 Yep, and I've got the chat ready, and we just need someone to watch. I've got a post up. I've just done a notification telling me we're live. There's always a delay, yeah? That's a long delay though. Oh, two watching. Hello, YouTube, whoever you are. I'm one of them. Oh. Hello, you watching, you're the only person in the world, whoever you are. Oh, another two. Who's light? Oh, I don't know. Hello, everybody. I'm just getting this set up. Should have got this ready in advance. Ah, good evening, Pat. Hello, Pat. You're always lying, Pat, to be there. Thank you, Pat. That first leg would be off, Pat. Yeah. Questions to start the ball rolling? You know, you don't mean to leave it to the viewers to start the ball rolling. We're meant to start the ball rolling. All right, go on then. You start the ball rolling. I didn't plan on doing this, it's your plan. So basically, we just went to have a quick catch-up, was it? I don't know, since the last one, isn't it? More than, I think. Yeah. When were we on the near? March. March? Was it? That's the last livestream we did. It's been a while then. Hello, Gary. Hello, Frankie. Love you, workers. Thank you, Frankie. Thank you very much. Yeah, so because it's been a while since we've been alive, Dad wanted to do one today. I'd like to say hi. It's a little catch-up, so here we are. Yeah, the last one was the 20K giveaway, wasn't it? That was the last one, yeah. So we're on the 23,600 now. So the last month has been a bit manic for the subscribers, so thanks. Yeah, thank you very much. Alex is currently going through redoing all the thumbnails. So that's took a bit of work off me. Yeah. So I've been to the pictures with Christy, a nice Sunday roast. Left him to it. Hello from Philadelphia. Hello, David. I've got a trial from there. Well, a trial pattern from there. Brilliant news. Thanks, Pat. What news have we got? What's happened since March? Got new t-shirts. Yeah, we've got new t-shirts. We've got some t-shirts and some vests printed. You didn't see on the Instagram or on the latest videos. Got our new stuff. Yeah, the new great t-shirts are nice, not better for the hot weather. And the vest store is nice as well. So now we've got our logo everywhere. Yeah, it's everywhere. Once winter comes, we've got designs ready for hoodies and coats. Coats with our name on. Yeah, we needed coats there, bloody last week. We did. It's freezing, isn't it? I think it's nearly due anyway. It's still cold. And wet. Yeah. Congrats on 20K. Thank you, Gary. Cheers, Gary. The T-Mog is great, says Pat. Cheers, Pat. The biggest customer for these cups is Christy. She thinks she bought five. Which kind of defeats the object, doesn't it? I've got them in all the colours. This isn't available on the merch store, unfortunately. That was a one-off. But we keep getting emails off a company who want to do our merch. So I still look into that. See if it's a bit cheaper. Because the spring that's on now, it's putting people off. Fire blast trucks, that's what you're wearing. I'm wearing my Brit Lamestey Notch hat. And me. Chemical Brothers. Gig Shirt. All of this, like, some head on the body. That's from when... When did we see them? Last year? No, it was before lockdown, wasn't it? 2019. Chemical Brothers at Manchester. Great gig. We've got Prodigy on the 16th of July, haven't we? Can't wait for that. Liverpool University. That's going to be good. Pack some tickets for that. Alex didn't come to the last town. Last town wasn't necessarily to Sheffield. So Alex is coming this time. That says it's very wet at the moment. It's very wet for a mech. You wouldn't think it. I know, I'm cold. AW volume. Volume. It may be a personal problem because no one else has brought it up yet. If anyone else is having volume issues, let us know. And volume doesn't help. If not, it might be your problem that you need to adjust your volume or something, I don't know. You didn't like 20k plus. We have problems with the volume with the GoPro. I do try and edit it as much as I can. You're not on GoPro now, are we? No, but generally. And we're looking into the wireless road mics. Which you can wear all day. Instead of wide ones that plug into the camera. These are wireless. The 250 quid, so it's just that initial. We've just bought a laser level for 500 quid. Talking laser levels, I'm starting a bit. The two monkeys. Right now David wants to tell us you want a hybrid ride, a universal. Real quick before you get too deep into things. When you go to the universal, make sure you do the hybrid ride. David. He's already done it. Me and Christine did it eight times in 2019. Absolutely. That is my favourite coaster. Absolutely love it. I haven't travelled off the coast yet, we'll see what, but I still think. I just love it. Absolutely fantastic. Motorbike's the best seat. Not the sidecar. I've actually got it filmed, but I've never put it out there really. But yeah, I love it. We did do some one cuing for that, but we also got a few, got on it quite quick as well. And did single ride a couple of times. Definitely fantastic. It's time to get downstairs, bathroom and refurbishment this week after. Can we ride a bit of a refurbishment going on? Yeah we have, yeah, in our house to change. We've had Jason coming over doing the floors for us in some of the rooms. Yeah, we had the free final floor for him when we bought the house. Which is alright, did the job. But we had 20, 30 square metres of lamin that we bought in our old house and never used. So we got out of the garage, we've done the downstairs toilet. The whole was different, that was brand new. The whole was brand new. We've done the utility, the ensuite and the bathroom. So it's all laminate now, Jason doesn't. We take everything out, Jason puts everything back in, read us a script and put everything, talking to Jason. He was too busy to help us this week. Yeah, you probably won't see for a while yet, because we need to upload other videos. But the dig job that me and dad done recently, Jason literally told us now. He never said no before, but he's busy. So anyone who's seen it on Instagram, we hide a micro digger again. Which I am far from competent on. So it took twice as long to dig it. And then Alex, we hide a tack bar like any you've got. So we hide a brand new, it's not brand new, but it's very new. It's dead tight. So Alex was on that, I was on the digger. Two days we had to send the digger in the micro digger, the micro digger and the tack bar back. And we ended up... Oh, was it? Five feet down? Easily five feet down. Five feet down to find the existing house foundations. So obviously you've got to go to the Customs Hallison. They're only priced up to a certain amount. So obviously they were shocked when they found that out. But after a night of thinking about it and seeing just how deep we were, they agreed to carry on. So we spent all day yesterday. Well, he spent all day yesterday