Is BRICKLAYING a job worth doing anymore?

[@cton]

Not a bricklayer but you speaking about wages and prices of stuff these days hit home for me. Don’t feel like it’s worth going to work in this country. For what? A few extra beers and take aways on the weekend. Only stuff that’ll put you in an early grave anyway along with the stress of working just to get by. Save up to get a mortgage and what do you actually get? Half a million for an ex council house where you’ll be living on the same road as people who aren’t going to work anyway. England is finished I’m sad to say. I mean on top of all this, you’ve got the other problems. The knife crime, the doctors arriving by boats etc. If your skilled your better off going abroad. Where even if you might earn less your quality of life is better.

[@NeilMelling-pw6ts]

Most heroin crack users get about 1700 a month benefits 400 housing element Universal credit 396 Pip 600 Lwrca 300 Social workers and drug workers refer them all and do the forms to make sure they get all them benefits

[@simonstones1918]

Lol….about sums up Britain now. Disgusting what the successive traitors have done here…

[@TheSamboy2009]

I’m a site plumber and our prices have not changed in ten years! I work my nuts off from 7:30 to 4:00 and don’t even sit down for a bit of scran now. Remember the days when we stopped at 10,1 and 3 for a cuppa, everyone was happy and earned decent money! Even the sites had onsite cafes and it was a right laugh.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Yep, good days gone, I've actually left a job to go on another site because the canteen was better 😁

[@dansimpson222]

What wages are u getting

[@matylad87]

No fun anymore mate

[@matylad87]

Government hear in Australia have taken all powers of the CFMEU union mate

[@antonyetheridge1050]

i am 71,finished at 62 after my 3 rd back operation and struggled pain wise ever since.everything you said i agree with....i still miss the job.the weather seems to be more wet even in the summer nowadays.when i see glazed tilers earning more than bricklayers i know the worlds gone nuts

[@briancooper1273]

Nice to hear some sensible talk about the trade. I am an ex chippy, worked into my seventies self employed for forty years plus. Brought up four children or rather my wife did. I was at work average six days a week. Proud and privileged to have done so. There is a but though ... that was then and now's now would I do it again only if forced by circumstances. Enjoyed your talks keep it up.

[@WilliamStacey-r6i]

Hi Andy, same age as me mate. The old school bricklayers don’t want to work on sites, I have now run a building company for 30 years my two bricklayers at the moment are 65/63 the reason is they are bricklayers,not square box bashers.I want my guys to be happy , have the banter, do a days graft, go home to their families. My hand shake is my bond. My view is to any one that wants me to build them a house ,don’t take the piss and I won’t!! Ps, I tell all my apprentices if you shut your gob and listen I will make you a

[@jeffcarroll6959]

An excellent video Andy that I enjoyed. Although I've never worked in the building trade my dad did and I can still remember him making a doughnut shaped padded ring to fit under his beret to carry roof tiles up the ladder and him being on his hands and knees with my mum peeling skin off his back due to sunburn. I thought you would have something worth listening to after spending years in the job. I'm 69 and still working, part-time, like you and in my own time. You talk a lot of sense about training bricklayers but that's where you idea falls down, It's common sense. The government would set up a quango to manage it and people making a good income at every level for doing very little. Two years down the line it would have cost millions and we would have a handful of bricklayers trained. Your analogy of buying a house and lager in 1975 is bang on and I wish the younger generation would wake up and do something instead of watching mind numbing crap on the TV. 50+ channels and 90% is a load of rubbish. Designed to stop people thinking about their own daily struggle.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Exactly mate

[@cheds1]

Your currency is being devalued . Simple as that. The current monetary system is being propped up and is ready to pop. A reset is coming . Expect some upheaval in the world as they ll need chaos to hide what they have done .

[@didymussumydid9726]

Propped up big time since 2007/2008, never adjusted to that one. Really since 1929

[@NeilMelling-pw6ts]

Blissfully unaware of Talmudic Judaism

[@cheds1]

@@NeilMelling-pw6ts 👍

[@APDDD555]

NWO The great reset, general basic income, cashless society etc and one world government.

