I’ve become a bricklayer addict now watching these, no nonsense, no music and to the point, decent videoing too

Considering your laying that arch live video with the cuts, your getting a right move on, and it looks spot on An electric saw is definitely the future It's not just the saw it's the level of skill to get each cut right first time

Great craftsmanship changy i love being a bricky not many jobs like ours these days 🤝🏼 all computers and people stuck in office's, i would hate that!!! Good to be ya own boss

Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Once I started watching I couldn't stop.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching that. Masterclass👍👍👍 Thank you.

Was using makita for year , gradually transitioned over to Milwaukee , Milwaukee gear is so much better , the wanrraty is great and no questions asked ( Cladder here )

Cutting bricks on the scaffold with no dust suppression. They let you do anything when it suits them but never when it suits you.

@seanoxborough5830

Жыл бұрын

But they out side lol .😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 No need

@Frieslick

Жыл бұрын

He’s on about water suppression, not changy wearing a fanny pad on his face.

@leebro9286

9 ай бұрын

Touché and cutting the bricks on the scaff planks too…I reckon I’d get thrown off site if caught doing either 😂 Great Video Changy 💪🏻 little tip- after sponging your arches, spray WD-40 on the arches get a clean sponge and wipe the face of arch. They come up gleaming and remove any mortar stains 👍🏻

Fair play changy bloody good work ,another cracking vid,carry on the good work 😎😎😎👌🤙

Nice clean work good seeing you picking up the mud instead of just cutting it off the access from the bed and head joints

Great video. Wonderful energy and skill 😁

A good bit of details for the wall plates 👍

hahaha as a spread I get the same from all the other trades about just having a bucket of old trowels🤣 great vid btw and love that cutter

11:25 you'll give the site safety bod a coronary 😆. Great work anyhow; a real eye opener 👍🏿

Your knowledge into each aspect of bricklaying is mind blowing. I’ve just started learning and already knew there was so much to it, and that’s just laying the bricks. But all the other parts to it on site is making me feel like I’ll never be able to do this lol. Amazing work, amazing knowledge and great videos. Thank you. From an old aged female wanna be bricklayer 😬

Lovely work true craftsmanship

Love the content so much information

Hello. Nice job congratulations.you make It look easy.perfect.

Awsome vid dude i would love to work with you buddy shame i live in wrexham lol great stuff mate i love your style ill keep watching your vids its great watching other bricklayers . You never stop learning in this trade been at it 13 years now and still learning 😉

Mind blown mate. Can’t wait to have a go at that

Im a chippy on price, still learning but these bricklayers definately seem to be on way more here in the east midlands, our prices aint changed since covid, glad to just have work tbh, barely any apprentices for roofing so feeling in demand right now

@dangiles5038

Жыл бұрын

Brickies definitely got it cushty at the moment. Good money to be earned, no worries about getting 5-10k of tools nicked out of your van. Their trade got screwed over in the last recession because it relies heavily on housebuilding whereas we adapted to other aspects of the industry. Fair play to them for holding the house builders to ransom and sticking together. Very rarely will a bricky jump on something another has started and if they do it’s for double the price.

Looks class that Milwaukee cutter, Changy. Miles easier than starting up the Stihl without the fear of smashing your elbow against a standard, wall or handrail etc.. Not to mention the irritating sound as the Stihl ticks over👌 Pull trigger and go. The time it will save and convenience will pay for itself in no time👍. Nice to see you happy in your graft mate

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Had to get the dthil saw out today, never charged the battery last night

@MrAdeyb

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and if anyone asks to lend it just tell them to go and buy their own

@karl212

Жыл бұрын

@@OffTheTrowel nice bit of kit we've got the DeWalt version great when inside customers houses doing rsj ..walls out no petrol smell killing the house with sthil saw ....get yourself some spare batteries well worth having ....great content on Chanel ....proper graffter 👍

@MrAdeyb

Жыл бұрын

I still prefer the stihl TS 400, over the years I've owned and used just about all of them and in my opinion the TS 400 is the best and most reliable cutting machine ever made

Hello mate I’m new to your comments section. The arch vid class bud also love the tips

Fair play on the millwalki version, the stihl I hired brand new when they first came out was pants, tech must have moved on a bit

Nice job. You make it look easy. I didn't realise all those new build arches were pre formed. Can you build them the old fashioned way?.... Do you ever do any residential work with any detailing (Herringbone, tile creasing, fire places etc?)