handing. He did the whole thing. So all one side and round the corner and I was on the wheelbarrow. So I think I did six miles on the wheelbarrow yesterday and he did all the digging himself. So he's definitely got the digging down. He's good at it. But yeah, a lot of drama on that one. We still haven't got concrete in yet. The concrete's going in tomorrow. And we've got a full grab wagon to take away as well, which is coming tomorrow. I'm not sure what time. I need to text him. Make sure he doesn't come at the same time. That was deep. You're not kidding. It was deep. Definitely. We just kept digging for the foundations. There's nothing showing it, was there? No. It's all just crap. Yeah. And the ground's like crap. We're going to have to put a reinforcement in it in the concrete. All of the bit we're down to is not crap, but we're just putting reinforcement just to be safe. Yeah. So we've been and got that. That's all cut up ready to go in. Because it's six metres wide, isn't it? And it's two and a half metres back. I'll take this message. It's just saying that the video's on. Anyone else about that job? It's all wrapped up at the moment. It's all good stuff though, isn't it? Yeah. It's got flags and cleaning. The dig wasn't survived because it is soiled into sand. No clay, thank God. You wouldn't have dug it out in the day in clay, would you? Definitely not. Grabbuckings are cheaper than a skit. About half. Half is cheap. They're bringing us four to the house here as well, so they'll pick up the muck and drop the stone off. When we're barring the stone, it's off the ground instead of our bags. And everyone knows halfway down through a bag it's just a nightmare. So off the ground it's so much easier. Henry asks, if you design a house to brickwork, if you design a house to brickwork, would the cavity be 112.5 now? Why is it so common for architects to design a house not to brickwork in your experience? Because they don't care. Because they don't have to build it. They don't care. They don't care what size they are. So many houses we've had to build and we're on site where just nothing worked. No. But thankfully, in jobs that we do now, usually the customers agree that it's easier to make it work to brick a little bit. Yeah, it's usually 50 millis, right? So you don't make it work, brick, innit? Yeah. Yeah. But somehow, so it's about like three quarters in them and horrible pieces because they just can't be bothered making it work to brick. Yeah. Architects aren't bothered about brick layers. Easy. All right, boys. Hope you're doing okay. Great. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. Now, what else have we got on here? Video art on Monday's prepping slab. That's all I've just done. That's another one. You're listening to the foundation one now. This is where the steel goes in this slab, but not in this video. It's that much work in it. It's two videos. So, yeah, the prep's next and then us trying to get the steel on the burning berries. Yeah. We've filmed that for about half an hour. Let's cut it right down. Go on. It was there. It was long that one, innit? Yeah. Oh, Sarah's tuning in now. There you go. Hi, Sarah. Hi, Stuart. Because obviously, I don't know unless Stuart's getting the baby to sleep. Yeah. Hello, Doug. How are you doing? I'm doing trials. How's your trial going? Trials. How many trials? How many trials? Are you just doing that one? What's your trial looks like? Yeah. What's your speed looks like? Yeah. We're both using Rodion's trials that he gave us. Alex's got a Marshall Town 10-inch London leather handle. Yeah. Which you're really enjoying now. I'll take back what I said about London's. Yeah. And I've got a Philly DuraCop handle, 11-inch, which stars in all of Rodion's videos that he did when he did the building in the garden. That's the trial he gave me. He made it with it. Construction work here in Evening Fellows. I hope you have a great week. Good to see Alex making the thumbnails now. Yes, it is. It is for me anyway. Well, that's all I've been spending this weekend doing. I've been building. I've been making the... Obviously, getting the thumbnails ready for some future videos. I'm just going back on some of the old ones and updating them to the new look. Because Mia managed to design a thumbnail template for us. Now we actually have something to go off. A lot of people don't realise how important the thumbnail is. It's more important than you think. Yeah. The tackling of the thumbnail is more important than the content of the video, believe it or not. That's Rodion taught us that and it's very true. And you've got to get the first three seconds of that video you've got to make sure you put something for someone to want to watch. That's right. There's always a few clips before the intro. Mark Epstein. Hey Mark. How's it doing? How's it doing? How's it going? I've started watching your new store video. I'm about halfway through it. So I'll be finishing off and commenting some later. Henry, thanks. I would always round up or down to have full and half bricks, no odd cuts. Architects also don't seem to be seem to use standard windows, forcing you to buy a spoke. Yeah. I mean, National House Builders that usually 675, 1200, 1.8 is pretty much the standard width for windows. A little one's still awake. Hi Stuart. Hi Daisy. Woody, hi guys. Love the videos. Keep it up. Thanks very much. Thanks Rodion. Henry's currently using a nine inch tactics, ten pounder. I'm pretty good for the money but it wants a nice London pattern. I won't dissuade you now like I used to do. No. If I had a lot easier to butter the bricks with the air, with the London. It's a nice handle as well, isn't it? It's fatter than you used to. Yeah. It's a nice handle. It's still nice. But because it's leather, you can always sand it but then you don't thin it down. Just bought an X-Rotary laser level. Very first impressions, very good. You don't mind me asking you, Scott, how much was it? Because I was looking at those. I was looking at a few different laser levels before I decided which one to go with. I think that's a nice air transition into our latest product that we're going to use slush review. Yeah. This has been sent to us by Get The Box. I'm not going to try and pronounce it. Kairwitz. Kairwitz. Mark will recognise these. Yes, Mark. We've had ours a while but we've not done any work to use a laser level lately. But we will be tomorrow. We're going to try and use it tomorrow. We've got the Kairwitz. It's both, isn't it? It's a rotary level. Yeah, it's a rotary and it's a just a regular laser. I've never used one of these before. I was reading up the instructions out of my homework but I love the case it's in. It's good, isn't it? It's short to the camera. So far so good. You get a spare battery with it. Charger, charging cable. That's some magnetic mount, isn't it? Yeah, where's the magnets there? Oh yeah. You