[@NonConformist-ys4wr]

Spot on ..... GOoD luck everyone....

[@Cheesus5547]

Prices are the same as they were 10 years ago, weather is far more volatile now and I can’t remember the last time I had a full week. Expectations are higher yet the standard of workforce has plummeted. Housebuilders play stupid games and hold us to ransom. Bricklayers, or at least the ones I’ve worked with, seem determined to put each other down. There’s no sense of looking out for each other and you’re just expected to suck it up when someone scum bags you. Bricklayers seem to be the worst of all trades for this. Add the fact that your work van and tools are seen as unimportant and disposable by the police etc. where is the draw or reason to stay in this trade? Let alone joining? It’s just not worth the hassle and some of the “suck it up” comments prove the point.

[@Tiggy808]

There's mortar life than bricklaying.

[@toby648]

Nobody wants to say it, but mass immigration has devalued wages. Adjusting for inflation no real rise in pay since the early 00s. And ironically with all the new regs most of the work now is shocking. Most of my jobs were putting right other peoples mess!

[@garysmith9877]

@@toby648 you should be comfortable saying mass immigration has devalued wages ,it’s true, that why the uk is the predicament it’s in , too much political correctness.

[@BEEZAGEEZA]

@toby648 Before there were foreign taxi drivers, you'd jump in a cab how's it going m8,earning ,nah shit. Us and cabbies were the first to feel the pinch if a cabbie was struggling so were we,Fu k me you can't even av a chat with the Barbsr now. That's fucked, Fucking LEGO HEAD HAIRCUT,WTF,

[@raycorrigan3297]

All the immigrants fault. Bear in mind their not the scum paying u less.

[@simonstones1918]

There’s a lot of that happening in all trades!

[@matty506]

@@raycorrigan3297 Not their fault but they are the issue. Like Andy said, it's the governments fault for allowing it to happen.

[@Alan-OnRunway01]

I was hoddie in my 20s Andy until a needless back injury. Though i never worked with him, my Dad was a college traned brickie. I had to go back to college and uni after my back injury, to then work in a none manual job. Now in my 60s, without doubt the best people I have worked with were the lads on site. I'm a strong believer that services men and women should do trades training whilst in service for when they leave service, they'd fit in well with what was great site camaraderie (in the 80s anyway). Apprentices and ex services personnel need to be helped into site trades with experienced tradesmen showing the way whilst winding down to retirement.

[@GrahamWoodward-ww1zf]

The vast majority of trades in the construction industry over the years have been de-skilled for one simple reason and that is to reduce pay and improve the corporate bottom line !

[@garysmith9877]

We have lived and worked in the best times.

[@atman5230]

15:28 You made a good point about a brickies buying power with his wage packet comparing 1973 wages with 2023 wages :nowadays only about half the amount of beer can be purchased assuming the beer costs £5 a glass {i don't drink but i get your point}the wages haven't gone up enough and the job isn't great with site inspectors,unexperienced graduate foremen,having to wait for a carpenter to erect the scaffolding,not allowed to wear shorts in summer, ad nauseum.Excellent video.Thanks for making it.

[@keithadams1538]

I'm an old school site manager. I agree on the H&S It is over the top. I'm 66 now retired. I was a Bricklayer by trade. When I was 26 I became a foreman then went on to project manage sites. My accident books pre H&S and till I retired had exactly the same things falls from step ladders and cuts from Stanley Blades. I always find the main contractors are the ones that cut corners. For example I was a locum site manager for a Midland contractor. We needed a 25 ton crane to lift a concrete staircase The main contractor refused a contract lift. Because of that I refused to have anything to do with the lift. It all went wrong. I knew it would.

[@Paulo-fr3xm]

Similar here buddy, bricklayer in the 80s and 90s, then site manager. Unfortunately the industry is run by bean counters and not skilled builders as in my day. Left the industry now and don't miss it at all.

[@solidbrickwork]

From one Andy to another, us bricklayers needed this video !! All facts mate

[@Changy_C]

Jacking my job in Tomorrow now 😂, on a serious note, spot on with what you said its a grind every day with all the crap that comes with it

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@Changy_C 😂👍

[@Emtbwebb]

😂😂👍🏼

[@stuartjones1982]

Facts Andy. Fellow bricky 22yrs in the game. Well said 👏

[@SME_Ste]

Hit the nail on the head here mate. Working with the same brickies and joiners constantly and they’re all accepting 25 an hour as good. They’re all self employed but rock up as though they’re employed. None pay jnto pensions or savings, continuously moaning the cost of everything and that they’re skint all the time.

[@ndiggadee2663]

Rained off days is all I can say about my experience on the trowel. Never go back to that job

[@FrankyRemo]

Every point is spot on, Andy! I started on the trowel in '76. Why? Because it was the brickies who drove Jags and Stags! I left at the end of the '90s for all the reasons you've listed here and never looked back. It's astonishing that nothing has changed in all that time!

[@JimsPub-ds3qs]

I retired here in the US. after 44 yrs. Trade school then four years open shop then 40 in the Bricklayers union. Thank God for the union.

[@keithkench9432]

Spot on !!! like you i'v been in the trade since 1977 and have been lucky enough to reach and take retirement in the last month, glad i'm out of the rat race, but wish i knew then what i'v learned over many years, but that's life.

[@oliverearnshaw6189]

Im a bricky and moved to Australia 11 years ago, did 5 years on the trowel here and packed it in at 49 to go work in the mines fly in fly out, best thing I ever did, im proud to have been a bricky but we don’t get paid anything like we should, and as for university educated snot nosed kids who’ve got no idea how to do my job, but their books says im doing it all wrong telling me what to do!

[@brikfiend]

Ever was it thus . . .

[@kingofthetrowel1725]

Mate what’s the best approach to work in the mines

[@markmaddison5312]

Ask Antony Albanese 😂

[@paoemantega8793]

Well done Andy, you nailed it, it's the devaluation of the currency.

[@harveysmith100]

Andy I am working on something at the moment regarding this exact subject. I spoke to Al at Supertrowel and he thought it was a good idea. I may contact you sometime in the following year to pick your brains. (Don't want to say here because of negativity) I have spoken to many an old trowel about how the industry has declined. There is a perfect storm coming when all the Baby Boomers retire. Many have gone locally this year. They think there is a shortage now, 20'000 bricklayers short as of this week. Wait another five years and that perfect storm will be on us. Thanks for this video.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

👍@@harveysmith100 👍

[@SilverTrowel631]

If it's a book, I want a copy. Trowels are the best story tellers -)

[@Bari_Khan_CEng_CMarEng]

Thank you for sharing your experience, and research. Completely the issue of the monetary system and usury, and those who propagate it all whilst it's easy to keep blaming foreign labour and immigrants.

[@iansheppard6735]

"A lot of the people I used to work with are retired or dead" ... I felt that one

[@johnstockwell9457]

Glad i got out of the UK 21.5yrs ago and made a new life here in Perth Aus. It’s still the land of opportunity and a nice life style to boot. 👍😎🇦🇺

[@deet1558]

Irish Brickys here,leaving for Perth end of February can’t wait to be honest

[@markstaley5922]

Wow Andy you sure did save the best till last what a fantastic video I’ve been a bricklayer since 1981 same story as yourself I’m still working hard would I recommend being a bricklayer today hmmmm I’ve loved it and at times absolutely hated it but the problem now is the school leavers do not want to graft for their money simple as that we are the last generation of grafters thanks Andy have a great Christmas keep well 👍

[@Dean-Bites]

Construction workers are dying by suicide at an alarming rate, cheap labour entering the country like never seen before, fraud rising, working mans tools are stolen at record levels, your now Taxed to death, sick welfare benefits are rising the list goes on and on, i suffer from HAVS and depression use to love bricklaying now i am a road sweeper

[@rolandhoare405]

Andy such very true words most bricklayers suck it up and get on with it just to serve been doing the job 40 years now being told how to do it by a snot nosed 24 year old who cant even tie a shoe lace The holiday did you good mate you look healthy 👍

[@chopperharris6086]

Spot on Andy 100% Agree..My son who leaving school soon said he wants to work with me become a Brickie are i said no chance..

