I appreciate a boss/supervisor that talks and teaches the people under them without patronising or making them feel stupid or inferior. Just found your channel, and subbed. Great quality work too
Love your videos. Speed and accuracy. I was a union bricklayer here in the states until I was 29 when I started college. Worked as a geologist until I retired. Now 72 and considering getting a job laying bricks again.
YT algorithm is a funny thing - today it brings me some bricklaying. And why not? Respect for teaching with a laugh and for the speed you place those bricks - watching you serve the mud is amazing! Oh, and love your tattoos too!
I was on a taylor wimpey site and two of the brickies I was working with were late back after lunch break and the boss walked over to their car and they were smoking crack lool got sacked the same day
Tell ya what one.of the nicest Bricklayers I have ever seen I'm a left hander retired.from it now.but lovy clean technique . What a pleasure to watch to see such a young.lad with a great skill . Take souch pride in his work. You could reach us awld guys a thing or two lad. Great future ahead of you son keep.it up 👍
3:30. When you talk about fast tradesmen. Omg there was a plasterer on our site. And he was so fast. He used to literally do double the amount as the others. He had a guy with him as well. And he used to finish early . And when he left the site. You would have other spreads checking his walls for level and that. And it was all spot on. He used to make a fortune 😂😂😂
I just found your channel, I'm a programmer by trade, worked only 3 days in my life on a site lol. But TH-cam provides! Love the content mate, really good stuff. Also LOVE your coat in the middle of the van at start of video lol 😅
I’m a retired pommie brickie have been in Australia for about 35. Years when I lived in UK built corners but never have here a. But our profiles and the way we set them up is so simple and quick Those profiles you use are too complicated The thing is it’s all about making a Dollar a.
Nice one Charlie , your a good teacher....😃 That was brilliant at the end driving along with your little girl and your dog looking intensely through the window.....👍
Thanks for sharing your videos. I have finished my working life and have a trade I can look back on and recall. You Mr C will have monuments all over the place and when your kids and grandchildren come along you can say with pride "I BUILT THAT!" the late great Fred Dibnah always admired the work and art of the brick layer and said if he had to drop a chimney at least you could take the time to do it. Stay well and keep your trade alive.
I do masonry in America and your work is awesome great job and definitely perfesional.👍 although your work soothes me watching you get your baby girl won me over! Your a true Mason I'm subscribed cheers 🍻 brother
Always remember there is more to life then working and money. If you think that's all there is in life you will fall in to a deep depression. As they tell us in the army pma. Positive mental attitude
agree 100% but unfortunately not all of us got a degree that pays 5 or 6 figures for a 40 hour work week. i've been in the building trades for over 7 years and i have to work 45-50+ hour weeks to live "comfortably". school is out of the question since I don't have the time, motivation, or passion to sit down and study. these bills don't pay itself
My dear old dad used to say work at your own pace....don't let the work run you....but then again he was an old school builder.... he had a .good work ethic like yourself Mr Collison
Well done on the 3stone lose harry and Charlie I wouldn't stand for the lads trying to get lippy while Amy ain't there lol but you are a brilliant and fast brickie
When the Architect and the builder and the owner showed up on site, they said to my boss "What's the idea of havin' the apprentice doing the feature brickwork right out the front of this job?" He said "Don't you worry about Benji, he might be slow, but he's rough!"
You have a talent use it get as much as you can as quick as you can life is to short .lam 65 now and set a time to retire 55 it’s the best thing l ever did .nick
Charlie you & Amy with a good labourer get banging some extensions in & a few brick walls here & there.Amy will learn too build the corners off you etc...& then if your knot earning enough jump back on site...whs the best mate.👍💯
I’m not a bricky but what ever trade your in over years you get good/fast so if your slow & not very good just practice. The only way you will get good & fast is experience.