know what? Well, we've got this. We need to charge it. Yeah. I'm going to do this on charge. Do you want to catch up with the air? The comments. Okay. Red Olsen. Hi guys. A question regarding AcoDreams. Is it best to connect them to a separate sump for debris collection or direct for the bottle gully? You can get into a bottle gully, a bottle gully will do but that'll collect the sump. That'll collect the debris because most bottle gullies, the middle will lift out so you can get crap out and you can drop them. I wouldn't bother with a sump because it's just all extra work. There's no need really. Yeah, Mark loves this since it's a great bit of cake. It's got a good range on the mark as well. Actually, you're almost in the river using that, aren't you? Roughly 350, the basic E60 comes with staff, detector, etc. All right, not bad. That's a good price, isn't it? What makes ours? I can't remember what makes our laser levelers. I have no idea. Yeah, it's just dearer than that but it's weird. It looks like a missile. The box is about four foot long because it holds the laser, the staff and the tripod all in one big yellow box. So it's a bit conspicuous. 350 is a good price though for a laser level. Is that self-leveling with a pendulum? Yeah, they're all self-leveling nowadays. I haven't charged the battery yet. Last forever. But yeah, that's good. That's a good new mark. It's going to come in handy for other stuff, what's that? Like when we do steel jobs, now we just set the laser up. Draw lines. Yeah, that's true. Real simple. You're welcome, Red Alton. So it's on charge now. Yeah. I need that tomorrow, don't I? Do you need to take a staff or should I just use a stick? Probably just a stick, I reckon. Yeah. Do you ever read it? I'm just going to use the one from the... I never thought of that receiver. Yeah. There's not one in there. No. I never thought of that, now we've got a receiver. Good job, I said that. Yes. You better take the other level then. Yeah. Take that back, we're not using that tomorrow. We'll save this for another day. Yeah, we use all of that. Hello guys, have you had a great weekend? How are you doing? Full carpenter? Oh, I know. Are you doing all right? Yeah. What did we do yesterday? Oh yeah, we missed the... about yesterday. We did a... A dig. About a four tonne. A four tonne dig. That was digging all day. I was borrowing all day. I did it just over six miles. So that was a good day. Tiring but good. And then today, you've been doing some nails. I've been to the pictures with Christine since the top one. We had a little... Great film. I was just... Intimation of just doing nothing. Yeah. And a Sunday lunch. Yeah. You needed to do nothing after yesterday. Yeah. I've got a photo of Daisy watching. Taking her to bed now. I saw the sign back in there. See you in a bit. Stewart, give her a kiss from us. Good off topic. We just got back and been in LA cold day. I blew up a course. My God, it was cold. I'm getting too old. On a what course? A blow up course. What's that mean? Well, you'll have to explain that mark. What's a blow up course? You're doing explosives or something. Wayne, what's the difference between working as a gang on a building site to working on private properties? One's good and one's a pile of shit. More or less. There you go. It's summed up with it. Private jobs are great. Site work, horrible. Site work, like... Well, I spoke a shell. I bring a little bit. Site work with us too. Obviously, we got on with the working well, but just the experience of being on site was awful. Whereas with private jobs, working together, it's a lot easier. And... The working as a gang is not going to problem on any aspect. It's just been the experience of on a site is a lot worse than with private... We've never worked with them as a gang. We've worked in... Closest we've done is with Kieran and Gary. Yeah. A&E. But that was absolutely fantastic because it wasn't a site job, was it? It was a private job. But working with them, what was absolutely great, they were great. Oh, Martin's 73 today. Yeah, Martin. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. To be on your back in the cellar at no time then. It's like a bounty castle and then jewelry and stuff. Oh, God. He must be knackered, Mark. Yeah, they have that at the other dock at Liverpool. Gary Womball, hello. By the way, everybody else in the chat also a happy birthday to Martin. 73 today. Another excuse to have a drink, Martin. You guys, we've cried at some of the Facebook on a big site. I was on the last week, said, tell. I believe you. We cried at some of the Facebook on the big site that we worked on, tell. Building site work, there's no standards. I'll tell you what, I'll let me just show you this picture. This, as we said, Jason's just done the laminar in the utility. So when I took the floor up, Alex took the skating boat. No, Alex took the floor up. I did everything. And so when I looked underneath the cupboard, that's underneath the cupboard. There you go. Just wake out the waste from the washing machine, going into the big hole in the wall with foam just sprayed liberally around it. Sandpaper and the sword are still left under the cupboard. And that was pretty much the same as under the bath, wasn't it? Tell him his eyes hurt. No, tell. This is a five-star builder. And we found out that it's a standard that they don't concrete up to the doors. Yeah, this is a five-star builder because we not only bought one often, we worked for them as well for 12 months. Five-star builders that also say it's a cheap house, what do you expect? Yeah, that's what one of the bosses said. When it came to the toilet. It's a cheap house, what do they expect? One's going to tell us off in a minute. There's our little, um, our little hire team for the weekend. Obviously we didn't have Jason. Stop spoiling the videos. That's been on Instagram now. But obviously we didn't have Jason, so we, the blue tap bar there, we called it Jason. It probably worked. It probably didn't work as hard as Jason, but it did okay, didn't it? Told you, Mum told us off. Yeah, I was a few happy birthdays. Gary Ross, my name's Guy, but we've definitely got two. Yeah, we want to elaborate that. George Sutherland, George from Scotland. You're a couple of hard workers. Well done. Seem to achieve a lot in a day. Most days. Most days. Yeah. The, uh, first day of this dig, we didn't do much. Oh, we did a lot of nothing, didn't we? Mind you, Saturday, we spent three and a half, three and a half hours coming to Berries, getting steel. What else did we get? Yeah. We went to Berries. We went to another place, didn't we? Yeah, we went actually digging up. We only started digging half past ten. And we're out of the house at seven. A lot of running down to do. Matt G, good evening. Good evening. Martin, thank you, a big loyal and massive fan of your boys. Yeah, definitely loyal, Martin. Thank