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- Skills tests are an industry assessment of occupational competence taken by apprentices who wish to practice in their relevant craft. They demonstrate that apprentices have the level of competence and productivity expected by the industry.
I got apprentice of the year when I was at trade school. My dad also got state apprentice of the year back in his day. He was a great brickie.
I admire anyone who can do that. I do occasional terrible brick work in my garden for things like patio retaining walls.
Pick a trade and stick at it don,t try learning everything it takes years for it all to come together and right in whatever trade you choose.
I disagree. Initially yes but branching out and becoming a multi skilled tradesman opens up many more job opportunities and greatly relieves the monotony of laying bricks every day.
I wish I could have done this years ago. I did do short course at ableskills in Kent, but it was over a few weekends and I wasn't really that good . But I gave it a try though. There was no test at the end and I paid out my own pocket, mainly through curiosity. I'm near retirement age now. If I had to learn something, I'd start with a small shed or something
I'm my own boss I always pass
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Good to see theyre teaching about hard hats too, wouldnt be without 1 especially when your on the top lift with fuck all above you.
Let me know when you get to the part about Bricklaying. I don't need no bait and switch schooling tyvm.
wow skills test was alot harder in my day. Had do do a two skin cornered cavity wall with gable end and soldier course, detached pier (same), and a racking Shaw corner which i lost one point on 32/33 dammit !
lol an exam for laying brick! what'll they think of next. 1st they came for the lawyers, then they came for the bricklayers, then one day, there was no one left to license. be careful my friends. society is ending!
who is running that school with a cut in the middle of the wall.
Probably an EASTERN EUROPEAN
I think you’ll find that the model is set out so there is a cut in the wall on purpose. And obviously you’d put the cut under the window as is standard procedure when building a house. But you already knew that didn’t you... 😂😂
Lol. What a load of bollocks. You know nothing about bricklaying. Never would you put a half in a wall. NEVER! And CITB would never encourage this. It's very simple. The bond on one corner needs reversing. He's set out incorrectly and failed this part of the exam. A half in a wall? For Christmas sake.
@@MrOitoyboy you cut out a cut under the window but you put 7" pieces nobody notices. Even 4 or 5 in one course.
I remember when trades were respected in the same way here in the states, now just run across the border and say your a tradesman.
Mark Chamberlain wrong you literally need a qualification to do it now
I wonder if they deconstructed a few courses to see how well the head and bed joints were filled.
We need this in the US. There are to many ppl who can lay brick but are not masons
You got that right Most of Americans have No idea what a mason is. I know because I am one
I learnt Bricklaying while on her majesty’s Service so as to get me out of my Cell and got a B+ and then became the Orderley
very simmilar to the tests in switzerland, here is the link for a vid that is showing a "swiss bricklayer" test in sursee switzerland.
cool video, makes me want to work in construction,,,
Till you're laying brick at 15°F
Did he put a half bat in wall under window.This can happen a's the window frame can turn a half bond to a broken bond and you would have to use a bat cut. This happens with reveals quite a lot from what ive seen but i am just a improver so not 100%.His work looked good to me.Pluss he is learning give him a break people.Ive seen a lot worse from so called experienced brickys.
Hi there, I am a Freemason and I am about to embark on a bricklaying apprenticeship, kind of goes hand in hand
Hugh Supersonic ?????
Best of luck to ya, at the time I type this you should be a second yr apprentice. I just hope they didn’t stick you on the saw all day for those two years.
I've seen a piece of timber used as a level, cavity wall claim on a single skin wall,
How to get that test booklet .. any link
Are there schools like this in the USA?
Can someone without a school or a course to apply for the test? i have green card i want to apply for the blue one
how does he make the window part ,??? with out the brick falling down??
stewart hughes a lintle (not sure of spelling)
Andrew Bobbin cool, thanks for the info!
Magic of the elves
So I will be able to work anywhere in the world will I ?
Stop hitting the damn level :)
I hit my level everyday lol
Yup that true lol.
Scrumpy Jack
Lol I’m a brickie and when at college fucking hell if u hit the level and the teacher saw or heard my god you knew it.
Stop hitting that bastard level lol.
Also always had a good laugh too.
Some times we had a mortar fight.
And always some lads slower then others go ask for the long weight LOL good old days
L F so you think wife beating and hitting women is acceptable? Pathetic excuse for a male.
@@Fromupnorth46 Yea especially when the woman hits the man first , women want equal rights so sometimes they get equal rights. .
I have interested with how to use masonry tools and eqiupments
frogs down lol. Not sure about that clip in the wall.
Couldn't believe he was putting a boat level on all the bricks in the cill!! It if looks good to the eye then that's good enough.love people like that.not!!!!
