 What the hell? We did it? Shall we go on? Yeah, we should have done this beforehand. Hello everyone. We're on our strong point. I'm surprised I managed to do this. But it was, I can't say how many people there are. 12 in. Oh yeah, 12. This is Matthew Robinson. That's a tough one really, because I only have employed one person, which is this one here. It's not really what you want. If you get a job or something, what are they paying? Basically, you can't really detail how much you want. I don't think you... I suppose it's just to have employees, isn't it? To have employees, Jim? We're about to see what are as well. It's all here after though. Yeah, I know, yeah. It's Jim. Hi Jim. Good evening Jim. You know our regulars. Long time regular. Let's let me get a drink. Hold the fort. I'll do my best. So, what is it we've had planned for today? I found out about this an hour ago. Okay. What have we planned? Is there anything we've planned? Shoot the breeze. Just a chance. So we have no plan? We're going to show them the... the tool holster. Oh yeah. Because that was on Instagram. People are asking about the tool holster. We'll show them properly. Okay. So we're going to be, we'll be showing off the tool belt in a bit. I think. First and block solutions. Good evening from Ireland. Good evening. Good evening from the UK. One second. Yeah, yeah. Just want to say that's the challenge here. Well, thank you very much, Robert. Keep up the good work. Thank you. We'll do our best. All right, Aussie. Kind of both really. We've been, we're waiting on the scaffold for our site work, which is meant to be done tomorrow. But that's what they've said. So we'll... So you'll finish that tomorrow? The third thing since July? Oh, the third thing since July starting tomorrow. So we'll see how that goes. This site's not been particularly good with the scaffolders. We'll say that much. The brickies who were working opposite us, they were all loaded out ready. And then the scaffolders came saying, take it all off. We've got to take it down. And then that's where they got left. So we'll see if this scaffold firms any better. There's two of the gangs waiting in the scaffold before us. Yeah, there's a load of gangs waiting. So it's like, I'll believe it when I see it. They tell you what you want to hear on this site a lot, really. But yeah, yeah. And we've done a bit of overboarding today on a just one side of fence. There was, what, 70 boards? Yeah. About 70 boards. So nice, easy hours of work. There's two other big-ish fence and junkie prostitutes. Yeah. And we've got two more fence and junkie prostitutes. We're doing a wall tomorrow, aren't we? Yeah. So we've got a wall to do tomorrow as well. We're filming that. Yeah. So we've got a bit lined up. Didn't really want to drink. I just wanted to get a cup out. Shamelessly plugging in. Good evening from Japan. Wow. Good evening. Thank you. I'm all caught up here. Right. Oh, no, good evening from Phil as well. Hi, Phil. Another regular. Hi, Phil. Team Awesome. Jack, give me the likes. How's it going? Really enjoyed the videos. Keep up the good work. Oh, thank you. Well, it's all in. I'm just the cameo every now and then. The video. The hard works, the bricklay, not the videos. Well, again, that's all you. Do you give priority to site work or private jobs? It's a bit of that. Yeah. Like sometimes if like where the garage we were doing on the video that went up today, that was like a priority one. It needed to be up to finish off the rest. So they went for CMLs. Yeah. So, um, it depends on like how much of a priority the site work is because we'd prefer to go and do the. Jack in the site altogether, but it's just keeping us going at the moment. Yeah. It's so much hassle. So much hard work for very little reward. Yeah. It's soul destroying. Be honest. You'll see. We've filmed this plot. We're now in this, um, the sides were up to, um, Joyce on the entire, weren't they? A lot wasn't over on now. Yeah. We had the front to the back to do, which the battle wasn't too about, but the front was an absolute pain. The front is just an outside. It's a, it's a, uh, from porch and toilet. And you'd think that that shouldn't take long. And it took us three days because it's just cuts. It was just boxes. Faf, wasn't it? Yeah. And like, as I'm sure people would point out working off somebody else. It never works. No. Like the, the levels were not the levels were off the blade. When you strung a line through it was going to the next postcode. Yeah. So that was on your side. Yeah. That was a foundation release. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was a nightmare to try and fix. Hopefully on this next lift, it's all us then. So you should go a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Smooth that. The murder lift. Yeah. It's a nice one to take over on. It's a good relationship with your father and son to work together and work together. My brother would have ended up killing, killing each other. He's no way we're best mates. It's all fake. It's all in the editing. Yeah. But when we hug, we have to say we have to hug into people don't think we're at each other. But we're getting better with the weather. About to snow up there. It's not going to blow through today, Jim. It's been a pretty cold wind for the last couple of days. Yeah. It's been very sunny, but it's been getting colder and colder. Yeah. Snow up. I've become a peonix. Yeah. No one I look. Yeah. All right. Yeah. That's Mark. Hi, Mark. Well, I'm surprised that we've started this quick because last time we, because we had it set up, which is what we had last time. And as any of you remember, that was a disaster. We ended up having to set up a new one on the iPad and everyone was on the one waiting for us. Yeah. I fixed it this time. We got it pretty quick. I just want to know how Changi does it on the GoPro because I can't get that set up. I need to work that out because this is the last time I want to get the GoPro going. Any tips to start the on your own job today at site work? Yeah. It's tough on that because we have a lot of work. Well, it's like we did a lot of site work, didn't we? Yeah. We've got enough private work, but not enough to go full time and just be prepared to put a lot of time in visiting people and talking to them and pricing jobs up and not always getting a job. They don't always get back to you when they don't want the job doing. So I'll be prepared for a lot of disappointments. When they go well, they go well. And double check your counting and you're like adding up on the how much things are going to be because I don't trust his math anymore. So just double check what you'll be booking and buying and all that. So you don't end up out of pocket. The worst thing about mixing the two is taking stuff in and out of the van and I guarantee wherever we go and we'll forget something like today. I took the nail gun and forgot the nails for the nail gun. I forgot Alex's nails and I forgot my nails. Luckily we're on our estate so we're usually driving back home. Stupid things. I think it's been for a month now every time we've done a offsite work he's left me to do something. I got the message I was editing the other night. I sent him a stranded message. Construction has been locked down over here since Christmas. Luckily hell. Well they're taking it more seriously down there than aren't they? I'm going to work out of the site. It doesn't work on our site then. So subject. Snowed in today in Huddersfield. What the hell? Hi Bob. Hi Bob. Hi Bob. It was all good extension building with DPC in concrete. Is there a video above DPC? There's four videos from actually we've got up to the I don't know what. Mum's on. We've got a video up to DPC. That's right isn't it? I've just edited all these and we've got a video of the concrete in because we did that ourselves and then we did the next bit in two days so we've got up to pretty much scaffold height and then we've got topping off but I've managed to find another bit of dodgy timelapse again so that needs sorting out so I might have to scrap a load of the footage which is the last bit but we'll have to see if I can salvage any of it. The perils of a YouTube bricklayer. Is that something wrong with the cocoa again? No. There's a lot of money in patio work. Look out for Johnny Buyer Bristol. We're a long way from Bristol. Spot on Alex making sure you haven't missed out on something really obvious when pricing the jobs is key. Yeah because he was pricing a fence and he's like that doesn't look right. He forgot to price in the boards. The freaking boards. The main part. I've priced a