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the old fashioned way is better but not as quick, I don't do any private work

alreet there Changy, ive noticed a few brickies now dont even spread the bed joint, or the cross joint - they just plonk the trowel-full down, 1 trowel is enough for 1 brick, u nip the cross-joint from the bed mortar and lay the brick. looks absolutely loads quicker than the way ive been trained to do it (spreading the bed etc) - I shud be able to adjust my style & pick that up - what u reckon, take me a a few weeks? old hand an all that...

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Yeah pick up new habits easily in bricks

Nice job with the wallplate .should have happy carpenters. you are lucky to get nice straight ones too!

Good skills matey blimey I've built some arches in my time but that's a cool way of doing things times move on I suppose that's whey I'm out of it now, really like that saw LOl.

What are you doing with the arch, that will be white when compo drys fully 🙈🙈🙈🙈

Another great video… 👍🏻

Another good video go on give us some pointers on Brick laying

You don't need the stands and boards,good to have but you can use bricks blocks and cuts of ply or flooring so you don't need grands to start,if your spending that on spot boards and stands then you must have more money than sense, atb pal from glasgow

this is my cup a tea, watching a tradesman on top of his game, working away in the sun.

It's a case of yeah you can get away with a basic tool set (as long as you can build with a level some cant these days) but the more you invest in your tools the more efficiently you work and the more money you make.

Learned Bricklayer trade from my pap that started from the bottom and is now partial owner of Glenn Gary Brick. Did it for almost 10 years but got interested in the commercial HVAC and Steamfitters Union. As much of a pain it was to start a new job, the sense of accomplishment you feel when you get right around the halfway point of a job all the way to the point of completion is a great feeling. Pay was good but not good enough to have to deal with all the pos workers that can't be taught how to even do their job. I swear, for every 1 good and competent bricklayer there's 10 that are worthless.

I started work at 15 as, a, bricklaying apprentice I signed up for 7yrs this, was reduced to 5yrs then 3yrs however I was only on 95% of the bricklayers wages until I had finished my apprenticeship at the age of 22. I finished my college with a credit in my craft exam and a Distinction in my advanced craft.

@SoochT

Жыл бұрын

Should I get an apprenticeship or go college then an apprenticeship

@mellebrown363

Жыл бұрын

@@SoochT unfortunately the CITB is reluctant to provide employers the needed funding to have an apprentice going to college. They prefer to fund white collar employees. There are courses at colleges for basic training you can get a certificate to prove you have attended the course which ends in a practical exam which is then marked for your grade similar to an apprenticeship. The teaching of trades has been neglected for decades and now there is a chronic shortage. It does not suit many these days when it's cold wet and windy they would sooner be in an office

Brickies all seem to keep there prices similar to each other , and don’t seem frightened to put them up . Problem with carpentry is there so many variations per a house it’s hard to price the same as everyone else. Keep finding chippies that will only stick to one aspect of carpentry now ie roofing or just 2nd fix , even had a joist carpenter last year 🤔. That makes them really fast at one aspect but it seems they have to price it lower to get the work . Not sure if it’s right or not as I cover everything and probably have 10k worth of tools in my van . Should have been a bricklayer 😆

@danielcolton3632

Жыл бұрын

Same with brickie some only touch footings some only do 1st lifts some won't even touch gables lol but I feel you should be able to do all aspects of the job

Quite a few years back I was renovating a house , went in one morning and it had been trashed they got threw a window i screwed screws into some plywood put it under window next day it had been moved found out who was breaking in local thief screw went straight through his foot

👍👍👍👍 Keep 'er lit Bro!

Question mate. I worked on daywork sites or did private jobs. Never did much site price work. You look like your on your own a lot, not in a 2 and 1 or 3 and 1 gang. Do the site agents expect you to supply gangs when you get these contracts? Just curious. Cheers.

Wow I remember when I had to key these semi-circular arches by hand with a centre.