Its a young man's game . Great laugh .but when it rains for the day it costs u 2x the days pay u lost n the days pay u spent in the pub. Left me with a degenerative spine lots ov meds
Lays bricks in a way I've never seen but bloody neat and quick doesn't smudge anything! Those profiles look like a pain in the arse to do tho I suppose once you get used to them they'd be alright
Charlie... You can mark your profile with a fine pen from the bottom flange then put a small hacksaw cut on the mark... No more gauging every time you put them up mate. 🧱
That’s all well and good if you’re having to hit gauge every time. What happens if you have to either bump or grind? Those hacksaw marks are now useless....
@@tonyk.9212 I hear you.. however, it defeats the object of having ready made hacksaw marks in your profile. The time it takes him to put his gauging level on and mark it up means he has “damage free” profiles. I used to work with a Bricky who used to Mark a profile and then tell you we need to grind 15mm so keep below. When I went out on my own, I’d mark the profiles to suit as opposed to the lads guessing how high or low they’d have to be each course 👊🏼
You're putting the pressure on all of us with your hasty stacking. Half of the workday should be spent minnying about, failing to be funny, losing your trowel and whining for teatime. There's your comfort. 12:00 some nylon or rubber pad at the ends prevent cracking.
Charlie your work is always sharp as a tack, nice clean lines. dont you give them haters the time of day. youre a good possitive person dont let 'em taint you.
Can anyone answer why the large gap between the brick and block, why they only lay one layer at a time instead of two to three? Interesting to see a different way of building.
Jesus Charlie if you speed up the other guys would have nothing to do buddy 😳 I sopose they could load-up rest of bricks-blocks, I used to hate loading them horrible concrete blocks, had no material left on my work hoodie,just a ripped hole to my skin, but yea loved it, not!! Anyway have a good one pal ✊🏼
new to this channel ,, gotta say pure art there guv ,,, you make it look easy ,, but i dabbled on homework ,, and it isnt ,,,, well done and respect to you
I’m a tiler. Slight similarities but yea quality workmanship. My Daughter situation was the same as yours a while back for me, mine was about the same age it takes them a while to get used to the upheaval you can see shes happy but but unsure lol, it’ll become natural soon enough for her pal , hang in there mate it’s hard.
Start my bricklaying labouring job on Monday. I’m 19 have 0 experience in the trade it’s the trade I’ve always wanted to do. You got any tips as bit worried and excited. Don’t want them to think I’m stupid. So yeah any tips?
This is the Boss he got kicked off for tossing his salad in the milk and wiping bogies in the sugar so it looks like dried up coffee bits, terrible behaviour from a grown man honestly, I’ve heard he’s signing on living in an homeless shelter outside of Newcastle.
The guys I knew all did their time, and moved on to piece-work, their work had to be good as well as fast if they wanted to be paid. I don’t remember purpose made profiles then, just bits of old skirting and roofing battens ! Congratulations on using a proper trowel with straight edges not one of those silly round edge American things ! My best brickie mate used to prefer a horrible great 14” narrow heel for 4 1/2” work but I could not handle the thing ! (comes of not being a bricklayer ) Hod carriers, great, mad,people. They can make a bricklaying crew, 3+1 or 5+2 keep you going and work 2 hrs a day more than you, mind you I suppose they are not allowed to jump off the scaffold into the sand any more, or slide down the ladders !
Not a Hod in sight, these labourers have it cushty all the muck is pre mixed forklifts loading bays brick and pug lifted up might come out of retirement and look for a start!!
Hi Charlie hope all is well mate,l"m coming back to the industry after a few years away could you recommend a corner profile make that's quality? I've just ordered some fitzbrick clamps as well,cheers and any help be appreciated.
So true I bet the clown who gave him his 2 yellow cards isn't as safety concious at home, they put these jobsworth shit for brains to run these dog box boring as bat shit sites they couldn't run a fucking bath never mind a site I bet he's got a really big lego set at home sets it all up as a site and then shows his wife how he had to give the hod carrier 2 yellow cards.