[@unhingedleprachaun]

I agree with your idea on teaching basic bricklaying and it would definitely work with a course like you mentioned.

[@macrovigilance]

Nice one Andy. You hit the nail on the head.. the House price (and rental cost if you are a renter) to Wage ratio. It's has been a gradual creep over decades to a modern form of "enslavement" because of constant Fiat money expansion. How much further can this go on for?

[@BEEZAGEEZA]

Dead right I started in 84 ,,on the Hod ,within. 3 years I was in a share gang,driving big Granada motors, alot of brickies had jags and smoked cigars ,bus stops and roll ups now ,I'm on the trowel now im 58 in Jan, it's fucking Shit now, no gd times, we used to do the rain dance when we see dark cloud the money was that gd,great video m8

[@brikfiend]

Rain Dance around the mixer ?

[@BEEZAGEEZA]

@brikfiend gd old days,ENGLISH SPOKEN ALL DAY LONG, HODDYS SHITTING IN THE MUCK WHICH I DIDNT AGREE WITH BY THE WAY

[@marlonbrando2493]

Topping out deep joy on the ladders

[@SilverTrowel631]

@@BEEZAGEEZA LOL, never had one shit in my muck before but they did often throw a handfull of ballast in it if you pissed them off. A good hoddie was like gold dust (And ALWAYS mental) and I always insisted on an even split with any price gang I was on.

[@Dean-w6h]

Spot on pal,I. 63, agree with all u said,merry Christmas pal

[@TESTA-CC]

£350 a day Not a penny Less, or those Illegal immigrants will be building there own houses, because bricks won't get laid by UK Builders.

[@Anthony-w7i5g]

If only, I witnessed years ago guys saying they will all stick together for a decent price then they went in one by one undercutting each other.

[@Saturntabbytype2]

450 a day for joiners

[@simapark]

220 a day for 5 days doing 40 hours work a week is 1100 a week which is over 52k a year. To indigenous people it's not enough these days but to foreign workers it's an absolute fortune and they will be looking at increasing those hours to 60 hours or more during the lighter months.

[@raycorrigan3297]

Illegal immigrants are not allowed to work. And not illegal anyway. The reason ur life is shit is because ur own government jacked up utility bills house prices and everything else. The boats aren’t the problem it’s the private jets!! Oh and fkn Brexit!!

[@gongagong]

Eastern Europeans will happily undercut that and live six to house.

[@sentbob4154]

I retired about 2 years ago from trowel, you are spot on with everything you said about site work, them places are a complete joke now.

[@SouthernSoftie]

I started working labourer/hod carrying 1977, on the cards £88 a week . A pint of Brown &Bitter cost was 24 pence. Mid eighties I was making £70 a day as a bricklayer. Relatively life was easier, very few people had any paperwork qualifications, health & safety was as simple as good common sense and courtesy for your fellow workers. The relative decrease in our wages is down to a large portion of what we could earn being redistributed into the h&s regime of tiered management and the constant drip feeding of parasitic so called agencies and umbrella payment schemes. All of which have come about to avoid any form of contractual employment responsibility. None of which was ever necessary for those of us that were already self employed.

[@richardfitzgerald4812]

Great video, Andy. Bricklayers are building houses now, which in a lot of parts of the country are worth on average 10 to 20 times more than the same houses we were building. As just pointed out by you, we were getting well paid for it in relation to the cost of living. Wages paid to the trades is nowhere near on par. The large developers, along with the banks and allowed and backed by successive government's is the reason why.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@richardfitzgerald4812 Exactly Richard but a lot of people especially the younger ones can't see it for the simple reason they never experienced the good times and think this is the norm.

[@gongagong]

Not just the trades - most salaries have stagnated since 2008 while everything else has doubled or tripled price.

