area.. Then it would be justified to demand a dry storage area as the costs involved would be covered. It cuts both ways. 😂
Im with you, Charlie! I always take pride in my work, but when we get packs of bricks that have come out of a swamp... i hate laying them, so i won't. What the fuck are you meant to do with them, really! We get told, do your best. Then when we do and we then get told to recess and repoint it as its not the standard they require. Forklifts try to help by sorting them too help them dry. Yet site managers tell them too "stop fucking tossing it off". What the fuck are you meant to do! I'm getting to the point where i want to leave the sites. Lads already have mind. How are you meant to make a days wage to survive in this money mad world...im puzzled? Something needs to change and fast or the game is more fucked than it already is, simple as
Father in law is a brickie, coming off weeks of rain here in Australia, his gang has thrown out half a house worth of bricks cuz they’re covered in mould. Not just on one site either.
I worked on a site which had Cotswold stone, everything was dripping. We asked site managers to do something and they said head office won’t pay the stone company extra £5 for sealed pack so it’s shrink wrapped only on sides.
I feel your pain! I have been in the game 40 years it's always been like it how hard is it to put them a pallet and cover with heavy tarps? At least we would have a chance. Builders merchants are as bad everything uncovered.
never used to be able to charlie but todays sites the concrete still green the blocks are soking there clashing the plaster boards on then they g get space heater and belt that out for a day lol
Rockwool and timber stored out in the pissing rain lol. Blocks and bricks delivered then put in try storage and take plastic off and put on pallets simple
Who’s going spend all that time double handing the blocks/bricks to remove them and stack them onto pallets that’s the problem bro. The self employed guys on a price will be working for nothing if they had to do that & the labourers would be so far behind doing that every delivery. I do agree with your point but in principle that should be left up the the site manager to employ someone just to do that simple job & store them in a manner where they’re not needed to be double handled etc. They never have a dry place to store them but it would be so simple to actually do. 👍✌️👍.
@@aaroncoughlan2749 yeah bro you would think it’s common sense. Just never seems to happen. Hard enough getting a good forky to keep you supplied and keep you busy sometimes if there’s only one or 2 on a site. Sometimes I used to give him a wee backhander to keep us supplied first . Yeah man spot on though. 👍✌️👍
@@aaroncoughlan2749 Exactly! yeah me too bro. Especially when on a new site if I’ve not worked with them before, always show some appreciation if he’s on the ball with materials etc. then you build a relationship with them that lasts throughout different jobs. You know how it works my man. 👍✌️👍
As you mentioned before we lose loads of time due to weather and we lose time through sorting through piss wet concrete blocks and bricks or tryna make them look half decent. Ain’t fucking rocket science to store them better and it’s at the benefit of them to. Neater but more work done for em
Agree Charlie, from when I started we were always the ones that had to physically ask for tarps to cover all materials brick and blocks I’ve been in the game since the age of 18 , I’m now 54 it’s a fucking joke .
Totally agree , but the big developers motto is fuck it , you dont wanna do it , somebdy else will , unless all the trade stood together and said nope not a chance , then it will just continue to just be a shit show . Glad im on the small stuff 👍
Yeah spot on there bro. The exact same thing for me in Scotland. If I don’t do it they will just ask us to get off site. They will always get some joker to do it at a shit price also. It’s an absolute liberty. 🧱✌️🧱
same on my sites mate....wet bricks blocks ..cant get the quality of work .. ud think they would keep it dry for the problem of efflorescence later on that they have
Yeah we with you bro it pisses me off to when my work dont look 10/10 because of wet materials the only think they say try your best lol😅 its disgusting bruv they need to wake up and take care of materials keep them nice for us not give all that crap that they come in wet😅
Major house building sites are now run by Kids
Trying to sort every issue with emails & never leaving the porta cabin
The main problem nowadays is there are no tradesman as site managers !!!