No worries, I'll have a look on amazon ect, I've been bricklaying since 82, but I'm still learning from your vids especially the pic and dip method, great vi's bud keep them coming 👍
You should appreciate the fact he is teaching you the art of corner building . I remember my Dad had me rolling mortar all day long when I first started .I had 6 months of corner building before I could run in with the others .I had the best Bricklayer teaching me ,sad to say they are passed away now but great memories and great laughs . Take notice of what your Bricklayer is teaching you it seems he is teaching you well 😉
Alright Charlie . Why call a modern day bricky labourer a hod carrier ? most couldn't manage a hod nowadays , times have changed and not many modern day lads could manage a hod over an 8 hour shift up a ladder , and it's a knack to load a hod with muck and carry up ladder . Can a hod still be purchased ?
You are fast bricky but your work looks neat and your actually teaching the employees instead of using them as cheap labour. Only thing I will say , your young you can keep that pace . But remember if this is your career look after yourself.
I appreciate a boss/supervisor that talks and teaches the people under them without patronising or making them feel stupid or inferior. Just found your channel, and subbed. Great quality work too
The kinda boss labourers love, Polite, informative & professional. Someone to look up to. Well done mate
My thoughts exactly. I've worked with some right cunts
Love this comment I am a certified tile layer and i love Learning new trades from guys like this
I honestly don’t know how I’ve ended up watching these brick laying videos all the time, I’m not even a bricky🤣
Same mate 🤣 i'm an IT Technician
I'm an American welder but this shit is oddly interesting.
Same here, I work in an office. I’ve been watching these for a while and find them very therapeutic!
I am the same work in IT and have been binge watching concrete laying videos :)
Chef
Love your videos. Speed and accuracy. I was a union bricklayer here in the states until I was 29 when I started college. Worked as a geologist until I retired. Now 72 and considering getting a job laying bricks again.
Quick,Tidy and attention to detail equals quality work and i like the way you talk to the trainees good work mate.
YT algorithm is a funny thing - today it brings me some bricklaying. And why not? Respect for teaching with a laugh and for the speed you place those bricks - watching you serve the mud is amazing! Oh, and love your tattoos too!
I was on a taylor wimpey site and two of the brickies I was working with were late back after lunch break and the boss walked over to their car and they were smoking crack lool got sacked the same day
Tell ya what one.of the nicest Bricklayers I have ever seen I'm a left hander retired.from it now.but lovy clean technique . What a pleasure to watch to see such a young.lad with a great skill . Take souch pride in his work. You could reach us awld guys a thing or two lad. Great future ahead of you son keep.it up 👍
I’m a roofer and roughcaster but it’s great to watch a really good Bricky making it look easy smooth well done 👍
3:30. When you talk about fast tradesmen. Omg there was a plasterer on our site. And he was so fast. He used to literally do double the amount as the others. He had a guy with him as well. And he used to finish early . And when he left the site. You would have other spreads checking his walls for level and that. And it was all spot on. He used to make a fortune 😂😂😂
Seems like a decent bloke/boss, keep up the great attitude champion.
I just found your channel, I'm a programmer by trade, worked only 3 days in my life on a site lol. But TH-cam provides! Love the content mate, really good stuff. Also LOVE your coat in the middle of the van at start of video lol 😅
The ending with all 3 of you sat in the van was just proper funny I don’t know why 😂
Watching this is like looking at art to me. It's great to see skillz honed so well and someone so absolutely on top of their craft.
Good to see we still have some tradesmen left in this country who can build corners . Keep up the good work.
I’m a retired pommie brickie have been in Australia for about 35. Years when I lived in UK built corners but never have here a. But our profiles and the way we set them up is so simple and quick Those profiles you use are too complicated The thing is it’s all about making a Dollar a.
Nice one Charlie , your a good teacher....😃
That was brilliant at the end driving along with your little girl and your dog looking intensely through the window.....👍
another great little video...your work ethic is the best on TH-cam.
Cheers mate 🙏
great video Charlie . THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD WHEN YOUR DAUGHTER HOLDS DADDYS HAND !!
a tip: you can watch movies on Kaldrostream. Been using it for watching a lot of movies recently.