job and forgot to price for labour for the bricklayer. So just keep on that. I've actually done myself a template now on a pricing a job with a list of everything that I need for a job and I go back to that template now so don't keep missing things out. Well how far away from home would we say this would go out? We said that. How far from home prepared to work? I'd say 10-15 miles. The reason being I've just spent 10 years doing foundations and travelling a lot. Blackburns last, wasn't it? Yeah. That was 260 miles a week. It doesn't sound a lot but that's also nearly two hours a week per day in the van. That's 10 hours, that's a day's work sat in the van, earning nothing. Getting fed up with all the dickhead drivers on the M6. That's one of the reasons why we came to this site. It's a mile and a half from our house. Alright, I get a hassle trying to get paid. We're home in no time and that makes a big difference. Up there. I'm getting extra hour in bed. Oh yeah, more time at home. No wonder we have no money. Colin's on. Oh, Hi Colin. How are you doing well mate? Over there in Notchdale? I've done exactly the same thing once Steve, no labour charge. Luckily the client was honest, we had a laugh about it and red face. It's always out to the customer understands and they probably realise why the quote was so cheap. Yeah. I was undercharging for jobs and I couldn't work out why every time I did a job the people would give me a bit of extra because I wasn't charging enough. Ridiculous. Don't say that because mum's here. Oh yeah, she's in the church. You're having a few beers tonight but we're at work tomorrow. Yeah, I don't drink beer mate. I might have... If we were to open towers every side, we'd open towers, that's it. No, I feel like I had a side the last night. We shunned it in, we shunned it in. So was that why there was a couple beer cans just there laying there? Just the one. Let's just start feeling drunk now. I stopped drinking. There's no money in dead work anymore. Dead work anymore. They nearly won't finish blood work now. I think a lot of people say that the money's no better than it was 10 years ago now and the prices everything's all in so there's no extras, everything's in so you find yourself jointing the back of block work and the lintels and the the cavity trays and the wheat vents and setting this up with the wind deformers in and that's all in for £500 a thousand and you feel like you're going backwards so frustrating. Thanks for coming there. I have to share that template you have. Yeah, just on my list. I think Christine's enjoying learning all your secrets. I'm Karen, not a bricklayer but hoping to do some block work building a fire pit. Love your videos. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, yeah. And good luck building a fire pit. It's the same during the last of the bank holiday. Like the new merch. Thanks Colin, you made it with this. This is all thanks to Andy. Funny enough we're working at Andy's house tomorrow. We've done, this will be our fourth job at Andy's house. And he's the one who designed the logo and the, well, everything basically. Yeah. He designed the van as well. Made up with that. If you see the logo it's all him. Yeah, it's all Andy. And the lad, Neil, who had bought the van off he did his van as well. So, I've been working down there a lot like you said the two vans are always part next to each other. Neil's old one and his new one. Andy's handiwork. Oh no. The porch. Can I delete comments? Can we block it? Yeah. Don't. She's only upstairs. Oh yeah, she won't come down. The threats there mum. Even though it's what you charge for a thousand on private. The jobs we do generally, they're not that big. So exactly. I just worked out a state work. So there's no pressure. We know we're going to get it done. But 600,000 sounds about right. Greedy Super Suits keeping all the extras.... Yeah, that's true. These aren't even Super Subbies. We're working Direct as well. But they're just despicable. Oh, yeah. They knocked off a whole list... I think we've complained about this before. They knocked a whole lift of scaffold just to save money. like reach ridiculously above your head and then. So the scaffold's right for the roofers. Yeah. James Chandler, he did the only day, he had to go 31 courses to a table lift. My God. It's ridiculous. You can't see it once, you passed there, you can't see the line. Yeah, so like, and then if the brick's leaning that way or that way, it's not, well, it's not your fault. It's always that way, it always comes in on you. Yeah. Cause you're looking up a brick and the brick's always tipped, but you can't tell cause you're looking up them. Yeah. But they don't see that, they just complain about the brick works crap. I think I definitely undo what you get, understand what you get on site, doing the domestic work when you're pricing, off against others. Yeah, so if I'm to Scotland, the money's going up and up. Some people drive past 26, get to the one, they're working on ridiculous, really. I don't work out somewhere in town, I haven't traveled any distance to work for years. Well, nearly what we were just talking about, he never leaves his estate. No. Like I say, I bought the van off it and then it's five and a half years old and it's done 22,400 miles when I bought it because he gets all his work in his local area. So I snapped that one up. We saw him in our town and they're like, is he lost? Yeah. He's never been out this far. What's your day rate? I don't discuss that on YouTube. Especially in front of him. Confidential. I think that's the way you're getting paid through. Opses, square gables, here in Ireland. Not sure what that means. No, I don't know what that means. I have to explain that one, brick and block solutions. Charlie Collins' accident was on April Fool's wide up. I thought that. I thought that straight away. Yeah, I asked him to do his live stream. He sat there, right as rain. Spot on, I just have to build a buff. Your eye just gives you problems. Yeah. It's just a fact, isn't it? Like, because one as well, you're straining to get up there. Especially with blockworks. Because with blockwork, you have to go even higher. So, in the middle wall, it's concrete block. We had to set up a little mini. Little hop-hop mini, get done for a health and safety then. Yeah, like, oh, on the first house we did on our estate, there was no way to climb up properly without climbing on the cobbles and the brickwork. So you could easily knock it over or fall over. And so we brought a stepladder in, and we got told off for having a stepladder. It wasn't safe. But climbing up... They hid it, didn't they? Yeah. So we couldn't use it? Yeah. But climbing up on brickwork, they could easily fall off on that, safe enough. How long have you been in bricklay for? 35? Five. Years, not weeks. We're making an estate. Do you work or you can hand in before they pay you? Well, I've been waiting since I attempted to get paid, but let's move on, that kind of worms. You're meant to book in. You're booking Friday, they pay you Thursday. That's what's meant to happen. Paid solid. Well, definitely not paid solid. What they want you to do on this right now is... Yeah, when I started, it was 21 courses yet. Put it on, put log scaffold up. Luxury's all gone backwards. Put log scaffold in. That's great. No tubes in your way. Yeah. Fantastic. What are you getting paid through windows and square labels? I couldn't tell you what we're getting paid. I don't even know what our rate is because I'm trying to book working and nobody's told me what the... I think it's £500 a pound of £1,040 on the block. Don't know what the common price is and they pay the same for trench block as they do for cell cons. £14 a meter for trench block. And I wonder why nobody wants to do the foundations. What's the most difficult job we've done? Let me get the list. Where do we start? I think that job we did at Christmas a few years ago, the stone wall. Stone wall. Oh, what in? It was a agro-trench block in the water. Truly. Yeah, that was hard. That was horrible. And it was a day before Christmas Eve and I worked Christmas Eve on it, didn't I? Yeah, I refused to go back. It was like a 10-foot stone wall but it was 18 inches thick, so it was trench blocks. Witchways with massive pillars in it, wasn't it? And it was all in addiction, it was all flooded. Yeah. It was just pitch. Like, you couldn't... You didn't know where you were going and they had like, planks set up under the air in the water, so it'd be like... And if you missed the planks by the pillar, you would have shrugged your hips. That