Sad as this sounds, over been a Brickie now almost 10 years and a labourer for five more than that but I still find myself watching you after doing the same all day! Keep it up lad!
I was on the tools in London in the 80’s. It’s a different world to the one I worked in. You are clearly good at your trade and hats off to you having to put up with petty bureaucrats.
Hi Charlie, really enjoy your vlog and have watched you from the beginning without comment but today your really 'hit the nail on the head' in one sentence......... the fork driver is key........... to your profit. Back in day when I ruled the world, well, building sites . I had almost twenty years as Site Foreman from the tender age of 19years 10months and my Brickies-Chippies-and Spreads were the highest earners in the region. A clean site an.... organised site. with materials when YOU need them..... is safe and profitable plus it keeps the bosses happy too. I admire your work ethic , well done young man. I had a very luck break and was able to have a go at this building lark my self it proved to be successful. Aim high start small and you can do it too. . Well done and there has always been a place in construction for females, get Amy out there, am sure you will have a winning team..
@Lee Froch Hi Lee how long have you got....simply the older guys on site didn't want responsibility. I left school at 15, with one qualification in that I was considered to be able to ride a bicycle safely. So I asked the local village builder for a job as the only other option would have been farm hand.... first I was assigned to his joinery shop ( sweeping up and prime painting) with a fantastic shop foreman Mr Charles Huntley, who unlike most in the trade at that time enjoyed teaching. In those day working for a small builder who was to grow quiet rapidly, we would make an item and then fix on site , staircase , kitchens, replacement windows etc etc. Fantastic . my five apprenticeship was unlike so many of my age, one of the most enjoyable times of my working life. A mix of basic discipline and good training under the watchful eye and guidance of MR H. Site guys at that time had very little or no incentive to rush around, no price work and the 'lump labour' (self employed pre 714-715) had not arrived in the smaller towns around East Anglian. My boss pushed by his son who was a few years older than me wanted to venture into house building which again had yet to gain momentum.... When it did ...... the sticky stuff hit the fan. And sites had to be organised, no mobile phones, no forklift, no mess room, no toilets, deliveries not organised, easily a way to loose money and my boss and his son were possibly heading down that route. So the forward thinking son of the boss asked the Joinery shop Foreman if he thought that 'young Vic' could do a few weeks on one of the housing sites which was getting behind on completions to....... help........ the Carpenters who, in his words were 'letting the side down'. Day one was tough but was the start of the adventure Site Chippie ( leaving the warm joinery shop) then within days Carpenter Forman. Three months later Site Forman, the company was to grow from five houses a year to sixty-seventy. Twenty one years later with help from the bosses son I moved on ...... that's another story..... but now helping my Son with his house building business. The same rules apply, organise the site and allow the tradesmen (and Women) make money, simple really Just that one sentence by Charlie about the forklift took me back to those early days.. he has the ability .......!
I enjoy your videos, i was a hoddy when i left school for a few years mostly sites like that, had to look after 3 blokes, it destroyed me at first but after about 6 months it built my strength up so much the hardest thing was getting up in the morning, i miss the banter, my face would hurt at the end of the day from laughing so much.
In the previous video, you said you had to wear a mask on the scaffold. We are expected to wear one in the van with someone else there and in peoples houses when working. Wear a snood mate. A lot more comfortable and easy to pull up or down when needed. When someone comes by we quickly pull them up. 😉
I'm sure lots of other comments have popped up along the way but the reason the Muck gets so sticky is because they let the dust in the silo get too low once it gets below the level of where the funnel or cone starts the cement drops quicker than the sand because it's heavier than the sand per cubic inch and so you end up getting much stronger muck that sticks to the trowel and buckets etc. You Can easily test this as you can pack a tea cup to the brim with some cement and also get another cup full of some sand thats obviously dry and weighing both when she's gone to the brim . The cement should be heavier if both are dry and packed in The subby or the developer needs to build a habit of getting the silo filled before the last few tonnes in the silo so you don't get this problem with all the muck being shit and sticky it's also got the potential to have a different shade of muck because of the stronger mix that is produced. Sure you've seen is but get a hammer and a long 4m bit of channel say, cable tie the hammer to the end and you can give the silo a tap at different levels to see what level the dust is at. Hope that helps.
