Calling all bricklayers!
 

Hi are there any brickies on here that could give me some advice please?

We're considering making the move to Australia with our two children.
My partner is a qualified brickie with 25 yrs experience and has is nvq level 3.
Where would be the best place to head to?
What are the wages like? He currently earns anything from £800-£1250 per week.
Any advice would be great.

Thanks

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I can only comment on Sydney other parts of Australia i could not say ,as a rule of thumb ,if you are in a gang of blokes with a good fast setup you could earn a dollar fifty per brick , as a freelance bricklayer with a good labourer you could earn far more than in uK
,all said Sydney is quite expensive so it is all relative

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Do brick layers count the bricks and actually memorise it?

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I was wondering the same thing...


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Not sure how you would count these boys on the new UTS building.

http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/im...9375119716.jpg

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Thanks for responding
And you wouldn't count the individual bricks that you'd laid, you count by the meter 😁

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I wondered as well cos someone was posting last week about something like 700 bricks a day, and I thought - how do you keep track?!!

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So you click over a meter everytime you lay a brick? Don't you have a brick in one hand and the thing that has the mortor on in the other hand?

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...I think he meant 'metre'!

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Yeah I realised when I wrote it that it was spelt wrong.
In my defence I work for British Gas and all day long I'm talking and writing about gas meters.... That's my excuse anyway lol 😁

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Oh.

Is that square metre or linear metre?

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The builder or brick company know exactly how many bricks the job will need /are ordered.

The job is tendered out/ then contracted to the subcontractor ( brickie in this case ) he will have submitted a price per brick/block. Competitive usually.

The price per brick may sound high. Out of that the The subcontracting brickie then pays, licence, insurances, materials sand mortar etc....

Then the wages of the labourers and brickies he employs.

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Yes. I get the costs. Just wondering how a brickie counts it.

Seeing as though 3D models do if the quantities on the big projects these days anyway, just wondering why manual counting needs to be deployed at all.

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I think you mean 'mortar'? 😉

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You tell me. You are the specialist.

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Of curse he does :) Ignore him, he's being a wazzuck.

Stop being an idiot, no wonder newbies never hang around these days :rolleyes:

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:thumbup: Thanks for that!

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Excuse me ..... I'm assuming Thomcat was giving it out in good fun, so he will be able to take it back in good fun ..... right?

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Wrong.

He was not 'giving it out' . He was giving you back what you gave out AND he was asking for help and advice.

So, if you want to know about how a qualified trade brickie knows his stuff , I suggest you ask properly. Otherwise have you any help to offer perchance ?

OK Thomcat. My husband is a time served plumber in NZ and is dyslexic so even though he is a bright chap - a very bright chap - his spelling is rubbish but he managed to get here without anyone sticking it to him.

I think what you need to ask is how bricklaying differs from the UK or Spain to Oz.

Here in New Zealand there is not much call for bricklaying in the way that we know it. It is more of a cladding thing.

As for how it is counted . That tells me that some of you do not really know any tradesmen.

Even I know how and why a brickie counts his bricks.

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WRONG ........ and so wrong

He corrected my spelling of mortar. Its not the first time my spelling has been corrected nor will it be the last. Should I take offence? Well where would be the fun if I did. .... and he is the expert in bricklaying right and probably knows how to spell the nouns in his chosen career better than I do. Oh and a few of us were curious how Brickies count bricks. If that's going off topic well excuse me. Relax.

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Redux.