was hard. What else was hard? The foundations were hard. Yeah, we had a lot of hard jobs. A lot of the foundation hard work wasn't even the work. It was brushing the water and the mud out before it even started. Yeah, and working late's always hard as well. A lot. That's when you start soaking when it gets past a certain time. Is Alex there was a job in Edinburgh last week and in 50 solid? Yeah. Do you know us for the price list? Yeah, keep asking, keep emailing him. He won't email me back. This is the QS. Yeah, the QS test. I need to sit down with the QS in the office to discuss stuff. It goes back to me to say again, finishing people's work. There's two garages. There's a pair of semis, garage up to scaffold height, garage from DPC. Did that one fine up to from DPC. The one from scaffold height, we spent two days finishing off. Went to bucket in. Oh, it's already booked. It's over by 30 pound, we're not paying you. So, well, that's not my fault. We still need paying. We've still spent two days building it. So that's still ongoing. And the other side, it's what it is. You've got the detached garage that you've got where it's attached to the house. So you've got the front, the side, the back, and then it returns back to the house. Yeah, like that. So you've got this return here. That's all extra brick work. It's extra brick work because the price list is for... Is it, it's like that? It's like that. So the price list allows for that, that and that. So when it's like that, you've got all this extra brick work here, which is about 400 bricks. So 500 pounds, that's 200 quid. So that's three garages now they've done as out of that money. So that's 600 quid. And it's there. Well, a couple of the lads took them to task on it and he said, I'll pay you this time, but not next time. They said, well, it's brick work. It's extra brick work. You're not paying. So that's still ongoing. That's three garages up to now. Long story short, they're not clear on the money and they don't want to give them those money. I say they treat the bricklayers like mushrooms, fed shit and kept in the dark. And that's the way it is. There's no, there's no, there's no loyalty. They don't look after anybody or it's just, you don't like it. No, it's literally about what the, that's all one of the, I won't say specifically, that's what one of the higher up certainly things said. Yeah. And Christ, that lot, you're working this absolute nightmare. We're working on it. We can't say names, but yeah, it's a mum language. I'd say the most difficult job you did was those bricks that have so much tail. Oh. Which one was that? It was the customer who's an absolute nightmare. It's Colin's actually. Oh. Snagging decent's work. The coffee was all right, but the customer's a nightmare. So fussy. 500 to 1000 is shocking in Ireland. One pound per brick on 90% of the sites. Oh my God. It's a thousand pound a thousand. It doesn't sound too bad. Too bad? It's doing it again. I know. What's the worst customer you've had? For me, it wasn't a customer. It was a... Next door neighbor. Yeah, it was the Crosston job. Oh yeah. It was my first time getting shouted at by someone. It came over. I thought, oh, she was coming to ask questions. I was getting rollered. Rollered food star. We were knocking a wall out at 10 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon. It was Sunday morning, though. So she wasn't too happy about that. Yeah, but I got the blunt end of the stick. Or the sharp end, whatever. Low-levels, yeah. So customers have never been too bad. It's always the neighbors or other people. Yeah. Low-level working foundations over the years please have it with hips in the back. Yeah, exactly. That's why the hips are so... That's why we had to back out, isn't it? That's why the main reason... Because the foundation, that's the way it felt for 10 years, every time I said I was leaving, put the money up. And it was like putting up a lot. So I just kept persevering and persevering in the end. We were building, like, up 4, 5th. And I couldn't step over the wall. We were in trenches. We were on the pre-cash concrete beams. So we weren't even working in trenches. We just couldn't do it. No, well, some of the beams were, like, up here. Yeah, some of the beams were, like, 400 deep. And then you built on top of them. Well, the sites was very hit and miss. Sometimes when you get really... They'd be dug out lovely and, like, there'd be no trench at all. And then sometimes it'd be... The song. Yeah. Yeah. Horrible. Shoulder with A&A. Ooh. That guy's absolutely shocked these companies. QS get away with it. You shouldn't put up with it. No. If we're in a position where we could, we tell them to. Yeah. I won't make any gestures on YouTube. I don't want us to... We've made progress. The QS has actually got back to me. Oh. And then I've got back to him and he's not got back to me since. Oh. But it's silly things. Like, you didn't put your figures on your booking in. And even the booking in, it's like a... It's like a NASA question. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's not as simple as, like, what you've done. It's, like, specific things. The lift. Yeah, and, like... And they've got rid of a lift of scaffold, so you don't even know what your lift is, which, now. Yeah, again, they keep you in the dark and they don't tell you anything. We need to bloody park in front of the QS's car and say it, right? You can leave when you talk to us about this. Yeah. Like, again, back to the foundation. The lads have worked for. I used to count up blocks, bricks, vents, lintels, itemise it, email it on a Friday, get paid for it on a Thursday. No, no message. Never, never any message. The other thing, the query, but, like, there's nothing. Yeah. Are you working for a sub-year or in that job? Direct. Direct? We used to be subbed of when we were doing the foundations, but... No. That's not a, it's different, that. What he means is sub-year, it's like, all the bricklayers work for a bricklaying firm. Oh, OK. And that bricklaying firm works for the contractor. Right. Direct NGO working direct to the actual builder. Right, OK. A sub-year is like, they also call them brick-barns as well. Oh, OK. So they, they employ a bricklayer, but they take a bit of course of it. They make their money by employing a bricklayer and taking a bit of it. Oh, I see. Yeah. One pound of brick on an island, so why are they all in Glasgow, working five hundred and six thousand? I know you'll find a lot of people that come into Ireland soon. Mm-hmm. Probably now on the site, too many people telling others what to do and getting paid for or tuned for leaving the brickies with crumbs. Very true. Big, on the site we're on, they get paid to just stand there on a big pile of mud and put their hands in the pocket, stand there for a bit, have a go. Point a bit. Then they're gone. That's it. And then with the blue polished boot, oh, I'm not going to get into it. We had one week and it was a Monday, it poured down, so we lost the Monday. And then it was Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursday came, we actually had a clear day. So we all got, all turned up. One of the bosses walked down, slightly said, this site is a disgrace. Everybody go home. So we haven't worked Monday. He says, I don't care, he says he's not coming back on me until the site's tidied up. Oh man, this is a building site. Yeah. It's untidy because of the skips next to the pile. Yes, his complaint was that the skips were on the plots. Yeah. So, were you going to throw your crap then? On the floor? So we lost today's wages there, because we said it was untidy, just pathetic. And we may end up on TV doing like a test to find against this company one day. Yeah. In black up, like, silver images. The voice changer. You don't go to one of the other sites where you are. Well, there's a few sites going on and we're trying to. I've tried two of them. Get down there. The problem is, because this is an improvement and me being 50 odd, and we haven't got a laborer. They're not keen on taking two brick layers on, or even a one on one. Do you want like two and one plus? Bigger the gang the best, because the bigger the gang, the faster the house goes up. It's not about how it looks. They just want them up. By whatever means, they just want them up. Yeah. Paul wouldn't say they're all in Glasgow. So, work is great for the laugh and continued work. Downside, so being developer, private work. Great, except for certain customers who want everything for free. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Yeah, that's true. We've been quite lucky. So with the private jobs, we just do the brick work in the base, and then we work with other people. So we, because a lot of that's taken off us, we're just there to do the shell, and then we get paid and walk away. We don't have all the hassle with all the fittings and the plastering, the plumbing, the electrics. Yeah. So that's not too bad. What is it like working as a bricklayer? Do you want a short answer or a long answer? Yeah, that's it's ups and downs, like every other job. It's nice to be outside doing work when it's not raining. And then it's nice to watch your progress. It's like building a big Lego set. So it's satisfying to watch your work finish, and it's nice to see the customers happy with what you've done. Yeah, it's always there, isn't it? It's nice to see. Thoughts from Timberframe versus Fishman? Alex's never done Timberframe. I did it about 20 years ago. I've only done like a training bit in college, so I did like one wall with a window in. So I can't really say properly. But it seems faster. It's a lot faster. There's a Timberframe site on our... Yeah, it's on the front of it. Yeah, in our town. That's flying up. Obviously, it's a new block work, no setting out, no setting up windows. You've always got a sheltered site to work behind. I did enjoy it when I did it. I was just the one on one when I did that. Why do you get a HODI? Why don't we go to HODI? I can't be bothered, to be honest. It's easy just to manage me and Alex, and then if Alex can't be in the same block coming in, not very well today, so he don't get any of that. And I can't... I hate this. You see it with Charlie a lot. You'll turn up where somebody's not turned in today. Somebody's not turned in today. And that drives me mad. You've got your mindset for the day, and then you screw before you even start, because somebody hasn't run... Some of your rings in, because they've had a few drinks the other night before. I can't be bothered with that. It's just keeping it simple. I'd rather go a bit slower and get less work and just keep it simple, to be honest. But it's all the tax and everything there's in the paint, and the P-A-Y, you know, like the law as well. Yeah. It's a pity you don't have the union to back us up. So... Cheers, Colin. That's Tony saying, that's how it should be, guys. You do the graft, get weighed in. Can't go to the technical point. No. No, that's true. You know how much you pack in a biscuit jar as well? I don't know what our biscuits are worth. It's a pity you can't do it. So it works, so I can stick to the private work. Yeah. We're trying our best. That's the plan. And it's a pity you don't have a union. I've been in... I left school in 1985, and I've never been involved with a union. Never been approached by a union. Nothing. It's all about self-employed, so that you can be hired and fired at will. I always say self-employed basically means you've got no rights. And for the people who are recently self-employed, it's a nightmare for getting fellowed as well. Yeah. At the moment, over here on Ireland, the big subbies are paying decent money to the brickies, and they're making their money off the supply and fit just as silos, blocks, bricks scaffolding. Everyone else likes subbies off, but they should put up with that shit. As you have felt, you didn't hear anything, as you found out of payblocks every weekend, not a subbie, but the way I've been there. Yeah, Andrew, funny shit to say, I was talking to one of the joiners on Friday, and I was telling about... I tell everybody about me paying, but you try and get paid, and he said, I don't miss that. He said, all I do in there is book him with his boss, and he shorts it all. He said, he just pays me every week, and he deals with all the hassle. So yeah, they do take on a lot of hassle. And you don't see Stuart smiling, do you? Seems you have a good balance of private and state work. I suppose it's kicking your teeth when you're downstairs. Which part of it? Oh, have I? Oh, not far off. Once again, there we go. Not far off. It and Ruffa's beds are like miles past the Midland. That's like our house, isn't it? Yeah. To get the block work to right the lintel, so they've got to stack them up to get the lintel right. Yeah. Good balance of private and private work, kicking your teeth when you're down a day's wage for the site manager. It's not the site manager, it's above him. Yeah, it's all the ones above. It's the office, the office people. Yeah, the site manager's doing the best to help. Don't we don't have to face you? Yeah, and then he's got his hands tied and he's got to work with what he's got. I have 750 timber frames to do once. Wow. Alex will look down and lift him. Do you have? Not long to go, then. Yeah. No question, just saying great videos. I'm the son of a builder, so I don't understand all the jobs you do. Well, thank you very much. What's the best custom we've had? Well, on this job that we've had recently, they've been good. They did the foundation for us. They backfilled it for us. They were on the sheeting up? Yeah, because before this job, we did a steel job for them and they'd set it all out. They'd like, sheeted everything off. Everything was like sealed away. We said, we literally just went in, did it, went out, no faffing around with like getting everything dust proof and everything that was all done for us. Yeah, 12 years ago, I had a customer. Instead of paying us, he took me in, Christine to London for the weekend. Him and his wife took us away for the weekend. It's great. Did all the sites, went to the theatre. That was a good payday, especially for Christine. People keep saying it's round a brick and hell and they don't mention the cost of living is a lot higher. Looks like that down south, isn't it? It's more wages, but it's more to live down there. Bloody hell, they're coming to flit on them. Timber frame and never plum. You have to adjust your profiles. Yeah, remember that. Forget about plum and your profiles. You just measured the top. Right. Make sure you've got the cavity. Yeah. He would love the Timber frame. Alex loads of it up here. I'll definitely give it a go. Get the experience. It would be nice to go over on that site. Yeah. But they want plots up in 10 days, so that's without a question. Yeah. 10 day per plot they want and the big plots. I'm 65 and we're a company and can't be asked to rely on people to let you down. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. He barely took me home. Brick and block solutions. Good job. Do I still love my dad? I do. He's got the best part of the house. Yeah. He's got two rooms. I have two rooms and I'm going to hopefully have a workshop. Yeah. Behind the garage. Plus, it's easier just to... He's not waiting for me to wake up at whatever time. He can come and get me up. And I can't make excuses then because I'm literally in the opposite room. And you can't have a bed like some... Alex, get to bed. Do you find a lot of rules on red sites? Oh, getting a bit silly. Absolutely. Yeah. Like, we can't wear shorts. We can't wear hoodies. Like, it used to be not wear hoods now. Now they're trying to ban hoodies. Oh, you're not allowed to wear a hoodie at all. But you're going to have to put a hood down. You're going to have to ban... So they want you to... They want you to chance you wearing a hood. They want you to suffer. That's how I can say to you, Mad. The shorts, but... And last year, we had... We just had our vest on. And we told to go back to the van and put our T-shirts back on because we just had a vest on. Like, I don't get held up to health and safety this year. We put some cream on. Just a made-in feeling and a coat. But yeah, they're... Yeah, that... Like... You've got the sensible ones, like, keep your heart out on. Have you... Keep be aware of your surroundings and then you've got... Don't wear shorts. Yeah, and then you've got all the self-safety stuff and then you've got to work on hop-ups to get to reach the brickwork. They want you to reach. Yeah. It's like, they're giving you really... I almost swam in. Or you give really crappy ones and then it's like, oh, but you're fine doing this as long as you're in uniform. The scaffold was right, these are the week on the garage, so they sent us home. And when we came back, the scaffold was exactly the same. Yeah. So we lost today's work. For nothing, because the scaffold hadn't changed. That's customer. Wasn't the one you made your tea as well? I don't know if you made me tea. I think one that I've been with you with was most of the time we did the wall. He was praising me every second he got. Oh, Gary. That was our second