Charlie , I once had a site agent that went around 6 gangs plots and used a black marker pen on all the half’s up the reveals . Ridiculous really as he wanted them all taken out as he said they were not plumb after I explained that the bricks themselves were not a decent Harris he backed off ( tiny little burrs on the bricks ) the day works bill for removing all the black crosses was mega . He was a new agent and in the end was soon gone . He also took the power lead to the silo until all the site was spotless ( queens visit type of spotless) yet again stupid . 4 gangs jacked , forced the companies hand .
Loving watching this, looking into getting my CSCS card and get into this whilst I’m young and have the can do attitude and determination! Keep it up man, very inspiring. Just remembered going watching back through all your old videos last night and realised I went to school with your little sister and your worker you had in a few weeks ago Shane! Very small world.
@@martin2466 @Martin @Martin yes movie did start from marines but the actual vietnam ended with us army soldier Took to long to send em in. the big green machine didnt give full vengens but if we did now intodays date wow we would sweep them out no doubt where about 7 billions dollars invested and ahead of weaponry compared to all other countries USA USA USA!
I don’t have a clue about bricklaying or any trade for that matter but I absolutely love watching these vids bro they’re class and you’re a top fella for sure keep it up mate very interesting stuff to someone who doesn’t a clue at all
i never start a house unless im defiantly going to finish it, you never get paid the full lift price round this way they nick roughly 25% and stick it in the window lift and cut ups, id be asking for the lift price on those peaks not a count up, it should be worth more than whats laid
Never used a hood infact I don't think ave seen one in Scotland. The labourers are using brick clamps now seems a good system but only for the same level loading out
They are good when the bricks aren't too heavy and aren't wet. Get some bricks with no frogs and that are a bit damp and not perfectly straight edges and they will be heavy and slip. The bricks Charlie has in this vid are lovely and straight and light with the juicy big holes in them. Still a lot of hoddy's use the hod in England. I just find it another item to carry around with a shovel, bucket, broom, brush, bucket trowel etc on a busy moving site. Can still easily get 12 on my shoulder going up a ladder for a half lift. Mind you my experience is in London where the vast majority of work is flats with concrete frames and metsec
Hello mate, what a good tradesmen you are! Im a plumber and i learnt early on keep the forky sweet! First day on site get friendly. Every drop he would come do for me was a tenner in his pocket! I was always the first to be loaded haha! All the best mate your a ledgend!
Part of my daily routine watching your videos I’m a carpenter and I’m thinking I should have been a bricky all these years not a chippy 😂 keep up with the great video
Yes today you do... H&s test multiple choice in a citb centre £36 and then a h&s awareness course about £85 in a classroom, the card application with CSCS is about £25 or £30 all depends where abouts you are in the country, hope that helps
As long as there's not 3 inch thick muck like you been screeding on all the boards and bricks and blocks all over place we (scaffs) just turn boards over when we do the lift. There ain't nothing you can do about stains on new boards that's madness soon as you use them they are second hand. it's the chippys and their glue on birdcages from floor boards that is an issue they are not tidy. or ppl who stick nails through the boards /roofers and chippys . The amount of times I sliced my jumpers off and nearly sliced my own throat or took my nipple off cos of nails.
Wouldnt the answer just be put a string line from under the top soffit down to ur foot bricks to give u a gradual guide instead of using ur level to make it line up with the soffit? Im not a bricky, just an idea.
An agent should have been on the tools to understand everything. The ladder to the top out is as steep as an a submarine conning tower. The muck bin hasn’t been polished!!
Theres nothing wrong with over the top, yes it's annoying for us tradies at times but it makes us work to a higher standard and we should all keep pushing for higher standards.
