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£1000 per week for Foreign Bricklayers
£1000 per week for Foreign Bricklayers
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Very hod to believe, imo.
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I'm a brickie and we're earning that nearly every week.
Learn it in a week? Wash your mouth out Leopard!!  People didn't give a sh1t about us 5 years ago when we were struggling for work and prices were worse than awful, now everyone thinks we're overpaid.  We've just built 4 houses and got paid £13,000 for them, does that sound like great money to someone who doesn't/can't lay a brick? We work our bowlarks off, I can assure you!!!! |
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That's split three ways too. ^^^
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kenbo and 2 mates built 4 houses in under a month , good stuff
might get you i to build me a few , how much is the materials for a one up one down |
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If you're building houses for yourself, the best way to work out costs are that every third house you build, that'd be you profit (very roughly).
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Your profit!
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i take it the 13k was after materials?
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We're on site mate, that was the price we were given to build it, no materials in that. They're only two bed terrace houses that we're building.
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how much is a brick anyway
need land too obviously , but the people must make a killing on houses if they have the land |
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You can buy a brick at B&Q for 54p, you can also pay well over £1 for one too. Brickyards have ran out of bricks in many areas with some sites waiting three months for them.
Unfortunately you need a decent kitty to start building for yourself, which I don't have! Yet!! |
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s.kenbo, how much is 1000 yellow stocks these days?
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how many bricks we talking to build the 4 houses
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Ive been in construction for over 30 years and as Kenbo says, the building trade is very cyclical.
I remember in the mid/late 80s, brickies boasting they wouldnt get out of bed for under £100 per day. 2/3 years later they were begging me for work for £30 per day. Loads gave up in the last recession, so as building is booming again rates have inevitably gone up, but i would be suprised if any are on a grand a week, unless its piecework. And if a long freeze happens in the winter they can sit at home for weeks, so a good week has to be balanced out. And as he says, you cant build without bricks and there is a huge shortage at the moment. |
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We used them on a basement Slips in Chelsea, I'm pretty sure the bloke I did the job for said they were about £2 each, we also had to use lime to build it (not just adding lime to sand I might add) and I think that was over £100 a Ton. It's expensive down your end!
 There's about 15,000 bricks give or take on the ones we're on now. MMM is spot on. When it's good it's good, when it's bad it's bad. I've probably earned no more than minimum wage over the last eight years if you take everything into account. |
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cant see how people moan about brickies pay is too high , like its them paying it or something , if your working for private companies etc you can negotiate whatever price you like.
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2 quid each
 Blimey, I used to pay between £300 - £320 per 1000 late 80's. |
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Bricks are probably one of the few items that cant be imported, hence the shortage and price hikes.
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I'd guess that was quite alot back then though. There's no chance the firm we're subbing to are paying anywhere near that kind of money today.
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Back in 1989 I got a phone call for a full mornings driving and labouring work. I told him I'd drive only.
Labourers hand loaded a lorry full of 2nd hand yellow stocks on pallets, to be taken out of Blackwall Basin building site in E.14 to a brick yard in Bow Common Lane E.3. Lorry was loaded when I got there, and fork lift took them off at the other end. Took me 45 minutes, for £70. |
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thanks for sharing
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Yeah. Tell us another one cmat.
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It's all a bit of a nonsense really.
Most people wouldn't realize that most workers in construction get no sick pay, no holiday entitlement, no pension, have to buy all their own tools and, uniquely, are the only self-employed workers to pay tax in advance. |
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imagine most of the work would be london/s east,if they have to pay for accommodation etc would practically half their wages.
throw in a few months bad weather and the grand a week does not look that clever. |
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Plus if log cabins and caravans become popular....
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10 smelly brickies to a caravan..that would be fun.
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Also they don't have long careers, it's physical outdoors work in all weathers and most brickies are pretty fcuked by the age of sixty five. I certainly don't begrudge those that are making a grand a week at the moment.
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I agree with those comments.
It's very rare though that we get long spells of bad weather, the last time I lost more than a week was this time 4 years ago due to snow. We love a rainy day because we get an unexpected day off. |
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Loads of people (esp recent immigrants) are more than happy working 70-80hr weeks.
Drives me mad when people whinge about struggling to pay bills when they work 35hrs a week   |
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Lots of Firms only take people on for 35 hours a week or less, they Don't pay any holiday money and tell you to Claim what Extra`s you can off the Gov
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quite apt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m721BF3MBBU |
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so, in summary, media immigrant story shot to bits when someone who actually does bricklaying turns up
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call me a taxi 10 Dec 14 21:58 Joined: 02 Oct 03 | Topic/replies: 7,318 | Blogger: call me a taxi's blog Back in 1989 I got a phone call for a full mornings driving and labouring work. I told him I'd drive only. Labourers hand loaded a lorry full of 2nd hand yellow stocks on pallets, to be taken out of Blackwall Basin building site in E.14 to a brick yard in Bow Common Lane E.3. Lorry was loaded when I got there, and fork lift took them off at the other end. Took me 45 minutes, for £70. what yo buy with the £75 |
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Probably beer.
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Sounds like a mugs game so give it to immigrants. Prove that immigration works right before our eyes here.
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bloody immigrants, coming over here to work for peanuts, driving wages down...
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