Wanted down under - bricklayers
 

After spending a whole week unable to work because of bad temperature in Scotland:mad: , at least got the chance to watch Wanted Down Under this morning - in Perth and it was about bricklaying (my trade).

Did anyone see it???? Cant wait to get there - good opportunities, good wages.

It looks fab!

Laura and Gordon:p :p (be there July!):D :D

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"is there plenty of work for brickies in WA" is the pope a catholic:D

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if you dont mind me saying i watched it but i have found $400 a day is at the bottom end of what i would want to earn.they dont work as fast as us and the work on the internal blockwork looks like it has been put up by one of my apprenticess.
so i would want to earm more than $400 a day,that would be o.k to start off with.

also i found a lot better houses for the money than the ones they showed on there today..


like you i cannot wait to get out there and get at it..jezus its bleedin frustrating...

ast

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I totally agree with you.......Our friend is out there - and they are building a house (through a company) - 4 bedroom 2 bathroom in Ellenbrook - total cost $320,000.

When do you plan on going??

I thought the guys building were doing a bit of messing about - probably it was for the camera!:thumbup: :thumbup: You know what it's like in the UK - build as much and as fast as you can...it's the only way to get anywhere....

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Plenty of work for brickies - now that brings music to my ears!!!!:) :)
(and £ signs to my wife's:sneaky: )

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Just joined today after watching all the series.
We are looking at going to WA hopefully and it has really given us an insight.

Does anybody have any advice as to reasonably priced houses in areas suitable for our family, we have a 9 year old son whi mad on football, sorry soccer!:confused:

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I watched todays show and thought it was the best so far maybe because our second option is perth and secondly hubbys a brickie, definatley good opportunities cant wait to get there myself now :D

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im a brickie and have just spent a month travelling round perth building sites to see if it was for me...
$300/400 is day rate decent trowells earn double that once you get on a price,$1.5 a brick is the rate now i believe,,averaged 600 bicks a day ,there mostly square bungalows....so??$$$

i would say,your looking at a house $350 upwards dont be fooled your not going to get a lot under 350....

i would say ,but were all different,you will be looking $450/$550 for a nice house in a nice town

and once again perth is just one big building site...

hope this helps.... ast

p.s when i get out there i am going to get meself sorted with the heat.work down the gables in the shade when its hot.get some big conopies to work under,shower on the back of the pickup..etc.etc..

p.s all us brickies should keep in touch,and form a few gangs after we get our foot in the door..its only what we do here???

ast..

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at least having a day off meant that you could watch england win the cricket :)

i worked on a site building a big house, the job was run by my m8.
this m8 got his brother (a brickie) back over from perth for a month to help me build the house.. a paid holiday in england with his old mates.
both of them are in perth now one brickie and a chippie, both working, both happy.

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Great, thanks for letting us know - been waiting for a brickie one to come on and in Perth too :rofl:

Please let the video have worked!

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Sounds excellent mate!!!! I'm up for that. Us brickies should stick together (safety in numbers!!!). The thing is - you would definately be able to afford the mortgage is you were getting that kind of money.

The programme was excellent today - I'm really excited about going now - and I think Perth is definately the bst choice.

Did you go to Mandurah on your travels???? Kind of fancy that???:blink: :blink:

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is perth just a big job centre for tradesmen then, god what hope do i have on goldcoast when my oh is a plumber gasfitter maybe we should go to perth instead lol

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there tonns of work down mandurah way.we were offered a 4x2 with a pool in rockingham for $350 very nice.which is about 4o mins from perth ,where my wife wants to be..

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you wont get $1.5 building the square bungalows more like $0.95 you might get $1.5 on double stories dont kid yourself if you think the aussie brickies are lazy and rough

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It is. Come and get your slice of it.

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daft sod, let them to go to QLD :lol:

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You're a woman! :o

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to be honest ,i watched quite a few ozzies at work.i never said they were lazy.

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of course :ohmy: well I was the last time I looked, Ive took over from hubby he dosent even get a look in on here now, when he tries all I do is look like this :mad: and he soon shifts :D

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Lol, well I apologise I thought you were a bloke

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Hi all Been watching the programme this morning and im a brickie too sat at home because of the weather in crappy north wales and was thinking of visiting perth in august and seeing if there was much work there as im sick of the uk :frown: My brother lives in sydney and has been there fo 20 years and he wouldnt come back here if you payed him:lol: Is there any sites to search for jobs out there ..
Sick of being ripped of here.

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mate if you can imagine the whole of the job section in your local paper,thats what the building section is like in perth..i have never seen anything like it..

ast

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When are you hoping to go??? Our house is up for sale at the moment - got someone coming for a 2nd viewing today. The dog is booked into quarantine on the 20 June- but my wife and I hope to be there aroung the 8 July.

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Hoping to get out there for august dont know the dates yet as my wife is in uni so waiting for them to give her the dates

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it was like that 6 month ago still a lot a work around but nowhere near like it was dont know about north of river but down south has tappered of perth has been flooded with brickies over the last few years

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you will be sat at home here in july and august when it rains it really rains

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The brickie just started on our house - 4x3 in Tapping (North Perth). He earns $1 a brick and reckons he lays around 1000 a day, he has approx 13000 bricks to lay, so that's $13,000 per house. Not a bad job. There's just him and his apprentice, and from what I have seen so far he's doing a lovely job.

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Hi there

Did you get a company in to build your house - or are you just setting up different tradespeople yourself?? We might do that when we get over there. (I suppose we'll just have to see what happens).

Laura

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Ooh no we got a company to do ours - Gemmill Homes.

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I see there are quite a few on here thinking of doing the build themselves.


Just wondering if you guys have looked into things in detail, is it the same as here in the UK with the banks releasing at stages of the build even if your project managing on your own, or are they strict about where their money is being spent and mostly insist on a company taking on the build?

If any you guys have done the self build either way can you give us some feedback on the finance side of things

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All us brickies should keep in touch so we know where the work is when we get there if any of you know of employers that will sponsor qualified brickies from uk give us a shout am desperate to go,especially to get away from this freezin scottish weather for once and all- Billy

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Will do Billy - I'm hoping to be there in July. Keeping in touch with Aston Man (Marcus), yourself and this other guy I speak to Steven. Where in Scotland are you from - I'm from Glasgow. Working in East Kilbride at a school just now - bloody freezin..:ohmy:

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i think if i could help someone if i get my visa ,i would sponser another brickie..

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do you know chaps ,ive got the building section here and there are loads of adds for hoddies at $300 a day.thats good money me thinks..

ast

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Im from Darnley in glasgow gordon (the new bit)pmsl im gettin seriously down tryin for an employer tho been tryin since november but all sayin the same thing that theyll start me when i get there but i cant get there till i get the visa catch 22 m8 but please do keep in touch ye never know Billy

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Don't believe a word they say on that programme.

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i believe some of them ;)

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Another brickie fae Glesga eh!!

If you guy`s need labourer when you get there give me a shout or better still i dont mind rendering over your shoddy work;)

you a bit like myself Billy, i live in easterhouse! the good bit:rofl:

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All you pommies coming as brickies dont be fooled that you will earn loads of dollars here...........Im in adelaide and the going rate is .85 cents a brick and you have to go some to earn a wage and the heat its like some one has a big bright lite on ya back , does it get hot...Plus it was hard to get in with a house builder....the going rate for a bricky is 25- 30 dollars an hour not good workin an 8 hr day.


geary

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And we live in Boorheed (that is Barrhead to us posh people in the good bit). Do you think being a plasterer you would be able to keep up labouring to us brickies - but I'd maybe give you a start cos you kick with the right foot!:D :D