YouTube video about that. Yeah. You've made it with that, because he's made up with his wall and YouTube, he loves it. I think that's about 50,000 views, that. He was made up, because I was younger than 30 and taking an interest in brickwork. Yeah. So it was fuel in my ego. Dean, where are you based? Lancashire. Love watching your videos. My struggle is, this country is where... I don't know. Country way, what do they think? Street employees rubbish, because they... Yeah. Yeah, Dave Cook, yeah. That's right. If you don't like it yourself, because somebody else did just do it. Yeah. I mean, I bought tongs. Do you know what? Changi was on before, and he bought the last set. And when he opened them, they were snapped. I was broken-hearted, because they're the only ones that have snapped. And there must have been a fault in the world, because they were just gutted. Maybe they weren't, like, fully cleaned. There's still some rust on it, maybe. Yeah. If anyone else is here, he's bought them. We hope they haven't broke. Yeah. Still country. Oh, I see. He was asking where Dean was based, and he's based in Stoke. Top-class customer here. Alex, would you consider buying some land and building your own house? Could probably build it in the garden. Yeah. Get a house on there easy. Save me having to do it, then. Is the merch for sale? If you want to get bankrupt, it's for sale. It's for sale, but it is expensive. Yeah. Like, if we could make the prices, we would, but because it's all handled by another party, it's ridiculous. It's print on demand. Yeah. And it's, when you go on the YouTube channel, it's on the shelf underneath the, I don't know what it's called. It's called a merch shelf underneath. Yeah. The only things that are reasonably priced are the shirts and the hoodies. Other than that, like, everything's ridiculously priced. Yeah. Because you've got that price, and you've got... They're good. I mean, for what they are, they're expensive. It's not the price that kills you as well. It's the shipping and the taxes. And the handling fees and all that stuff. That's where it all gets, buddy. Oh, well. Crippling. Thank you very much. Well, thank you, Luke. Well, thank you, Luke. Who is it, Pear? Yeah. Well, we're right, Pear, aren't we? Yeah. Can't keep up with the comments there. How do you work on your own for so long? And did you ever consider getting a laborer before Alex started? No, I was always told, get a laborer, get a laborer. But I had laborers when I first started on site. And again, forever getting let down. And then I've got off site work on my own conservatories for 14 years. In conservatories, you don't need a laborer. It's just very hard work. And then once I got off the conservatories, I went on to foundations on the site. And because everything's brought to you on site, it was actually easier doing the foundations than it was doing conservatories because I was just working. I wasn't backwards and forwards with wheelbars for a few hours a day. And in the end, when Alex did start with me, it was the best thing that ever happened to me, to be honest, because I was just killing myself. But you just get your head down and you don't think about it. Then you start getting all these aches and pains and maybe I've overdone this a bit. So it was just saving grace from starting with me. What are the stories of words? What do you think is better, day working or day work or being in a price game? I'm 53, not to over so price work for me, I'm afraid. I'm not into killing myself anymore. I've done that for too long. And it's not done me any good. Over here, get your itch. Over here, you can't eat in the canteen, on the scaffold. They want us to eat in the van because of COVID. Glasses and gloves are most ridiculous. That's not a big problem for us, because we eat in the van anyway. It's been antisocial. It's a bit like that on our side. Yeah, it's giving out two people in the canteen. One person in the toilet, it's still a bit... It's not enforced very well, is it? It's there, but it's not. Will you go back to conservative base? You laid on the side of the house. Were you moved, fenced and bricks got soaked? No, but the customer actually sent a message the other day to say thanks. And she said she's just watched all the videos. And she liked the bit with the pink cups at the end of the toast. She said she kept laughing at that. And she sends us a picture and the roof's on now. So I might try and get onto YouTube somehow or onto our community post, but as pictures come through, because it's local, I'll try and put them up. And I tend to put them on Instagram as well. Do you reckon the mistreatment of construction workers in the UK is worse compared to other countries? I don't know, really. We get treated pretty shit. It's like in our own world. Big companies treat that, but personal customers don't because they appreciate what you're doing. But big companies, it's... Yeah, and it depends on the big company as well. Like the big company we're working for, they clearly don't give one about any of their workers. They just want houses thrown up, people moved in. And even then they don't care either. But they want to be five-star builders. Yeah, they say they're five-star and like... They pay two-star wages. Yeah, well, they treat the workers that bad. One of them... This is on a different side. One of them was body punching in the walls. Just the walls, walls. Yeah. I'm going to comment it again. The problem is, bricklayers won't stick together anymore. If you refuse, they know another bricklayer will do it. That's it. Hence, we're finishing off a plot of where the bricklayers got sucked. Excuse me, ignorance. I'm not a brickie. What's an improver? Are the apprentice trained? I think... I don't know exactly what an improver is. I'm just going by what Charlie Collins has said, but an improver is once you've served your time, you've done your college, and it's like passing your driving test. You pass your driving test, then you spend the next few years learning how to drive. So an improver is... You've got your qualifications, but you're still on a low wage because you're building your speed up and getting your... What's the other word? Speed and expertise. Stamina? No, not qualifications. Routine? Keep talking, it'll come to me. Oh, fine. Well, the guard is never ever getting done his... Experience. Experience, there we go. I'm just going to ignore Mum's comment. What's he bought? Something about the guard. I'm not getting done. Only HS when it suits them all. This crap pride in the job. Chanye's bought some stands. I have made my own 20 mil box steel. I'd say they'd work out about 12 quitter stand. That's not bad. No? About 40 quitter by then. Yeah? Oh, the stand found it for you. Experience. That's the one. Would you ever consider working abroad? Never. No. Although I might be able to talk into working in Florida. Are you sure? Are you sure? You have to wear pants and bunnies and things like that. I'd probably eat. Jeez, peace, Christine. I can't hear that hoover. My order of hoodie. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It'd be a very fine addition to your clothes collection. That'd be great. That, Colin. Thank you very much. There's Christine. It's true of what Richard Fitzgerald says. All subcontractors should band and work on a huge network. Yeah, that's true. By the way, Tony, stickers in the post. Those they need. They've built a podcast studio. Fantastic. They've got a sticker wall. Right. So our stickers are in the post on the way. So the private job garden wall. Don't worry, sir. I've got the bricks when I turned up. I had a mix of imperial and metric. Oh, my God. They're all like that before. Yeah. They certainly make for a unique bedpan. Most bit of random. Yeah. Data boards 40 quid. They are off their heads as a spot pod. I must admit, I think they do. To be honest, I'd be finding them being pinched because they're that expensive. You're not going to put them in the van every night. You're going to leave them and cover up. She can be offered them. Even people who aren't, they find out they're worth 40 bloody quid. They just can't have them. Yeah. Steve is your wife following you. Yeah. Yeah. Every week. She's on a Friday. She's on the live chat on a Friday. Yeah. She's usually off doing everything else, but it seems when we're, when we're doing something, she's a, she's the first one here ready to wear trawlers. Lots of clean clothes. They look good when it was done. Well, one of the reasons why we did this, well, apparently was to show off the, Oh yeah. I'm posting people asking about, right? That's