Brickies wage?!

Jez · 12 Sep 2008 at 22:13

doublehelix2 said:
As a contractor surely you can make more money doing what you do than your Electrician friends?

Not a chance. Not as an individual. My car business provides most of my income and is most certainly comparable with them.

cheets64 · 12 Sep 2008 at 22:14

BF-Bert said:
Unfortunately when construction goes into decline its often the sub-contractors such as brickies, plumbers and electricians that suffer the most, jobs become tighter and tighter and main contractors will always manage to screw the price down on the sub-contractors while maintaining a good mark up for themselves not to mention the numerous material price increases that have occured over the past year..... many contracts last more than a year and the job prices can be fixed prior to the job starting. Tough times

Tough times indeed but it will pick up, it always has, we are just seeing prices brought down back to realistic levels for every area of work.

andy m w · 15 Sep 2008 at 20:07

You can not possibly learn to be a bricklayer in six months even if you picked up the skill of laying bricks there is so much more to learn. After a six month course if you were left on a plot of land with just a drawing you would not have a clue what to do

cheets64 · 19 Sep 2008 at 23:04

Started the course, not going to be easy, lot of school leavers who aint taking the course seriously, which seems a shame, the opportunity they are passing up is immense imho, wish I was doing it at 16 and had the same drive I did when I was doing IT but on Plumbing.

Cupra · 20 Sep 2008 at 02:08

i did bricklaying with my dad who is a qualified bricky all the time i was growing up he got so much work from people seeing his previous work its unreal and ive got to say its such a hard job. ive deliverd coal for 2 years and that was sooo much easier than bricklaying

imo they deserve every penny