Our Forky likes us .....he gets our packs of brick from the shallow end😂😂🤠
belta🤣🤣🤣
Bricks
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Thats quality
Hey, I’m an apprentice and I’m 18 turning 19 on the 27th of Feb… but speaking from the little of experience over the past 2 years I’ve been working with piss wet threw bricks, blocks etc and then had piss wet sand, when you press down on the brick or block you can literally see the water dripping out the said materials.. and then not ONLY THAT I’m laying in the fucking rain where all the beds are being washed out and it’s dripping down the wall.. then I get moaned at that the perps and beds aren’t filled then not to mention you can see where the blocks have moved and sunk.. like it’s literally a fighting battle.. it’s pathetic. But Charlie watching your videos has helped me improve my laying speed so much, I can now lay 250 bricks a day and that’s even when I’m making everyone’s mixes getting my own bricks and everything else, so I thank you a shit ton❤️
Maybe that's the problem Charlie...they don't want "top quality work"...they just want the houses knocked up , sold and move on to the next?
You are so right,the majority of site managers when it comes to practicalities are totally useless.its all about H/S,PPE,designated walkways,and sticking up posters in the toilets telling us what colour our urine should be does my head in to the point where Ive avoided site work for years,preferring to work for private developers/customers.one things for sure todays younger Bricklayers will never know what they’ve missed.forgetting money the best days in the industry are long gone.
42 years on the trowel and it’s always been the same, they’ve never covered anything up but it’s worse now because we seem to have more rain, all these house builders are just worried you’re wearing the right coloured viz and you haven’t got your hood under your hard hat, site work seemed to be far easier when I first started. 👍🏻
Even the builders merchants don't cover bricks and blocks. Materials aside, which I happen to strongly agree with you on, each year the quality of the drawings supplied on the big commercial jobs steadily deteriorates and site agents straight out of college aren't any help either. I was running a basement blockwork job in central London a few weeks ago and none of the dimensions off the gridlines worked and had to be re-appraised... which took four fucking days. "Put your feet up for a couple of days mate", is what they say. This attitude and culture of "just fuck them off for a few days" is wrong and isn't sustainable.
My local merchant keeps fence panels under cover and bricks out in the rain , you couldnt make it up
not a brick layer but a plasterer who done site work and the amount of pallets of plaster and plasterboards left to rot in wet plastic wrapping out in the open is unbelievable. trying to fix wet plasterboard to stud walls and spreading lumpy plaster because the bags were wet. its the site manager who should be held accountable the sh*t c*nt, no wonder new builds are rough
If they had to pay for the materials themselves they'd soon look after it! The amount of waste we see these days is criminal!
Your Spot on Charlie , been saying this for years , they don't listen , all we need is a scaffold built with a lid on it , simples , AGHHHH
So simple to do. It’s basic common sense but as you said they don’t listen and nothing changes. Kinda think it gets worse every year. 👍✌️👍
Plastic rapping is half the problem. Let's water in but won't let water out. Materials get wet in September and stay wet throughout the winter
Solution is....
Live cheaply, have winter off
I built a brick garage before Christmas bricks turned up from huw grays soaking wet not on pallets drawing water up plastic ripped letting the rain in no chance to dry out no let up with this rain.
Just hard work.
Well said Charlie.
I’m not a brickie but a plumber. I stopped new build large sites 3 years ago as the materials were missing, damaged and it was like feeding frenzy when new materials arrived as no regard was given to what materials went to what plot etc. it’s a total mess and I felt like the site agent and manager has a responsibility to manage the site and that includes storage of materials. We were told to fit damaged items anyway and claim day work hours to refit the replacement when it arrived. What I’m getting at is that if everyone is doing the same thing then the profit margins are lower at the end product due to mismanagement. They quickly dispense of anything not considered essential and cut backs are made which impacts the quality of the build all over. I haven’t had a good site manager that wasn’t either a brickie or carpenter etc in a previous role. These young uni graduates are the real problem as they have zero real world experience and they give them huge bonuses for doing an average job
Every load of materials we have had delivered is soaking wet at the moment, Been a bricklayer for 37 years and it has always been the same. Wet weather, wet materials. Sadly this will never change. To costly to place the materials in a dry environment, better just to dump them in the merchants yard, and let them get soaked. I feel for you lads.