@Payton Rohan Definitely, been using kaldrostream for years myself :)
@Payton Rohan yea, I've been using KaldroStream for years myself :)
@Payton Rohan yea, have been using Kaldrostream for since november myself :D
@Payton Rohan Yea, I have been watching on KaldroStream for months myself :D
Чарли, твоя розовая зачетная куртка на заднем плане в авто-просто отпад.😊😊😊
My vans the same. Everything has its place till it's Friday home time and it's 'fuck it throw it in'
Sort it out Monday
@@nuttygeezer830 thats sundays work
Keeping everything in it's own spot makes it easier to see if somethings missing.
@@thesillypig785 What like the hod carrier 🤷🏻♂️
Always look after your tools!! And your tools will look after you!! My old boss Wouldn't leave site until his tools were cleaned
Thanks for sharing your videos. I have finished my working life and have a trade I can look back on and recall. You Mr C will have monuments all over the place and when your kids and grandchildren come along you can say with pride "I BUILT THAT!"
the late great Fred Dibnah always admired the work and art of the brick layer and said if he had to drop a chimney at least you could take the time to do it.
Stay well and keep your trade alive.
Could Watch you do this all day man 🙌🏻 Great job buddy💪🏻😁
I do masonry in America and your work is awesome great job and definitely perfesional.👍 although your work soothes me watching you get your baby girl won me over! Your a true Mason I'm subscribed cheers 🍻 brother
Good to watch Charlie again and still good video
These videos are great😊 man management skills on point too, very professional approach
Always remember there is more to life then working and money. If you think that's all there is in life you will fall in to a deep depression. As they tell us in the army pma. Positive mental attitude
agree 100% but unfortunately not all of us got a degree that pays 5 or 6 figures for a 40 hour work week. i've been in the building trades for over 7 years and i have to work 45-50+ hour weeks to live "comfortably". school is out of the question since I don't have the time, motivation, or passion to sit down and study. these bills don't pay itself
dont they also tell you to shoot fuck out of people and blow up kids!
@@seanmcgrath9167 The army teaches you how to shoot people? Fuck me you must be a detective to have worked that out…
Being in the army would depress me
@@ToTaLePiCpEaNuT and what. I believe men are made to fight and I believe there is only one way to die nobly and that's on the filed. Just my opinion.
just found your channel, and can't believe I've spent 3 hours watching you, great viewing, keep it up - please.
My dear old dad used to say work at your own pace....don't let the work run you....but then again he was an old school builder.... he had a .good work ethic like yourself Mr Collison
i dont know why i ended up here but i learnt something new today great job dude keep it up
First time I have ever watched a video of bricklayers, won’t be the last, really enjoyed the crack and the work was outstanding 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Well done on the 3stone lose harry and Charlie I wouldn't stand for the lads trying to get lippy while Amy ain't there lol but you are a brilliant and fast brickie
Charlie boi is legend!!👍 watch n learn kids!!
It's interesting how UK bricklaying is so different from American. It's cool seeing the roots of the trade.
Nice to see how you treat your guys with respect good on you fella !
This is quite a cool video, good to see craftsmen doing what they enjoy.
Some Bricklayers Hit The Trifecta -Slow ,Rough And Expensive !!
It's a rare talent.
When the Architect and the builder and the owner showed up on site, they said to my boss
"What's the idea of havin' the apprentice doing the feature brickwork right out the front of this job?"
He said "Don't you worry about Benji, he might be slow, but he's rough!"
You have a talent use it get as much as you can as quick as you can life is to short .lam 65 now and set a time to retire 55 it’s the best thing l ever did .nick
Charlie you & Amy with a good labourer get banging some extensions in & a few brick walls here & there.Amy will learn too build the corners off you etc...& then if your knot earning enough jump back on site...whs the best mate.👍💯
I’m not a bricky but what ever trade your in over years you get good/fast so if your slow & not very good just practice. The only way you will get good & fast is experience.
That dinner at the very end is crackin
Great vid. You do what you have to do. Not always fun. You have a tremendous work ethic along with great ability. Very nice!!!
