I'm retiring from the Trowel after 50 years. Your love of the Job and Honesty do you a credit. Some say you're 'Gobby' but from what I've seen on your videos, you can back it up. Best of luck with the work and your new arrival. That's what we all work out in the Muck and rain for.

@martin2466

4 ай бұрын

@martinwall5679 I wish you a very happy retirement. All the best to you.😁👍👍

@jimmymorgan3324

4 ай бұрын

Me To . Martin. 49. Years. Apprenticeship. Serviced endentured. Realy enjoyed it .

@martin2466

4 ай бұрын

@@jimmymorgan3324 Jimmy, Exactly the same Mate. I started on the blade in 1968 and retired in 2017. Then did a final year of part time to help complete a scheme we were working on then. Full Apprenticeship, City & Guilds. (craft & advanced craft) and enjoyed it all. But retirement is better..... Take care of yourself and I hope you are well? 😁👍👍👍🧱🧱🧱

Great video Charle look forward to seeing next one

Glad to see your having a good time. All the best for the new arrival🎉

You are on the best rates ive heard of around our area Charlie. Average for cambs herts is about £600-650 and £16 per meter Are the houses a ball ache to build or something?

Interlock and perp them up in Scotland depends who u building for out the big 5 up here Cala Taylor whimpey persimmon barrett dandara but we mostly use the other trench block in foundations

I swear it's a requirement to have the same high fade and shit neck tattoo as every other mungo on a site to be allowed on

Used those trench loads. They're meant to be interlocked if you read the paperwork. They're made at 440 though so they're shit for bond.

Awesome 😎

How is your payment worked out? Does someone come out and check your work? Do you tell them a number and they take your word for it? Is it worked out before hand how many bricks you'll place at a certain point/ by the end of the job?

12,££ threw the wall back in the 80/90 and they did nt you anymore for piers or soldiers over lintels, nothing extra was a struggle to earn a decent wage.day rate £67.50 . That’s why you see a lot of 80/90 estate brickwork looks like dog shit every fukker was slashing them down. Lot of lads lost thier homes mortgage repossessions, they would fight for weekend work. One day we had to lift about 20 special stone lintels on with the telehandler think we earn about £15 each that day, I was gone , trowel in bucket gone

@dpmaspam

Ай бұрын

in english please

@aliwright1523

Ай бұрын

Sorry Stephen hawkings. Did nt go to school I was on site, learning the trade. I have everything I could wish for by working hard. How you getting on carol vorderman?

@dpmaspam

Ай бұрын

@@aliwright1523 very good thanks, v satisfied

Bloody ell Charlie, their good rates up here in Burnley , 550 a thousand ,and those trench , i darent tell you !,,, £1.55 a trench !! We’re being robbed .

@Jim_Newlands

4 ай бұрын

£1.55 for those fuckers? They are having a laugh, aren't they? 😮

@JTFLMUSTARD

4 ай бұрын

He is in my area if he is getting them rates he is way above the average. We are on £600 and £16 a meter £26 for trench. Not many site paying anymore than that around here

@SEANPOL203

4 ай бұрын

£600 a day? How much a day?

@edmundeverett2938

4 ай бұрын

@@SEANPOL203 per 1000 face bricks 😊

@handlesrstupid123

18 күн бұрын

​@@JTFLMUSTARD I always like saying chosen one. Getting the right clients and job is a god send and everything else is garbage.

What do you pay your hoddie is it on price or hourly rate thanks?

Depends on the bigwigs site i was on gang did a footing interlocked the trench as you do and got told to take it down for having no perps

Looking forward to hearing you and izzy talk it out 👍👍 thanks for the fantastic video again dude 👍👍

We use them trench ,on the spec that my mate Leroy found it says you don't perp them just fill in the top

Always better to be on a decent day rate . Stress free

@rogermayne3372

4 ай бұрын

this

Just interlocking my friend

Don’t perp them 😂 the interlock is the whole point 🤷🏼‍♂️

Wow your subs are huge. I remember when you had less than 20k!

Interlock and fill the hole on top.You don’t need to perp them according to manufacturers spec but I have had to perp them on some jobs just because the building company wanted that to be done.

Is that Hopkins site over the back of Halstead woods

I was a hody for years loved it that was 50 years ago money was hard to earn

I did bricklaying from leaving school 20 years ago. Back when I was an apprentice it was 500 a thousand then so considering how much house prices have rose you should be getting a lot more. That's why I left the trade and never looked back. Body not in pieces earning more and don't get rained off. Miss the crack but bills get paid

@LB-gr5se

4 ай бұрын

What do you do now since being off the tools? I'm looking to transition

@FranticRS

3 ай бұрын

​@@LB-gr5seonly fans lol

Always better with a joint on anything under the ground especially on a big site.