Great rant Charlie, happens time after time, on my site bricks are just dumped getting wetter,it’s a bloody struggle and as you said nhbc are picking me up on dust on a single bloody wall tie 🤬
Many brickies used to sprinkle the wall and the bed with dry cement . But once they employed one inspector for every two trowels, that illegal trick was slung into the bin of history. The stacking of bricks in the honeycombe design is a good idea that most newbies don't know about, because instead they were being taught how to strap their hardhat on and what the best product to use when their Ipad gets dust on it. By the way, this video was very powerful.s
Totally agree mate had a repointing business for 38 years now and you can not get dry sand to mix . I want to do a fantastic job but it has never been harder to make money in this shit climate we have to work in. People need to know the problems we have to contend with.Good channel mate
dry materials in winter cost money to store but I totally agree
Agree with everything you said Charlie, I came into this industry 46yrs ago we had one fella running the building site he organised the job had a proper compound everything covered nowadays we have more men in offices than the men building the job all driving around in company cars and the organisation is zilch , the bricklayers were top of the tree now we are bottom due to Subbys dumping you on a job and not fighting your corner just taking the money if you complain your a trouble causer
Our nhbc inspector now wants us to jet wash the ties after every lift😭😭 thats after pointing the back of the block work AND back of the brickwork. Then after you done all that with soaking wet gear you get that welsh twat snagger coming round with a 6 foot level saying this is 10mm out of plumb🤯🤯🤯
U can't be serious??
@kenelliott3022 deadly serious. Its a nightmare now. Everything has to perfect whilst working with shit materials and wind and rain almost everyday.
10 mm in 2 meters is within the tolerance so tell him to piss off
I always was taught to look after my own materials. I dont expect anyone to do it for me. If im going in on Monday to lay blues im there the week before to prep, load out and cover my kit. Trouble with sites is by the time i get there on Monday somebody has got there early and boosted my dry kit. If my stuff is wet i ent laying. Same with laying in the rain, cant do it!
Bang on, same goes for the quality of the firmalite blocks half the pack goes straight in the skip because there all smashed and snapped in half!
100% agree charlie mate. we got pulled up on “dirty blockwork” not too long ago. was a first lift and everyone knows how the water sits on the concrete slab after it has rained. went tidying up after and yes it splatted all up it and we had to go round rubbing bits of block up it to clean it all up. not very good when you’re on price
I've never in 40 years worked on a site that stores materials properly
Could not agree more. Multi million pound sites and we’ve been brought packs of bricks over that have genuinely been dripping as they are being boomed over! Then we get moaned at for the messy look of our blockwork, absolute joke
Tender for your own work & leave the sites alone , it will pay in the long run 👍
I've done that and never looked back.
Trouble is they know we will not do a thing about it and if we said we are not using these bricks someone else will and that's our own fault for not standing together
It’s called living in a matrix of selfishness.
Bricklayer in Australia for 30 years and total agree, constantly having to work with wet materials, but builder want a quality job, near impossible, I won’t lay wet material. Good job
Great point Charlie. Every pack of bricks we get are soaked and can hardly use them, 8 coursers max and they start to run. Sites expect the most from us and then give us problems like this. You see all the Chippy's wood all covered up and in garages, cause they will rot and won't use them. However our bricks don't even have plastic on no more and are out in the pissing rain. It's a joke bud.
Totally right mate 100%
Sick of honeycombing brick on scaffold
Timber comes in and gets covered with visqueen 🤦♂️
There is too little scrutiny from beginning to end. Nice to hear you highlighting a problem for the buyers of new houses.
well said charlie.we are a bit like steve and alex (ie self builders) and the amount of times we have had to strip the packs of bricks and block down and re pallet them in honeycome design so that we can put a gas blower through em to dry the buggers out. does mi head in. bout time the manufacturers were made to sort things out. as far as site work is concerned if they arive on site and they are clearly wet then send the buggers back. if they arrive on site and are fine then tarp them.👍
What he said - and fair play to him for saying it bang on mate 👍🍀
No one wants quality anymore. When you have brick that range in length from 1/8”-1/4” it’s hard to keep your head joints in a line. Not to mention twisted, smiled, not square product, And also wet. Makes it hard for everything. I don’t worry about controlling that shit anymore because I don’t have enough time nor the space to keep material in an adequate space for heaters and so forth. Sucks but these general contractors get what they get.