Hi I'm a German Bricklayer and I have a Question where is the Isolation (Rockwool) between the White Bricks and the red Bricks??? Here in Germany must always Isolation between the Brickworks
Most are taught to come from right to left as you can line brick up better and eye better when laying. As going left to right when learning more chance of tipping back brick below line
Well the site management must be suitably embarassed. You can always get a job with the Landmark Trust sometime. They will love the hod, and you are a star at laying bricks to wonky Tuderbethan woodwork (ok plastic). Perhaps ask site management to consider carpet on the scaf boards. . . Hmmm how about Flotex? Glad you got pickin & dippin on the run through. Really funny, thought "hmmm he's setting a bit shoddy on those perps before tea break", then you found the weep vents . . . doooooh! Well the hodding helps get you warmed up. Hope you get an assistant soon.
Start of as a hoddy, labourer be on time, attend every day, work hard and learn and stay off the blower. Simple as that, then practice on the trowel and maybe go to night college or if conditions allow practice on ya own and pair up with a time served bricklayer. Hope that helps. It all depends on what part of the country you live in too.
@@johnjones2231 so there's no hold up in building time for bad weather etc. Bonkers if you ask me but every major house builder does it this way these days
@@stuartjones1982 it works out more expensive than block work because there's so much extra bracing in the roof space & it's no quicker than block work either, it's a terrible idea
After a while you can see what a 10ml bed looks like with you’re eye I don’t have to use a tape for everything. Plus he’s not even halfway up the gable I’d imagine he would check the gauge when he’s higher up the gable. But if he needs to bump/grind he’s got enough courses to do it in he won’t be far off gauge as it is.
he's got some really bad habits these video s are nt for learning if your an apprentice, never trust your eye for gauge the bricks can vary 2/3mm so over 5 courses you can lose 10/15mm always check your gauge, also the way he lays the bricks is nt the best he rolls the brick instead of laying it flat with a flat hand so will have loads of tippers even though the level will show plumb and the way he scraps the bricks is dodgy should only need one scrap with the trowel he has a habit of scrapping then turning the trowel and using the end for some reason not sure who taught him that
Different brickers have different ways of doing stuff , after a while u get use to nothing that ur more and less the right bed , but as ur still learning always check the bed joint ur boss would rather u take a little bit longer than others and no it's right, instead of have to take it down our gring so much down wat is not good, but good luck in ur the bricklayering apprenticeship
What does the site do to deal with the amount of mortar staining on the face of the brick, do you get a pull for this? In Scottish sites it’s always a bone of contention
Hi Charlie, good video as always , fair play for loading out and then building on ur own, hard going doing that, get ur self a really good labour especially on site as if ur on price hard going doing it that way least ur able to work as are sites here on isle of man are shut down dure to are 2and lockdown thanks dan
Hi mate just wanted to see if you had any tip on bricklaying as I’m in my first year at college .I get told that my joints are shit any advice on sorting it out
Still no labouring going on for you Charlie.Good job on you tod mate. You cant keep going like that you'll pay for it in 10 years time i been there trust me. Not sure how you pay the hoddy but as an idea you may do this but take one on full time holiday pay the lot .Full time hoddy may get a better return long term then Charlie. Cant work hit and miss like that mate. Love the videos good luck mate hope you sort it all out . Justin brickright 👍
Charlie, thanks for the tip on how to keep the perps full and plumb. I am not a bricklayer so how do you know the courses are to gauge? I know your good mate but come on! Is it eye sweet cos it is high up or do you score your level?
Don’t know what it is about this channel but I’m obsessed. Fascinating to watch a person at the top of their craft. I couldn’t lay a brick to save my life, thank you for your work!
Loving the new videos, please take no offence by this but your work looks SO much cleaner lately and it seems like you’re taking more pride in it! Appreciate the hard work looking forward to the next one.
Is it true bricklayers only work in summer? I rlly want to do something like that (or a gas engineer) but if there’s no work in winter then theirs no money? Keep up the good work 🙏
Not true at all, however weather conditions determine how much you can get done hence why people think it's a summer job. But you can have the best weather all summer but if silo keeps breaking down fork lift ain't good etc then ya gna lose out no matter what
@@luisali932 yeah can't work in rain. As the mortar will get washed out the joints. Temperature is usually when it's too cold as the water in the mortar will freeze therefore crack once set
The problem with most site agents is they have never lifted up a tool in their lives. “ I’ve never done your job before but this book tells me you are doing it wrong”.
