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.
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 👍...
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.
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.
@@simonstones1918 anywhere from 200-450 depending on the job and the brickie experience and how your payed play a big factor, work with a lad who gets 18 an hour i get 28 so we all different
@@danielmurphy9844 I ceased working on price in 2014 when I discovered that a mate, whom I taught was working for a construction agency and pulling £22ph rain or shine! Long story short I signed up and with my years on the tools picked up £27.50ph, My last work for that agency was in 2020 when I was forced to quit for a serious medical condition, I was making £36ph building a double lift shaft at M&S, the damn Engineer would only allow me to build 5 course per day so I was done by 1pm, paid for the entire day \o/ I'm off Son :)
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.
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...
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.
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 !
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.
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.
l started my bricklaying apprenticeship in 1975 its been a tough life. Health and safety has gone mad, brickies are the least respected trade and its all about quantity over quality I've managed to keep my health to a fairly good standard because l dont drink much and never smoke , the fun on the buildings went years ago you are just a number and for what we doing and being self employed in real terms with inflation our wages are crap so dont believe all the hype about rates and wages .l retire next year and am so ,so glad ,good luck to the youngsters you will need it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
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
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
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👍
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.
£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????
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.
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
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.
There is a few things slightly different this time. 1. Shortage of labour/brexit 33% of building trade forcast to retire next 10 years and very few comming in, most not all ones comming through not a patch on the older workers. 2. P2P lenders could help fill the lending gap as they currently do funding thousands of builds. 3. Changing times, people live longer, live apart even while as a couple fueling demand small new builds/flats.
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
Ale or Jail, Steak or Beans, 'You have to take the rough with the smooth' they all told me, I said 'No, you have to be able to take the rough with the rough' many years there is absolutely no smooth.
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.
Hey gregg, it happens in 15 year cycles give or take a year or two. An economist friend showed me this. Its been going on since the beginning of the Bank of England. Edit: I'm also a brickie.
@@derekroberts8637 Then you'll remember the economic downturn in 2008 which led to the last recession in 2009.The 15 year cycle is not far off,and you'll also know that no one gives a shit about the building trade when things go south.👍
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
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🥳
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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 🤙
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.
650 for 1k bricks. So if Charlie Collison was on straight runs, he could earn 1950 in 1 day laying 3000 bricks!!! That is insane! I wish i could lay at his speed and find enough straight brick bashing to keep going all year! Working 6 full days and laying 3k a day equals £11,700 a week ffs! £46,800 per month or a yearly income of £561,600. You have to pay a couple of labourers out of that to keep you going but god damn id happily work 6 years straight and maybe even 7 days a week and then retire on 3 mil ffs.
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!
In all the sites I've ever worked on I haven't come across many Eastern European brickies, I think they tend to go south. A lot of the guys were just labouring and some of them good too. Big shortage of good labourers and even more of good brickies. My old man died at 56 in the building trade, now h&s is better hopefully we may last a bit longer
Earn it while you can. Trouble is once it’s common knowledge the money in bricklaying , every young lad will choose the trade and in a few years there will be too many. I remember it with plumbers years ago. People were changing careers 😂. Anyway new to this channel. Nice job 👍
@@Changy_C very true … my grandsons 16 tells me I need a passive income. He wouldn’t last a day on site. Spoilt these days . Get it all fir nothing a lot of em .
@@Changy_C I'm in my 20s, I left site work because noone would teach me properly or let me on the trowel all the time, not my fault you older experienced guys have got no time! $hit money what I was getting, wish I never trained for it
Imagine seeing a bricky working till Qauter to 4 rather made my bit and be home by 3 ready for the bairn coming in from school you cant take it with you
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.
Cant beat old school brickies
I'm a Drystone waller, I guess I'm just proper nackered ha. Can already feel the elbow going
Yep,I stopped doing concrete floors at 36, feel great 👍 now
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 🤕
💯🙏🏻 and forget the customers that don’t pay!
You deserve every penny you earn as you do a cracking job, keep up the good work
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.
I can't complain about EU workers coming over after the amount of money I made in Germany back in the 90's :)
quality production there Changy boy witn the mic, hope you & the bros are well!
Top video Changy.. I like the cut of your brick. subscribed!
The fact that you show the brick laying on UA-cam shows the quality of the work
Great stuff now your concentrating more on content than them pair keep up the good work pal
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.
superb work, neat and tidy and well organised
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
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 👍...