Keep the videos coming..u an izzy th e brickie should have a race..he ain't putting up much videos atall anymore

You don't butter them trenches they are a toggle joint, but them up and fill the hole, easy peasy 👍

@aaroncoughlan2749

4 ай бұрын

Any time used them they made us butter them. Why waist time designing them pointless. Or just clueless agents

We always perp the interlocking blocks we use them quite often too

Cracking syrup you've got there, where yer get it from

Got a £1 block in 1997 so if it was matched with property inflation it would be £4.50 today.

@thebobman69

3 ай бұрын

450% inflation in 25 years doesn't sound right

@chapman1991

3 ай бұрын

@@thebobman69no a bit high but probably not far off the increase in houses since then

Good luck🇲🇦❤

Charli boii on the roundabout at Stortford fields 👌👌

Christ we’re on 520/1000 £1.5 4” and £1.65 trench 🥴

Busier than a one armed bricklayer in Baghdad

What about 7.3 solid concrete 4" & 6 "

We’re on £550 a thousand 15pm blockwork . Turbo blocks . Cambridge area

I have perpendicular trench blocks before but after watching your video last week i have stopped - way quicker, cheers

Our prices are shocking £600 @ thousand had to go on day rate as bricks we are using are shite can’t go more then 10 course with them as it buckles semi engineering ibstock bricks you have to stop laying at 2 o’clock as it’s impossible to point up been in the trade 44 years worst site ever been on

gordon ramsey?

Bricklaying is amazing

Do you get paid square on apex’s

Great vids charlie showing how it really is, goes from great pay to shite in no time 👍

Carpenter of 40yrs, I would advise any young guy to set out on their own when you feel the time is right, I wish I had done it sooner, no point wrecking your body to get a decent wage every week for employers who constantly move the goalposts and who could not give a toss, only got one back and a pair of knees.

Always been told to perp them from foremen

They keep dropping the prices

and there is the reality of being self employed.

👍

A another example of a great craftsman at work

No but you get them on KZread 😂😂

😊

Não abandone o Casio F91W é parte de voçe o relogio

👍👍back in the day charlie it was £100/ thousand and £12 through the wall /m2 . i'm talking late 80s early 90s .

@stevegorton8816

4 ай бұрын

When I started £60 @thousand 🤦‍♂️

@craigread5603

4 ай бұрын

But how much would £100 get you back then?

Brickies been racking it in for a while wasn’t gonna last forever. Will come back around at some point.

have u ever paid tax between 2000//.2022

£550 a thousand and £15.00 for blocks now.. That was the rate in 2012. The £200 day work rate will diminish very quickly now.. SLAVERY IS BACK..

He’s going to the start of next brick which makes it 900.

What happened to Izzy the bricky

Charlie Lou I went there

There are brickies who can set out n have the drawings in the bucket n the ones that just lay bricks

Always interlock as they’ve been designed that way defeats the design and stress performance by buttering perps.

@chrisbolton1338

4 ай бұрын

Exactly! I had the argument with a site agent over that.

@user-kn3ko7xo6z

4 ай бұрын

Problem is, they don't interlock properly, they are a brilliant design with the handles and definitely the best for the brickie ( which I am) but they're rarely pressed right so you have to perp them anyway 🙄

Homelander again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How on earth is their Backs not fucked by the end of the day? Fair play gents.

block and brick will be the past

interlock all day long

The money you can earn is heartbreaking to hear for me as a scaffolder

Rates are shocking, but making it pay still. Lads arnt up to it so are struggling.

So you brickies are busting a gut for £200-£300 a day depending on the rates?

Makes more out of KZread then bricklaying I reckon

Okin ell mate 700 a thousand bullocks Australia its $3 or 1550 pounds a thousand those prices we'd go broke on that here . say you got 2 trowels and a labourer you both lay 500 each that's 1000 pounds take out wages 250 250 150 that leaves 350 king Charles will tax that too = bullocks on toast

@paulmckelvey5156

4 ай бұрын

It is 1 gbp to 2 asd tho so nearly the same price

@davidrothchilds2066

4 ай бұрын

@@paulmckelvey5156 we get $3 aud per brick.

