The SHOCKING TRUTH about bricklaying!

[@SilverTrowel631]

I'm 60 and it's the worst year I've ever had on the trowel. I'm glad a you tube Bricklayer has spoken about some of the downs of the trade because it aint all rainbows and unicorns. Well dome mate.

[@HMPBruceLee]

100% agree with you bro. I had drivers working for me in DPD. When I needed sleep the most I couldn’t sleep. Overthinking etc now I’m back delivering just for myself not earning too much less but sleeping a lot better and got my life back

[@willbee6785]

Keep it going. It’s a hard physical game. Respect.

[@Jd23-iw7kk]

Said it before charlie, Been on the trowel 15/20 years. Used to enjoy building fancy work and taking pictures etc dead proud but these days couldn’t care less about any of that. Give me the easiest build with minimal features and detail as possible these days. Realised only at work to make money and provide, Easy the houses and easier the work the more money you make. Ridiculous when you think about it. Worked on a site few year back. Plinth bricks. Arches, Bullseye windows. Dental course snapped headers up the gables. Lost a fortune doing more technical slower work.

[@davecass9486]

its what developers and customers want, suck it up. i like the look of some new builds and architectural features, with oversailing courses on gables and corbeling on eaves. and mixing brick colours. as a retired 25 yr bricklayer and then 17 years a postman. this all started about 1994 thirty years ago. who would go back to the days of rows of lbc fletton square boxes.

[@mattslade5196]

Charles Charles come on the more staff you have the more stress that comes A good labourer/ improver is worth his or her weight in gold 2 man gang is best for me ❤️

[@andrewsalter2681]

I was 60 on Sunday. And I jacked in the trowel at 42 started in the trade. Class 2 hiab driver just deliver materials to site and loving it

[@piersgrowcott8179]

As a 61 year old retired brickie who worked on my jack (self-employed mostly doing private work) nah charlie,all that site work and getting stressed about people working for ya and problems on site regarding work...NAH MATE! to me it ain't worth the agg. from a retired brickie=Well done mate,keep up the good work...i can see your the real mcoy=as a brickie AND a geezer,all the best,Piers A.K.A. Chopper.

[@adamlee7325]

Cloud seeding making the weather for us now 😮

[@jord1p]

Wouldn’t step foot inside an underbuild if the foundation wasn’t scraped, site agents are quick to pull us for wearing shorts or playing radios, definitely a health and safety issue loading blocks on islands that are falling away

[@johnwhittle-mp2ti]

But lot of lads cant be that picky 🙄🙄

[@andylarham5251]

When they reduce dig before digging the footings its great for us brickies and anyways it must be easier than trying to remove islands and potentially knocking your work. I'm solo today but finishing a stone repoint .. Nice to chill in your own thoughts😊

[@chazzlebazzle69]

Tough when relying on others....we need clones of ourselves

[@tomfyfe-f6d]

Just started my own gang mate fuck me it's hard work alot more to get your head around laying the bricks is the easy part

[@livingdadream4616]

9pm bed time 4.40 get up gym then work 💪

[@georgewheeldon-f8s]

christ charlie its a good job you dont worry about your barnet you,d never get any sleep

[@CharlieCollison]

😂

[@WilliamGrinsill]

Charlie do you use product on your hair ?

[@Martin-lk7uk]

Charlie your the dogs dangles mate your so right we have to challenge these health and safety rules their really are to many double standards on housebuilding👍🇬🇧

[@Joe-jv5mm]

Breakdown of the process of the different facets of substructure build, planing of work flow, set out of Heights, Top Content on your Channel 👍

[@lawrencecarlin4309]

Brilliant content mate

[@steadfastandyx4947]

Met office say we have had a lovely spring! It's been atrocious.

[@grantbowkett513]

Also mate you can speed up by using a profile system fewer spots and the stick method for the inner skin ....

[@kevocos]

Does anyone know why the DPC/FFL are so high off the ground level? Seems like there will be a lot of ground to be made up.

[@CharlieCollison]

There not all like that on this site

[@handycrowd]

Yeah, I was a wonderin' about that... Thought it was H&S gone mad, i.e. can't work below ground lol!

[@MatthewMann-vy4jo]

Its the same with most trades mate. With roofing per sqr meter, if you have straight runs you're laughing but if you have hips and valleys everywhere, you get no more money but you won't get a 10th of the mtr'age laid.

[@cerealkiller4248]

In the 80’s site foremen used to make me wear a hard hat when welding. Washing facilities were a 45 gallon drum, timber with nails protruding were all over the floor, but that was ok 🙄🙄

[@leemoore107]

Charlie where do you get your good gazebos from ?

[@GregoirCleary-f1k]

what does scrapping the islands mean ?

[@matty1597]

Think its making the ground flat within the foundations at same level awkward to work on

[@martin2466]

Exactly as @matty1597 describes. They are known as "Islands or puddings." And they should be scrapped off level before the Bricklayers, start building the sub-structures. 😁👍

[@tnmrepointing]

Tin hat, You can also wrap the scaffold in polythene

[@ash_er.]

Luckily I'm on a big house at the moment and they covered over the whole house so managed to not get rained off past couple months 😊 not sure how much it costed but time is money, especially if these big bosses want there bonus money for completing on schedule

[@Paul_Holmes]

Hey Charlie, looks like a lot of effort moving blocks from from one place to another, isn't there a better method?

[@therebel4332]

I love my sleep to much to not sleep 😂,, you cant function properly without it. Its no coincidence the biggest nutjobs in governments claim to not sleep all that much...

