training to be a bricklayer why not ?

[Theorysparky]

Seen how much they get an hour ??

BRICKLAYERS job - Randstad / Hill McGlynn - Crawley | Indeed.co.uk

 

[johninlondon1]

110 per day not per hour. jobcentre error

 

[Theorysparky]

Yes John

I know......

but its nice to see mistakes like that and wonder...

how many brickies are going to phone up

 

[Doc Hudson]

And its 45hours per week, 45 x

 

[johninlondon1]

I worked for about 12 hours over Friday, Saturday and sunday and earned over

 

[batty]

I am a qualified brickie whats the number again.

 

[Apache]

Badger's got a 'Bricky'. Think he was looking for a change

Bricky Wall Building Tool

 

[revjames]

got oone of these but never used it, lent it someone never had it back. TBH I did the footings for the conservatory and used a laser level and a string line as well as a spirit level, rubber mallet to knock the blocks down until I saw the red glow of the laser on top of the bricks and just carried on like that. never laid bricks before and havent since but it looks OK.

 

[a1]

Pics please Rev.

 

[kerching]

There are not that many things that I cannot do and achieve a passable [ish] standard. Bricklaying however total fricking waste of time!!! How fricking hard can it be??? Does not matter what 'bond' you are doing, English, Stretcher, garden Wall, Soldiers, Rat-trap etc it is all 'one brick on top of two'....ALL my brickwork has to be rendered or plastered I AM CARP AT IT !!!.....did a short garden wall once, string not tight enough and formed a perfect parabola, did not really matter as it was not plumb either... :coat

 

[revjames]

Pics please Rev.

OK the footings needed to be 600mm deep so about 100mm of concrete in the trench and 2 courses of blocks. The red brick was laid by a professional. I laid only the concrete blocks. The whole job including materials and labour, plastering inside and wiring, flooring and internal doors cost just

 

[OnOff]

The "Bricky". I have one, have used it and am VERY impressed. It makes laying NEAT blockwork PI$$ easy IMHO. Not used it for laying bricks but lent it to a mate who did for his conservatory and again he found it a good thing. It does what it says on the tin. Was always put off of block laying before I got one: