Don't forget the labourer. A good brickie gets to be good because he has someone who supplies him with the materials he needs when he needs them, they work as a team.

No one where I am from in Vancouver Canada puts in 1000 bricks a day. I know companies who are paying guys who are sub contracting $20CDN a square foot to lay bricks here. If you put in a 1000 in a day your would make $3330 CDN/1930 Pound sterling every day just for labor. Charlie you need to get a visa and come here you would absolutely clean house.

My dad is from Northern Ireland,he was a bricklayer for 50 plus years and he used to average 800 bricks a day if the labourers could keep the mud and bricks up. I’ve seen him lay 1000 bricks a day a few times but there was like 3 labourers for 5 brickies. It takes decades of practice to lay this many bricks in a day.

I'm a residential contactor here in the US. It's always a pleasure watching bricklayers & masons work because every single small thing you guys do has a purpose. There are no wasted movements, and it's always perfect from the beginning to end because one small mistake causes the entire thing to be off. It's almost mesmerizing to watch.

My dad, who is now 64, could lay 1300 bricks a day when he was in his thirties. he says he's lucky to lay half that in a day now. he's been a brickie all his life, started at 16. cool video charlie, keep on layin

Im not a brickie, but my brothers were, I'm an engineer but Ive often worked the hod for them back in the day, three and one gang, other brickie was a guy called the Doc, great bricky, won the wimpey apprentice "silver trowel", often laid a thousand a day, but only on running in and everything set out by the hoddy in advance, my experience was you dont often get the opportunity to lay that many in a straight line, the work dont come that way, if it did you would have a lot of wealthy brickies, and houses without windows, reveals, doors and porches.

I've watched your videos for a couple years now and I've always been impressed with your perps(head joints we call them in southern usa). I've done this for 40 years and it's a RARE thing to get consistently sized brick so as to hold a nice bond. One of the most frustrating things in brick laying to me.i just assumed I suck, which is probably more accurate than I want to admit. Sure wish a thousand brick day would pay the bills but it's not enough even if I'm working alone..... uugghhhh. Keep rocking the videos dude

Full respect for pro brickies mate, I’ve just had a go at building a small step at the front of my house and I recon I could lay 1000 bricks a year 😂

Just noticed how Tom stacks the bricks for a right handed brickie. Very few flick of the bricks before laying. Nice one Tom.

Laying a 1000 bricks a day anywhere, is not easy. Like Charlie was saying during this video, you need to all set up, on a fairly decent straightforward run of bricks to be able to do it. At some time you are going to have to do the fiddly bits (And there are plenty of them!) Which will slow you down. With the Weather, and how you're feeling taken into account aswell. 1000 bricks a day is not easy. Back in the day that was all i heard from people. "Can you lay 1000 bricks a day?" I just used to raise my eyes and laugh!

the care placed in his art of something supposedly as simple as laying bricks, but to be structurally sound and evenly textured, is a craft desired and needed until the end of time. Bravo!

I don't know why I was recommended this video, I assume it's because I watch a lot of experts doing things. I have no experience of bricklaying, but I can tell from the fluidity and confidence of the motion, that this guy is an expert at this. Great to see. No matter what it is, seeing a human being execute something so well is a joy to watch. Nice work!

It would be interesting to know approximately how many bricks and blocks a good bricklayer could lay during a year or during their working life. Someone like Charlie will probably end up building hundreds or thousands of houses..amazing!

Be interesting to have a video on keeping perps in line

Videos have been great! I'm self employed and I was watching a lot of your content as I was taking down a length of wall, cleaning the old bricks up and then building the wall for the first time and tbh following your video made it enjoyable when building it, it is solid now, not pro standard, but definitely acceptable and looks good :)

Yes char met you on that job thanks for the selfie, top geezer keep shining brother massive inspiration to us all coming through.👊🏻

Some blokes have a work ethic that can’t be bought, doesn’t matter how good you are

Good to c u again Charlie.

Effortless the master 👍👌👌

Many thanks for this fascinating video. I have always wanted to watch a real bricklayer at work and this I have now done thanks to you. The pace you can work at is simply amazing. I built a brick bar-be-q in my back garden some years ago. 173 bricks in total. It took me 4 full Saturdays to get this job done!!

