67 year old block layer. Here is a tip. To avoid tennis elbow later on life , become a financial advisor when you get to be in your early 40's.

I’ve went through 3 recessions, there’s no need to feel guilty, no one pays you when you’re sick or rained off and it’s far to easy to get injured 🤕

You deserve every penny you earn as you do a cracking job, keep up the good work

quality production there Changy boy witn the mic, hope you & the bros are well!

superb work, neat and tidy and well organised

Top video Changy.. I like the cut of your brick. subscribed!

Absolutely! There used to be plenty of brickies, going through college, learning from old tradesmen Etc, then with Blair’s gov pushing everyone into Uni, it was unfashionable, dirty Etc and then came loads of cheap Eastern European labour. Now with the lack of decent tradesmen, housing, construction, and a rising population and demand way outstripping supply, I don’t think you’ll be fearing a recession in your trade. I am seeing a lot of 4 bedroom housing going up though, rather than affordable.

Great stuff now your concentrating more on content than them pair keep up the good work pal

Absolutely brilliant so well done and explained he hasn’t used a level once well done so good and so casual love it cheers Larrysullivan is London

Another brilliant day for you Changi. You have really got to be motivated and very organised to do your type of job as if you weren’t you wouldn’t make any money and as you say you have to cover those rainy, cold and snowy days otherwise you would have no money to support your family.

You are 100% right and the word i use is efficiency , I run jobs myself down south and my biggest hate is not being organised , people don't see it ,the ones that don't care the bricklayer on a day rate. Muc late in the morning, waiting for forklift driver, scaffolding and my biggest gripe people around you you trust to do there job not doing it . The amount of time wasted is ridiculous. Imo the game is shot to bits . Good to see you are on top of it all mate . Always thinking about the next thing 👍...

Quality as always mate 👍🏻

Well done changy ,another good vid,😎😎👌🤙

The fact that you show the brick laying on KZfaq shows the quality of the work

We are truly 2 peoples separated by a common language :) Cheers from a Yank. I had to listen several times to totally understand :)

Changy you deserve every penny you get mate 👍

Good video changy ur doin alright on ur own arnt ya fair play

I started in construction in Birmingham in 1977 when a brickie was only as good as his hod carrier. I have earned eyewatering money and shyt money over the years in times both good and bad all over the world. Construction is always on a recession roundabout so make hay when the sun shines, what people do not see are the wet days when brick layers might not earn a red cent in weeks. You're right to make money when you can and right to know your own value and worth to others. Good luck going forwards and don't forget too stick a few pennies away for those rainy days.

Make hay while the sun shines Changy. Good,reliable tradesmen with a proper work ethic like you will always find work even in the hard times. Head down arse up.

Great video changi✅

Keep your chin up lad you give all honest and hard working brick layers a good name. I have never seen a hard working respectable person like your self. And the 2 clowns that shit on you they 100% will fall flat on there face. Take care what a guy you are. Everyone needs people like you. Kind regards and respect David

People who call you greedy for getting up to better yourself will never make anything of themselves.

Good shift there Changy 👍🏻 I’ve been on private for years now and wouldn’t go near a site these days, not on price anymore unless it’s serious hits. I’ve slowly put my rates up and up too match what I think I could earn on site and I’m not cheap !!! Same as any good tradesmen I suppose. Honest days graft for an honest days pay auld pal🤝 Earn it while you can.

I read a book about life in the 1930’s….a bricklayer said he had built hundreds of houses but never had one of his own. Life was tough back then, glad you guys are now rewarded for your skills.

hi mate, im a time served bricky, been off sick for a few years wit mental health, thinking of getting back into it. thats it bro after this video with the wages nowadays - im going to av a word with my bricky mate its just my confidence is low cos ive been out for so long...

Good to hear wages are up in the UK. The trade has gone to hell here in California. Mostly concrete block and lickem and stickem stone & brick. Hardly any real brick or stone any longer and fireplaces are almost non existent.

Good luck mate &👍I have been laying since I was 16 now 54 work in WA Perth on my own get me $$$ and gone by 2pm bricklayers will a thing of the past soon ,no young ones are interested and before the haters say it I have 2 sons who have trod there own path👍

Great chat, thx, 100%....

“Do you want to be a provider or a ….. joke” 😂😂 this man is telling us the truth

good on you mate!

Ive just gone into teaching (plumbing and gas) after 28 years in the trade , 14 years self employed . The last recession was horrendous and very hard , no one pays for your sick days holidays with no breaks at all from the government . You learn to save and only pay for anything unless you can pay for it (no credit) holidays (yeah right) 60-80 hours a week ! When you do earn decent money , you save it and get in front . Everyone else is buying cars and holidays the can’t afford with less income ! I couldn’t believe how ignorant folk are , but they dont care , well they will when it comes round again ! . It’s very simple guys , if you dont have any debt your ok , if you have loads of debt your screwed . Think on because its about to happen within the next 12-16 months !