Great video and great work. I’m not a Brickie just a spread but how does that form work with the cavity tray if there’s no weep vents. I’m sure there’s an obvious answer so forgive the stupid question. Great channel 🤙

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

There's a weep in either side if you can see them

@dopey2

Жыл бұрын

Changy haha so focused on how you layed it all out I didn’t even notice lol

Bricklayer tools aren't cheap but compared to a mechanics kit they are. I just presume every builder has every type of drill, impact driver, wrench, grinder, cut off saw etc etc. Hand tools for days. Ime just a diy er and I own all that stuff and much more. Can't be a decent diy er without 10k to 20k in tools. (Multi trade including mechanics or not) Let alone a half decent tradesman. Just the van alone could cost that! Let alone the tools

@brucetindal7399

Жыл бұрын

All the gear and no idea

@E69apeTheMatrix420

Жыл бұрын

@@brucetindal7399to get a tradesmans quality your need the tools for the job. The saying a bad craftsman blames his tools comes from delusional customers who can't do the job but can slander someone who can. Fact is. You would struggle getting such an accurate clean cut without a cut off saw and find it very slow fixing things with a just flat head screwdriver and tape measure! So much so the customer would slander you for not having the tool for the job 🤣. Some people are just artisans, they don't just have 1 trades worth of skill but multiple and also all the kit to back it up.

Brilliant job

Fantastic video changy! Don’t forget to mention how much a good laser level cost! I would really like to see how you do your cuts over the arch also? Keep up the good work Very interesting

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Did another 4 over the last 2 days, il video when I get back to this one

@scrumpyj07

Жыл бұрын

A decent laser - Leica or Topcon is £700+ / Bell Mixer £550.. a decent wheel barrow is £100 + the list is long and expensive ;)

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, the green profiles I use are £80 each and I bet I have around £600 clamps alone

@makg4655

Жыл бұрын

@@scrumpyj07 every tradesman needs to constantly buy tools no matter what trade. They say the avg van theft costs £3k not inc lost time . ( that’s only what I’m the van and not the other tools they all have that are stored in garages/cupboards etc etc

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Safety trainers for the comment you removed fella, steel toe and midsole

Hi are those lintels you are using, made by catnic ,if they are I used to work for them over 42 yrs ago made in caerphilly south Wales ,

Much preferred the old pudlock scaff........cant move these days with independent scaff

Wish you’d have shown us more footage of the race and the quality of the work afterwards. Would have been nice to know what the tolerances were and why people had bricks deducted

Your good at your job mate jimmy Australia

Changy when u do your jointing do u not top and tail your perps

You get so much more done nowadays now your not checking over other peoples work ozzy is a good lad and I am sure won’t be long before he on the trowel

the thing with traids is they use the branded crap. you can get the same quality with OEM tools think of it like this a brick saw £600 branded may last 3 years. a £200 OEM may last the same time if not more. but you builders like your brand names. you can get a petrol saw for even cheaper as for brick stands you dont need them as you just seen on the vid they are stacked up anyway. 20 for the angle finder thing toolstation £5 the same thing

Like the pick and dip

The wall plate should be joined using half lapped joints, not butt jointed. Same at the corners. If you paid £20 for that bevel I've got a bridge you can buy. You can get a Shinwa bevel for £20.

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

You don't listen do you

@Bobthebrickie

Жыл бұрын

😤😤😤

What process do you use to clean your trays Chang, would love a video on it? Or if you have done one point me in the right direction

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Keep 4x1 over them and clean them with 2x2 timber

Hiya mate, there is an easier way to do your cuts before you start the arch, instead of bedding a brick on mortar, forget the mortar lay the brick on top of the brick, and move it so you have given it two cross joints, then when you bed it down after you have cut it, it is then perfect 👍, trained by a very old schooler I was

@PavanaBuild

Жыл бұрын

Hi mate can you Elaborate on this? Or explain in more depth, I’m struggling to understand what you mean but intrigued, cheers pal

@sen5908

Жыл бұрын

@@PavanaBuild So let's say you have a line set up on an angle, and you want to mark your brick against that string line, some people bed the brick on mortar and then mark the brick with a pencil, well forget bedding the brick on anything, just place the brick on top of a dry bed, and move the brick across to the line, leaving a cap of two cross joints, approx 20 mm, mark the brick with a pencil, cut it and bed it down on mortar, and it will be perfect 👍

@PavanaBuild

Жыл бұрын

@@sen5908 cheers mate I get you now 🤛

Another interesting video

yea the battery saw is very handy , i bought a Husqvarna but regret it battery's are more expensive than the DeWalt or Milwaukee batterys and you dont have the choice of tools .

