Polish brick layers

[Wolfdog91 7,990]

Ok so is this just some British sarcasm im too dumb to get or his he being serious about Polish brick layers 

 

[WILF 51,628]

As they say, many a truth told in jest…..we stopped training tradesmen years ago and have reaped the fallout of that.

Now all the people with degrees are serving coffee and the lad with no exams and a trowel is copping two grand a week ! 
kismet !

[greg64 3,082]

 he's taking the piss Polish brickies used to always undercut the Brits

[downsouth 8,423]

2 hours ago, WILF said:

As they say, many a truth told in jest…..we stopped training tradesmen years ago and have reaped the fallout of that.

Now all the people with degrees are serving coffee and the lad with no exams and a trowel is copping two grand a week ! 
kismet !

There ain't nobody copping 2grand a week on the trowel and any brickies that say they are are talking out there arses.You are right about training proper tradesmen though.The best brickies and chippies I know and have worked with are all close to 60 now

[WILF 51,628]

20 minutes ago, downsouth said:

There ain't nobody copping 2grand a week on the trowel and any brickies that say they are are talking out there arses.You are right about training proper tradesmen though.The best brickies and chippies I know and have worked with are all close to 60 now

That surprises me mate, what they paying price work per 1000 for ordinary face work, like housing estate stuff ? 

[Daniel cain 49,889]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

That surprises me mate, what they paying price work per 1000 for ordinary face work, like housing estate stuff ? 

£400/£600 max per pack of bricks....£8/£9 per metre on the 4" concrete blocks...

Edited 1 hour ago by Daniel cain
make it a bit clearer 😁

[WILF 51,628]

Just now, Daniel cain said:

£400/£600 max

Wow, I thought it would be 6 minimum now days mate.

[TOMO 29,587]

Surely they earn more than that a week DC

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,687]

9 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

£400/£600 max

f***ing he’ll , I’m on more than that and I do f**k all 

[Daniel cain 49,889]

Doing price work on new build sites these days ,is shit money, whatever trade you are.... because they make it as difficult as possible for you.... health and safety and little Hitler site agents ,who couldn't score in a brothel,with a £10 note on the end of their noses...let alone manage a site...have f****d it mate....plus every cnuts a manic depressive, Monday to Thursday,due to the amount of chonk that's going up their noses site work is f***ing horrid these days

[Daniel cain 49,889]

16 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Surely they earn more than that a week DC

lol.....they get a set rate per pallet of bricks,how ever many they lay per day between them- That is then split between however many lads are in the gang, so sometimes 5/7 lads lol...if a bricklayer is on £300 a day,site work,then he's doing very  well  

it's also weather dependent,plus they love their early finish and half day on a Friday

[mitre 457]

There's always on the cheap these firms have the ones from abroad they only here for a short time 

[downsouth 8,423]

9 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

lol.....they get a set rate per pallet of bricks,how ever many they lay per day between them- That is then split between however many lads are in the gang, so sometimes 5/7 lads lol...if a bricklayer is on £300 a day,site work,then he's doing very  well  

it's also weather dependent,plus they love their early finish and half day on a Friday

Most of them are full of shit.One minute they're telling you how many hundreds they're earning a day.Then the next they're moaning how hard done by they are.If I was constantly on 400quid a day you'd never hear me moaning.Thats why I'm quite happy bobbing along with my pal doing our private extensions and loft conversions.We do most of it ourselves or get mates in to do bits ie plumbing/electrics and have a half decent wage out of it and very rarely lose any days.Funny thing is all the site workers I know that claim they're earning 1000s a week,None of them ever seem any better off than me.Youd think they'd all be driving Porsch's and living in massive gaffs considering how much dough they recon they're on

[mitre 457]

Some are completely full of fantasy trying to impress if you seen them and monitored them they go in the supermarket and buy all the crap stuff see the moan how much the basic bog rolls have gone up their other halves saying look at this price for a haircut for the lads their kids of course get that old bowl out and I cut it she say bloody cheaper than that 

[WILF 51,628]

1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:

£400/£600 max per pack of bricks....£8/£9 per metre on the 4" concrete blocks...

So, as I remember a pack is what ? 400/500……I think I remember LBCs being about 344 ?

So that works out about 800 to 1200 per thousand ? Is that right ? 
Some profiles and flat flanks and you’d be earning at that mate surely ?

For the blocks, that’s don’t seem like great money that especially for concrete…..200 of those f***ing things a day for less than £200 !…..they could shove that up their arse ! lol 

Edited 23 minutes ago by WILF