you. Happy birthday, Martin. You're a bugger. Martin's, um, has a way with words, and if someone comes on here, they don't have to be abusive, but if they talk in shite, he lets them know. It's often I have to take his comments out. I'll be held for a view comments section, because that's where a lot of his comments go. And I have to okay them before they come onto the channel, because YouTube don't like them. Sarah's singing to a video about her house. Oh, I'd love to. It'd be an hours video, Sarah. Hmm. So, Wes, can you make your own concrete for a foundation, or an injury, or an extension, if so, what mix? I wouldn't advise it. I mean, obviously, if it's the small one, you can. Like, sometimes we do a mix or a little wall foundation. It's a bit of a torture, a small wall, yeah, but not an injury or an extension. Yeah. But, um, if you really need to. Well, the time you've bought the materials and taken the time to mix it and pour it, you might as well pay the concrete company to buy it for you. And it's in 10 minutes, isn't it? Yeah. It's done in 10 minutes. So, what you're paying extra in concrete, you're charging less in labour. Steve, Brian, what's the biggest job you have undertaken? Um, probably the house. The house. The one house we've done. Yeah. That was for the house builder on site. But, um, second biggest is probably the builder that you need job you've worked on. Yeah. The big extension. It wasn't just an extension. It was a work inside the house. It was a big wall. And we had other jobs here, and they didn't mean a lot. Really, roofing? Yeah, we did a bit of everything. That's the good thing about that. Like, you're just mucking. You're not just there to be your trade. Everyone's there to help each other out. In three and a half months we were there, weren't we? Yeah. We were. It took us a long time to build that extension. It did the build the house. Yeah. It did have about 20,000 cuts in it. Yeah. Ha. George, do you think the North Stambrick Lane trial is the best? It says George. I mean, it's good quality, but they're just ridiculously overpriced. Yeah, they are. I have a year. Before, I was using Rodian's Marshalltown London. I was using the Tizak Philadelphia pattern, and that was, I think that was better than the Marshalltown, to be honest. It lasted me about nearly two years. I mean, it's still usable now. I've only stopped using it because I've got a new trial to test out, but... On site, I'm used to doing the North Stambrick Lane trial. I used to go through a trial a year, didn't I? Yeah. So going through one a year, you don't want to spend, like, 50, 60 quid in the trial. That's why I went through the OXs, because they were... The OXs were cheaper, so... They were cheaper, but lasted as long as the Marshalltown. Well, they used to. Well, yeah. But now we're doing a lot less bricklaying. The Marshalltown's perfect. So they're good, but there's other stuff that's cheaper. That's just as good. And the end doesn't fall off like the OX trial. Yeah. Which I did mention to them, but they still could have put this cheap bung on. Tap the trial a few times, and the bung will fall off. So keep an eye on that bung if you've got one. Out of the way is it in. Let's see. Christie. Mungie. Martin. You're always there for me. Since debut, I used to use the OXs and do a little birthday gift. Living the concrete pumps in there. They're pretty good. Just stand and watch it go in. I know. It's satisfying to watch and do. It is, but it's the price on top of the job. Because we're only using small jobs. It's quite a big jump. We pay £30 to get the concrete bars in, don't we? Yeah. But I'm sure as everyone on here will have to agree as well. People are just going to have to start accepting that stuff's more money. Everything's going up. So all of us on this chat are suffering from price raises, and people are just going to have to accept that. Anybody bought steels lately? Because if you haven't, you're going to get a massive shock when you go and price steels next time. What was it? £850 for two? So yeah. £850 for two steels. And it's gone up twice since then. I've just priced one, I can't remember where it is, but it's £1,080 for the steel. I can't remember where it is. Or what size it is. And then cement's got a tax on it now. Anything with cement on it. The government's put a levy on it. So all your cement products have gone up this week. Found that out the hard way. Madness, isn't it? So do you tell the concrete company what mix you want or do you let them decide? You get two options. I just tell them it's a slab or a footing, and they decide which one it is. So they'll gauge it to what? It's not ready mixed, it's a volumetric mixer. So it mixes it on the wagon so it all comes dry when it's mixed in the auger at the back of the wagon. That's what we get off. So you can ask like as well if you want it wetter or drier. Yeah. Tall, loving Alex's t-shirt and remember going to cinemas to watch it in 1977. These aren't the droid you're looking for. I had this on yesterday for the Kirby premiere two days ago, were you now? Disney Plus, yeah. Yeah. So I didn't have any other big Star Wars shirts available so. If you want to see some scary trash, check out some v-brickies that use what look like a meat cleaver. Yeah, I'll have to give it a look. Dennis Hughes, I love the channel. Keep up the good work. Thank you guys. Thanks Dennis. Big Bear, I can lay 1,500 bricks a day. Watch your best. Not even close to that. I don't even think it's 1,500. I've never laid 1,000 bricks in my life to be honest. I mean that's probably embarrassing but I haven't. I've never been in a fast gang like that. We're not the quickest in the world though. No. I spent 40 years doing conservatories and you'd be lucky to get 400 done in a day on a conservatory. The scale of the jobs that we do, we don't usually have the opportunity to lay that many. No. Plus we don't have labour. Yeah. Labour help when you're slashing them in. Matt, MacGee, did you buy badges for the Joshua Fund at D&J? I don't even know what that is. The near of it? No, I didn't know that. No. That was the answer. George, do you ever do recessed pointing with the wheelie pointer master chariot? No. No, I can help it. Unless I've got to follow the existing brickwork. I'd never recommend using a chariot. My reasoning is if you go to a house, an old house, and it's got that much mortar missing out of it, the first thing you say is it needs repointing. You're taking 25 years worth of weathering away from that joint. You're exposing the top of the brick. So it's just, it looks great if you get the brickwork spot on or you've got like a rough brick, but wouldn't advise it. I'd always go for flush pointed or jointed or weather struck. I don't like taking mortar out. Is it exposing the brick just to get? Yeah. Martin, old school rules and even when it doesn't, we know to have fun. Mark, some