Spot on mate.They are told every winter.There only interested in pulling work not why it's a mess and has moved.They want a silk purse made out off a pigs ear.
Well said!! Completely agree they don’t give a fuck about the bricklayers and never will and that’s a shame really because everyone sees the brick work first!!
Spot on mate nhbc should have a word with the main contractor about storing materials
You would think it hard to implement it’s so not it’s just they are to tight to make it happen 😮
Nhbc in most the big builder’s pockets anyway
Charlie i feel your pain mate and all Brickie's . I'm retired. The last 15 years of work i was as a site Manager for a Bricklaying contracting company in the Northwest . On pre start meetings i alway asked for a drying shed in our lay down area . Just so the lads had a chance of some dry materials . Did i ever got one did i f--k . laying wet concrete block on a piss wet thourgh damp tray what chance have got . They don't give a F--k .
Same on our site the brick got that plastic shit on it but if there’s a little hole in the plastic water gets though then bricks are fucked they need to get delivered and a proper cover put over them
A feel your pain Chalie been using wet brick myself nightmare to stop bricks sinking and oozing mortar stains down the face. Especially when there storage on site full off joiners materials and never too let brick inside to dry out. And them they come back about all the efflorescence come out the wall and say how did that happen. Nhbc should put there foot down and make sure no wet materials get built on site and deliveries cover when they arrive. 🤞🤞👌
Absolutely spot on with what you say.
Your very true.. I now take it upon myself to cover the bricks i have us on my house build with tarpaulin and brick jackets... Developers won't the best but don't help the bricklayers
I've been housebuilding bricky for 34 years. The house builders make so much profit that materials being wasted has no impact on them. Every major housebuilder has never cared for materialsand they never will.
We used to rip the plastic off the bricks and throw old chipboard or polythene over the top, or whatever was lying about to cover the top of them, but at least the air could get through them..
100% there mate, ive been using coni bricks again for the last few months, had the gear like bell metal everyday, even feel heavy on tile setter 🤣, im in firm believe you cant make concrete bricks or wet bricks looked decent laying at a decent pace, just have to keep trying our best 😂
Agree with everything said, seen me trying to finish a gable end with 60 wet bricks in the cab of my van trying to dry out just so i could get paid
Currently been working with a small builder doing extensions/renovations etc and going back on site in the next few weeks but now I’ve watched this I don’t know what to do haha
I asked our site agent if we could cover the bricks ,his answer was ,don’t worry the rainy season has finished now !!! . They make you laugh some of these clowns , and he’s another who wants top quality work just for marks off the NHBC to make him look good and help him pass his assignments.
It feels so disappointing once you start using the wet materials knowing they could have easily been covered and the quality would be a guarantee
Couldn’t agree more!!
Not a brickie, nor in the construction trade, but I totally agree with what you're saying Charlie. Your frustration is clear to anyone, and I feel it for you. I've been watching you for long enough to know that you're proud of what you do; it's soul destroying when your chances of doing a good job are compromised by the ignorance and laziness of those higher up the food chain - and don't get me started on the red tape BS 🤦♂
We have to go an cover are shit up when weather is going to be shitty. 3:22 same here in the usa
Hello mate, I totally agree with you mate!
Would u explain me please or make a video about how to price private jobs? Brickwork garden walls extensions etc
100% agree here mate.
Wish you was our agent .yes it baffles me more care is taken
Ye totally right mate , building industry needs a shake up when it comes to keeping materials dry for us, the to busy talking h&s , programmes ,and getting things up quickly instead, they rather spend money on crap to make the site look pretty to win awards but say the can't afford to spend to keep bricks and blocks dry🤔 the a joke
Spot on Mr rudo.