Sad as this sounds, over been a Brickie now almost 10 years and a labourer for five more than that but I still find myself watching you after doing the same all day! Keep it up lad!
Watching your channel is a part of my daily routine 💯
I was on the tools in London in the 80’s. It’s a different world to the one I worked in. You are clearly good at your trade and hats off to you having to put up with petty bureaucrats.
Hi Charlie, really enjoy your vlog and have watched you from the beginning without comment but today your really 'hit the nail on the head' in one sentence......... the fork driver is key........... to your profit. Back in day when I ruled the world, well, building sites . I had almost twenty years as Site Foreman from the tender age of 19years 10months and my Brickies-Chippies-and Spreads were the highest earners in the region. A clean site an.... organised site. with materials when YOU need them..... is safe and profitable plus it keeps the bosses happy too. I admire your work ethic , well done young man. I had a very luck break and was able to have a go at this building lark my self it proved to be successful. Aim high start small and you can do it too. . Well done and there has always been a place in construction for females, get Amy out there, am sure you will have a winning team..
@Lee Froch Hi Lee how long have you got....simply the older guys on site didn't want responsibility. I left school at 15, with one qualification in that I was considered to be able to ride a bicycle safely.
So I asked the local village builder for a job as the only other option would have been farm hand.... first I was assigned to his joinery shop ( sweeping up and prime painting) with a fantastic shop foreman Mr Charles Huntley, who unlike most in the trade at that time enjoyed teaching. In those day working for a small builder who was to grow quiet rapidly, we would make an item and then fix on site , staircase , kitchens, replacement windows etc etc. Fantastic . my five apprenticeship was unlike so many of my age, one of the most enjoyable times of my working life. A mix of basic discipline and good training under the watchful eye and guidance of MR H.
Site guys at that time had very little or no incentive to rush around, no price work and the 'lump labour' (self employed pre 714-715) had not arrived in the smaller towns around East Anglian. My boss pushed by his son who was a few years older than me wanted to venture into house building which again had yet to gain momentum.... When it did ...... the sticky stuff hit the fan. And sites had to be organised, no mobile phones, no forklift, no mess room, no toilets, deliveries not organised, easily a way to loose money and my boss and his son were possibly heading down that route. So the forward thinking son of the boss asked the Joinery shop Foreman if he thought that 'young Vic' could do a few weeks on one of the housing sites which was getting behind on completions to....... help........ the Carpenters who, in his words were 'letting the side down'. Day one was tough but was the start of the adventure Site Chippie
( leaving the warm joinery shop) then within days Carpenter Forman. Three months later Site Forman, the company was to grow from five houses a year to sixty-seventy. Twenty one years later with help from the bosses son I moved on ...... that's another story..... but now helping my Son with his house building business. The same rules apply, organise the site and allow the tradesmen (and Women) make money, simple really Just that one sentence by Charlie about the forklift took me back to those early days.. he has the ability .......!
@@jill7182 thank you, he has ability to make it in a very competitive industry , just needs to stay focused.
Great trades man. Charlie is the man to work consistent and turn out great quality work and finish
I enjoy your videos, i was a hoddy when i left school for a few years mostly sites like that, had to look after 3 blokes, it destroyed me at first but after about 6 months it built my strength up so much the hardest thing was getting up in the morning, i miss the banter, my face would hurt at the end of the day from laughing so much.
How come you didnt put a string line up the soffit. Run them in pic and dipping
The soffits the profile. No need for bubbles. Just string. The roofs been cut. I'd had that up like a flash. Why rake it back?
Great video. The POV angle of the vid makes me feel like I'm doing it and it makes a lot easier to pick up those tricks of the trade.
