downsouth 6,837 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 Been in the building trade all my life and half prices you hear that blokes reckon theyre getting is a load of old bollocks.All these blokes clearing a grand a week but never seem to have f**k all.Did my fair share oon the hod as a youngun and will still pick it up now if we cant get a decent lad on board.All great when you're young but it catches up with you in the end.Id tell any youngster these days stay in education and use your brain to earn a living. 7 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jobi 387 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 8 minutes ago, downsouth said: Been in the building trade all my life and half prices you hear that blokes reckon theyre getting is a load of old bollocks.All these blokes clearing a grand a week but never seem to have f**k all.Did my fair share oon the hod as a youngun and will still pick it up now if we cant get a decent lad on board.All great when you're young but it catches up with you in the end.Id tell any youngster these days stay in education and use your brain to earn a living. Don't know about you but the prices are real, the more you earn the more you spend. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogmandont 9,349 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 I’ve a brother a self employed brickie and he’s taking home 1500 a week but when you take out food and board and flights back and forth it’s no fortune. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 26,196 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 No doubt brickies around here are having the best time of it that I can remember. My best mate is a brickie and for a long while they were the poorest trade on site, shit really...not now..loads of house building and shortage of labour drives prices up...I hate the new estates everywhere around here, but at least the good lads are getting some reward... Make hay while the sunshines cause as sure as shit stinks the bubble will burst at some point 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 3,985 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 I dont like pricing footings,cause time u set it out,and get them.(id advise u do)to give you dpc datum,then they throw the concrete in with no levels,rake finish,miles out of level,then give you trench blocks,300mm wide,how the grannys you going to cut them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Elchapo 3,105 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 Brickies on the site I was on was on 180 a day and that is in Leicester , in bout 4 weeks we had bout 6/8 different team Brooke’s come and go because were offered better money elsewhere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
si brown 8,486 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 26 minutes ago, Qbgrey said: I dont like pricing footings,cause time u set it out,and get them.(id advise u do)to give you dpc datum,then they throw the concrete in with no levels,rake finish,miles out of level,then give you trench blocks,300mm wide,how the grannys you going to cut them. Use a water level cant beat footings.,, what’s not to love i check all of them with a laser cos the engineers dabs are never right 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 42,888 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 40 minutes ago, si brown said: Use a water level cant beat footings.,, what’s not to love i check all of them with a laser cos the engineers dabs are never right clean up after yourselves and the groundworkers would pump out that water for youI spend most of my time ,flying from site to site correcting other trades boo boos, ground workers,brickies and f***ing lazy retarded plumbers the brickies are the dirtiest trade on site these days imo.......used to be the sparkies and plumbers ...hard to find anyone under 30 with a brain and a bit of get up and go these days....they all on the bag,lending money for a breakfast roll on a monday because they've spunked their wage up the nose reason why they shit hot with the drug testing on site now 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
si brown 8,486 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 23 minutes ago, Daniel cain said: clean up after yourselves and the groundworkers would pump out that water for youI spend most of my time ,flying from site to site correcting other trades boo boos, ground workers,brickies and f***ing lazy retarded plumbers the brickies are the dirtiest trade on site these days imo.......used to be the sparkies and plumbers ...hard to find anyone under 30 with a brain and a bit of get up and go these days....they all on the bag,lending money for a breakfast roll on a monday because they've spunked their wage up the nose reason why they shit hot with the drug testing on site now That is them lookin after us, i work for the Civils contractor your not wrong about the nose bags though, I got it out of me system years ago when the kids came along! but it’s embarrassing now, 3/4 the site fecks off on dt day a 17 year old kid got banned from every linden site for weed when he came back from dam.. argued like f over it being ok over there but they weren’t having non of it! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
downsouth 6,837 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Daniel cain said: clean up after yourselves and the groundworkers would pump out that water for youI spend most of my time ,flying from site to site correcting other trades boo boos, ground workers,brickies and f***ing lazy retarded plumbers the brickies are the dirtiest trade on site these days imo.......used to be the sparkies and plumbers ...hard to find anyone under 30 with a brain and a bit of get up and go these days....they all on the bag,lending money for a breakfast roll on a monday because they've spunked their wage up the nose reason why they shit hot with the drug testing on site now Didn't realise how bad it had got with site brickies getting on the gear.That would explain why their work is so f***ing rough and why half of them can just about manage to run a line between 2 profiles. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kinkell 787 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 Started on the bricks with my father back in the late seventies every one wore there old suits nae waterproof jackets ore fancy geer just Bry nylon shirts and when a button came of bit of string or a nail to keep it together those were the days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 6,570 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 3 hours ago, dogmandont said: I’ve a brother a self employed brickie and he’s taking home 1500 a week but when you take out food and board and flights back and forth it’s no fortune. How much is sleeping in your own bed in your family home worth? Priceless. Drinking every night in some Boys From the Blackstuff fantasy is a load of bollocks. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 3,985 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 The friday night millionares i call em,barry big cheese with all the cash,come monday they cant even buy a bottle water.olders fellas bang on it too 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jobi 387 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 3 minutes ago, jukel123 said: How much is sleeping in your own bed in your family home worth? Priceless. Drinking every night in some Boys From the Blackstuff fantasy is a load of bollocks. They are earning wages like that in their own bed atm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 3,985 Posted September 5, 2019 Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 You can earn 1500 a week down here if you tried.pull a 1000 easily. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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