You make it sound like its a shit job?
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.
Concrete flatwork is equal, I know the pain
People who call you greedy for getting up to better yourself will never make anything of themselves.
Well done changy ,another good vid,😎😎👌🤙
Changy you deserve every penny you get mate 👍
Good video changy ur doin alright on ur own arnt ya fair play
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.
How much a day for a Brickie then.
@@simonstones1918 doubt you will get a sensible answer too that from anyone pal👍
@@Bobthebrickie no? And why’s that? Just wondering. I’m a plumber so wondering how it matches up..l.
@@simonstones1918 anywhere from 200-450 depending on the job and the brickie experience and how your payed play a big factor, work with a lad who gets 18 an hour i get 28 so we all different
@@danielmurphy9844 I ceased working on price in 2014 when I discovered that a mate, whom I taught was working for a construction agency and pulling £22ph rain or shine!
Long story short I signed up and with my years on the tools picked up £27.50ph, My last work for that agency was in 2020 when I was forced to quit for a serious medical condition, I was making £36ph building a double lift shaft at M&S, the damn Engineer would only allow me to build 5 course per day so I was done by 1pm, paid for the entire day \o/ I'm off Son :)
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.
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..
We are truly 2 peoples separated by a common language :) Cheers from a Yank. I had to listen several times to totally understand :)
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...
Great video changi✅
Quality as always mate 👍🏻
Wish prices were like that in wales
£550 a thou and £15 m2 on the blockwork
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.
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 !
“Do you want to be a provider or a ….. joke” 😂😂 this man is telling us the truth
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.
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.
l started my bricklaying apprenticeship in 1975 its been a tough life. Health and safety has gone mad, brickies are the least respected trade and its all about quantity over quality I've managed to keep my health to a fairly good standard because l dont drink much and never smoke , the fun on the buildings went years ago you are just a number and for what we doing and being self employed in real terms with inflation our wages are crap so dont believe all the hype about rates and wages .l retire next year and am so ,so glad ,good luck to the youngsters you will need it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
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
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
ur speed will come bro - do it
Nothing to fear bit fear itself.get your trowel out don't live in regrets
You may not have lost an opportunity. You will struggle to find a 60 year old brickie that’s had his life’s ambitions achieved on the trowel.
Noones gonna funky a bricky off at the moment. Make money while the sun shines, then come and do my extension when work is scarce.
@@daman4802 your extension?
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👍
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
selling ur body, just like almost all jobs 👍
Dont know how you got that first lot up so quick...that top course took you ages🤣
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
Great chat, thx, 100%....
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.
Construction workers also finish up with repetitive strain injuries which can cut their work life short.
Truest words on this whole thread.
Ask any old trowel
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.
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.
What's the rate for a hod carrier these days?
Have brickies wages kept up with MP's salaries over the last ten years
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.
👍 your making that look sooo easy man
Looks like thermalise to me.
Got to be honest pal I had to look that word up 😳🤣
good on you mate!
Excelente trabajo felicidades 👊 💪 🧱🙏💯
£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????
По какой цене блок и кирпич кладёте?
Tell yous what got it easy down there with those kid on thermalite block
Keep smashing them down mate
I don't bother with the 4x1...... I usually just take the item😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
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.
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
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.
I have to admit I think your right side if you look at markets were heading for a slow but very likely crash
what happened 2008?
There is a few things slightly different this time.
1. Shortage of labour/brexit 33% of building trade forcast to retire next 10 years and very few comming in, most not all ones comming through not a patch on the older workers.
2. P2P lenders could help fill the lending gap as they currently do funding thousands of builds.
3. Changing times, people live longer, live apart even while as a couple fueling demand small new builds/flats.
@@halbhatia6651 global financial crisis. Hit the building trade particularly badly.
@@TomTomTomTom538 wait till whats coming next.
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
cut in the middle of the wall?
The story of my life as. a Bricklayer , its either feast or famine
Ale or Jail, Steak or Beans, 'You have to take the rough with the smooth' they all told me, I said 'No, you have to be able to take the rough with the rough' many years there is absolutely no smooth.
Never any smooth just more or less moneyv
@@GBPaddlingso it’s not well paid? I thought trades were good to get into
nice honest vlog
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.
The boys from the black stuff was a great series about the struggles for work in the 80,s
Hey gregg, it happens in 15 year cycles give or take a year or two. An economist friend showed me this. Its been going on since the beginning of the Bank of England.