[@scotspie501douglas7]

100% spot on great video keep it up every trade is messed up guys like you are spot on nobody is training young guys also and they dont want to get into dirty jobs would rather sit behind a desk than get out there business is to blame for not training for the future and the young guys are always in their phones on social media

[@robogamer5384]

Allright andy great video pal very interesting. Been on the trowel 45 years seen good and bad times in the building trade.big builders have made fortunes over the years not paying pensions holiday pay or sick pay.they pass it on to the subbie who puts 20% on your prices.then the builders dont pay wet time waiting on scaffolders and silo delays.years ago you got a date rate plus bonus and holiday pay.I left site work 10 years ago and just do private work now ,never been so busy give the subbie and the big boys a big wide birth its a big rat race in my opinion all the best for christmas lads.

[@JulianBennett-l1l]

Listening to this, you are what Anuran Beven was to NHS as you are to the building trade. But I fear your walking alone to the wisdom your given to this youth of ours!

[@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter]

Glad to hear someone talking sense about the reality of our wages now,220 a day isn't good money now,, it was good money in 2002, funny enough I just worked out recently I'd need to be earning 2500 a week to have the same buying power,

[@alanpotter3146]

Great vid. Started as a roofer,then went on to carpentry,6 month course,city and guilds qualification. Had a great time worked all over the country,and abroad. Wouldnt change anything. Made plenty of money. Retired now. Happy days.

[@rorypower544]

Its a shame there are not people like you in the houses of parliament Andy~

[@johncrouch5570]

What a brilliant video. Just come across this on KZbin I’m not a builder Andy but am retired did an engineering apprenticeship back in the day. I’m 65 so about your age group. I think we don’t have enough bricki layers for government targets lol! Loving this interesting content Andy keep it coming!

[@Dean-c3z]

Self employed plant fitter 55yrs spent a lifetime on sites its changed beyond recognition now on all levels, really miss the old school bricky gangs best time of my life its utter crap now cannot wait to sell up & never thought I would say it France looks more inviting property prices a no brainer. Is any decent trade worth doing in the UK these days I think not.

[@rickycarter471]

From start to finish absolute truth and common sense!! I’m 47 joiner but I’ve recently taken a job offshore.

[@boyasaka]

As a chippy ?

[@DavidJones-lv6li]

I’m 77. Did a 6months course in 1973 at a government training centre. 2 classes of 35 trainees. Only ever met 2 on site. Not many carried on with the trade. I did and had a good time. Good Money in 1982. 35k a year. Then bubble burst. But the crack made up for it. I miss the banter not the job now. Good luck to anyone going for bricklaying as a trade

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@DavidJones-lv6li That's strange as most in my class did.

[@ronnoman61]

I'm quite a bit older than you Andy, started learning to lay bricks in 1965 and every word you say is true. We certainly had some good times in the sixties and seventies. For some reason, and every one will have their opinions about it, site work didn't seem to be paying good money after that. In my early days we did have local bricklayers unions, that all combined to form UCATT the building trade union. Older building workers will remember our strike, it lasted a long time and in some areas got quite unruly and violent. I've got to say I enjoyed my time in the building trade, would I enter it now? I honestly don't know, the problem as I see it is there isn't the money in it any more.

[@trustnuffin9121]

I could listen to advice like this all day long

[@chebarden8278]

Andy you have hit the nail right on the head we were better off ....even the yts sheme which i did ... 27.50 a week we still had money monday morning to get you through the week ... .... supply and demand drives up the prices ... the woke youth will run away from construction...

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@chebarden8278 the youth our generation betrayed. Their better than we ever were.not as racist and bigoted ( woke) but every bit as hard working for less than we did.

[@paulgilliland2992]

I signed up for OND at Belfast college of technical. 2 years full time and of course exams . The CITB was paying 20 quid a week and this was an excellent course. There was 2 or 3 former bricklayers who were in late 20,s early 30,s who saw the light and went back to school. We all got hired by the big names and some like me went on to University. The thing is it was a government sponsored program and it was working well . The ONC and HNC classes were day release and these were full also . People were engaged, the lecturers and instructors were top notch and it was fantastic. The CITB was respected and had some teeth , not sure what the heck they are doing today.