I am 40 years old ... Never ever been on commercial site but want 2... !! Good money. Done loads domestic extensions garages. . You name it... any advice ?? Am extremely confident in my work for last 23 years for domestic builder companies but want sitework. I have zero connections Chesterfield and Sheffield area

Personally i would of used a mortar gun for the arch less mess no stains but hey ho different strokes for different folks

Excelente y muy hermoso trabajo felicidades 👊 💯 💪 👌🏻 🧱🧱

What brand of trowel are you using here?

How does a bricklaying gang get started? Say 2:1, you go up to a site agent & give a price for a section? Or you go up to the main bricklaying sub contractor, who'll allocate you a section/price?

How comes brickies don't build with window/door formers in ? Because 9 times out of 10 when there is no former or brace bar on it doesn't fit must be easier to with them in ..there must be reason, the normal excuse is none here but you go down to check and there is loads, I really don't get it

Quality 👍

No weep holes up the side of the arches ? It’s a long run of damp with no outlets and don’t the arch bricks stain with mortar residue that’s left on after you’ve smeared them with a dirty sponge ? Just asking

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

There are weeps if you look closely and they are good when it's washed down or I wouldn't do it

@leewatkins8939

Жыл бұрын

@@OffTheTrowel you might want to tell people the arches need washing off at some stage as I’m sure someone will copy you and not realise ,and yeah the weeps are at the end of the tray but not against the side of the arch a shitty inspector might RI you for that on a bad day

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

@@leewatkins8939 I'm with you

Wd 40 on those arches cleans em up lovely or baby oil

@tomy-p2564

Жыл бұрын

Linseed oil brings them out too

Wish I could lay bricks , had a go once , what a mess I made of them , I willstick to joinery , I am pretty shit at that also 😂

Job satisfaction 👌

Don’t get moody changy I know you want to be a joiner but you’re not clever enough. Happy pointing 😂

@goingfarwebb26

Жыл бұрын

Joiners years ago who built the churches and good old buildings i would say was very clever in deed super trades men back then!!! Chippys today have it easy on site the roofs come half built 🤣🤣 id rather be a bricky least i dont have to take 100 + tools out me van on the night🤔🤣😁

@jpgmusic2563

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it is shit how many tools we need but at least we can work all year. Some roofs are complicated. Still have to cut jack rafters in.

@goingfarwebb26

Жыл бұрын

@@jpgmusic2563 i 100% respect all trades, i got mates in all sides! Chippy is a good trade tbh, i aint chasing lots of money seen too many men crumble with stress!! i work when its there, days off i enjoy my life! I don't live to work anymore i work to live 👍🏻😉 🤝🏼

Any chippys here give us a rough idea of prices theyre getting, ours can be all over the place for roofs but stable/predictable on joists

You can get battery saws with water suppressant now. That dust is no good.

@rickphillips5098

Жыл бұрын

The dust that is caused by cutting bricks . In the future will cause silicosis! It's the modern day asbestosis..

Sorry for the noob question, is there no cavity insulation in 2022?

@TerminalM193

Жыл бұрын

Most places are now going with the spray insulation that can just be pumped straight into a subsection from a pressurized hose. The builders will have specific points of the wall where they will leave a small opening for it to be pumped in. I got to watch the process one time and it's pretty crazy because it comes out as like a straight up liquid that forces itself into any open space and then will start instantly expanding and forming as a solid.

You Should Not Have to justify anything to anyone. You have your price for using your skills working in all kinds of weather so if people don't want to pay they should try it themselves if they have the skills.

The disc cutter looks the business. You might as well have cut the half-laps since you had the skilly there, otherwise a £5 hand saw would have done you.

Scaffolders will be after you sawing on there boards 😂😂😂😂😂

@mickbrooks8114

Жыл бұрын

Didn't u listen don't go allway though 10mm to spare

be honest, spot board stands not needed, plastic boards not needed, bricklaying has been going on for thousands of years without all that. basic tools trowel, hammer n bolster, set of lines and a square

Sliding bevel £20 hahaaa you been had off 🤣

No water suppression for the dust. And muck on the pre-formed arch.

