How much money per 1000 bricks laid??

[comparethebuildingmateria]

Hi, a friend of mine is a jobbing bricklayer and he works in 3 & 1 gang, this year although he has found work he has found that the prices are getting tighter and tighter,

He recently got a job where he is getting £600.00 per 1000 bricks laid.

He stated that this price was "Too Good Too Turn Down." which got me thinking,

What is the going rate for a bricklayer on price????????

Thanks in advance CBM

 

[noseall]

£250 - £450 p/k is a price range that is considered normal these days though 250 is about as low as you could go and certainly not for detail work.

£600 p/k is high end and back in the good old days before the financial crisis.

 

[theoldun]

We find it very hard to believe that any one in Herts is paying £600 per 1000. If word of that got out couple of thousand bricklayers would be there the following morning looking for the start.
Three half tidy bricklayers with a good ballerina on house field ranging, working fork lift service and landing platform at those prices could knock out between £1260 and £1440 a day split 4 ways between them. Repeat that is on site work and not jobbing work like extensions.
You say your friend is a jobbing bricklayer. There is a lot of difference between a jobbing bricklayer and a price work flyer.
Site work at the moment is £240 to £250 with fork lift service and retarded pre mixed muck in tubs.
A lot of the sites now take 5% of all lift prices and put it on top out, so if you do not do your own top out you loose a shed load of money. Then again if you do some one else’s top out you are on an earner.
oldun