[@SilverTrowel631]

The big companies paid the CITB to do the training for them. It was a tax loss and led to a constant flow of apprentices. We were all on the cards then. But when the subbies started to emerge in the 80's and the big firms went management contracting, it all changed. They stopped paying the CITB and the subbies didn't give a shit about training, just profit. That's why there's been a decline in the amount of tradesmen since the 90's. I did a 5 year CITB course, it was fully funded by them. 1 year full time college, 3 years day release for the C + G's and a further 1 year day release for the advanced craft. I was 21 when my indentures finished and I was a foreman by 22 with John Laings. Happy days.

[@joea4234]

After 44 years in the building industry, I couldn’t agree more. With overheads, pensions etc… wages should be higher. Those calling for more tradesman, just want to drive labour prices down….

[@kingofthetrowel1725]

Lucky to get £21 an hour where I am Andy and I don’t entertain price work as some of the reasons you have mentioned ,it’s sad as I did used to enjoy it but I’m 36 and I’ve called it a do ,you literally can earn more driving sat on your arse.trade is fucked tho even if your a tidy trowel it doesn’t matter anymore

[@Emtbwebb]

Why I left the trowel and started in roads n sewers ground works no more rainy days lost and works good

[@kingofthetrowel1725]

@@Emtbwebb I bet you can still get a steady 50k a year doing what your doing mate 👍

[@Emtbwebb]

@@kingofthetrowel1725 100 %👍🏼

[@markbadger265]

Nice listen andy , not just relevant to brickies …. All trades really Plastering has gone down the swanee big time

[@jCrItCh5]

Loads of interesting stuff there Andy.. There's No School, Like The Old School...

[@BoldBreak]

I don't know anything about being a Bricklayer but your video speaks to what I see all around the UK. The profits of the Subcontractor you mentioned is criminal. Private companies are taking more control and holding everyone hostage to their poor wages and high prices.

[@Martin-lk7uk]

Nice one Andy mate 64 still laying you nailed it merry Christmas mate and many more🎄🎄👏👍

[@JulianBennett-l1l]

Were have you been fella, missed you 😊 same age same sort of mind set. Keep on doing what your doing.

[@eazyday8702]

Great video, thanks for sharing with us

[@nigelheathcote6084]

You’re comment cscs was spot on mate 👍🏻

[@SilverTrowel631]

I thought I was listening to myself for a second there. I couldn't have put it better.

[@Tom_1956]

Sound man Andy. They also decimated the long haul drivers wages with the foreign lads. The truck drivers just weren't prepared to stand together, at least in Ireland. Drivers with families were told to disregard the taco hours, just keep running as they needed the truck back in Ireland as soon as possible. If they didn't like it, they were told there was a Polish man waiting for the job at €50 a day less, so be thankful . I am a bachelor without dependants, so I just told them text me that instruction so both of us will be going to jail together if I have an accident on bent cards, no pushing after that.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@Tom_1956 Terrible

[@charlespincott8305]

Enjoyed that Andy 👍

[@Fordmad90]

I have just been educated and by experience andy is correct am 36 and up to now I have grafted my arse off ware and tare has already set in funny enough I worked self employed for ruffly £220 a day and your not getting rich fast on it I can tell you that amd as Andy pointed out price work don't always work either. I have just got a job at a housing association less money but am on the books no stress no chasing about amd the happiest i have ever been. Fuck chasing the money because half the time it just there were just kncking the shit out of our self's

[@TopCatsBack]

No ....earning chicken feed , full to the brim of EU lot ....1 bloke working to 3 yuppys inspecting .

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@TopCatsBack EU lot!? Lol.

[@johnkemp908]

I went onto a site in Milton Keynes looking for a start and the lads told me they were getting paid every two weeks. It made me look into the company...Crown... they owe the tax man a shed load of money apparently ( published accounts so in public domain) I need weekly payments one week in hand. I couldn't believe the lads on site were accepting these terms of payments.

[@TonyLuxton-i2f]

Wise words of experience thanks for the video.

[@mattsimmons3269]

100% spot on I’m 52 and the motivation is gone to lay bricks and tap a wall tie 😂

[@reside9891]

Course it is, when everything else goes tits up you can always build your own home or someone else's. Have another string to your bow & don't be afraid to do something else. Greetings from Australia. I've laid bricks all around the world. Best time of my life working in big gangs on council housing estates in the 70's & 80's, none of this wokeness or diversification BS, happy days happy memories.

