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always enjoy your vids andy,i went to where they made the double diamond bricks as part of my city and guilds back in the 1970s,given all the speel re excavating the clay,then spreading out for weathering for 6 months so the rain would wash the salts out before making the bricks,then went outside and watched the clay being excavated and being put straight on a conveyor to be made into bricks.....built a block of flats in caterham a few years later with double ds .....they went as white as a sheet the following winter full of efforescence,the rep from the brick company blamed the sand we used

1975, is still after the H&S at Work Act!?

If you said who are the problem your Chanel would be deleted , the communist bankers are the filth that keep us all down

I am good friends with a bricklayer, he has just turned 80 and will not quit, he is the only one i use to build anything that comes my way, he is still as strong as an Ox has 11 stents in and never complains says it all about the youth, but to be honest our families are to small now as the women fell for myth that they need to work instead of having a family, we are all paying for this lie now

Old fools aren't as agile or flexible so tend to fall more than the young numptys,,, hate all the safety shite, Nhbc is ran by fools, site agents used to be old tradesmen but now uni tools.

Love to hear from ol' timers like yourself. Gives me a lot of perspective as a young person and a lot to think about.

I advise the younger generating to be a Sparky. My best bud just retire a multi-millionaire. He was thick at school (admits himself) 😂 He went to the local tech collage at 16 and got an apprenticeship with a local firm. Later he went alone, started employing lads and built up his business.

Welcome back andy..happy new year..😊

Come to Australia big money here. And pom bricklayer's are making a killing here.

It's this country. I did a hairdressing apprenticeship 21 years ago, still doing it now. The money is terrible, about 22k, no sick pay, minimum holiday and you need to save x amount for having a week off after Xmas. So not really 4 weeks. The clients are so demanding and they moan about paying £38 to look great. Yet my mate who puts a brush in a paint pot and puts it on the wall is on 300 a day. How? I can do his job but he can't do mine. Tbh the general public just do my head in and there's so much legislation now. Oh yeah, no lunch break either as they think they're doing you a favour only working straight 9-5. Plus weekends (ugh). So form a queue people! I regret it so much. I have tried changing careers several times but employers seem you've done my job for 20 years and you can't do anything else. Which my CV says differently! Joke of a country. I resent paying my tax and NI to this country as I get nothing back.

Great video mate Everything you mention is spot on I’m 55 now and been doing it since 86 Started with whimpey on the card with the bonus scheme and loved it as a youngster. We got layed off last month,my mate is 60 now. And now we gotta find something in jan with the weather turning crap . Last year we were out from dec to April,can’t sign on unless you got no savings in bank . We are actually on 550 per thousand on timber frame in south wales .we earn a wage but overall you are off then the next week through incompetence or Silo breaking down ! I hate it now and we don’t know what to do now as it’s all I’ve known since school U just get treated like crap all the time .the nhbc thing now is unbelievable.closing sites down to inspect . They want to eat their dinner off your cavities . I’d never choose this again ,I’d be pensioned off now somewhere else Rant over 😒 Top vid mate 👍

The avarage full-time salary in the UK is £39K, so you're better off than most. The problem is that we are all worse off than we used to be. At least unemployment is lower than it was in '75... for now.

I'm a decorator myself and I wouldn't recommend anyone going into it very few make a good living. I wouldn't recommend anyone going into any construction job the pay doesn't equal the hard craft. And it seems the ones that do a average or below average job make more than the ones that take pride in the job. compared to a lot of other industries labour money ratio is better.

Can you believe there’s still deluded people out there that are advertising for sparks paying £185 to £210 a day in London , what a F**** joke , London should be at least £250 a day for a normal days work in this day and age ( in reality £300 to £350 a day regarding todays cost of living) , I work outside London nowadays and still earn at least £240 a day for 8 hours if it’s 10 hours or so it’s around £320 ish no less , I’m glad I’m in my fifties and starting to slow down now but your right what you said regarding the younger generation doesn’t want to work because I come across them on a regular basis plus most think they are going to be millionaires by the time they’re 40 ( watching to many influencers) which is crazy 😂 PS: there’s DEI employees in certain councils that earn up to 100k a year for doing sweet F A whilst tradesmen graft all day

It's the same with most jobs. The arse has been yanked out of most things now. They want you dead by the time you arrive home. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and wages haven't altered in years. They've just slowly taken, taken, and taken.

Like governments around the world, lying, theiving, conniving, scum. In Australia they are bringing in hundreds of thousands of immigrants because they are instant tax payers, propping up the economy, the younger generation can't afford to buy a house here any more, sold out by sucsessive worthless fools running this country that blame the previous government when questioned.

Im a carpenter, prices are going down, not up on sites, day work rates haven't changed in years, health and safety,gets more ridiculous every day,my van as been done 3 times, thousands of pounds worth of tools stolen, that's my whinge over,😂

Fk the building trade ...

Gee I didn't know Britain didn't have unions in construction sector,no wonder conditions and pay have eroded, I know unions aren't perfect but it is starting point for collective power against corporate interests. Australia seems better on this point a number of unions across various trades

How does A.I. factor into this conversation?

wahhhhhh! wahhhhh!