@davidrothchilds2066

4 ай бұрын

​@@paulmckelvey5156 he said in video 700 pounds a thousand in UK which is $1400 AUD. We get $3 AUD face brick. So its double. $1.80 for common bricks

@markadler8968

4 ай бұрын

@@davidrothchilds2066 It is about the same in Canada. We get about $3.50-$4.00 CDN a face brick. I think there are so many bricklayers in the UK it just drives the prices down to nothing.

@davidrothchilds2066

4 ай бұрын

@@markadler8968 that makes sense, its a shame with the costs of living rising globally. I did my apprenticeship with poms. I would hate being on crappy rates and competing against many.. You would have to really bring the A game to keep afloat. I got a pommy friend here he *is a chippy hires mostly backpackers from UK gets the lads vans and lifts to work.. Has Appox 70 workers from 2016 to now he made millions paid off houses ..

The rates you guys are getting paid is ridiculously low. In Vancouver Canada where I live you can easily get $20 CDN a square foot for installing brick which amounts to $3.33 per brick or $3330 CDN per thousand which equals roughly $2000 Pound Sterling for 1000 bricks laid. That includes the labor only and does not include any of the materials whatsoever. Some contractors are getting $30+ CDN a square foot. How can you make money at those rates is beyond my understanding.

@frankryan2505

4 ай бұрын

Aussie rates are much better too.. My current PM is a former brickie, says the best brickies he ever met were pommes,.

@UnjustifiedRecs

3 ай бұрын

3.33 a brick?! That'd be like me charging that per screw in joinery 😂

@yogibear284

3 ай бұрын

Everything is relative,

@markadler8968

3 ай бұрын

@@yogibear284 Not in the slightest. Bricklayers get paid more over here because they are scarce. Our cost of living over here might be slightly higher but definitely not over 3 times the cost of living in the UK.

@yogibear284

3 ай бұрын

It's more about supply and demand. If there are fewer bricklayers, generally there is more demand and higher rates. If bricklayers in the UK got smart, they would band together and keep rates up as a group. Instead there are brickies who do work for half nothing driving rates down. Some but not all, cut their own throats within the industry@@markadler8968

We were made to joint them up bloody pointless

Fkn dog shit prices round here. And on tops aswell😢😅

I used to love bottoms and footings, make some canny money!

I want a job give me a job i'm a bricklaer🖐

Best brickie on planet smashing them and tidy m8

Charl when you goi g to do modeling let's see ammy .I miss her x

On building sites you have to say f** every 5 seconds to prove your ain't no poofter.

£575 in Glasgow fucking desperate

Stop swearing kids might be watching

@benllewellyn1887

4 ай бұрын

You don't get kids on building sites.😂

Charl ure too clever for ure own good

Site work such a shitty job glad i dont do it!

I hate that stage of any job, horrible

If its 4 bricks long, from brick to brick, isn't the gauge 890? If its 8 bricks, it's 1790.

@Dipzee

4 ай бұрын

Yes a lot of trowels I’ve worked with would go 900/1800 from external corners lol

@CharlieCollison

4 ай бұрын

Depends on what side you put the brick down to the tape

@sig3217

4 ай бұрын

Agreed 890 back of first brick to front end of 4th brick or 900 if you go to the back of 5th brick, that's why alot of groundwork brickies end up running half's into the work

@tball7027

4 ай бұрын

Depends on brick sizes,some aren't made to gauge that's why those brick tapes give you big perps when bricks too small mars a bar perps not a good look😊

@greglinski2208

3 ай бұрын

@@CharlieCollisonyou are a batty boy

We lead them yeas ago u interlock and fill the hole with muck

ATM Zero..... nothing is selling 😢🤠🐎

Weather going to be crap might not make nothing .

how many fuckin brain 🧠 cells

Head down ars up don't work harder get smarter

It's brickwork one on top of the other 😂

@davidb800

4 ай бұрын

One on top of two actually 😂

@FilthyMind1

3 ай бұрын

​@@davidb800😂 yeah got to keep it bonded otherwise the wall will be about as solid as diarrohea.

Good videos skilled man. I use Muslim bricklayers so I don't get no pigs in the wall anywhere

Charlie Regardless of what ya doing its trowel movement so my price's 750 per brick blocks laid flat 3 pound blocks laid up right 2. 25 pound and them turbos ya laying 3.50 and standed dumpy footing blocks 3 pound because when your exsperince dose not matter what your spreading for its all the same ✌️❤️🤪🤟🤟😁😊🧱❤️

@peterdunn2704

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's right your paying for experience. Is that 3 pound per block on their flat? We lay alot of retaining walls