Im a plumber and for some reason i always look forward to your vids love em!👊🏻
In the previous video, you said you had to wear a mask on the scaffold. We are expected to wear one in the van with someone else there and in peoples houses when working. Wear a snood mate. A lot more comfortable and easy to pull up or down when needed. When someone comes by we quickly pull them up. 😉
I’m not even in the trade and I love watching your videos 😂
Same
I'm the same, I work in IT!
same , I'm a carpenter
Tbh I use this to help me fall asleep 😃 something about the noise of bricks 🧱 being layed
I'm sure lots of other comments have popped up along the way but the reason the Muck gets so sticky is because they let the dust in the silo get too low once it gets below the level of where the funnel or cone starts the cement drops quicker than the sand because it's heavier than the sand per cubic inch and so you end up getting much stronger muck that sticks to the trowel and buckets etc. You Can easily test this as you can pack a tea cup to the brim with some cement and also get another cup full of some sand thats obviously dry and weighing both when she's gone to the brim . The cement should be heavier if both are dry and packed in
The subby or the developer needs to build a habit of getting the silo filled before the last few tonnes in the silo so you don't get this problem with all the muck being shit and sticky it's also got the potential to have a different shade of muck because of the stronger mix that is produced.
Sure you've seen is but get a hammer and a long 4m bit of channel say, cable tie the hammer to the end and you can give the silo a tap at different levels to see what level the dust is at.
Hope that helps.
I’m going to college in September and studying the building trade and your vids are helping me learn so much keep up the good work
Charlie , I once had a site agent that went around 6 gangs plots and used a black marker pen on all the half’s up the reveals . Ridiculous really as he wanted them all taken out as he said they were not plumb after I explained that the bricks themselves were not a decent Harris he backed off ( tiny little burrs on the bricks ) the day works bill for removing all the black crosses was mega . He was a new agent and in the end was soon gone . He also took the power lead to the silo until all the site was spotless ( queens visit type of spotless) yet again stupid . 4 gangs jacked , forced the companies hand .
Strangely satisfying to watch. Thank you for sharing.
Loving watching this, looking into getting my CSCS card and get into this whilst I’m young and have the can do attitude and determination! Keep it up man, very inspiring.
Just remembered going watching back through all your old videos last night and realised I went to school with your little sister and your worker you had in a few weeks ago Shane! Very small world.
Great video. Good looking work. Very smooth stroke. Good attention to detail. High quality
Weve a sayin here in ireland "every man to his own job"
Well pilgrim you can try to use that against me only unless you eat the peanuts out of my shit ! A good team will always be best
@@martin2466 only the ever so legendary movies based on the USarmy . FullMetalJacket
@@martin2466 @Martin @Martin yes movie did start from marines but the actual vietnam ended with us army soldier Took to long to send em in. the big green machine didnt give full vengens but if we did now intodays date wow we would sweep them out no doubt where about 7 billions dollars invested and ahead of weaponry compared to all other countries USA USA USA!
You know how it is Charlie, you need a decent forky and s decent agent
@@justintime9623 But you couldn`t keep Darrel and his other brother Darrel off capital hill.
Another cracking video Charlie 👌🏼
Fabulous practical content, especially the helmet cam view, quality clarity too that new cam 🤙🏼 Brill 🤙🏼
I don’t have a clue about bricklaying or any trade for that matter but I absolutely love watching these vids bro they’re class and you’re a top fella for sure keep it up mate very interesting stuff to someone who doesn’t a clue at all
i never start a house unless im defiantly going to finish it, you never get paid the full lift price round this way they nick roughly 25% and stick it in the window lift and cut ups, id be asking for the lift price on those peaks not a count up, it should be worth more than whats laid
100%
Where we work they leave the gables top heavy means you finish it and it’s easy money for us
Never used a hood infact I don't think ave seen one in Scotland. The labourers are using brick clamps now seems a good system but only for the same level loading out
They are good when the bricks aren't too heavy and aren't wet.
Get some bricks with no frogs and that are a bit damp and not perfectly straight edges and they will be heavy and slip.
The bricks Charlie has in this vid are lovely and straight and light with the juicy big holes in them.
Still a lot of hoddy's use the hod in England. I just find it another item to carry around with a shovel, bucket, broom, brush, bucket trowel etc on a busy moving site. Can still easily get 12 on my shoulder going up a ladder for a half lift.
Mind you my experience is in London where the vast majority of work is flats with concrete frames and metsec
Minus 3 today mate so came home and snowing tomorrow so probably nice short week to break things in after Xmas.👍🏻
New to the channel, again I don’t know anything about brickwork or construction but really enjoying your videos. Keep up the good content👍🏻
I realize Im quite off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new movies online?