I'm 57 years old , my days of head down arse up are over . I'm happy building retaining walls and laying slabs for a landscape gardener . Plenty of flint work aswell. Self employed £1100 pw

Really Interesting and glad to hear that wages are up, you definitely deserve it! It would be really Interesting and helpful to get a full honest break down of earnings over a few months or a year to see what is actually being taken home in reality. There are loads of videos talking about earning 600 a day etc laying brick but do you really earn that everyday all year? You can’t be taking home the same money after tax and expenses as someone on a PAYE salary of over £150,000, or do you? It would be great if someone could give us the full picture to help us with career choices. Thanks.

Had to Google just to make sure what 650 a 1000 in Brickie Talk was, Geeeeez, And i thought us Truck Drivers were Paid well. Have Subcribed because i find this Quite Interesting, i'll never be a Bricky but i do admire what you guys do.

nice honest vlog

Have brickies wages kept up with MP's salaries over the last ten years

You earn your money,it’s hard work and as you get older your body starts to ache more and more so good luck on what you can get

👍 your making that look sooo easy man

Keep smashing them down mate

Excelente trabajo felicidades 👊 💪 🧱🙏💯

Good on you m8 when recessions come along the want to half your money but you don’t get that with lawyers bankers site agents and many more.

Wouldn't change my job if was given a 2nd chance... Only thing I'd of changed is saving or investing for retirement 🤷‍♂️

Back to the vids we all want mate cracking.

I’m a plasterer and have the same mindset as you and never walk into a dead start and always set up the night before.

Damn man, kinda gutted I never perused bricklaying after my apprenticeship in 2009. I qualified as a level 3 bricklayer but was laid off by my firm because of the recession and couldn’t find work so I ended up moving into other jobs. Kinda wanna get back into it but lack the confidence of going back into it. I know I can do it but it’s just the speed that’s gonna be the problem, I just fear getting fucked off lol

Construction workers also finish up with repetitive strain injuries which can cut their work life short.

300 quid a thousand in 1988 then 4 years later in the slump 150 quid a thousand in 88 3 month waiting list for bricks and blocks a quid a block to buy and lay 4 years later 25p a block and the coming slump will bring prices down within two years when defaltion kicks in to counter inflation

My Dad was a hod carrier back in the 80's. He had one arm like Popeye and one little chicken arm. Two beers and he wanted to arm wrestle everybody..

Dont know how you got that first lot up so quick...that top course took you ages🤣

Good man.

nice job change ,when i was on the trowel i liked to spread for full blocks never to a half block ,just me, (retired brickie)

That's the same issue in USA no tradesman younger generation don't want to be brickeys carpenters electricians so if your skilled you'll make great money

£1.70 a block is OK on thermal block because they are nice and light but what about 9 inch wide concrete block and 5 inch wide concrete block which are 3 and 4 times heavier and much harder to lay????

I don't bother with the 4x1...... I usually just take the item😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

i have a question im in my middle teens and I'm thinking of becoming a brickie and I just want to ask is the pay good or should I find somethings else

Good day today changy

cut in the middle of the wall?

Day work is shit for cost of living down south wages been £200:-220 day for years most people now won't work for price gang no more want price for them selves

По какой цене блок и кирпич кладёте?

Changy where the job at? I'm single trowel looking to join a gang. We wud get on Mt and get the graft done

About 20.5% up between brick and block. Glad you revised your mistake of adding the two percentage rises together. Still, I remember getting 50p a block in the nineties. Brickies deserve even more that £1.70 a block. Not a bad £600 day.

Great video did the labourers wages go up aswell

What's the rate for a hod carrier these days?

Regarding the block cutters...can tell you why we haven't got one at least. We did have one, but got nicked by the groundworkers on a keepmoat site, got a set of itchy fingered buggers on that were robbing allsorts and we got hit too. I wont entertain buying another until we get a BIG solid block job. They don't like thermals either, forever biting into them rather than splitting them. What u use now is one of those bahco saw handles fitted with a plasterboard cutter. Lasted me 2 years and still flies through block. Not bad for 15 quid for the blade, plus I was The Man for looking after the cutter despite it not even being mine, hellish dragging that thing around every day, going up ladders with it cause the driver made anyone who wanted tools booming up wait an hour or more. Not worth it even in the slightest...lost what time I saved using it by babysitting the bloody thing.

