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You can be alright bricklayer but if you stupid you not gonna earn money like this :)

You're being too humble - you need to explain the stress levels that go through the roof once you go from just laying brick and block to what a supervisor asks you to running a job/business yourself: - You need to have drawings on hand at all times and actually understand them and not just pretend that you do. These will probably need to be looked at and read in your private time to give yourself the confidence you need when setting out etc. - You need to have a reliable 10 or 12 inch petrol saw or electric battery equivalent with say 6 or 8 batteries. That's nearly £1.5k all in. - You need to find a bricklayer or 2 that consistently want to come in to work, with a good attitude and don't mind being on say 4 jobs a year for example (it's highly unlikely to be on the same job for a year at a time) - You need to find a good labourer or hoddy, again one that is on time and turns up when he says hes going to turn up and when he says he isn't going to turn up is not at 1 hours notice and preferebly a days notice minimum. - You probably need a van, as most people don't buy a pickup truck like a Ford Ranger for their personal life so if your working on houses in and around London it's probably 10k for a ULEZ 16 plate onwards van. - Making sure you get paid on time and the amount you have agreed with the subcontractor. - Liability insurance - what does this cost when you set up a limited company and have people that you pay through a limited company etc. I could go on and on with another 20 bullet points and i'm just a hoddy without going through all those things. You earn what you earn because you are efficient at picking and dipping and not a snob about having to perp every brick when you get nice strong square plots. Also you are throwing up corners lively freehand... This isn't often seen. Theres probably another 50 men out there in this country that have the understanding and work ethic you do to take on work themselves. It's a whole other ball game to going on a job as a trowel earning 200-230 a day to then aiming to consistenly earn for example 300+ a day taking on pricework building homes.

@@shifty277 A well considered and excellent reply. The truth spoken exactly as it is.... You would need to be very ambitious and also well motivated and have a decent plan going forward into the future. It is a real challenge and a total ball-ache at times (as you have so aptly described) However, the greater the risk - the greater the reward (mainly) That for me was always the driving force. Thank you for posting your comment. 😁👍👍 PS = Are you sure you are "just a hoddy" ?

@@martin2466 I'm sure "i'm just a hoddy", my father was a trowel from the age of 15-65 but I tried multiple times to start and didn't enjoy it so couldn't force the progression unfortunaltely. I'm 3 months into slinging as well as being a hoddy as I work in London where the vast majority of work is flats with cranes etc. Thanks for the reply and the correllation regarding Charlies committment to the pricework journey. He faces tons of criticism on his channel for no good logical reason - just the effort alone to film your work and voice over it and edit it is another kick in the nuts when all we want to do is chill when home from work.

Yea but its weather permitted where it mostly rains

those apprentices should be thankful for having someone willing to teach them 😂, im having a hard time finding an apprenticeship at the moment its really starting to annoy me

is it good for a boxer?

Not if you end up an invilade at 61 y .I do admire the skill and work ethic of doing it in all weathers though .My father was a Carpenter /builder self employed here in Ireland .He kept going till he was 70 y .His hands were in bits at the end .Just about every finger broken .

I'm not a web designer but I do work in DevOps hahaha. Maybe we're both weighing up our life choices

He pays them well , pays their fuel as well. They'd be talking b0llocks to be honest.

Wants to be a bricky, fair enough, not the best job I can tell you that for nothing. At 14 he's better off learning how to code simple as that. Nice and clean better money, no graft.

​@@chinering23head of Nvidia one of the biggest chip makers said the other day that coding has a limited run left in it as a secure job. AI going to to replace a lot of coding was his take

⁠@@chinering23I’d agree but it’s still stressful and tough work until you establish yourself as a good software engineer. The graft is different but it’s still a hard career.

⁠@@chinering23I’d agree but it’s still stressful and tough work until you establish yourself as a good software engineer. The graft is different but it’s still a hard career.

​@@JamesButler-yw6rm Well, he wouldn't be engineer but developer, still building but build out of thin air.

Go on price! Earn what you’re worth

All I was doing was running in. And jointing up didn’t have the time to teach.

You earn as a bricky way more than the average worker though..like almost double the avarage wage, so You're covered for a loss of 3 months worth of wages anyway just gotta adjust your lifestyle since most of you bet are living double the lifestyles compared to the average worker due to having the extra income

New builds are zero rated

And most gen z cant handle banter

Nonsense. Some brilliant youngsters out there if you offer the right money. Just an out of touch boomer who wants to pay 70 a day and wonder why you just get mongs

Hey mate, I got 7 GCSES, two A's. I done two years at trade college doing joinery and carpentry and got a merit first year , pass second year (because covid we couldn't sit last two exams so got passes as they wouldn't give merit or distinction) and I've done two years self employed fitting signage and graphics installs for events/stand erection roughly doing £275 a day, whilst battling through cancer (last treatment 2 years ago last month). I'm 23 from round Cambridge and learning for me is what it's all about, if you're not too far we could have a chat and I wouldn't mind apprenticing if you're open to the idea.