Its a young man's game . Great laugh .but when it rains for the day it costs u 2x the days pay u lost n the days pay u spent in the pub. Left me with a degenerative spine lots ov meds
Lays bricks in a way I've never seen but bloody neat and quick doesn't smudge anything! Those profiles look like a pain in the arse to do tho I suppose once you get used to them they'd be alright
Losing 3 stone in that amount of time and is really impressive! Keep up the good work Harry!
amazing achievement, not an easy job for a big lad to shed that much weight, anyone that does deserves recognition. top work harry lad!
Charlie... You can mark your profile with a fine pen from the bottom flange then put a small hacksaw cut on the mark... No more gauging every time you put them up mate. 🧱
That’s all well and good if you’re having to hit gauge every time. What happens if you have to either bump or grind? Those hacksaw marks are now useless....
@@1983robbo??... Then you move the line to suit pal
@@tonyk.9212 I hear you.. however, it defeats the object of having ready made hacksaw marks in your profile.
The time it takes him to put his gauging level on and mark it up means he has “damage free” profiles.
I used to work with a Bricky who used to Mark a profile and then tell you we need to grind 15mm so keep below.
When I went out on my own, I’d mark the profiles to suit as opposed to the lads guessing how high or low they’d have to be each course 👊🏼
You're putting the pressure on all of us with your hasty stacking. Half of the workday should be spent minnying about, failing to be funny, losing your trowel and whining for teatime. There's your comfort. 12:00 some nylon or rubber pad at the ends prevent cracking.
I always tell the learners to get the quality right first, before speed as that will come later!
Love the vids pal.keep it up
Watching 👀 from Dublin..😁😁😁✌
Probably stupid question but how do you get the insulation in after you’ve done both inner and outer wall?
Charlie your work is always sharp as a tack, nice clean lines. dont you give them haters the time of day. youre a good possitive person dont let 'em taint you.
Of such men, England was made! Nice one Charlie, Subbed.
He's not Irish.
Can anyone answer why the large gap between the brick and block, why they only lay one layer at a time instead of two to three? Interesting to see a different way of building.
The gap is for insulation & ventilation. Lay one at a time so the bottom set doesn't shift under the weight of one's above while wet
An old bricklayer i worked under used to say a few bob in your pocket is good for the nerves.
Your a credit to the trade son.
Jesus Charlie if you speed up the other guys would have nothing to do buddy 😳 I sopose they could load-up rest of bricks-blocks, I used to hate loading them horrible concrete blocks, had no material left on my work hoodie,just a ripped hole to my skin, but yea loved it, not!! Anyway have a good one pal ✊🏼
new to this channel ,, gotta say pure art there guv ,,, you make it look easy ,, but i dabbled on homework ,, and it isnt ,,,, well done and respect to you
I’m a tiler. Slight similarities but yea quality workmanship. My Daughter situation was the same as yours a while back for me, mine was about the same age it takes them a while to get used to the upheaval you can see shes happy but but unsure lol, it’ll become natural soon enough for her pal , hang in there mate it’s hard.
Great vid mate. Subscribed!
Start my bricklaying labouring job on Monday. I’m 19 have 0 experience in the trade it’s the trade I’ve always wanted to do. You got any tips as bit worried and excited. Don’t want them to think I’m stupid. So yeah any tips?
How’s it going so far?
This is so interesting to watch ❤
Iv carried hod for 15 years. We do things quite similar. When you talk about laying the corners , do you mean the leads?
Got my sub buddy. Thanks for the videos.
Big well done on dropping the 3st!!
same here , im a heating engineer, this is hipnotizing
What was he kicked off for?
Jumping fence and walking on road
Shooting up in the toilet
@@bettyswollocks7683 taking a line off the top of the shit house,and left none for the forman
This is the Boss he got kicked off for tossing his salad in the milk and wiping bogies in the sugar so it looks like dried up coffee bits, terrible behaviour from a grown man honestly, I’ve heard he’s signing on living in an homeless shelter outside of Newcastle.
