Any ideas how long it should take a brickie to lay just under 200 bricks? This was to heighten a pair of existing gate butts by 15 inches and add 8 course of bricks to an existing double wall sprur which was only 3 bricks long?
What should be the aprox cost of said job?
Do brickies charge by the brick laid or by the 100 bricks laid or per day?
I'm not in the building game and I think (according to his bill!)that my brickie has either been drinking or is taking the ****.
In my local paper some advertise £1 a brick, but I wanted 80 bricks putting in were a window was, and was told £110, Some people got a driveway done £5000, and was told to have it done by a well known firm it should be £2800.
I think they charge what they think they can get awey with !
Normally, 200 bricks is less than a half-day's work, but when it's gate posts and effing about with garden walls, it could halve normal productivity. For small, residential jobs such as this, most brickies would give a job price, rather than a rate.
from having work done on my house and knowing the rates as a groundworker a brickie wants around 130-150 a day i payed 200 a day for 100 blocks 5oo bricks all done in the same day depends whats the job like for them
In reply to rates for brickies i am one and you don't charge per brick! Here in the south we are on £135-£150 a day and it is never heard of to charge say by the hour if a few hundred bricks then you would charge for the day, even if one would say 'but it took less than a day' be reasonable! ( taking in mind you have to knock up aswell yourself for a small job) it's tradesman your talking here not DIY'ers assuming they are of course,they are that ,and likewise if it were a bigger job you price it up on how many days using your experience and the price of a labourer, so you could be looking at a job priced at 5 days labour only £1150, any experienced brickie pricing work would know the days involved and if a few hours run into another day because it is on price you would swallow charging anymore.