Tell yous what got it easy down there with those kid on thermalite block

Nice work. Good to hear tradesmen talking about their income. Too much of a hush hush between us in the UK about who earns what. I'm not a brickie but I bumped my rate up 25% last yr. Inflation aside, our cloud cuckoo land youth, shite education and apprenticeship system, ageing population, and no EU immigrant grafters means high demand and low supply of labour...and higher pay for those already in a trade🥳

It's still shit money when you compare it over time to the cost of living, hard way to earn a living laying bricks, plus there is a recession coming and construction is the first industry to grind to a halt. I wish ya well mate, ya deserve every penny.

My block spliter is my apprentices lol

Who mixes and drops off the mortar?

Having extension done seen the reality of brickies having to organise and work through ice, snow, rainbleazing hot sun the labourer not turning up and having to shift all the bricks etc themself when they ain't that young and have injuries - NOT easy money

He's working at his pace, We dont get to do that here in America. You learn how to do your job correctly at a very fast pace or you will be replaced. Its very hard to do this job here in the States and hold it.

I met a brickie from Belfast who was working in Dublin, he was getting 1 Euro per facing brick.

The story of my life as. a Bricklayer , its either feast or famine

I was getting 65p a brick and 1.70 a block years ago just outside of London. Unfortunately there is a bubble that is about to pop. If they can’t sell them Because the banks stop lending we will stop building over night just like in 2008.

Hi changy , top job as always 🧱 👌

Pay for brickies here in oz is going down - same for all trades. Then again , property prices are going down as well . Interest rates have shot up. That's the difference maybe in England. Your government doesn't want to let home prices drop ( fair market value my arssse) so it's making sure interest rates aren't going up to where they should be. If they were normal, you brickies wouldn't only be on lower pay but probably out of a job soon. But at least it would also mean home prices become affordable Here in oz ,we are learning that 15 yrs of low interest rates have just increased prices too much , now we're fked. Rates have now really shot up to kill off inflation , and tradies are now losing work. Don't think uk would have the guts to follow our example, guess it would just rather accept 10 per cent plus inflation as the norm and just keep putting wages up instead ...and accept more inflation as a result . Can't see wages keep going up tho , I mean , how trashed will the pound become ?

Half tub morter 350 block

There's a flawed logic here.If there is a recession then house building will be cut right back.It won't matter how many brickies you reckon the country is short of.I'm in my 41st year as a bricklayer and I've seen every recession since 1982 and the pattern is always the same.Young guys think it will never affect them.It will . I sincerely hope it won't happen but these things come in cycles.Cannot argue with the logic that you have to cash in while you can though.

nearly 400 block, and when on day rates about 120 blocks lol, nice work

my boss says brick a minute haha

The tricky bricky is after fighting you mate you fancy your chances

Why is there no celotex in cavity?

You are a good guy, it seems. Ps save time for golf.

Nice info changy! Going to put this out there if anyone reads it lol i'm a qualy level 2 bricky, if anyone has any job opportunities in north west giz a shout 🤙

Looking a start any chance

Thats proper decent that £500-£650 a day laying bricks. Knows sort of wages would make me well hungry to go out and earn. Earn as much as you can whilst your healthy cos it can change in an instant

Yeah, and how much will you be earning when the interest rate increases stop the big house builders and brickies are back to being 2 a penny? I started my apprenticeship in 1981 and since then I've seen more downs than ups in the trade. I pretty much left the trade 10 years ago and at 57 years old i can't really see myself ever going back to it. My dad built his first house for Allison homes in 1958 and was paid £220 for it, the house was for sale for £2200 so the brickies were paid 10% of the value of the property. So based on how much a house like that sells for now the brickies should be getting about 35 grand to throw up one of these boxes, but they're not are they.

Ur fcking right wouldn't get out my bed for less 1200 a week long may it last

Enjoy it - the prices will be coming back down real soon. Boom Bust Repeat.

The house building will slow right down next year as the cost of living and slow down in demand.. Only pointing out the facts !

Make the most of it mucka just in case 'uncle Klaus' gets his way.

how did spots hold up with the acid on them

Prices are not relatively high enough to match eighties and nineties,cost of living way higher nowadays.

Imagine walking on site and seeing a brickie ‘alone’ talking to himself with a camera set up 😳

As an American...I do not understand PROFILES ..PLEASE EXPLAIN.

Money is bricklaying is frightening your having a laugh , you mean it’s what it should be

Clicked on this link because of the title! Was interested to know how much brickies earn! My dad was a general builder so this interested me! A question I have in relation to earnings now being good.... Do you think the amount of East Europeans going home due to Covid and also Brexit has forced Building companies in the UK into paying higher wages? I don’t begrudge anyone in the building industry earning a decent wage! My dad slogged his guts out all his life in the building trade and died an early death at 68 still working!......The building game is hard graft!

Wages are down here. We just coming off a 8 year boom..

Do you pay a fixed amount of tax each year regardless of how much you earn ?

Make what you can before the big crash comes