@Alonso Felipe Lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it by googling =)
@Dominic Bronson Definitely, I've been using FlixZone for years myself :)
@Dominic Bronson Thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it !!
@Alonso Felipe you are welcome :)
Hello mate, what a good tradesmen you are! Im a plumber and i learnt early on keep the forky sweet! First day on site get friendly. Every drop he would come do for me was a tenner in his pocket! I was always the first to be loaded haha! All the best mate your a ledgend!
Legend.... You mean
Have you ever used the (jagclamp xl) check them out. Great for clamping onto your blocks and brick
Brilliant video mate! Very interesting! Keep up the good work! 😁
Totally agree the fork lift driver is the make or break for Brickys on site
It Wont be long fella... You will have the most subscribers easily!!!
Changeys is a good channel too mind.
Part of my daily routine watching your videos I’m a carpenter and I’m thinking I should have been a bricky all these years not a chippy 😂 keep up with the great video
Hi I’m new to the construction graft do you need to do your health and safety awareness first then your cscs provisional
Yes today you do... H&s test multiple choice in a citb centre £36 and then a h&s awareness course about £85 in a classroom, the card application with CSCS is about £25 or £30 all depends where abouts you are in the country, hope that helps
Awesome work there Charlie my man absolutely the best
As long as there's not 3 inch thick muck like you been screeding on all the boards and bricks and blocks all over place we (scaffs) just turn boards over when we do the lift. There ain't nothing you can do about stains on new boards that's madness soon as you use them they are second hand. it's the chippys and their glue on birdcages from floor boards that is an issue they are not tidy. or ppl who stick nails through the boards /roofers and chippys . The amount of times I sliced my jumpers off and nearly sliced my own throat or took my nipple off cos of nails.
If the soffit is already up there’s no need to rack back. Lay one against the soffit pin the line in the ladder and brick it down so much quicker
Wouldnt the answer just be put a string line from under the top soffit down to ur foot bricks to give u a gradual guide instead of using ur level to make it line up with the soffit? Im not a bricky, just an idea.
An agent should have been on the tools to understand everything.
The ladder to the top out is as steep as an a submarine conning tower. The muck bin hasn’t been polished!!
Stains on the scaffold boards eh how the f are you meant to not do that. Lay plastic on the boards if they don’t want them stained
@@martin2466 not in the Industry so no idea. bureaucracy gone mad.
I would have had the scaffold spanner straight out to give that ladder a nicer angle, what are we climbing a bloody crane?! Scaffs!!
Like from us and good luck in everything! Happy Holidays! Best regards from Russia!
1tub is roughly 500 bricks give or take.
Smashed it today chap, by yourself nice one Excellent work again. 🏴
Theres nothing wrong with over the top, yes it's annoying for us tradies at times but it makes us work to a higher standard and we should all keep pushing for higher standards.
Faces in when stacking the hod. Great vids.
Subscribed recently, love your content bro ❤️
Hi I'm a German Bricklayer and I have a Question where is the Isolation (Rockwool) between the White Bricks and the red Bricks??? Here in Germany must always Isolation between the Brickworks
Most are taught to come from right to left as you can line brick up better and eye better when laying. As going left to right when learning more chance of tipping back brick below line
Best to lay going forwards as you can line up the perps better. So if right handed would be left to right, left handed would be right to left.
Prefer forwards tbh when laying bricks. Backwards when laying blocks. But when at tec were taught come from right if right handed ie backwards lol.
@@lmilne4859 I was taught opposite 😂
@@nvrchjps4278
Haha happy days mate 😆😎
'V' 2 bricks and sit hod in it when stacking, easier to pickup and not as far to bend.
