Some general informaton please? How long would it take someone to build:

- In Melbourne
- A brick wall using standard 390x190 blocks (ie Boral)
Area = 460 square metres (153 metres length x 3 metre height)

- What labour team would be required ie Bricklayer and 2 labourers or 2 Bricklayers and 1 labourer?

- What equipment would they need if say they were a new arrival from the UK?

- What certification process do they need to undertake to become self employed? Can they still sub under say an owner builder?

- Lastly what is a good rate for a Bricklayer (ie one they would be happy with given current economic situation).

- Is it true Brickies get laid more often?

- Is it true Brickies get laid more often?[/QUOTE]

No

More often than ......? Plumbers, IT bods ....

Based on the driver of the car with whom I spied the sticker not alot

But hopefully that means they spend more time working preferably on a 3 metres high x 153 long wall

Must be hard at it or
working hard?



or wrong site for such information

What sort of wall, is it just a garden wall or a retaining wall?

First 55 metres
1.8m retaining the rest 1.2 out of the ground

Rest is ground/first floor of one level building.

Wow it's going to need some serious reinforcement, rebar into the footings & horizontal bars wired to the vertical etc? Did you have to have engineered drawings done?

Yes but the designer is still in fiji on holiday and needs to transmit the plans through before the engineer can commence.

Spending your cash on a holiday the cheeky bugger

I think he needs it after the stress I have given him