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@reside9891 wokeness? What u on about

[@The-old-tech-joiner]

There are 18,000 houses for sale within a 20mile radius of Maidstone Kent and thats just Rightmove.

[@williamcapewell1706]

Also regarding site work for subbies. Straight runs pay more than detail! Means you don't get payed enough for the detail! Square boxes are good payers. A few corbels, arches and a chimney and you take a pay cut by doing them. And I do them pretty quick before any super trowels pipe up

[@kevindunmore6494]

Well done Andy everything you said is brilliant and correct!

[@danielrichardcaprani9960]

Breath of fresh air, spot On sir, they'll always be an England 🇬🇧

[@stuartscott1679]

I stopped the site work about 10 years ago started doing my own work it was a bit stop and start at first once my name got out there the work became regular i don't do much bricklaying but lots of hard landscaping 👍

[@davidrogers7550]

Spot on Andy 56 now and feel it all the best mate

[@dp3218]

A needed discussion things need to change, Just to mention Lidl warehouse workers don’t earn £20ph it’s about £12.40ph

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@dp3218 not according to there advert.

[@Enochsright]

True, well said

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@bricklayersworldwithandy6277 Aldi wouldn’t lie

[@dp3218]

Ahh maybe I stand corrected then or that’s a Christmas rate for their busy period 🤷🏼‍♂️ Either way wages need to rise as inflation has left everything a struggle

[@grannyg8155]

Well said...i packed sites in other year and do more extensions,house builds privately...i no other gangs jacking sites some the game altogether...ive said and will continue to that if bricklayers truly stuck together they could demand pretty much their worth...without bricklayers u essentially dont have a site..sadly most gangs are selfish and in it for themselves...out of 10 gangs u might bump into 1 helpfull one..seen all the underhand tactics...bunging forkies to hide material,emptying the cabin of ties,damps etc,known of gangs taking the silo lead so u cant get a tub in the morning...list goes on and on...there will always be a greasy gang who will stay despite pay cuts,despite extras been added and subbies know this and play on it.. so even if the gangs on site walked one will always stay....bricklayers truely are their own worst enemies...brilliant job...shit industry...

[@cheds1]

Well said.

[@bikerchrisukk]

Great hearing ya, cheers for getting in front of the camera. Mates do £750 a day, that's for to bricks + labourer. (Kent)

[@AdrianSams]

As a Carpenter Joiner who's been self employed since 1986 I wholeheartedly agree Andy. With regards to earnings what people need to understand is for decades now Governments in the West (US,UK,France,Italy,Spain,Geece etc) have de-valued their currencies by various ways including printing money. A couple of years ago I started buying gold coins to preserve the value of my money. People saving in Bank accounts getting 4.5% gross interest are literally giving the value of their savings away.You aren't boring me mate, I'm 56 next month and as you said, I'm close to being burnt out.The idea that I have to do physical graft each and every day until I'm 67yrs old so I can get a few poxy quid in a State Pension whilst so many people I know have worked barely ever work but will be entitiled to the Pension credit which is about £5 a week less than my full state pension is a sick joke. Add to that the Pension credit is a gateway to other benefits. The UK is a sick country.

[@grahambangert4567]

Not a sick country its shit

[@nubetubeme]

BUILDINGF HOUSES FOR YOUR REPLACMENTS

[@1toppotter987]

Brother in law retired last year @71 still misses it!

[@pbjr1234]

I was on sc60 card on day work in 2006 earning 200 a day on chippy work building work is fucked

[@anthonyworthington6495]

The thing is if we don't do it, you'll get another million foreigners coming in to do it

[@joshuamulder5439]

Great video mate. Same thing is happening over here in Australia.

[@lazylad8544]

Same as truck driving Eastern Europeans arrived and pay rates went down. Covid happened then there was a shortage. No younger ones want to do the job now.

[@raycorrigan3297]

@@lazylad8544 rates went down. By British firms, rule Brittania!!