The guys I knew all did their time, and moved on to piece-work, their work had to be good as well as fast if they wanted to be paid. I don’t remember purpose made profiles then, just bits of old skirting and roofing battens ! Congratulations on using a proper trowel with straight edges not one of those silly round edge American things ! My best brickie mate used to prefer a horrible great 14” narrow heel for 4 1/2” work but I could not handle the thing ! (comes of not being a bricklayer ) Hod carriers, great, mad,people. They can make a bricklaying crew, 3+1 or 5+2 keep you going and work 2 hrs a day more than you, mind you I suppose they are not allowed to jump off the scaffold into the sand any more, or slide down the ladders !
Not a Hod in sight, these labourers have it cushty all the muck is pre mixed forklifts loading bays brick and pug lifted up might come out of retirement and look for a start!!
Cracking bricky and takes time to share his wisdom
Why was the Hod Carrier kicked off site? Not sure I understand...
Wot are those tool bags?
three stone Harry! bloody hell well done mate, got paid as well 👍
DO you use weep vents ?
Can you do a video where u show what tools you have a what u like the most and what you recommend
Hi Charlie hope all is well mate,l"m coming back to the industry after a few years away could you recommend a corner profile make that's quality? I've just ordered some fitzbrick clamps as well,cheers and any help be appreciated.
Blake’s profiles.
why 3 holes in the bricks ???
Give the child an olive you will be amazed what they like. Some of my grand children prefer savory to sweet stuff, and its better for them.
Hi Charlie do you use a whs trowel?? Cheers
Love your vids mate. Craftsman.
Health and safety on these sites is ridiculous these days. I cant even wear gloves when im working.
So true I bet the clown who gave him his 2 yellow cards isn't as safety concious at home, they put these jobsworth shit for brains to run these dog box boring as bat shit sites they couldn't run a fucking bath never mind a site I bet he's got a really big lego set at home sets it all up as a site and then shows his wife how he had to give the hod carrier 2 yellow cards.
Hi Charlie great vids bud, just wondering we're you got your magnetic level, we use 4 " profiles so would be good a good investment cheers 👍
It was given to me mate. I’m not sure where to get them sorry
No worries, I'll have a look on amazon ect, I've been bricklaying since 82, but I'm still learning from your vids especially the pic and dip method, great vi's bud keep them coming 👍
@@markroe5845 look on google mate stabila magnetic level 👍🏻
nice pink coat fella suits ya, is that the eddie izzard weekend coat?
Why was the hod booted off?
Am not a brick layer but been laying for years with my bricky and he has never used profiles always mad me build corners. Only started profiles lately
You should appreciate the fact he is teaching you the art of corner building .
I remember my Dad had me rolling mortar all day long when I first started .I had 6 months of corner building before I could run in with the others .I had the best Bricklayer teaching me ,sad to say they are passed away now but great memories and great laughs .
Take notice of what your Bricklayer is teaching you it seems he is teaching you well 😉
You wanna see the block layers work on the Chatham dockyard sites.
What make is your tool bag Charlie?
were have all the bricky's gone, we all ways built corners free hand
See u Sunday Charlie boy. Brilliant video as always
Charlie, you are the best!!!
bummer
The man is like a gelato ice cream man with the mortar spread it's all In the feel lads that little trowel speaks
Charlie, How many inches is your whs trowel?
This man is a fucking amazing he is blessed
Alright Charlie . Why call a modern day bricky labourer a hod carrier ? most couldn't manage a hod nowadays , times have changed and not many modern day lads could manage a hod over an 8 hour shift up a ladder , and it's a knack to load a hod with muck and carry up ladder . Can a hod still be purchased ?
what brand trowel is that?
What trowel is that
is there a point in the video where the hod carrier got kicked off or?
think im missed a bit lol
you make it look so easy mate
Why did the hod carrier get kicked off
Rained of this morning so watching this instead Fecking weather
2 long timbers and 2 G clamps, only takes 1min to set up, even less
You are fast bricky but your work looks neat and your actually teaching the employees instead of using them as cheap labour. Only thing I will say , your young you can keep that pace . But remember if this is your career look after yourself.
Wish i hadnt hurt my back i miss it
Im sittin here after sunday roast watchin the craic
Nice dinner my man 🍝🍗