more of them aircraft books in the 625mm ones other day looked at the bill of charging me £4 a block. Wow. Ercrete. Ercrete blocks. That's up there with bloody trench block. That, Mark. Four quitter block. Mind you, the five blocks we use, I'd say, 12 months ago, they were about £1.10 a block. I think berries now are £1.60 plus that for one block. And that's, they're already 18 inches long. We know ones you're getting like about the 450s, they're big. Pat, Star Wars, great films to watch and Delta's your man of class. Absolutely. You're showing your age there, Delta. You went to the pictures to see that. I had to wait a few years to watch that. I was too young. I'd say that's fine. I'd say, yeah, it was the one history was made. Talking of prices, this job run now. It's London, Dappelites. As we know. London bricks are rubbish. And they're hard to get hold of at the moment. And if you can get them, they're £1.45 each for the worst brick you can possibly get. So I managed to get to the brick store in Wigan and they've supplied us with the Ibstock Trades and Lights, which is their version of the Dappelite. Slightly different, but close enough match and a Mars Better Brick. Mac, they're doing a collection for a young guy, DJ giving extra what they collect into it. I think it's £2. Definitely ask them about it, right? Mm-hmm, okay. We've got that many stuff on our social medias and YouTube. A lot of stuff gets lost in the traffic. I've been doing a lot of house stuff lately. So I've not been watching YouTube at all. Yeah. And I don't really watch anything. You don't watch anything. I do. I do the thumbnails now. So I do something with construction YouTube. I've been actually getting stuff done in the house finally. So it's all back to normal, isn't it? All the paintings upstairs. Yeah. I've got a bit of painting downstairs. My pet hate raised pointing on stone. Watch yours. I actually like that. See, What's that? It's when you point it and you build it out so it sticks out. And when I do it, if it's random stone, you cut it with a small tool and cut it, like cut the joints fat. Right. So they're actually raised out past. There's different ways of doing it. You can do like a way of doing it. I still work. I still work, yeah. I see. A pet peeve though, one that I think we both share, I think I've figured it out from you. It's when there's a corner and it's not been jointed properly. When you've jointed the corner out of it. Yeah, the corner's gone. I hate that. And the other one is when you've, when you've gone on to old work, yesterday's work, and it's that your bottom perp onto your old, yesterday's, no, your bottom bed into yesterday's perp where they don't match. You've just got to pull those little sort of old nice and flush. I hate that. It's like a land where you've, you've gone old, new on to old. Yeah. I've got to do that. One thing that was a bit of a fashion, I don't know if that's what I should say. Well, my old pet peeve was on the A&E job. We had, because of how big it was, we had to have two different bricks. We had reclaimed and like another set of, like reclaimed, and then we were building all this, and then we realized, because there's like a big chunk of like, one set of the reclaimed and it transitions into the other. It's hard to notice, but as bricklayers, you know, it's just straight away. So that was like, Oh, banding. Banding. That's where you get a new site whenever you can go to the packet at a time. You're supposed to take it from three packs, but obviously it's impossible, because you're always going to be able to only have a tub when we'll pack a brick at a time, won't it? Yeah. Convex pointing. What's that? EW, just underneath Dennis. Never heard of it? Convex pointing. Is that like, where it goes in like that? It's probably short, with the music. There's a quick shot for everybody. There's Daisy watching Grandad and Uncle Alex. Convex. Before she leaps to bed. Is that half is still there? The first one that's come up is that. It's like an opposite. It's like the opposite. Never done it. I've seen it done. It looks a bit like a right catastrophe to do that. I think if a customer wants that, I'll talk them out of it. Scott's pack of London brick. Chilton. Worked out £1.90 a brick. At TP, absolutely scandalous. I wouldn't. I would. I'd call it a criminal. Juicen's, Travis Perkins, Bill Bates. And, huge grey. Not as much. But those four, I stay clear of them. I was looking for, when I was looking for London brick online, I ended up on Bill Bates. And they wanted £11.50 for a bag of cement. Which, maybe it's a B&Q, you can get a bag of plastic, MasterCrate for £6.00. So, your pain was double. Just walking in. They're just having you over. I mean, you probably get cheaper if you've got an account, but say you're doing a bit of DIY when Alfred doesn't bag a cement. What's that? £66.00? It's ridiculous. Travis Perkins are never going there. I've never, I can't think many times I've ever been there. No, I haven't. I definitely haven't. Travis Perkins, huge grey. They're another biggish one. They're quite expensive, but they, they're the go-to for discontinued bricks and stuff, because they've got a big depot in Warrington. George, I remember building Staffordshire Blues for the first time as an apprentice. It was a nightmare trying to build a corner. Staffordshire Blues, you know like, hard blue engineering bricks. Staffordshire Blues like, double fraud. No holes. Yeah. And more dense. So there's no water. I remember someone said they used the, when they're building them, you should spread the bed and then sprinkle cement on the bed to help the bed go off. Because there's no such thing in the bricks. Right. You can only go up a few courses at a time then wait for the water, just. Raymond Lombardo You guys are great. Love watching videos. Thank you very much. No joining us from New York. Me and Kristy are coming to see you see you next year. Well, I hope so. We hope to get to New York anyway. That's the plan for next year. It'll be as we described it already. The air and convex pointing. All right. Maybe it's because the one you Googled. Maybe. Right. I don't know. Michael LeBrian. Sorry, just joined us live chatting. I just want to say I love your channel. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Michael. Ben Beaver. Just started a fiddle job this weekend and had the client coming out with a rule I'm making sure wasn't on the neighbour's side. This is why I stay away from private jobs. Oh. You do get the odd one? Yes. We've had the odd one, haven't we? Yeah. But like, we'd rather have that over site work. Yeah. But we had a shared drive and we went onto it. It's our fault. We should have not done the drone set. Excuse me. But it's not marked. It wasn't obvious that it was a shared drive, was it? No. We just trundled the digger in and then she came flying out the door and had to go with us and then all hell broke loose basically. Things calmed down in the end. Alex just knocked on the door and just tell her what was happening and she was okay. Alex dropped in the deep end. I had to knock on this there. He's the mediator. Yeah. Yeah. But he could have gone it the other way because all our materials and the skipper were blocking the drives. There's no other way to get in there now. Um. Guy Burt. Screw fix, same refurbished tools and batteries. See, I don't think that's chewing up because he's always having it. He's always taking the midday. Is he? He's always joking so I don't know if he's telling the truth or not. But if they are, that's a good thing. He's throwing stuff away. Big bow. Volume builders in Australia are being paid $160 in their currency. A brick and you supply your own cement. Hardware supplied by the builder. Oh well. $160 a brick. That's $1,600 a thousand. That's late. Not what we get paid. That's more than trick what we get paid. But you have to supply your own cement. Believe in that. Mind you, cement. Cement's expensive. I'd have my own extension built there. Yeah. That's good money. And there's no rain. Yeah. But it's like 40 degrees. And you might get attacked by a kangaroo or a snake. A lot of them are strange to find a single story as well. Is it? Single story boxes. Yeah. Since you're here, big bro, I'm actually genuinely concerned about that. Obviously, there's a big stereotype with Australia and their creatures. Have you ever encountered anything like that on a building site, like a big bloody spider or a snake or something? I'm not taking the big, genuinely concerned about that because that's in those giant huntsman spiders just in people's houses. Are there any material salvage yards for brick? Use brick. Veneer. Veneer. Veneer. Was a style here in the US in the 80s, not so much now. We're doing off reclamation yards, but not as many as we used to because rather than cleaning bricks, they tend to just throw everything through a crusher, which is a shame. So we reclaim bricks, which means they're very expensive. I watched the video today of bricklayers worldwide and they went to a reclamation yard in London and he was paying 180 plus fat for a brick and they were like seconds as well. Oh, it nears on. Oh, here's it. And the veneers we call them brick slips and it's basically 20 mil of the brick's face cut off and you see a lot of that here. Nears, profile picture looks familiar. Oh, yeah. The hail of the hub is going okay. Ian's asking Mark, has he started saving yet? And Dice says it's true. It's true. Well, that's good. I'm all for refurbishing and recycling stuff, definitely. Especially the price of stuff now. We can get a recycled MOT for the slab, but it's not as good standard as a quarried MOT. So if we're doing like a driveway or just backfilling, we'd use the recycled stuff, which is very cheap. But because it's a slab, we're using the quarried stuff, which is still cheaper than it's going loose on the grab wagon. So it's probably about 10, 15 quid a tonne cheaper than bagged. And when you get it bagged, it's 850 kilos, whereas we get full, good tonne, don't we? And it's harder to move in a bag as well. Yeah, everyone knows it's like on the halfway through the bag and it collapses on you. Big bear, never seen a snake as bad as here and there. Not as much as you'd think, all right. It's because they've got all the big... They have the crystals over there, don't they? They've got the big ones. Because I've seen the screen show of Chris Hemsworth just with the big spider on his wall. They just tagged Tom Holland in it. Oh, Shane Hayden here. Well, it's like it's since March. Not much. The garden's still the same as the day we moved in. Don't bring up the garden, sorry. Because mum's on this channel. No, actually the garden's, the fence is painted. That's true, yeah. Progress out there. Winkle Wonka. This is the royalty free one. I boys love the channel. The little channel. Are you known as The Little Gang? You do so many. P.S. just watch Charlie. I'm simply... 3600 bricks. He's a machine, isn't he? He's built differently to me. He's 20 years younger than me. He still couldn't have kept it 20 years ago, to be honest. Most of our residential construction is timber frame. The brick vignette is regular brick with wall tiles to the wood frame. We've got a few timber frame sites going up round here. Yeah, but it's full brick though, isn't it? Yeah, it's still a full brick width. Yeah. 100 mil brick work. Mum's saying Don mentioned the garden. Mark, you were owner, don't... Have you got any advice? Saw. Standard cavity closures use to steal off the top of a cavity near the wall plate. Not generally use a cavity sock. Not well in the plastic bag. Stuffed into the cavity. There's a fire break. A fire sock. Either of these still uses full brick as well. Cool. Now run down. You got any advice for Andy of Bricklears Worldwide on how to use his new camera? Are you guys a GoPro expert? What you do is point it and shoot it and remember to press record. There are times when you've set it up and get it already and walk off and come back to it and then start recording. Don't shoot it with the GoPro though. No. It's pretty pointed to shoot with the GoPro. You've got to sit down and get all the settings done first. But we're lucky because we've got the tent which is a lot quicker isn't it? Yeah. It's a lot more quicker and better. Touch screen on it as well. Mark, are you taking the bank holiday off lads? Thursday? F-I-R? Thursday Friday I think. Oh Thursday Friday. It depends how the work goes. It depends where we are. It's slabbing. We worked good Friday and bank holiday Monday but Easter and that's Saturday Sunday after me. We worked good Friday and Easter Monday and we worked the Saturday Sunday off. Yeah. The brickwork here this side. We just worked round. We worked Saturday but we were off Monday Tuesday Wednesday with it last week. We didn't work at all Monday. We had Tuesday Wednesday off and the plan was to work Saturday Sunday Tuesday. We don't really have structure weeks anymore. We just work as the work works. It depends what's going to go when we have a tie-off is the slab. And off Thursday because we've got a funeral and the van's going for service, MOT, tyres and brakes. So that's going to hurt. That's probably going to be a four-figure bill. It's the first money I've spent on it. At least of your savings. It's got a screw sticking out of the tire at the moment. I don't know what's in here but me now is going to plant some flowers next time I'm over. I'm sure you'd love that. No comment. I'm not gardener. Plants and flowers, what? Oh, in the garden. For the gardener. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be great. We've got butter cups down the lines. My mum doesn't do real flowers though. She only deals with fake plants because she can't kill a fake plant. Yeah, that's true. Even saying that, she still throws them away. George. Hang on. We're at George. No, we're not. We're at DJ. What kind of bricks do you think I should get to build a barbecue? Would you say engineering brick? Probably engineering bricks with a smooth back because you're going to see the back of the brick. Best thing is to have a walk around. Your engineering will want to take the water either so they won't get blown if it's cold. You've got to protect the bricks near where the fire's going to be because I've seen a lot of barbecues that just blow because the metal holding the the tray with the fire in it expands when it gets hot and it cracks the brickwork. So keep an eye on that. Now we're on George. Do you remember when you could get 200mm solid concrete blocks that were heavy and they were banned? And then they were banned? 200mm solid concrete? Yeah. You just have to hug them to build them. You couldn't do both four courses because you had to stand over them to lay them. I didn't use them that often, thank God. They were pretty ridiculous. And then AWS saying still four brick in the air threatening me with planting the flowers. Crazy Bob, something in. Looks like Russian or Ukrainian, I can't tell. Somewhere from the east. Crazy Bob, I'm afraid we don't understand that. If you could translate it into English we'd be happy to reply. They've mostly stick books here. Double story homes go up 42 courses for the rest of first floors. Four more. Hebel? Hebel? Hebel. Hebel? Whatever that is in Australia. Probably maybe studding or cladding. Bob the brick is in. Hey Bob. It's been a while, Bob. How are you doing? I'm good. Dale, I'm off looking forward to seeing you at the building careers live in July. Have a good week. You too, Dale. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, can't wait to meet up with you, Dale. I'll have to stand next year. Why is he tall? The clue's in the name. Dale. Don't build a brick barbeque. You'll have no money left for food. Yeah, but that's how you bought the bricks and the sand cement. Oh yeah. The other thing with a brick barbeque is once you've built it, it is. If you get a big cube barbeque you can move it wherever you want it. You can put it away in the winter. It's a bit of a permanent structure to build a brick barbeque. AWS has translated the thing. It says greetings from Russia. Thanks for tuning in. Hi. Aaron, what job are you guys on this week? I think this... Well, it'll be next week. The goal of next week, I'd say, is to probably get at least up the foundation in the slum and for this extension that we're doing. We're aiming for concrete in tomorrow. Brick wake up to DPC Tuesday. Prep the slab Wednesday. Concrete it Thursday. And? Bank holiday Thursday. Oh yeah, scrap that. Take a day out of that and wherever we go up to. Bank holiday Thursday though. I'm not sure. Anyway, that's the plan. Get it up to slab. Get it up to DPC and slab it Drain and blocking with Tony. Hello, lads. I'm just about to replace the shot common bricks below a DPC with Staffordshire Blue Engineering brick with a full bungalow. Any tips? Four foot at a time. Four foot. Get your next four foot and then come back and do the four foot you missed out. Right? I wouldn't take any more than four foot out at a time. Maybe even three, four bricks, three foot. Rebuild that and then move along, but make sure each time it's gone off. Make sure you get a good DPC and make sure you use a tuck pointer and if that's your brick work that's your fascia brick, that's the top that's your perp. Tuck point it that way. Don't come in from the front. If you can come in from the side or do it from the side you'll compact the mortar a lot better and fill the joint better because you want that joint full, especially DPC level. It should be quite easy. Keep it on the stiff side as well for when you pack in the joint back up. I can't really pronounce that but the something we give them to be I'm looking for a job. A job doing what? Bob, not bad. Not bad old pals. Good to hear Bob. Aaron says great, can't wait to see the videos. Dad's got one. You got it ready haven't you? No you've not. I've got the thumbnail ready for it. Don't know about next week's work. Yeah. We haven't got that on video yet. That's why I just corrected myself about so I've got the thumbnail. We haven't told them our little episode we had on that job. On Friday. The digger. We haven't told them about that but yeah. We told them about having a digger and a tuck bar. Yeah but we haven't we haven't edited them yet. Yeah I know, moving on. We're about two months behind with the videos we never up to date with our videos. Dominic, hello from Cambridge. Fair play giving you time to help make these videos appreciated. No problem, quite enjoy it actually. Big Bear, Rended, Hebble, I hope I'm saying it right, is unfortunately the future here in Australia, bricklaying as a dying trade. Next generation doesn't believe in hard-on days work. Well I suppose bricklaying is a dying trade over here isn't it? Because it's just not getting anyone into the trade. Which is why this show's happening in July. Yeah, trying to get the building careers life. Give trade a good name again not just a joke. Make it so that people want to come into it. And George Do you ever get asked to build baby brick ever? I don't know what baby brick is. Squishy book brick? I don't know, never heard of it. Winkle Wonka Remember then 9 inch concrete blocks? Yeah, you knew you'd done a day's workload in them all. Oh yeah. Time to set something up. I remember the last time I ever used the embers on the windmill probing old skit and you went to the little retaining wall next to the bowling green. That's the last time I used them. And that's derelict now that place. Well over 20 years since I used them. Yeah. Best place for them is a skit. Same as London bricks. Small fire bricks. Small fire bricks. No, I don't know what they are George. To be honest. Small fire bricks. Do you know what they are? No, no. Do we use them up to get the concrete over here? We've seen brick work on the front faces of McMansions. McMansions here. So it ain't dead yet. That's good at least. Satching. I don't know what that means. That means either? No, I don't know what that means. I don't know how to pronounce that. Do you like the German? I don't think so. Can we come through German? No. Dingley, I love your videos. How do you guys avoid back problems? The only way to avoid back problems is to get a different job. I get back problems at the moment because I can't bend my knees so I'm always bent so that's making me back sore. But I can't bend my knees at the moment because I'm just in a lot of pain. But we're bricklayers so... So if I drop anything, I like just to pick it up that's why he's got a bad back. Bob is a thought. If we encourage more youngsters into the trade who's going to do the labouring. Put