For any Brickies with an appetite for a career change, look into Quantity Surveying, better money, better working conditions and even work from home. The first 2 years is a small pay cut, after that you can earn much more and still be fresh at the end of the day.

Wages haven't increased much in the last 10 years. I was getting more pay around London back in 2015 than most are getting now, and the recession was just ending in 2015

Great video andy, just out of interest why do you favour a plastic handle over any other handle i found them to be quite slippy and they wear down quicker when you tap with it

what is brick quality like these days? has it changed over the years?

Iv been a joiner since i left school 1975 still plodding on had some great jobs had loads of hit one's the problem now is the influx of foreign labour and the decreasing skill levels that would be resolved by a strong union. Unfortunately the construction industry de-unioised in the 1980,s and the men went as so called self employed'they never where' now you reap what you sowed. I am still in the union which actually never did fuck all for me but it was a habit im a socialist. If we had all stuck together we wouldnt have the foreign invasion.useless apprentices. Thick as fuck under educated site managers

My late partner saw this coming and got out 20 years ago

Great video mate thank you

Nhbc have fecked private houses

16:55 спасибо за полезное видео, такой инструмент закажу у кузнеца.

site work , stick it , we buy , and sell our own houses and cover all trades but we are bricklayers by trade for over 300 years

Goes across the whole building trade really as it is all about the cheapest, causal, sackable, fast workers, working from dawn to duck and hopefully not getting laid off in the middle but thinking they will be on a top surgeons money or even thinking they are worth that sort of money. When any trade take the back end of your health with it, it all takes some long and hard thinking about.

Nhbc don’t no how to do the job just talk shit

you got to be taking the piss is it worth doing have you tried getting brick layers they want a fortune and are pirates when it comes to money and i dont begrudge anybody getting as much as they can but to say is it worth doing you defo taking the piss

Do you think they might get damp if they fill the cavity with insulation?

That is a very nice building. I have so many questions (7) please. 1) 2:47 I know you didn't do the extension, but why would they use full length bricks on the springers, rather than continue the rowlocks, I see the rest of the house is like that, but I was curious. 2) At 3:26 when you say tested, do they just test for the presence of lime or do they give actual mix ratios 1:2:9 etc Also, the weather struck pointing here is a lot nicer as it isn't massively oversized. 3) 3:49 Will you be doing the brick matching for the blown bricks as well? 4) 4:12 Am I correct in saying those are rowlocks (at least it looked like - I may be wrong)? Why would they be randomly chucked in? 5) 4:36 the wooden lintels, look like they have a bit more than the regular 150mm seating, say 200mm? 6) 5:54 I remember on the last arch video, you said £30 a brick, were they completely different to these? 7) 8:04 is not possible to render the bricks rather than replace, like on the last arch you showed us? Thank you 🙏

The amount of money you earn and yet you're still complaining. What a dinosaur.

The cause of death for over-60s on building sites might include over-familiarity.

This is entitled nonsense from a completely out of touch boomer. Laying bricks isn't as difficult or valuable to society as being a surgeon, and why the heck is it relevant what footballers earn. £220 a day is not nothing, it's well above the average UK wage for what is a slightly above average difficulty job. Boomer tradesmen are some of the most deluded self important parts of the workforce it seems.

got developers pleading poverty while flying around in their helicopter while paying the same prices as 5 years ago

Being a Groundworker from North London on the Housebashing for last 35 years I can tell you that Bricklaying is probably the toughest trade imho Between lost wet time and cold weather temps it's a harsh trade Good Bricklayers are worth there weight in Gold especially when you think they can knock out Good quality graft 💪 Im not gonna start on the foreigners

Bulling and intimidation in building !!! They don't say what they need or want they just treat you like shit oh and they talk like chavs

Have @Wonderful New Year's! // thanks

Not many bricklayers want to teach, no wonder numbers are dwindling. Wages haven't moved in years yet government want all these houses built! Too many middlemen raking it in while the bricklayers get crums ! No bricklaying isn't worth it anymore!

I laid a brick this morning in the toilet 🚽 🪠

When i started it was stopping at ten and one o clock for a proper cup of tea and sandwhich out of your buscuit tin,50kg bags of cement were just coming to a end and cavitys where fifty mm done a city and guilds in brickwork,went to college five days a week done theory and technical drawings and communication skills as part of city and guilds and built all types of walls,bonds arches,never once did i ever see or learn about profiles in college or on site, it was all building corners i think it needs to go back to that as its not really a skilled trade any more,from training to design to build now its all nonsense

Bricklaying ,pricework all my life, made a few bob ,retired just at 63 ,thank fuck ,was in Germany aswell ,well said everything you have said is true Fuck bricklaying glad im out of it ,❤

Nothing worth doing anymore in the UK why pay tax to keep a load of idle bxxxxxxx

If you had bought gold in 1975 which was 100 dollars an ounce today gold is 2600 dollars an ounce it pays to be saving in gold and silver

Why I went to university to get a step up in life 😊