Cost of living down South is heaps more too

That's a salient point you make, it would seem that even the dry blocks breach current health and safety and the saturated ones are way above.

@@bradwhelan4466 25kg for male worker and 16kg for female worker. but these deveopers/house builders dont care, there is a deadline to hit.... not to mention stone cills/lintels weigh far in excess of these weight limitations. ass up head down.....

Should be getting paid for a 2 man lift. Do you agree??

​@@OutofPlumb-ic5plwhere is the equity of lighting lol

The problem there is someone else will do the job if you don’t. If Charlie goes to the site office & says these trench blocks are over the health & safety for one man lift they’d just tell him well that’s the only work there. So he’d get chased out the office. Guaranteed that. If you went further & complain H&S no contractor would give him work. 🧱👍

England mate. :D

Cos they don't like hard graft, and there hands are too soft 😂

It’s still hard work regardless of earning potential.

It ain’t hard work when you can earn that kind of money. Hard work is going to work on a 10hr shift and taking home £60. Then working another job on weekends just to afford to live. These guys earning potentially £1000/day is crazy money. I’d be skipping and whistling into work earning that kind of money. You can’t complain about “you’ve got to do this and it’s stressful this and hard work that”?The earning potential is incredible in anyone’s terms if you put the graft in. Be thankful you are well remunerated for the work you do.

Agree with big dog. I used to work as prison officer in a horrendous cat B local and take home 1350 a month if I did no overtime. I’m self employed now and earn that in a day and half last week doing a fencing job. Some tradesmen are spoilt rotten, and are going to get ousted by hungry career changers like myself who appreciate and understand what good money is out there

Because big housing companies hire unskilled contracted workers as cheap as possible. Hence the state of most new houses.

715s takes me back….😊

Very easy to shaft them .remember the 714 vouchers if the firm you worked for didn't invoice you tor the tax you kept the full wage and went somewhere else no wonder they stopped them.people were getting dodgy vouchers.happy days them

@@robogamer5384 Dodgy vouchers indeed - you could buy them in the pub. I believe H.M.R.C are a bit sharper these days....... 😁👍

@@robogamer5384I remember ‘subbies’ selling them for thousands of pounds.!

how? you earn double the average wage as a good bricky which puts you in the top 10% of earners in the country. You're having a laugh mate

@@coachingconfidant2785top 10% of earners? Don’t make me laugh

A different kind of stress but you kept your hands clean .I doubt you would last a day as a brick layer ,but neither would this video maker likely last a day as a social worker .

@@anthonydowling3356 Not now but in my younger years one never knows? Wouldn’t fancy working as a brick layer in the winter months especially as the government intends to move the retirement age to 70. In the construction business there are accidents some fatal, although social workers have been stabbed to death at work, held hostage and seriously assaulted, certainly not matching construction deaths at work. Health wise the physical work takes its toll, arthritis and rheumatism and there are mental health issues within the business. But stress in other occupations may lead to hypertension and heart failure, I know!

Not when he isn’t using profiles! They’re far more efficient

37 degrees foe bricklaying is NOT GOOD, it would be an absolute nightmare, sweating yr bollacks of all day in searing heat, I couldn't think of anything worse, it would be torture.

I'll be rolling up my shorts in altona. Not far from the beach!

@@grahambates2681 its like someone has a hot clothes iron on your back. To be honest most days are below 30 in summer

Everyone was off when it was that hot here couple of years ago

@@jmdbricklaying So you switch from it being 37c when what you thought was a boast did not impress lol

Depends how big the stool is .Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to drop a load .On my Dads site it was just a hole in the ground with lime in .

I’m a site plasterer on pricework. I’m averaging about 220 a day even at that like u say I’m working my bollocks off. I’m sure this guy is a really good brickie but that’s fantastic money

@@MrPistolpete1234 have you tried citric acid in your mix, we were doing 8 or 9 bags a day without any stress even in summer it slows the mix set time down. But as you say £220 day minus tax isn’t anywhere near what this guys on and plastering is way harder, somethings not right!

A good company to work for will do wonders and a person that's guiding, teaching and being patient with youngsters is pretty much key for them to stick to the trade. So that's the first step, find a great company and a great bricklaying foreman or a teacher, let him see the potential of the trade and if he decides to choose to the career path for later in life, To be a PM even open his own company when he understands the game well enough not only in technical aspects but also In the Tendering process and management of labour, quality and efficiency then so be it. 👍

I think he works as a subbie so NI will be a few quid a week and cis at 20% But I believe any one making that money will run it through a company and pay his self upto the tax fresh hold so that’s tax free and the rest as a dividend as they pay less in a dividend

A dividend tax

You don't get paid by the site you get paid by the subby

@@hod2116 ah right, that’s not bad then