I once started at 8.00 and ended at just before 5.00. All the bricks had been stacked day before so my mate kept me in mortar which was hard. 1248 Bricks laid. You can imagine I was cream crackered.

I was a young apprentice in 1975 I was laboring on three brick layers, they did 2500 block a day on mega bonus, I was super fit, it was incredibly knackering, they never shared any bonus with me ever, bastards.

Any advice for tryna start as a labourer? 26 worked in pubs/cellars 3+ years and now on a electrician training course but been tryna get some experience so im not completely green (newby). everywhere i apply on indeed, cvlibrary, etc. i get no response. Any tips id appreciate it

Jezus man, it's making my back hurt just lookin' at ya! Major respect, both for the skills and the endurance! Bloody hell...

Great job as always Charlie sorry for the late watch but I have been working away

Great effort

Hey Charlie, are you planning to make another bricklaying lesson video sometime? It got me into practicing and I am doing reasonably well right now for a noob so a third video would be great

It makes a nice change watching someone building corners without a bloody profile. 👊🤘

I love watching pros make highly skilled, precision jobs look easy as splitting kindling. 😊

Damn son! Your an Ace ! Well done! Fuckin beast mode

Brilliant video mate. Inspired me to go back to bricklaying after 15 years and get retrained. Hoping to get on within someone experienced to get me up to speed. All the best

First time viewer what do you usually get paid per brick (if you don’t mind me asking). Do you pay the helper and is he on a fixed day rate?

Great bricklaying.. Line was looking loose though when you tapped it a few times so be careful on longer walls.. good stuff

Aaaah, what a calming and satisbloomingfying first view video it is. I need VR.

An this is why new builds are in shit state. Quality not quantity. Building companies want volume unfortunately

Good work. I like the fast parts, just looks like your gliding.

How do they insulate the cavity wall in England? Do they blow in wool after the bricklaying? Or does it depends on the type of project and contractor?

Started at 0845 and finished at 2pm? That’s like a full weeks work for a builder - if they show up at all that is

clean and tidy worksite!

Old hand here.. even using profiles without too many windows or returns. 1K is a nice round number 💪

How about 1005 brick in an hour? Richard Lawler makes you look like a TURTLE 🐢

It's crazy we gave this up for Brazilian wood and Chinese drywall...

Charlie sou seu fã aqui do México vejo seus videos

Brick layers are a diff breed… good job mate!

I heard you say you was using a silo, i spent years on the hod and hardest times was running for 4 brickies using engineering bricks and i just had 2 mixers to use i was constantly turning pug out from and running bricks, i confirm those engineering bricks chew through pug, proper back breaking

Very satisfying to watch the regulat speed stuff.

Now i have the skills to be A painter J/K bricklayer,Great work and a sweet channel.

Can you do a video about keeping perps in line?

Laying a brick while watching this guy laying bricks, nice.

Thumbs up from Australia.

Love the casio f91w!

Good video

I remember a guy in the UK in the 1970’s the nicknamed “Superhod” his name was Max something or other. He made himself a millionaire as a brickies labourer. Carrying bricks and mortar for several brickies at a time. He paid for Tom Jones to sing at his wedding anniversary.

Great teamwork and great manners, well done lads :-)

Are you getting g enough mud in between the bricks on the sides of them? Seems a lot of empty gap with not mud.

Less than 5 seconds a brick there, impressive mate. When i was bricking my gable end up mist days only managed 45/50😂

Hi from Australia. Nice work, appreciate the corners and also how the lab sets up. Ever use profiles, could have the lab setting them ahead and readying things for you 💲. Hopefully he won't hate me for that suggestion, recognising everything else he has to do. Unfortunately never got over to the UK before retiring from the trade. I notice a lot of comments regards the numbers (this and that). Worked in a lot of locations, alongside fellas from all over the world, lots of ideas swapped here and there on different approaches. Each has its place in a given the situation. All I would say is numbers overall depends on a number of factors, as Charlie clearly mentioned ('party walls' vs corners). If settings are right, not that diffcult for each man to get their 1000 in, each day, and a few hundred more. And yes, commonly means more beers are consumed later, a horrible side effect but someone has to do it.