it. It's, do you use a block cutter? No, we just use a, we've got a circular saw. Oh yeah. We've got a circular saw for a thermally blocks. And a big hammer. And a big hammer. We just use hammer and bolster and the occasional circular saw. This here is a drill holster. It's a power tool holder holster. But it fits a trial perfect. It's made by Plano, which is the same as the hammer hook. And the belt is brilliant. And the belt is the same as well. But this, we're going to, we're going to put magnets in it, but the magnets weren't very good lately. So that's just a job. Not ideal. It's not as good as a trial mate, because the magnet isn't on and off. It holds the trial for the meantime. That's it. It holds it out the way. And it's even got a little pouch for your pencil. And then we have a holster, which this one's a snap on. You wouldn't believe how much easy that is. You know, searching for it, you just snap it in, it's in. Brilliant that. Same making. And I bet this, about five or six quid did weren't they each? Yeah. The belt was about five. Yeah. You're probably talking about 30 quid all in there. Less than 50 quid for everything here. Yeah. And this is the big pouch. So we've got room for... Don't use that, because the hammer hangers down too low on your hip. Yeah. And you need... Yeah. This holds it up on your hip, so it's not swinging around by any means. Well, there it is for comparison though, it's how much higher it is. Yeah. And then you've got tape measure pouch, which perfectly fits and it needs to tape in. Then you've got three other pouches. Could be holes. Could be holes. Could be tie-wires and frame tags in there. Yeah. Tie-wires. And then you've got a nine corner blocks. What? I've just edited the video now, and then it's me doing this little extension. It's right inside. So I've got very little room to move and I've got lots of blocks to cut. And every time I do a block, he takes everything to hand and it's just so quick and it's just brilliant. That's great. People are asking about what it is. That's how it is. I think it's a tool, a power tool holster. But that's in like an inch fully, down to about 10, so it'll fit most channels out. Nothing's going to fall through that. That was just a quick show-off. Yeah. What were we up to? I bought a sheet of... Fin... Fin... Finnelic board. I've only bought boys eight before. 100 pounds still. Still haven't cut it up yet. Two of us that took three hours to buy. And how would you know? One second. Mike, dinning far, far longer, but like, if you're not on the site and it doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you get it right, especially a cavity station stuff like that. Big shout out for the Paisley flyer, Scott. I'm okay. I bought a trowel eight years ago. Stop wearing it as the... as all the other bit layers written for you years. We need to break it once more. Yeah. Can't get all of them anymore, can you? It's a cordless drill holster. Yeah, that's right, Dean. Like I say, we bought it originally to glue magnets inside it to use it as a... as a trowel, mate. But you need... The magnets we got are very strong, but they're too small, so it moves about a bit too much. So... we just went with the holster. Where we at? That one cordless drill holster. Going too high. It's lift-building, but before face works, careful course below. All adults losing money and they're hardly... on your body. Yeah, Richard. Yeah, definitely. Especially when you use profiles. You're all set up for your profile, and you've got the scaffold that far away, far off the top, and it's always tight now. You can't move boards anymore. They're always locked down. You can't even lift your boards back to clean your board off at the end of the day. It's ridiculous. Greetings from nearby Southport. Greetings, Neil. I'll do. I'll be down there as soon as I can. Once the pub's open, we can go for our tea. We'll be down there for a walk. It's not as fast as Alan Burns. Not as fast as Alan Burns. Is that the Alan Burns that I know? Or is that just a random Alan Burns? Alan Burns is our ex, Lonlard. Donners. Donner's brother. Dines, I'm selling my trowel, mate. I hope it's signed for that price. Yeah. Just a quick question. Have you ever built koi pond? I mean, I've said that wrong. Lots of people have been built. Always need great brick layers. I've built a couple of them. Yeah. We did want to... No, sorry, one. And it was dug deep, and then we formed the shape of the pond out of bricks, and then it was rendered. And then it came out of the ground a couple of feet, and that was stonework. And then one end, it had a massive sheet of glass. So when you're strutting the flags, you can see straight into the pond. It's like the money they spend on those fish is ridiculous. That was my old boss, Steve. He's still on the ox. Brick hammer mines. Crap. I need a new one. Oh, we've missed one before that. All right, then. How's it going? You've been working over the bank holiday? No. All right, Joey. Well, we did something today. Oh, today we did. We did a bit of overboarding today. Right. Hold for it. I'll make the brick hammer. I want to show you, Mark. So to put it shortly, Mark. No. We're, like you say, it doesn't feel right. The ox one. I'm still on the. I've been on CK since I started. And that's been in between brick hammers. I think he's getting the one he's using out now. So we'll see that in a second. Neil, new bills. I wouldn't have wanted you paid me to say the throwing up would be being kind. Yeah. Oh, yeah, especially on our site. From from paisley. Oh, is this Alan? Alan Byrne. I'll see if that knows in a minute. What app do you use for editing? I have a good ever shed a lot of videos from Facebook group, which I need to put on the channel. I just got on Facebook. I've tried a couple Alaska. I'll get in. I'll get dad to answer that. So that's all this is him. I'm just the cameo every now and then. Rich of itself. Hi, Steve. It was nice to speak to you yesterday. Help again. I want dad. Catch that one. Well, you. You're part of your part as well. Tendis. We get from splash. To top out the new build. Yeah. The very pressure for time on us as well. Like the big space. They expect so much for so little. You have to get a brick hammer. Use a scotch hammer and blocks. So is that no northern term? We mainly use the hammer and bolster on the blocks or the circular saw. If it's thermal, I just got us so much quicker and easier. And then the anything up. So five lights or concrete. We use the hammer and bolster. But if the cut goes wrong and like there's like a belly in the cut, I'll use a scotch hammer just to get rid of the. The belly. Because I'm just, you know, it's so hard to get rid of it with a hammer and bolster. But other than that, I don't, we don't really use scotch hammers for cutting just to either clean off, clean off a break or. Polish off a cut. Just before you show off, you've got a question asking what, what, what do you use for editing your videos? Um. From Andrew. So I'm going to go pro eight. And. I've got a Mac. Mac is a MacBook. Is it MacBook? MacBook. Yeah. And they use a iMovie, which is just a free Apple software that you get. It's just a free program, but it's really good. Dead easy to follow. Well, it is once you get used to it. Yeah, iMovie. I have got DaVinci Resolve, but it's a bit confusing that one. I might get around to that eventually. And the Allen Burns from Paisley, I think. A different one. Now this is the Allen Burns from Bersko. And Richard Fitzgerald is nice to speak to you yesterday. Just above mom cooks, it's called a stick. Nice, nice to speak to you. What was that? Where does that speak to you Richard? You've got me confused now. Where did we get the trial holder from? Where everything we got was from Berries. Berries, but I'm sure if you Google it, you'll get it. You can probably find it on Amazon or something. Yeah. Yeah. The plan out is, I know plan out from making fishing tackle boxes. They've been around for years. Somewhere in your, the Mac, but good quality stuff. But they should be easy enough to get old off. You can definitely find them online because I was looking for, what was I looking for? I think the quick release thing for you. Yeah. Cause you only have one in Berries, didn't you? Why in this modern age can't they make bricks the same size every time? Or even proper shapes either. That's true. Fitzbrick. Ah, sorry. I do apologize. Yeah. It was a nice chatting to you too. Looking forward to these new inventions as well. We're watching you two not too keen on Charlie seems. Wow. I can't say that. No, he's not. No, you