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Brickwork is a seasonal job , spring and summer if your lucky . Iam glad iam out of it now ,body fooked but mind in tact 😅
35 years ive done this and it doesn't matter if your on site ,picking up from the merchant on privates or getting a lorry of sand or stone delivered. Its always soaked through always been the same .
Nothing more infuriating than having two weeks off cos of rain then its dry .
You go back to work cant lay on a dry day because the materials are soaked.
I been telling the merchants for more years than i can remember if they had dry materials they would sell more than anyone else .People would go out there way to get to them .
All on deaf ears every thing is absolutely soaked its really frustrating and annoying and it costs me money .
They sell em and the dont care .
As for site its a no brainer to keep em dry as you say they want quality etc but ?? Never change Charlie there dickheads mate 👍
We are on a site where every pack of bricks (Weinberger) which are very dusty as it is , absolutely soaked due to not being covered . Luckily we are on durox blocks inside so it’s not so bad but the 7N are a pain and suprise suprise there going for pride of the job 🤯
I was laying block's that were so wet a salmon jumped out and hit me in the boat race……absolute nightmare
Awesome 😎
I would say it depends on what's getting build I wouldn't want to build any facing work with wet materials..... but rough block work bash on
I worked as a site manager for a few years and the sites where the main contractor provided the materials were exactly as you've described.
When on projects where the subbies are supplying their own materials they are taken care of. Not really practical with brickwork with the lead times etc.
Im fed up as well , wages have halved with the wet bricks and they are dropping prices next and not releasing plots im seriously thinking of getting out this is worse than 2008 for me
Salt (efflorescence) will be coming out them bricks until
The cows come home
They have movement joints every 3 metres in Australia. Been happening for a long time here. I were wondering why you guys didn't have them
Spot on brother
Well said Charlie it’s the same at the builders merchants bricks blocks timber the fucking lot all left outside uncovered to get piss wet through. We had to put a house up to dpc with blue engineers last week we had bricks stacked and lined up all over the place to try and dry them out looked like a giant game of domino rally
Totally agree
Well said even builder merchants are the same.
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DO save when the money is good.
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The material world ensnares the 99% . They live in the notion they are free. They are mere slaves to system which at every turn will gobble them up . NPC s .
I was on the hod for 15 years and now in the forks . And only one subby I work got me and the other hoddys the tarp up brick. Cos no one else does it. But as a forky I do try to get the boys the dryest bricks
Your so right Charlie mate the site I'm on at the moment everything is shit would love you down there just to sort out the sylo muck I'm sure they send it out with no plastersizer it's crap👏👏👏
Check the annual rainfall since 1910,getting wetter and wetter fact,make hay and have the winter off.
the answer to your question is no, materials on site now are not coverd up, they may have plastic covering, but nine times out of ten they have been in the builders yard for months getting soaking wet, then they are delivered on site and you are expected to try and lay them, NHBC state all materials should be covered up, and kept dry, but you dont see ten year ted giving house builders an RI for this, but they will give bricklayers an RI for bad workmanship, rule for one and not another
Yes it makes ure life easier
A good quailty tarp cost a bit but can save you so much more
Most melts in this country settle for mediocrity and less because that's the level of standard they expect in their lives, lack of foresight is also a massive issue.
Spot on
Well in Charlie bouy ! Clean an Mean !!
Honestly i think it's because the people that should be making that type of decision dont have any hands on experience they can read a set of plans really well but as far as having hands on experience thats just not happening any more
just order a t shirt “ain’t you built that yet” can u design a hoodie aswell with the same saying on it👍🏼 keep up the good work mate ur smashing it
If subbies were charged for any losses due to damage, or protection from the weather at the moment they left a dry 8 storage area to a loading bay or loading area.. Then it would be justified to demand a dry storage area as the costs involved would be covered.
It cuts both ways.
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Spot on mate… our bricks come with moss, slime and mould 😂
Im with you, Charlie!
I always take pride in my work, but when we get packs of bricks that have come out of a swamp... i hate laying them, so i won't. What the fuck are you meant to do with them, really!