Maté Australian🇦🇺 bricky here, you would lay lot more if you used profiles well we just use straight edges for corners and you couldn’t lay like you do here hitting the line, we butter the brick, but yes your same speed as us I’ll give you that bro 🤙

Do the spreads thank you for starting the scratch coat on the inner face? 😊

Wish cladding was this quick, the facades are usually straightforward, but there's always a problem with the drawings that holds everything up.

I was a helper in west Texas and have seen my boss lay 1005 brick in ONE HOUR! HE HAD 2 HELPERS, A FULLY STOCKED WALL, AND A SPREADER. HIS NAME IS RICHARD LEWIS LAWLER and he is retired nowadays and so am I. As God is my witness I know that he's the best there ever was or will be.

Im glad you werent flying around like I expected. I wouldn't go nearly this fast being a noob but it seems like a managable pace

Nice slap at the end 😄

Bit of a different looking brick still looks nice good work bud 👍

I know this Charlie's wall will extra strong. As his mortar without the furrow, will sink into the frog holes more. Good stuff all. Take care

Ever been to Poland? They builld awesome homes with much bigger bricks and the houese look loads nicer when complete

Lovely old job

My toxic trait is thinking I could do this after an hour of practice. Props to skilled laborers.

You are seriously good.

You lay a good brick too bro!

What's happened to your corner profiles, you retired them, all that bending down, I don't miss that, but my back reminds me frequently 😂

Shite the most I’ve installed in a day is 8500 now that was a huge project but keep on keeping on fella

Corners for show - profiles for dough.

I just like the sound.

I’d like to see ai try and do this. Nice work!

Good stuff 👍

No profiles either all corner built top quality!! Why didn’t you use profiles tho

MORE GLUE PLEASE TOM! 👍🏻

1000 bricks laid is one thing. Having them plumb, level and straight is another with an even bed and even perp joints is another. Plenty of slashers out there, very few brick layers.

hitting a level

What goes into the space between the brick and the other type of brick, which I assume is the inside wall? Nothing? Just air for insulation?

I work in a brick plant, we make up to 500,000 brick a day to keep hard working people like you busy!

1000 bricks a day and a boomerang for a level Top work lol

Our houses in the US are made out of 2x4's and sticks, i love this.

So cool.

Money is the reason why so many new builds are built appallingly, and signed off appallingly. Money. This guy can evidently do it, but many, many, many cannot and have absolutely no pride beyond their bank balance.

You need a big job to do that kind of volume. I've seen brick laying competitions in the USA where they lay 500 bricks in an hour!!!! One brick every 7 seconds!

how much m2 is that?

Luv the 'Gary Glitter' Muzak....!

My record is 2,000 bricks in a day, but that was some Star Wars Lego. This looks way more difficult.

Here in Texas where I’m from, laborers don’t exist anymore, us masons have to do everything ourselves which greatly hinders our brick count.

got the big boy trowel out I see. wrist and elbow will be feeling it

That's good, I'm more of a stone-mason, but in my brick years I used to average 700 on a good day. 1000 is impressive

What most people don't realize is you can easily get an extra 2 bricks per minute with tattoos like those.

This doesn't show what pace when you speed up the footage. It looks like you're just working at a steady pace all day and are good at what you do so you don't have to make many adjustments or fixes along the way

I’m not a mason, but the pace doesn’t seem too bad to me. Granted I grew up working as a steamfitter for family so even as a helper if I got caught “walking” back and forth from the machine there would be cast iron elbows whipping past my head. With some experience I could keep this pace although I’m accustomed to “hustling”. My grandfather was an old school fitter..we were on the LADDER at 6:30am..not walking in the jobsite and we were gone by 1pm. No lunch, and this was back when you could smoke on a jobsite so no need for a cigarette break either lol😂

All your doing is running lines in off profiles apprentice could do thst

Charlie, if your interested I will send you a Dutch bricklayers trowel, we have left handed and right handed trowels over here. Tha left hand side of a right handed trowel is straight so that you can take the shots of easier, the right hand side is curved and the end is completely round. If your interested in trying one out, I will send you a professional Dutch trowel, free of charge, I don't work for a company it's not sponsored or anything, I was just wondering what you would think of it.

Why don’t you use profiles?

Quantity over quality is found a lot these day's