You got it👍👍👍
Okay that was absolutely brilliant
Go on champ 💯
Keep up, the good work 👏
Good work Charlie, hope Amy is feeding you well, Friday tomoz😁
Well the site management must be suitably embarassed. You can always get a job with the Landmark Trust sometime. They will love the hod, and you are a star at laying bricks to wonky Tuderbethan woodwork (ok plastic). Perhaps ask site management to consider carpet on the scaf boards. . . Hmmm how about Flotex? Glad you got pickin & dippin on the run through. Really funny, thought "hmmm he's setting a bit shoddy on those perps before tea break", then you found the weep vents . . . doooooh! Well the hodding helps get you warmed up. Hope you get an assistant soon.
It is lovely to watch fantastic video
A joy to watch everyday mate, hats off to you👏🏼👏🏼🧱
Advice on someone who wants to get into that trade? Best way to go about it
Start of as a hoddy, labourer be on time, attend every day, work hard and learn and stay off the blower. Simple as that, then practice on the trowel and maybe go to night college or if conditions allow practice on ya own and pair up with a time served bricklayer.
Hope that helps. It all depends on what part of the country you live in too.
Nice video mate! Make more videos of pov bricklaying!!!
what other types of work do you use them clamps for? or is it just corners on a pike?
If you perp the bricks it makes the wall stronger chas
I’m at home with stitches in my hand was gutted on Monday doc said that I couldn’t go back to work bricklaying
I’m a metal engineer on site but your videos finish the day ah
Love the video with go pro looks boss lovely as always 👍👍
What you need is the obligatory site radio.
Why not build all the way to top of gable in block what is the wood and black membrane for ??
If it raining the Chippies can still finish the roof, no hold ups for weather etc then. I'm a chippy and I hate timber gabbles
@@pauldavies7251 why start a timber frame half way up a gable what's the reason any idea? cheers
jones cheap and quick
@@johnjones2231 so there's no hold up in building time for bad weather etc. Bonkers if you ask me but every major house builder does it this way these days
@@stuartjones1982 it works out more expensive than block work because there's so much extra bracing in the roof space & it's no quicker than block work either, it's a terrible idea
I’m a apprentice so I’m learning myself but why haven’t you had to check the gauge?
After a while you can see what a 10ml bed looks like with you’re eye I don’t have to use a tape for everything. Plus he’s not even halfway up the gable I’d imagine he would check the gauge when he’s higher up the gable. But if he needs to bump/grind he’s got enough courses to do it in he won’t be far off gauge as it is.
he's got some really bad habits these video s are nt for learning if your an apprentice, never trust your eye for gauge the bricks can vary 2/3mm so over 5 courses you can lose 10/15mm always check your gauge, also the way he lays the bricks is nt the best he rolls the brick instead of laying it flat with a flat hand so will have loads of tippers even though the level will show plumb and the way he scraps the bricks is dodgy should only need one scrap with the trowel he has a habit of scrapping then turning the trowel and using the end for some reason not sure who taught him that
@@si-vz8ny there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Different brickers have different ways of doing stuff , after a while u get use to nothing that ur more and less the right bed , but as ur still learning always check the bed joint ur boss would rather u take a little bit longer than others and no it's right, instead of have to take it down our gring so much down wat is not good, but good luck in ur the bricklayering apprenticeship
@@davidrodger1918 certain measurements to know if you’re work is at the right length/height.
Painter here and still love watching you builders at your craft. Amazing. That muck looks icy cold?! Does it affect how you lads go about your work? 🍻
Has to be 2 degrees and rising ideally for anything with cement I. It really not just muck
👍👍👊👊👌✌️🤙💪💯🍺Good job mate especially being on your own.
What does the site do to deal with the amount of mortar staining on the face of the brick, do you get a pull for this? In Scottish sites it’s always a bone of contention
Maybe the brickwork gets jetwashed after? Happens on flats in London.
are you supposed to put the damp under the spandrel protection i think it should be cut in why you on your tod
i just red your description 😂
Hi Charlie, good video as always , fair play for loading out and then building on ur own, hard going doing that, get ur self a really good labour especially on site as if ur on price hard going doing it that way least ur able to work as are sites here on isle of man are shut down dure to are 2and lockdown thanks dan
Pull the line off the soffit, there’s no need to build corners on a gable!
Just wondering why you building corners instead of hooking line round soffit.