[@ThomasReed-c1w]

We’re about the same age I’m 70 carpenter in the building trade all my life here you’re talking about 1975 thinking back myself I sit here thinking isn’t it horrible to get old but it comes to us all. Not made too much I did enjoy my job a lot. The only thing I regret is the time that it took up.

[@alanellis2425]

Not a brickie but a electrician , 5 year apprenticeship learning from highly skilled tradesmen , not earning any money but having great laughs on site and when I completed apprenticeship in 83 was on a mint through eighties and nineties .Never thought it would ever end . Now a 63 year dinosaur earning £20-00 a hour .Problems no skill required any more literally anyone could do the job .Obvious mass influx of labour again not their fault as we earnt a fortune in Germany doing same .No skill and endless supply of labour means low wages .Future , these are the good days because as AI takes over and the world becomes more unstable a lot of people will become surplus to requirements .As all we baby boomers are thinking to retirement , the great reset will happen and all those people with houses , retirement funds will loose everything

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@alanellis2425 scary mate👍

[@peterdunn2704]

Hard landscaping haa gone the same way, no youngster's are remotely interested in shoveling concrete and barrowing type one - it would kill them. If you google what a thousand quid in 2004 is worth today its basically double - so when boys were on £120 aday back then, they are earning the exact same ( in real terms ). Think prices need to double as Andy says!! Great video, thanks

[@OutofPlumb-ic5pl]

double... bricklaying is easy according to some youtubers... you can churn out a 1000 a day, every day.... if you send out this message, these subbies will observe and pay you accordingly.... and dont forget these square boxes have zero detail... low design, low wages.... it was tougher in the 70's , that's why wages reflected this.. today its not as tough, so wages have followed this trend..... why? because you have practically everything done for you... materials brought to you by machine... silo's mix the mortar, profiles build the corners, tools are more advanced....etc... its all on video... you just need to see a youtube bricklayer and you can see how well they are doing.... dont forget bricklaying competitions show off how many you boys should be really laying an hour....

[@markmaddison5312]

You are obviously not a bricklayer, so go away

[@stephenw2992]

@@markmaddison5312 Pretty sure OutofPlumb is being very sarcastic

[@mullraerae299]

Capitalism, wealth accumulation for the rich, relative poverty for the masses.

[@lmilne4859]

Your spot Andy hope your keeping well buddy.

[@mr.145]

Ian Ducan Smith thinks its ok to be a 75 year old Brickie or Scaffolder.He has made a career out of putting a suit on and talking shite.

[@robertcunningham2842]

To true andy ,65year old time served brickie, wouldn't advise anyone to do it now ,work at any supermarket and your better off !!!

[@boyasaka]

Supermarkets don’t pay a grand a week I’m pretty sure most brickys are on at least 200 a day Which is a grand a week

[@gmilbs]

Wages are not worth the bad back. Got out this year, as last winter killed me off months without earning even half a good wage. Now spray painting backs golden and still taking 1000 a week or more with overtime, holiday pay and bonuses.

[@daleharrison1689]

Started apprenticeship in 1975, just retired burnt out, can’t do a full days work safely, though can still do more than the young ones. Britain has become a shit hole, dumbing down nanny state, to much regulation and hidden taxes, loss of freedom. Feel sorry for the youth. All I can say is play the system at their own game look out for yourself

[@AndrewSeale-l2j]

Totally true and honest. You've basically said what we all think. I'm 55 been bricklaying all my life... The foreign bricklaying gang turn up with 6 of them 4 laying 2 labouring.. Then after lunch thay get 2 tubs of muck and thay start laying.. We can't keep up

[@ianmitchell1165]

Nothing is worth doing no more Construction is a waste of time

[@ianmitchell1165]

You will waste ur self walking around in shit Working hard , have some muppet in a black hat giving out orders To give ur wages away at the end of the month and have nothing left Mugs game mate 👍

[@jackturnermx6176]

I’m getting 650 pt timber frames I was optimistic to start thinking I could make it pay but struggling like fuck barely scraping 200 a day. Best money seems to be in the sub structures at the moment.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@jackturnermx6176 you can't earn money on that price on timber frame, even years ago on trad builds the money was made on the block work.