@OffTheTrowel

3 ай бұрын

more dust from machines all day than my cuts

isit kids or isit the after 8 brickie 🤣🤣

I do exactly the same as you, so it’s not criticism, but when posting videos -dust mask ? Dust suppression, goggles, ear plugs? Won’t be long before HSE will be using KZread as evidence the way the world is going

Great camera work from Ozzy

Does the top plate wood get fixed to the blocks with a mechanical fixing, or is it essentially stuck down with the mortar? Genuine question.

@mattcartwright8272

Жыл бұрын

Later on they will use galvanised tie down straps - about 3ft long - and fix it to the wall. Fixed in to each course of block.

@man1cs171

Жыл бұрын

Mortar. Then plate straps fastened to the blockwork.

@christophertwells917

Жыл бұрын

dont see the point in bedding the wall plate on if your going to crack it off the joint to half lap later.

Don’t you have to half lap the pan?

I’d love to be a brick layer but I don’t want to join any gangs😢

Realistically all you need is hand kit to make good money, could hundred quid max, board stands ect ect are not a necessity

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

A carpenter just needs a hand saw and a screw driver/hammer then ey

@danielearl3916

Жыл бұрын

@@OffTheTrowel I’m only talking on behalf of bricklaying pal

Bring your misses on the channel for more views

@gorgen23

Жыл бұрын

Poor form champ

Is that trentham?

How times have changed

them blues will look shocking the next day

I think the'ait for neck end ode

I always wonder why skilled builder don't do more of their own projects, I know a lot do, but surely it'd be a good source of income on the side to build your own houses

@goingfarwebb26

Жыл бұрын

Its hard to get land mate, the rich buy it all, like winning the lotto trying to find land!!

@oyster3145

Жыл бұрын

@@goingfarwebb26 Fair point mate, I work for a house builder and they just have money to launch at sites. I’m in design / land development myself and I’ve been interested in taking the self employed route for a long while, but the thought of starting a site on my own scares me to say the least, as I’m someone with a good technical background (I can take a site through planning, do a full set of detailed design drawings (drainage, external works, foundations, temp works you name it), but I’ve never so much as touched a trowel. But as you say land is the main issue, like gold dust these days.

@rickphillips5098

Жыл бұрын

He is a site brickie ! He lays bricks probably on a price . He is not a builder!

@johnbryant6572

Жыл бұрын

Can't buy land and and if you do it's a nightmare getting planning permission.easier to buy an abandoned derelict house and renovate it.

Wouldn’t bother reacting to comments like that mate. I probably got £10k of tools and stock…but that’s nothing compared to the running costs of having a business and being self employed. People getting jealous as brickies currently creaming the cash…..but as you’ve mentioned before it won’t always be this high and make the most of it while it lasts. After COVID how any tradesmen can begrudge another doing well baffles me

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

Well said

£270 for an electric saw. Handsaw £20 + maybe 3 minutes extra time to cut a100X50.

Hearts

Why did u not tell us price of cutter?

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

I did, £600

He needs to learn safety!!!! No glasses no mask? What could go wrong?

3mm short on that line up 😫

Why are you allowed to dry Cut .

@TerminalM193

Жыл бұрын

I thought that was pretty crazy too. He's probably an independent contractor of some kind that just ignores safety procedure. What's shitty is if he doesn't care for his health that's perfectly fine but everyone around has to suffer with that brick in the air. If someone was dry cutting a ton of brick on any of the construction jobs I did when I was younger there would be a fist fight from the other tradesmen.

Carpenters can only work on the boxes bricklayers build !! That’s what the old boy who I trained under used to say 👍👍

@dangiles5038

Жыл бұрын

Except we do timber frame now and you have to build round the boxes we build 😂

@davidcoldicott8424

Жыл бұрын

How times have changed 😂😂😂

I'm guessing to have a hose end on your wetsaw isn't practical on building site, but as a builder wouldn't be without my wetsaw nowadays a must a 1200 bucks they just cut in such a different way to the old style and battery power unbelievable hope you keep ya eyes on it!! Don't take to much notice of that comment as tools of the today builder/bricklayer will amount in the thousands Love the new Camber Arch bit different to my day Malcs in Perth WA ♥️ 😎

@OffTheTrowel

Жыл бұрын

It's got a wet attachment on this saw