Loving the vids 👍🏻
Just felt like it 🤷🏼♂️
No worries mate just wondered I know some days we just like whacking up a big corner especially if we’re on our todd.👍🏻
@@shaundownes4329 exactly that 👌🏼
100% machine. Great skills CC
Another banging video stay positive Charlie
Why they not wait with the overhanging construction of the roof so u can use profiles with line and where is the insulation here
Hi mate just wanted to see if you had any tip on bricklaying as I’m in my first year at college .I get told that my joints are shit any advice on sorting it out
Buen video, saludos desde México 🇲🇽✌🏻
Why isn't they any insulation in between the cavity wall??
Still no labouring going on for you Charlie.Good job on you tod mate.
You cant keep going like that you'll pay for it in 10 years time i been there trust me.
Not sure how you pay the hoddy but as an idea you may do this but take one on full time holiday pay the lot .Full time hoddy may get a better return long term then Charlie. Cant work hit and miss like that mate.
Love the videos good luck mate hope you sort it all out .
Justin brickright 👍
Nice dry bricks those Charlie marra
Where did you buy the magnetic belt for your trowel?
CSCS question how many points of contact on a ladder answer 3. You broke it first minute lol
Top brick/block line clamp that Charlie. 😊
whats the story with insulation in gable none goin in? plus im not a fan of fibre glass i believe in kingspan ?
Any chance you can show how you do the cuts around the ladders?
Do you get paid by the piece or the square meter?
and what happened to your guys?
Charlie, thanks for the tip on how to keep the perps full and plumb. I am not a bricklayer so how do you know the courses are to gauge? I know your good mate but come on! Is it eye sweet cos it is high up or do you score your level?
I use my eye for a 10mm bed.. I’ll stick my level on it every now and then to make sure it’s not running up one end...
Your that good then Charlie
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Don’t know what it is about this channel but I’m obsessed. Fascinating to watch a person at the top of their craft. I couldn’t lay a brick to save my life, thank you for your work!
if I'm going to watch another 55 min video char your going to need to start giving us a little sing song 😂😂😂
What's the prices like essexway looking to move back down later this year looks like there's plenty of it about
Why the hell they do the fascia and soffit first I do not know. Crazy
Even worse if the roof is complete.
I’m up Banbury way Charlie and the frost never lifted all day.......it’s grim up north lol
Loving the new videos, please take no offence by this but your work looks SO much cleaner lately and it seems like you’re taking more pride in it! Appreciate the hard work looking forward to the next one.
Is it true bricklayers only work in summer? I rlly want to do something like that (or a gas engineer) but if there’s no work in winter then theirs no money? Keep up the good work 🙏
Not true at all, however weather conditions determine how much you can get done hence why people think it's a summer job. But you can have the best weather all summer but if silo keeps breaking down fork lift ain't good etc then ya gna lose out no matter what
@@Tricky181 so they do work in winter
@@luisali932 yes mate
@@Tricky181 wow I never knew that. I thought they had to stop when it rains or when it gets to a certain temperature
@@luisali932 yeah can't work in rain. As the mortar will get washed out the joints. Temperature is usually when it's too cold as the water in the mortar will freeze therefore crack once set
Monster pikes on yer Tod those Charlie 💪🏽🧱👍🏼
Well done
Francis lasted long 😂😂😂 feel sorry for you Charlie mate
he might of lasted longer if this prick didnt video him having a shite
@@garybarnett4821 what😂 what’s that got to do with it
@@garybarnett4821 that was Kieron! Don’t get your nickers in a twist.
What trowel is that you are using chaz?
keep the hard work up
Do u know you can get 13 bricks in a hod mate 👍🏻
@@martin2466 I could imagen
I have seen someone on UA-cam super hob, I bet they didn't have a long life span
Thank you for subtitle in your Videos. Nice content. !
Charlie where you get those line clips from mate
They are called fitzbrick clamps, £50 a pair roughly Google it...uses them in a lot of his content hope that helps
why did not get hoddy load out day before
The problem with most site agents is they have never lifted up a tool in their lives. “ I’ve never done your job before but this book tells me you are doing it wrong”.
100% and they say the dumbest shit to look like they no what there talking about