Edit: I'm also a brickie.
@@ianbroom5618 so was aufwedersain pet.
@@derekroberts8637 yes another good one, bit more light hearted
@@derekroberts8637 Then you'll remember the economic downturn in 2008 which led to the last recession in 2009.The 15 year cycle is not far off,and you'll also know that no one gives a shit about the building trade when things go south.👍
Changy where the job at? I'm single trowel looking to join a gang. We wud get on Mt and get the graft done
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
Great construction 🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏗️🏘️
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🥳
What trade is good to get into then? You recommend bricklaying
My block spliter is my apprentices lol
Why is there no celotex in cavity?
Probably cavity filled after
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.
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.
Good day today changy
The tricky bricky is after fighting you mate you fancy your chances
On the gear and drink again was he
I think changy would knock him out
Tricky’s alright let him do his thing. Never seen him slagging the Chang man
Hi changy , top job as always 🧱 👌
my boss says brick a minute haha
Great video did the labourers wages go up aswell
Couldn't tell you, didn't have a labourer all last year
Good man.
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
Who mixes and drops off the mortar?
I met a brickie from Belfast who was working in Dublin, he was getting 1 Euro per facing brick.
nearly 400 block, and when on day rates about 120 blocks lol, nice work
how did spots hold up with the acid on them
Sound as a pound
Acid won't affect plastic, it comes in a plastic bottle
Do you pay a fixed amount of tax each year regardless of how much you earn ?
Is that you Rishi?
@@Kieran-jq5kk fuukin funny hahah.
only if your doing really really well grasshopper.
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.
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 ?
I’m a Drywaller. I see guys out there now doing it for half the price. They are at prices I was at 12 years ago
Imagine walking on site and seeing a brickie ‘alone’ talking to himself with a camera set up 😳
Yea and wanting 800 a day lol
Sounds like normal to me
I talk to myself and there's no camera.
Lol….
I learned from Dr John Campbell that 1million views earns you approx 8k
Half tub morter 350 block
Ur fcking right wouldn't get out my bed for less 1200 a week long may it last
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 🤙
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
dont believe the BS brickies dont earn that kind of money unless they have a gang !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Gloom and doom
Looking a start any chance
I'm staying 1&1 for now my Mt
You are a good guy, it seems. Ps save time for golf.
Wages are down here. We just coming off a 8 year boom..
Where
@@Changy_C western United States
650 for 1k bricks. So if Charlie Collison was on straight runs, he could earn 1950 in 1 day laying 3000 bricks!!! That is insane! I wish i could lay at his speed and find enough straight brick bashing to keep going all year!
Working 6 full days and laying 3k a day equals £11,700 a week ffs! £46,800 per month or a yearly income of £561,600.
You have to pay a couple of labourers out of that to keep you going but god damn id happily work 6 years straight and maybe even 7 days a week and then retire on 3 mil ffs.
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!
In all the sites I've ever worked on I haven't come across many Eastern European brickies, I think they tend to go south. A lot of the guys were just labouring and some of them good too. Big shortage of good labourers and even more of good brickies. My old man died at 56 in the building trade, now h&s is better hopefully we may last a bit longer
It's just the general shortage of people wanting to do this work all across the world I would say
Earn it while you can. Trouble is once it’s common knowledge the money in bricklaying , every young lad will choose the trade and in a few years there will be too many. I remember it with plumbers years ago. People were changing careers 😂. Anyway new to this channel. Nice job 👍
There ain't no young uns out there who want this anymore.
@@Changy_C very true … my grandsons 16 tells me I need a passive income. He wouldn’t last a day on site. Spoilt these days . Get it all fir nothing a lot of em .
@@Changy_C ain’t true I’m 18 and I’m laboring for a gang of 4 Brickies
Generally speaking, a lot of lads used to take up a trade they don't anymore
@@Changy_C I'm in my 20s, I left site work because noone would teach me properly or let me on the trowel all the time, not my fault you older experienced guys have got no time! $hit money what I was getting, wish I never trained for it
Great day. So you made around £600
Sean, Tim or after 8. I'll go after 8 😂
The house building will slow right down next year as the cost of living and slow down in demand..
Only pointing out the facts !
Imagine seeing a bricky working till Qauter to 4 rather made my bit and be home by 3 ready for the bairn coming in from school you cant take it with you
Make the most of it mucka just in case 'uncle Klaus' gets his way.