can't knock Charlie. He's, he's good. He's, he's, um, not, not to everyone's taste, but what's not to like. You know, he's fast. He cares about his work. Um, and he's, he's entertaining to watch as well. He's a good, he's good to watch. He's doing Alex top guys. Top work done in right house. Big fun. You two stay safe. Well, thank you very much. That's Gary. You're talking about your favorite customer. Oh, is it? That's Gary. Nice to see you, Gary. You just been having, having Alex say how great you were. Yeah. Fitzbricks. We've used them two or three, two, twice now, haven't we? Yeah. You can back on say, I'll be able to use them properly. Perfect for the internal block work. And after chatting with Richard, I've been told how to use them properly. And so that smiley face, but we'll, we'll explain that in more in a deep, in video, in detail on the video. Oh, the set hours Monday to Friday on site work. Um, you usually start at eight. And then like it's a bit, it used to be strict. It used to be like four o'clock. Yeah. probably because of COVID. Somewhere hours is a bit, yeah. Yeah, it's a bit more flexible. So as long as it's not like six o'clock, it's quite flexible in between. You're not supposed to start before eight o'clock when the tarmac's out here, they're out at 20s every day. Yeah. Joey, the builder, yes, have to agree with that. Fitzbricks are the good. Yes, very good. I can't go over how well they grip the wall, you can just, you'll never pull them off. Metal arts, it went too late to lay in bricklaying as a trade. It's never too late. It's just hard. Obviously it's all about spending the money. Yeah, as long as you can, if you can still do it. You can afford the drop in wages. Yeah, if you can still do it, then you do it. Doesn't matter how, because look at one of the, on our old company we used to work for, one of the workers there is in six, about it's nearly 70 now, isn't he, zero? So yeah, 70, yeah. Yeah, and he's still working harder than. Jason, it's like 70. Yeah? Yeah, he's still doing his superstructures, he's 70. There you go, 70 year old bricklayer. So as long as you can keep doing it. I don't know what a pot pine book is. So I definitely haven't. Do you see yourself having a gang in the future? I think if he retires, I might have to retire with him. I don't know what I'd do. I don't think I'd see myself in a gang. I don't work well with others. I have to be honest. Richard, thanks. Dean, I don't know, I like the way he's looking after Harry. He's finally got someone who wants to work and wants to turn up work. So he's giving him more time and he's looking after him. I like that, because I think everyone's noticing how good Harry is, he's well worth putting the time and effort into, because he wants to learn. He seems to be a really good lad. Larry, fishing, do you use pole or just a rod line reel? Pike fishing is a rugby line, rod and reel. Never used a pole. Malk and... I'm Malk. I'm Malk. You know, blame me when I was plant operator on muck shifts at 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Yeah, but don't forget, you've got heated seats and conditioning and lights, haven't you? Wish I could have worked once it was dark. That's it, we're out there. Mind you, they're over here, I think, this local. The little jobs of the machines are out all the hours. Oh, you've got to pick a favourite. Who's your favourite? I have Changi, Tricky Brickie, Charlie Cohns and Rob Song, they're all Chris Longest. I like them all for different reasons, because I watch all of them. I subscribe to all their channels, so I watch them all. I like them all. And who would win a fight between? Well, we're not in liberty to discuss other YouTubers. We have our opinions and we would, if we keep them confidential, shall we say? I'm sure those two aren't fighters anyway. Anyway, we've got this today. How much is this? I can't remember. You've got 20, 24 quid. I've just bought two Stanley. Is it Stanley? They're not fat, actually. I think they're just Stanley, yeah. And they're rubbish. Quality's gone downhill, but this is really quite heavy. The magnets are better than Stanley. And it's just to prove we don't get all our stuff for free from OX. We bought that today. And this, now back to you, Mark. This is a hammer. It looks a bit cumbersome long, but you tell you what, it looks, it's the business. That's to make back home. Or bake or whatever. Very thin head, a small head, very thin. But that's to make sure the difference is this. It's half brick and a half bolster. And it's just, it's perfectly shaped, perfectly balanced. It's got it. It's brilliant for cutting concrete blocks. And that was given to me by a customer. He said, do you want this? Because one of the roofers had left it. So yeah, I'll try that. And then when I fell out with the OX hammer, I thought I'd start giving this a try. Once this is gone, I'll be buying it. I'll be buying it. You can still get these. I'll definitely replace it and get another one. So it's back home. And it's a brick hammer. I didn't think it was a brick hammer. I thought it was a roofers hammer. But it's not. It's a brick hammer. Absolutely fantastic. Do you have any plans on retirement? When I can't do it anymore. One day. No plans, nothing's planned. And what was the app? Oh, it was iMovie, wasn't it? The app for editing. Oh, yeah, iMovie. It's just a free app. That comes with it. Let me show you. It's like you've got an Apple product. Yeah, it's a free bit of Apple. That's it. It's on my phone, my Mac and the iPad. Up a bit. There's it. There's one. Oh, it's updating. That's all right. I can show you. Yeah, iMovie, which should be standard in your app, if you've got an Apple product. Yeah. Where we are. We're at the capital on. Mark, same here, Steve, I like your for doing it for the same reasons. Yeah. German ski hammer. Is that what that is? I don't know. Whatever it is, it's a good one. Charlie Fastis, Rob Stoneman, neatest, he's probably the best YouTuber. Can't argue with that. Oh, why you? 1990. Hi, guys. I have a few saws to say make. I might give it a go. I still really recommend it, Mark. Honestly, it's cracker. I wouldn't have, it's not sort of how I would have picked up and buy because you don't really see them on for sale, but I have Google that you can get them and it's fantastic. Backhoe Berlin pattern. Berlin pattern. Yeah, somebody mentioned that, say Berlin hammer. So yeah. Must be what that is then. Yeah. Well, it's fantastic. Richard, very good hammer. The Germans know the stuff. Yeah, makes sense having a wider blade, yeah? Yeah. Fantastic. Well, it cuts the bricks easier as well, doesn't it? Like when doing the pikes. Was it gone then? That was Rob Stoneman. Rob Stoneman is also on top class. Oh, God, Rob Stoneman's work is... Next level. Indescribable. He's not a bricklayer. He's an artist. Yeah. Some of the stuff he makes just doesn't look real. Have you ever worked in a gang? Yeah, when I was seven years old, right after my apprenticeship and then a couple of years after. And he's a small builder, so we all work together. This is back in the days before telly handlers when you get up to the choice level. And there's just about nine of you in a row and handball the bricks up two at a time. All by hand. What are you doing? Rob's had to put it down. Oh. I wish you'd done that. Put the iPad down. Well, you didn't use Apple, so. All right. I don't know then. No show on your Amazon then, is it? No. There's plenty out there though. What I would do is if you've got a pen, watch a primal video, write that down and subscribe to primal video. And he's basically everything I've learned about editing and equipment is through him. He's got about 918,000 subscribers but his videos are fantastic. So easy to follow and very, very helpful. Sorry to get it up on the show. Yeah, work done again, yeah. Hi Ryan. That's Ryan we did the live stream with. Oh yeah. Yeah. Was it difficult leaving Pulp to do one bit like that? You know, Jarvis Cocker, is he? Yeah. He's a bit young now, he's a bit young to know that is. I get it though. Best Labour Only Bricky for an extension in Manchester, any suggestions? No, don't know Manchester. I used to work there during the conservatories but not by choice. I'm really ashamed of what work you plan this week. At the moment we're doing a little wall tomorrow. Maybe I'm sighted to get our scaffold done and definitely a couple of fence jobs in the pipeline. Yeah. Just priced them today. One second. Back on the fencing. Jim, off to load the van for tomorrow. Cheers. That was really interesting. Thanks for tuning in Jim. Appreciate it. Have a good day tomorrow. Common people. Never mind cheers mate. She'll have to chop a block in half or whatever size with a bolster and a scotch. The big half. Many folks won't know how to do that. No. Sorry Alex, it's porky pine block. Don't know what that is either. Sounds prickly. Do you travel this way? Hang on, let's go back. Do you travel this way? Would you ever want to increase the size of your pen? Mal, do you travel this way? I'm not sure. I can't find your other comments too. Oh. Manchester, no. We don't travel that way out. And Grant, definitely not. Happy as the way it happens we are. It's easy to manage. Just two of us. I find it hard with managing myself in the mind of gang. It was me who asked you about the hammer law. I bought one as mine. Went missing, but checked. It's brand new, brand 17, brand. Top quality one, the common book's 70. 