[@chapmansboxingclub2611]

I cant believe you cant use hods anymore i used to bump out a lift a day ahead of the trowels. The worlds gone mad. As proper hoddies we was classed as a trade and earned good money. Sometimes as much as the brickies. As i would bump out off the drawings and everything would be ready for the brickies to run in I used to set up all frames lintels squints insulation ties the lot the brickies wanted for nothing.

[@VidzMisc]

Hope Amy is keeping well

[@geraldhalbert2542]

Im 61 the building trade is shite now health and safety way over the top. Site agent's want to be control freaks don't give how much you earn as long as you've got safety gear on

[@Coxy1994]

Alot of brickies have jumped over to groundworks down my way

[@kevbrowne3373]

Hey charlie have ya done any jobs yet with 200 mil cavitys.we have then in ireland now😢.😢😢😢😢

[@martin2466]

@kebbrowne3373. I saw my first 300mm cavity back in April in Buckinghamshire..... Utter stupidity..........

[@user-fo9lm4dx6y]

Hi Kev, what’s the purpose of the 200mm cavity? I’m not a brickie just curious. Thanks

[@kevbrowne3373]

@@user-fo9lm4dx6y they then pump it with beads insulation.iam not a fan of pumping your cavitys.it will bring in water i think.

[@georgescorner9161]

Dude, Sometimes I can’t sleep and it feels like shit

[@Rotciv1929]

OHOB in the south east are shite. They leave the island in and scrap the foundations out with a 900mm bucket. It was so dangerous in the winter

[@marceaumouchene6264]

900mm bucket with 350 trench block is an absolute piss take

[@Rotciv1929]

@@marceaumouchene6264 yep. Fucking crooks. And the irony is they’d make us work in those conditions but wouldn’t let us wear shorts in the summer.

[@tgward313]

every day -- start at the bottom , finish at the top

[@johnwhittle-mp2ti]

Who was mixing 🤔🤔

[@CharlieCollison]

Me 👊🏻

[@willbee6785]

@@CharlieCollison 🤣

[@steveng5503]

TOM is a miss!

[@HMPBruceLee]

Tom is a sicknote by sounds of it 👀

[@steveng5503]

TOM makes the best creamy mess in the building game.

[@XX-gt7vv]

Charlie I run a small firm 10 lads 3 van’s doing structured cabling. What do you make of the majority of young lads these days? I’m finding you get one out of say 9 that ticks all the boxes, good attitude etc

[@joelbarker5575]

The sleeping might change when the baby arrives all safe and well.

[@gnarlock3927]

Man this is no joke, go ahead and tack an extra hour on per night to get the sleep tank full! Congrats! Lil one will get to see dads work for many years to come

[@MatthewMann-vy4jo]

You need to find a way to switch off mate. Running your own business and having staff is a nightmare, out of 10 lads you may have 2 that you wish you could clone because they ALWAYS turn in, can do the job and understand that they are repping your company with everything they do so they aren't swearing at the top of their voice, they have their ppe on etc! The trick is to look after and show appreciation to those staff and everyone you find, do everything you can to keep them. Also try to teach the lessers, why being better is better! For me giving a bonus at the end of the month for those that turn up every day is a good way to encourage reliability. It doesnt have to be much either! You cant control the world though sadly so stressing over it is pointless. Just accept that you have to roll with the punches mate.

[@leeporter9090]

Spot on

[@nicksmith2468]

Any physical job you need your 8 hr sleep....well i do

[@treecutter1806]

What’s that hair all about

[@andreastreichel261]

Hoch die Maurerkunst und Grüße aus Berlin. Ich bin auch Maurer 🤝💪😊

[@mattmason138]

You aren't kind brother!!! Bed by 9 or 10. Awake at 4 and out the door! But get some play time in 😊

[@markmaddison5312]

Good man with the plastic ties every member of your gang should copy that example of common sense

[@adamlee7325]

Heeelp I need work 😂

[@VidzMisc]

Shocka 😂

[@John-em6wk]

Same here Northern Ireland rain for months

[@createmedia24]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@AlanCampell]

The post about always doing fancy brickwork ego way out of control

[@RaymondMoore-c4g]

As you're highly health conscious don't you know all those tattoos will destroy your liver?? Your liver will be trying to get rid of all that ink 24/7 every day of the years,

[@vernylee]

Ive known loads of blokee covered in tatts, none of them had liver issues, interesting

[@RaymondMoore-c4g]

@@vernylee I know people male and female who have smoked for 70 years no problem and some who never made it out of their 20,s I was given Hep C in a blood transfusion and still drank I'm stillhere some who never drank died decades ago all depends on the body type, so I learned a lot about the liver, ask any doctor if you're putting a great strain on your lever with tatttoo ink and the answer will be 100% YES, if you're a drnker you can't drink 24/7 you will have time off while your liverheals/balances itself, ink under your skin and your immune system tries to get rid of it 24/7 till you die,

[@vernylee]

@@RaymondMoore-c4g i aint worried about i got loadsa tats, when me times up its up have a good evening

[@yolomc2]

booooooshhh

[@danfenton89]

When i started bricklayer couse at college left school then straight to college full year in college 5 days a week half day friday 90 pound a week we got then second year started working for a big company one day a week oblivious earnjng a bit more , then college the 3rd year i think i was earning around 80 pound a day 50 hours a week obviously 1 day in college but the 2 bricklayers i was with they were getting 75 per brick and b 85 p a block and trench i think was b 95p but the company i worked for paid memy wage was b 19 years ago , then finshed my 3 years got my trades card then went working for my old boss and was earning b extra 40 pound a day 15 a hour , but now how things have change prices are better but the lads who are learning the trade want the same money as u now and its just like are you for really so no wat you mean good video and top work as always mate 🧱👌