We get told, do your best. Then when we do and we then get told to recess and repoint it as its not the standard they require. Forklifts try to help by sorting them too help them dry.
Yet site managers tell them too "stop fucking tossing it off".
What the fuck are you meant to do!
I'm getting to the point where i want to leave the sites. Lads already have mind.
How are you meant to make a days wage to survive in this money mad world...im puzzled?
Something needs to change and fast or the game is more fucked than it already is, simple as
Father in law is a brickie, coming off weeks of rain here in Australia, his gang has thrown out half a house worth of bricks cuz they’re covered in mould. Not just on one site either.
Where in Ozz are you? Its the middle of summer.
@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Brisbane, 2 humid days, then a wall of rain. The back to humid. Then back to rain.
@@jaedanbonaventura1512 Didnt realise but of course it is subtropical.
Well said Charlie
I worked on a site which had Cotswold stone, everything was dripping. We asked site managers to do something and they said head office won’t pay the stone company extra £5 for sealed pack so it’s shrink wrapped only on sides.
I feel your pain! I have been in the game 40 years it's always been like it how hard is it to put them a pallet and cover with heavy tarps? At least we would have a chance. Builders merchants are as bad everything uncovered.
never used to be able to charlie but todays sites the concrete still green the blocks are soking there clashing the plaster boards on then they g get space heater and belt that out for a day lol
Rockwool and timber stored out in the pissing rain lol.
Blocks and bricks delivered then put in try storage and take plastic off and put on pallets simple
Who’s going spend all that time double handing the blocks/bricks to remove them and stack them onto pallets that’s the problem bro. The self employed guys on a price will be working for nothing if they had to do that & the labourers would be so far behind doing that every delivery. I do agree with your point but in principle that should be left up the the site manager to employ someone just to do that simple job & store them in a manner where they’re not needed to be double handled etc. They never have a dry place to store them but it would be so simple to actually do. 👍✌️👍.
@@gavinmillar461 Forky puts them straight onto pallets, not hard.
@@aaroncoughlan2749 yeah bro you would think it’s common sense. Just never seems to happen. Hard enough getting a good forky to keep you supplied and keep you busy sometimes if there’s only one or 2 on a site. Sometimes I used to give him a wee backhander to keep us supplied first . Yeah man spot on though. 👍✌️👍
@@gavinmillar461if every gang bunged him a drink on pay day he would prioritise the brickies. Standard practice. If they decent I alway sort them out
@@aaroncoughlan2749 Exactly! yeah me too bro. Especially when on a new site if I’ve not worked with them before, always show some appreciation if he’s on the ball with materials etc. then you build a relationship with them that lasts throughout different jobs. You know how it works my man. 👍✌️👍
As you mentioned before we lose loads of time due to weather and we lose time through sorting through piss wet concrete blocks and bricks or tryna make them look half decent. Ain’t fucking rocket science to store them better and it’s at the benefit of them to. Neater but more work done for em
Agree Charlie, from when I started we were always the ones that had to physically ask for tarps to cover all materials brick and blocks I’ve been in the game since the age of 18 , I’m now 54 it’s a fucking joke .
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Bang, hit the nail on the head!
I work in the footings and get given saturated engineering brick, it’s impossible to do a tidy job with them.
Totally agree , but the big developers motto is fuck it , you dont wanna do it , somebdy else will , unless all the trade stood together and said nope not a chance , then it will just continue to just be a shit show . Glad im on the small stuff 👍
Yeah spot on there bro. The exact same thing for me in Scotland. If I don’t do it they will just ask us to get off site. They will always get some joker to do it at a shit price also. It’s an absolute liberty. 🧱✌️🧱
same on my sites mate....wet bricks blocks ..cant get the quality of work .. ud think they would keep it dry for the problem of efflorescence later on that they have
Yeah we with you bro it pisses me off to when my work dont look 10/10 because of wet materials the only think they say try your best lol😅 its disgusting bruv they need to wake up and take care of materials keep them nice for us not give all that crap that they come in wet😅
Well said