70 quid? Bloody hell. They're not that good. Cheers Tony. Thanks for cheering in. Are you on the drinks? Are you good at doing the drinks? Yeah. Yeah. Playing up again. Is it? I'll wrap it up soon. Everyone's getting ready for work. Yes, we'll wrap it up soon. Unless anyone's got any other questions you want to ask. A&E do good work. A&E do cracking work. Great channel that. Can't argue with them boys. I keep putting the comments. I wish we could go and work for them. I don't know if any of you watched J. Poy and Brock. I don't know. I think that's how you say it. Belgium Bricky, his channel's amazing too. He says Belgium Bricky, but he does everything. I want to get some WD on our doors. That's new builds for you. I went around our bloody estate doing WD on the garage doors because my God, they were so stiff and creaky. The PayPal's a dodgy to set up, isn't it? Yeah. If we can set it up. Yeah. I managed to sell all the brick tongs on PayPal. If I can do it, anyone can do it. Oh, Stuart's just arrived. Oh, Stuart, glad to ask you the other day. Have you got any how-to vids on to repoint a wall? One was asking. There's one. It's very old, it's one of the earlier ones, but it's not very good. Because nobody watched it, I didn't make any more. Because people don't like the point in videos. So just one rub, one basic one, really. Yeah. Of course, Chris needs a purse. Plum do a wide blade, brick hammer, I don't know how good it is. Worth a look. They're definitely good hammers. Just say the LB600, it's not £6,001. It's not heavy either. It's very well balanced considering it doesn't look it. It looks top-heavy because it's so long. Sorry mate. Don't worry. What's that? It's Stuart saying sorry, it's late. As long as you made it. Onto your booth on YouTube about repointing. Yeah. £600 could be. I'm sure if you just type in how to repoint, I'm sure you'll find. Bit upside-down, but it's hard to get on the camera. Do you know how it fits? Plenty of fits on YouTube about repointing. Yeah, that's true. There's anything I don't know I just put in how-to on YouTube and you'll find something. Yeah, definitely. Get a start away. Bloody hell, Scotland. Is it like we're trying to black-bin in mind, Scotland? Roofing camera, not trying to decide for nail removal. Yeah, yeah. Not brilliant, but it does the job. Oh, so everyone's here. All right, thanks for the stream, guys. Can you show up in your hammer with your diamond file? Mine's sharp as. See, I was always told you shouldn't have, it shouldn't be sharp because it doesn't cut properly, it's better with a bit blunt. Yeah, I found when, because when I first got my hammer, it wasn't cutting properly, but now that it's blunt, it's more about sending the shock waves into the brakes instead of like piercing me. Yeah. Mark hat, there we go. Plug Mark hat, who's got a few on point in. Oh yeah, he has, hasn't he? I forgot, yeah. Get Mark, get Mark. Yeah, give him a few likes. Make sure you subscribe to him. Bit of a dodgy blunt, but you've got a good channel. He's a forgotten bricklayer, he's going over to the side, he's going over to the joinery side. Now 89, back up. I'm going to go sharpen everything. No. Well, it's funny because like what dad does with his, when he gets a pointing trial is he'll grind it down so it's blunt and... Take the point off it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cracking jumper model. And that's just going to talk about Mark. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to talk about doing now. Mind you, I'm just getting Mark about the woodworks. It's just priced to two fence jobs. And we've got two fence jobs in the pipeline, ready to go up to videos. So we built his house. That was our job between Christmas. Well, he decided for a new year, like that Britsky. No, don't go to the pub, don't drink. No, stay away from the pubs. And the only reason he goes to a pub is to go go for our team, me and Christine. It wasn't hard call, it just cost 250 quid. But he's probably done it in a couple of hours because it's all just stickers. You send the design, you email the design to him and he has a fancy machine that cuts them all out. You drop the van off and he gives you a ring when it's done, it's all. And they don't come off because the original stickers that run it from Neil actually took paint off the door. So I had to have the door respray before I got the stickers done. That was unfun. Yeah, Richard, I have. I've still got it a little hatchet. It's still in the garage. And I actually used to work with a guy called Mike from Southport and he used to use a machete for cutting them lightweight blocks. Because they're at the weights in the tip. So if you're cracking for doing that, no mess with them either. Yeah, did have a side last night, so it wasn't in the pub. I'm too tight to pay for the pub. Ah? Yeah, made it with the van. Brick and block solutions. Maybe Richard will see that and reply to me in the comments. I think another one's you mean, Paul. Just give me a second. I'm just moving to the charger. That was a close one. Actually, you're in the office now. Why do bricklayers not like working on their own houses? It must be the nagging wives that put them off working on their own houses. Portion blocks. So I'm not out of those either. I've just done a dry wall block. Do a hollow and they sort of sat back on each other with like a lip. Don't do a cold, but do a nice. How long was you in the footings by yourself? Seven years, Grant, till I started with me. Back in the day, the nine each stone saw was used for angles and blocks. But they're scotch hammers used all the time every day. Scotch hammers, you can't, but you can't do that scotch hammer. Nice one, Andrew. Do the job. Try to have a terracotta block. I was talking to Richard. Richard Fitzgerald about them. The, that's what the fixed brick work well on because there's no purpose to stick your pin in. That's the perfect mark. Some are not perfect. Mum's foot, why don't bricklayers work on their own houses and blocks because we don't get paid for it? That's a run-to-the-year charger. Ah, I see. Same with every other trade law. Christine, I'm a painter. Me like, no working on my own house. No, that's true, Britsky. Nearly time to stick the radio on, charge and get lunch ready. Hmm, our radio's in McKeech at the moment getting there repaired. It went poorly on us. Yeah. Tradesmen do how I don't mix. Not if they can help it. How long have we been on? Probably how long, 24? Yeah. How's your head? 50-50. Try his best. Well, we might as well wrap it up now, then. We've been on an hour and 25 minutes. We'll let everyone get ready for work tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, my colleagues is over. You're so about getting off the tools and going into site management. Not a chance. It's like herding cats. Imagine trying to manage us a lot. Yeah. Well, we'll look at them. And we're the easy ones. Yeah. God, no, I couldn't do that. It takes a special person to take on that. But, you know, not worth the hassle. Even the extra wages, it's not worth it. It's not all about the money. But you're sassy. I'd rather be sassy. Most pulling faces. Right. Well, I guess we'll wrap it up, then. Yeah. Thanks to everyone who's watched and to everyone who's still here. Yeah. And we'll have to do it again sooner. It's been a long while. I think we've only done three of these at the moment. Yes, that third one. The first one we've actually done, right? Yeah, that's true. So, um... Cheers, lads, all the best. Yeah, everybody, have a good week. And we had a nice short week anyway. And we'll see you on Friday at half past eight for the next video. Yeah, take care, everyone. Thanks a lot, everybody. Tati, bye. See ya. There you go. Well done.