What's a very rough typical cost to employ a skilled/trained bricklayer in the Midlands/Yorkshire?
A daily rate for say an 8-hour day, not per-brick.
A daily rate for say an 8-hour day, not per-brick.
Bricklayer daily rate?
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Thanks. Is that per brick?
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Of course!!
'Per course' you mean?
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Why don’t you ring some up and ask them their day rate and their brick rate? They may come as a gang so ask whether they work solo with you labouring or whether the price is per man/gang etc
It's not as easy as it sounds.
If you say call a bricklaying contractor, he will offer p/m² prices as well as day rates. However, in the next breath he's likely to say I want all batched muck, tubbed batches forklifted onto the scaffold, bricks tele-handled onto a platform and all openings dummy framed.
Speak to an individual site brickie, and he may not be as demanding, but will be half way past joist height when the customer realises that no inspections have been done.
There are domestic gangs out there, but I guess they'll have their own set of rules and what they are responsible for. Feeding these gangs materials can be a chore in itself, if the site foreman (usually the homeowner) is not clued up. That's before they have gone into detail about brick specials, corbels, blue brick detailing, header courses, lintel heights, cav' insulation types etc.
I think Ivor is looking for a brickie to help him build a garage, so I'd guess wants someone on a day rate with him doing the labouring. Probably around £250-£350 a day. It's the sort of job I'd take on these days.
I'm wanting to offer an ex-brickie friend some work. Want to pay full market rate, don't want to insult by suggesting mate's rates.
He'll be doing the skilled stuff, I'll be labouring.
I don't want to waste pro builders' time by having them come round and quote for a job I hopefully won't need them for.
I've done some bricklaying on it, it's 90% OK, but I'm too slow and getting annoyed with it. Have done some big garden walls before, it's easy to follow a string line but window openings have to be right. Time to face reality, I can then spend more time earning money running my business and pay someone else with this money, so hopefully it will cost me nothing in reality.
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