Money making scheme.....
Don’t become a Brickie Become a Chippie
“Craftsperson” instead of craftsman, and wearing a hi-vis jacket inside a test centre. That says it all about the PC BS you can expect. And the “skills test” is a total joke. A DIYer could master simple jobs like that in a weekend or two. How about testing them on different bonds, decorative details, arches & centring, curved walls, gable pikes, historic details like narrow joints in lime mortar, etc.. And perhaps the use of brick acid cleaner given how much mortar has been left on the brick faces.
Chill
rzl dzl - Come down to site and try managing progress of the job, when brickwork has to be taken down and redone, time after time, because the bricklayers lack the skills and experience needed to do a proper job.
Or come down to a housing estate a few years after construction, when walls are crumbling and stained with mortar and excessive efflorescence due to inadequate bricklaying practices.
This real and serious problem only exists because people have the irresponsible can’t be ar*** ‘chill’ attitude to life. How ‘chill’ would it be if a defectively built wall falls onto a child?
@@Benzknees I'm a career Mason my friend. I do manage new guys. The owner of the company I work for puts them with me. Because I'm chill, and can bring them along ;) have a great Sunday sir
rzl dzl - Okay, well that’s good, if you can pass on your experience and patience to them and check they’re not making any mistakes. But I’m just relating my own decades of experience of seeing way too many examples of sub-standard work, which is in no small part due to poor training and a lack of supervision. So it annoys me to see tradesmen (or should that be tradespersons) being presented as qualified after completing a college course.
Really??? thats it??? this is what stands between me and a blue cscs card?? XD
If this is how the CTBI trains our young apprentice then there is no wonder the standard of brickwork in Britain is so bad please get some new teachers.
British brickies are saught after in various european countries, spain and germany for example hire brickies in from england lol, and in australia there are many companies specifically advertising in the UK for our brickies to go over and work there... British brickies are world renound for being quality bricklayers... so where the fuck you got that opinion i dunno lol.
Cool
is the test hard or easy
You decide you've seen what they have to do. Hard for some, easy for others depending on your understanding and if youre capable
doing the test on camera - stressful
Its always puzzles me why standard bricks are so small relative to the structures that they create. If a brick was twice the size, maybe the work would be less, maybe not half the time, but still less time however?
Thats called a breeze block.
It's about manufacturing that's why wall tiles aren't 4ft sq you would have breakage and tolerance issues
@@goodie54321ag Thanks
In my country about 20 years ago they introduced a clay brick that was about 25% bigger. We used them on a couple of houses. For whatever reason after a few years they stopped making them. A downside for the brickies was the builder expected to pay the same per thou price for the laying. Maybe that’s why they stopped making them because the brickies were not interested in being paid the same piece rate yet having to handle bigger bricks with bigger upright joint surface area.
Eh??? I thought it was frogs down, to save mortar.
Nope... Frog up for structural strength
No it can be either bricks used to have two frogs frog down is easier to adjust without brick rolling 40+ years experience ok
@@goodie54321ag It’s frog up 🐸
i did a brick laying course, but i still dont think all the details are necessary as after u can plaster the wall... so most of the imperfection will not be noticed...
stewart hughes what about the external wall? thats not plastered
Andrew Bobbin indeed..
+Andrew Bobbin that would be rendering Andrew :)
+JCBAirmaster73 bang on the money mate
Michangelo carved elaborate details on the backs of statues when the backs of those statues would never ever be seen by the public. Do it right, not to a standard you can get away with.
How do u go abt gettin ur advanced craft for bricklayin
Spell the course correctly would be a start
Apply at a college. Anything above level 2 has to be done on site so you to be employed. If youre over 19 you have to pay yourself, maybe get a lian as uni students have to.
@@jamiebenwells2890 an arrogant smart arse like you should know, theres no requirement to spell correctly or have good grammar in any vocational qualification. (Assuming YOU have one). The certificate is for bricklaying, not english grammar. That would be a GCSE, O or A level, all academic qualifications.
wish i could do it perfectly that process
When your finished your work who takes it down again
Demolition skills test
At my school we took it down ourselves.
6" cut in wall? You failed the test and the trade.
PaddleDogC5 it's actually designed in to the test!
Put 3/4 under a window I’d ok
@@kierenboimufc5940 trust me 😂😂 it's the perps that threw him or the setting out
James Lawlor yeah noticed how the reveals he’s starting to wonder from half bond
@@chapmanikov4 yeah by IDIOTS
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Work in any country in the world bullshit , some states are different to each other regarding qualifications in australia
I flunked this test badly
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Looks hard :/
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noob just need a train
who the fuk is teaching them? 🤤
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