It’s actually nice to hear about the charging. Day rates,profits,downfalls and a great insight compared to just watching people working 👍

You are very honest man thank you for your content keep up great work

Nice to see a bricklayer on KZfaq who actually knows what he is taking about

Thank you , good content and information

Enjoying watching from Australia: Many happy memories from working on the building in the uk in the 80’s and 90’s

Top quality houses . Well done.

Great video probably one of the most honest and helpful Ive seen thanks.

Love the open and honesty 👌

great to see such honesty and your work looks great quality

Top bloke just came across your channel io be honest i knows fek all about brick work but i enjoy watching...the way you broke that down waz very interesting...just found a new sub pal ty.

Fantastic video!! Very informative video and you seem like a top guy. Keep the videos coming 😁

Top guy offering ur knowledge to new upcomers that in my opinion is pretty stand up as we say in the usa👊

Thanks for the honest numbers. Superb video and explanation. Look forward to future content.

Very interesting,but I would have liked a breakdown of the labour, I,e,how much you paid for labour and what profit you made per house,and allowing for the elements etc

Love it mate!!

Good luck to you Boyz!

Another interesting video thanks for the insight into your pricing. In Cornwall we lay concrete blocks most of the time and the money is not the same down here you are looking at about £20 sq meter. I started my trade as a mason in 1976 and still enjoy every day but work mainly on daywork these days.

Glad I found this channel

Love the content 👍🏾

I've enjoyed your videos. Could you do a video showing how to build steps, with calculations for risers/tread and where the finished level is above the DPC ,and the precautions your take to avoid problems with damp?

Great video thanks

looking to build my own home in the next few years. great insight! could you cover how to find the right type of land and maybe go over the costs to prep the land and how to get services to the new build.

Great content 👍🏼

Great vid, On your other pricing vids you mentioned the brickwork in m2, in this one you mentioned the size in square footage( both floors ? ) Is there a reason for this ? Also do you factor in the logistics of getting the bricks to where they need to be i:e - whether there will be a loadall machine or ladder work for the 2nd lifts and cut ups etc. Keep the content coming

Hey Lee it’s your cousin Nick. Just came across your video. Glad to see you doing well and your videos are top notch👍🏻 hopefully see you soon but will defo keep watching in the mean time👀

Quality company quality work quality advice x

Great videos 👍

Good video,

What does above DPC mean? I’m a brick contractor in Alabama USA everything you said is spot on and I try to keep around a 30% profit margin if not there’s no way I could stay in business and as you said the big numbers were scary as fuck when I first started, but you get used to it when you start seeing how fast the money goes Great video

Refreshing content mate, lovely houses too. Keep it up👍

Loving this Channel, Great Videos and Channel. Was your Labour prices on these houses just for brickwork or Labour for Roof etc ? Thank you.

Very good video

Those houses looked remarkably like the houses I used to plaster for #WestBuild/#WestHomes in Berkshire - The basic 4 x Bed Cottage Style - Sand & Cement render - Oak beams everywhere inside and ALL of the Plasterboarding (with Hessian Scrim) and Thistle - I used to get £750- Labour 'Only' in 1980 - When i stopped in 2005 I was getting £3,800- L/O for the same house but using Hardwall and Fibretape ...... Hate to THINK! what the Spreads are getting NOW! for the same style houses ... That's if they're still building them 🤠

Nice to see someone that wants to help people I tried helping someone out got stabbed in the back done job cheaper then 6 weeks later got a phone call can I take over because work is wrong they was cheaper for a reason

Hey do you run your company accounts with an overdraft I never have but it could help with cash flow sometimes what do you think

Finding a honest bricklayer is like finding a Ethiopian food critic .

Whats a DPC? What does it do?

reasonable

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So obviously you’re working with big numbers but is it you doing the pricing or would you use a QS? Or is that separate

So on the substructure been an extra and over? What do you mean by that, priced a few jobs where I've come unstuck when pricing the sub( on extensions)?

Lovely ideas and candid presentation. Unfortunately the text subtitles is North American which is irritating. I don't know whether that's accidental but I prefer English.

Hi mate god video How many workers do you have? Luke from Norfolk/Cambridgeshire boarder

That seems very reasonable.

Very well explained, BUT as you know the devil is in the detail. Brickwork is so much more precise these days compared to when I started 45 years ago. That's good because we are now building stronger, better insulated, higher quality houses, well at least outside of the big developers, but that's another story. Keep up the good work.

How did you work all that out pal I'm a bricklayer and this is the only thing that's stopping me from setting up on my own

How many bricks are in these houses that are 3000 square foot ? Am I right in saying it is about £1 per brick

Do you have a downtime rate if your delayed through no fault of your own. Great info.

What would u say is the best way to go about sourcing your own work nowadays?

Hi, is that cost just for laying bricks or to build the complete house... I.e plumbing, electrics, etc

You only get contacts if you’re in the handshake gang. Ian the Bricky. Bolton

hello, are you a general contractor or a brickwork contractor - in other word do you build from foundation to roof and fit the services ect? or you njust give the general contractor a price for cavity walls/ insulation fitting / blockwork ect?

Nobody objects to you or anyone else making money for your work. If you're not working to a 40% margin, then you run the risk of unforeseen problems, economic shocks, and bad customers not paying bringing your company down. You do a hard day's work and should be rewarded for it. The problem in the UK is not people working to make a profit, it's the people who own vast untaxed wealth who DON'T work. The UK has become a tax haven for the wealthiest (and some of the nastiest) people in the world who contribute nothing to our society but take billions in revenue out of the system and into offshore tax havens. You actually MAKE something useful with your work, unlike the parasites who sit atop vast wealth and assets and make the poor working people support them.

I’m surprised how seemingly low those prices are. Great work 👍

Could have done with this 50 years ago. Retired now.

And the subtitles can do one

You gave the plot prices ,but how did you equate to the plot price,per thousand, per m ,if so how much were these did you get paid a solid measurement, or were there extra prices fir plinths arches, trays etc if so what were they did you have use of a fork lift if so did you have to pay for that ,was the mortar ready mix or knocked up in a mixer ,that would have been more helpfull for people wanting to start out

How many man hours in each build?

Just curious what price do you pay the lads per square meter

My biggest reason for maybe considering going self employed would be pricing and other business in and outs. I don't want to rip people off, but at the same time if you're a newly qualified self employed builder or whatever you can't charge too high because you're not that skilled, you can't cock up a job and expect big bucks, but at the same time you need to charge enough so that you can meet your needs 😬😬 It's a delicate balance imo. But what do I know? Would love to know what you think.

Doesn’t sound enough ?

Impressive start. I like it

Why was plot 3 so cheap

Looks like you are doing well, not easy to price work customers always add bits on and change bits etc when I was doing it, I build my own on my own land now and I earn around £800 a day , I think it is best way as no customer etc I never made money building for customers I wasted 15 years doing extensions for customers etc I had to get a £15,000 loan to finish one of them. Hopefully I have enough money to build my own for rest of my career 🙏 hope you can get some land for yourself 👍

Not your fault of course, but those houses are seriously boring to look at.

Big recession going to hit early next year, we will all be under cutting each other again soon just to get work

It’s a shame to build such fancy houses and put a poxy fence between them.