Best bricklaying channel on YT.

Well done to you to point this all out, Government and accountants should give each person registering a company or becoming self employed an upload or booklet to explain to them what it involves. I spent my first 10 years as self employed with little more to show for it than exhaustion. Add cost of to my personal relationships it wasn't really worth the effort apart from it got me to the next thing. Tradesman to businessman..

I think it was one of the famous Murphy company who said many year sago, "if I don't make £2500 , every minute, every day, 365 days a year I'd be broke". I have a relative who has his own waste company, started on his own with a cage truck, now rents a yard to sort wood,metal, plastic, etc, has a few employees, rents out skips, collects waste in vans, and while it's growing, he's putting everything back into it without drawing much of a wage himself but if he's still going in the future he'll benefit.

Honest Lee fairplay .yes very hard to cover wages and overheads

Really enjoy your videos and how honest they are.Thanks for firstly taking the time to do them and secondly actually sharing your knowledge. Cheers Ed

Pure gold to the uneducated thank you for these videos so helpful

Simply Thanks

Good honest video from a good businessman ... fair play from 🇮🇪

Dear Lee, I'm loving your channel & wanted to say hello, and am slowly going through your videos as they have popped up. I also run a small business, however not a bricklayer but all content I've see so far is relevant to me. Like yourself I have became a businessman who is also on the tools and understanding the business concept of profit, margins and schedules is key. The way you explained it here to everyone is spot on. I have now subscribed & wish you all the best.

Just found your channel ,really good stuff👍 I have run a building company for over 30 years and I absolutely agree with you ,re overheads , I also build in some lost time costs but try and run some interior work alongside my other works It’s very refreshing to see how open you are , I have always said the apprenticeship programme in college should teach finance as an important part of the curriculum.

Great Video, we have similar break downs, good to see it should work but what an adventure to try and put another years plan together

I run my own company and its refreshing to see someone being so upfront and honest about earnings. Great channel!!

Great vid mate, opened my eyes up a bit. Quite a ruthless game

I watch a lot of bricklayer videos and I have to say your right up there with the best of them in terms of being honest and giving people an insight into overheads and also pricing which I saw on one of your other videos it’s really been an eye opener keep up the good work and long may your business flourish.👍👍

Spot on tbf. All I would add is mistakes. We are human not robots and it happens simple as that. Also preliminaries are needed in pricing due to some of your outgoings

I am 58 years old and was on the tools in the great recession of the 1980's. I left the trade and pursued another career, from which I retired 3 years ago. I am now back on the tools part time, and loving it. It is so refreshing, to hear a young man talking sense about the brass tacks of business is remarkably refreshing. No, 'bangin' 'em out', relayed in a mokney accent; or ludicrous claims of 1000's of bricks laid. No sponsorship of energy foods or gimmicky tools. This is pure gold. I wish that I had been in receipt of this knowledge, back in the day. I wish you every success.

Great video keep up the good work. Very interesting.

great break down on your overheads , i recently left down the trowel after 23 years at it in Ireland, to go at telecom cations , work is alot easier but i miss the grind lol , only think positive in my new game is you can work when its pissing rain . keep the good work up 👍👍👍👍

These videos are so so interesting, please keep them up👍

Thanks for the transparency

Nice video Lee

That was one of the best videos I've heard in a long time (years) 🙂🙂🙂

Cracking video I'm only a sole trader but it's nice to see someone putting the effort to explain all of this if I ever decide to go limited happy new year youth

Needed a video like this right now, thanks mate! Keep it up

Very good video that better than watching someone lay bricks to a line every video keep it up boys cheers

Truly amazing

Just what I needed, 👍

Was looking forward to laying some bricks this week but had another week off thanks to rail strike

Great video mate from oz

It's the truth that sorts the BS from the rest. You know who the Contractors who have stood the test of time from the here today and gone tomorrow merchants. Keep up the hard work.

Hi Lee - great video again. Just bear in mind that your OH calculations only work when you and Christian make up part of your 3-1 gang. As soon as you guys aren't part of the fee earning gang, you will also become an overhead. You might want to make an allowance in your OH calcs for the days you are not laying bricks - for example when you are in with your accountants, pricing jobs or otherwise non-productive. The cost of that non-productive time needs to be factored in as a OH cost also.

Great video 👍

More of these kind of videos please mate something different in the bricklaying KZfaq community and helps a lot 👍🏻

And sometimes it's great not having far to fall or worry at night . If it's a toxic environment pick your kit up call them what they are and go ...I couldn't pander to a site agent or a customer my body would auto vomit .

Can you do a video about how you get your work and where you advertise etc

Brickies on site generally always moan about subbies getting paid way more than they pay out. Personally, i was one of those until some years ago i became a subby myself, on a small scale. The realisation very quickly set in that i had to price 20-25% above what i was paying, minimum. Most companies will stop a 5% retention ( to a limit, 30k in my case) thats 5% you don't see for a long time. At the time i think i was paying £350/th on timber frame. I was getting £450/th. £100 would seem a lot but the reality was it was hardly enough. I supplied mixers/diesel/ tubs out of that. Jet wash afterwards. I should have been nearer £500/th. In essence my margin needed to be nearer 50%. £22.50 of every thou laid went straight to retention. It no longer bothers me what a subby charges over what i would get paid. Also, i can pretty much guarantee that any daywork the subby has to pay his price brickies, the subby is getting nothing out of it, if its not actually costing them because main contractors either wont pay it or pay way less per hour than the bricky gets. Another factor for that margin. Great vid, wish you all the best and success going forward mate.

That’s really surprising because I always thought my overheads were about £70 a day, but looking at how short and cheap your list is I’m going to have to go through this and scare myself 😂

good video fella

I've been offered 5 houses but roughly know my prices for the brickwork £700 a 1000 and £20m2 100mm blockwork but dpc insulation don't know and also got to start a firm to do it do you think them price are acceptable

Would you get some of this back through tax returns? Thanks for the content!

I think your accountant is rinsing you .! As a limited company I only pay £1800 annually 🤔🤔 perhaps your set up is different to mine😊your insurance seems cheap though, do you cover your subbies or do they have their own.? Bloody good profit margin.!

You forgot to mention that we ain't done fuck all In January x

You’re overpaying for accountant. Lots of online services these days