retired_slamdunker

Brickies are massively in demand at the moment an can earn shitloads. Hence in the construction industry at the moment the new footballers wives are 'Brickies wives'.

retired_Kicker07

Well labourers that work with the brickies keeping them supplied with mortar and blocks etc at my work earn at least a pound an hour more than labourers who do alot of sweeping and pipe work etc. Im asking as im an apprentice brickie, wanting to get a rough idea of what the time served are on. 4 th year apprenticeship is 8-50 an hour. Its price work after that.

retired_maggie123

haha, my mum's dickhead of a boyfriend tells me the brickies he works with DEMAND £1,000 p/w. When he told me I said something like "What!, that seems alot, for doing something as simple as brick laying"

Safe to say he didnt like that reply and starting slagging off my work on computers. I presumed brick layers were 10 to a penny so I was surprised they could get that sort of money. Obviously i'm wrong.

retired_ks reddy

Indeed you are. It's skilled, unpleasant and painful work.

retired_maggie123

Indeed you are. It's skilled, unpleasant and painful work. </BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what we went on to say in fairness, how brick layers have to do shitloads of work in the summer months to save up money as once winter comes along, obviously they cannot work in the rain etc

retired_ks reddy

Yeah, er, no one ever lays bricks under a roof?

SJCyclist

All the brickies on the site I work on are on over £100 a day. And they're not even good ones.

retired_lgrimz

Bricklayers never work past 4pm on the site I'm working on. But tbf they're way ahead of programme and are probably earning a mint with the price there companies boss probably gives them.

2boxers

cost of job/hour

retired_lgrimz

tbf jearm most on a price per square metre-age or number of bricks laid.