the old fellas into the labouring. Well, you're going to be my labourer once we get to that time. Yeah. Aaron, do you allow to watch any other YouTubers you watch playing? I don't really watch any construction videos. No, I watch all kinds. I watch... I watch a few bricklayer ones. I watch Martin Zero, who's like an urban explorer. I watch Mentor Pilot. He's just hit a million subscribers. What other stuff do I watch? I watch Pleasure Beach Experience who does theme park stuff and theme park well ride, Sean met him a couple of times and I watch pretty much a lot of different stuff. I watch too much actually. When I'm editing, I get all these notifications popping up. I watch some Dodgy Carpenter called Del. I can say what I like about him in here because he's left the chat. Del could talk Carpenter. He's a good channel. Enjoy watching him. He's good. There's a building channel. You can go on for ages about that. Yeah, there's loads of them. You can still throw every other live stream. Being the editor on this channel, I watch every one of our videos about six times as well. George Fire Clay Brick. I think Fire Clay Bricks correct me if I'm wrong, but they used to go in storage heaters and used for factory work in kilns. I think. Not entirely sure. John Boost is in. Hi John. Hi Stephen. Hi Stephen. He's our one of our competition winners. Do you now prefer larger projects, extensions or the smaller brick wall replacement jobs? You still like either or? I like both. It's a bit of a balance. Last week we had, we did two jobs in one day. We did a little wall repair, knock down, rebuild, 80 bricks. And then in the afternoon we went to the extension job. We've just finished and built some two steps. Which was a comfortable day, wasn't it? I've just got to say, at this moment in time I'm sick of lentils. Yeah, we've done a lot of lentils. A lot of lentils. And some of the last lentils we did were awful. In fact, I've just been to one of our viewers called Don and he's got five on the back of his house and he's doing it. So I've been seeing him giving me a price and he's happy for us to go ahead. So that's going to be a scaffold job for the top three. But the top three, I've got three course above, we're nothing above that. So we don't need to prop the upstairs windows. We can just take a bit of break out. So it should be a lot simpler. Let's give you a quick disclaimer. That should, that call bin. Do you not read that comment out loud? So, I don't want to let this not get demonetised. Yeah, definitely a different language here, aren't we? Yeah. Steve takes ages doing the video editing so I'm not surprised you're behind on my channel. I'm only doing short vids and it's taking a long time. Do you know what? I've been doing video editing that long now. I can rattle through the editing channel. It's the, it took four hours to download a 30 minute video onto the hard drive and then it takes another two hours to get off the hard drive onto YouTube so there's a lot of waiting around. I think we're having problems with the Mac and definitely having problems with iMovie with the editing. But again, I want to go to Final Cut Pro which is another Apple editing suite but it's another 200, everything's 250 quid, isn't it? 250 quid for the editing and then 250 quid for the microphones. These things you can't just rush into. But the Mac needs a good sprinkly and iMovie needs to turn in the bin at the moment. I've had a lot of issues with that, haven't I? I guess that's your incentive to get Final Cut. Mark, who's in? I'm Mark. Big versus you're flying Fern's sister then Briggs. Saul, I know weep holes are positioned over doors and windows but how does moisture escape from the very bottom of the DPC? It goes down into the ground because you've got a minimum of 150 even more below DPC so it's going to fall below the DPC and disperse into the foundations and if it does come up the wall you've got the DPC so that's where it goes. That's where it used to go because all cavity trays used to just go over the door past the lentils and then just straight out the ends. There was no weep vents or weep holes so it was sort of designed so the water came down and hit the tray and ran off the ends and down the cavity but that all changed with the upstands and the vents and everything and then they went to two weep holes per window and then they went bonkers every 18 inches isn't it? Yeah. Bloody plastic vents everywhere all over the garage. Don't mean to be a stickler but I think we have to wrap up in a minute. Okay. Okay. Are you bored? Yeah. He's getting messed up. The beat let me just show you I can't do the time. You showed who it was on the screen so you can translate it. It's in the live chat isn't it? Yeah but I can't pronounce it I can't tell who it is to say we can't understand it. Oh there you go. One wants us to wrap up too. So we'll get these last few and then we'll wrap it up. Evenings is glad. AW watched a lot of third world brick manufacturing videos a few years ago which led to the Vietnam meat cleaver videos the unbutter the ends with those trowels. Steve what software do you use for creating thumbnails? We use Pixar yeah that's you used to use Canva. But Pixar is the new one for these new models. Nia knows a bit more about things than that so she's put us on to that Pixar and she did me a little tutorial video which is very helpful. Which I have now read. Watch Stephen. Are you both in the garden shared or digs? In the kitchen. In the kitchen yeah. In our kitchen. George thank you Facebook's very tidy oh thank you very much. Cheers George. Bob I must have plugged thousands of weepers up. Yeah. Who chooses the music for your time-lapse videos? I only do thumbnails, dies, everything else. This is slowly progressing. It's free music. Started off with YouTube's free music library. They don't update that very often. Then I have we have TubeBuddy we're a member of TubeBuddy so part of that deal is you get what's it called? You get access to another free music channel. That's not free as if you're paying for it. No it's when you get the subscription you get this subscription free. It's a different company. Audio here I think it's called. And again it's a limited thing. So I've just signed up to Epidemic Sound which is a much bigger one and you have to pay for it it's £10 a month. So on the monthly trial the music should be improved a little bit because we get a lot of complaints because we get a lot of older, more retired Brit layers they don't like the music then putting on so I'm trying to tone it down a bit but keep it don't make it too dull. And there won't be any country music coming onto the channel there won't be any jazz music coming onto the channel. What sort of jazz? It's a very take it or leave it but Epidemic Sound is what we've started using very recently like the last two videos. It's a big kitchen. Great we can see you next time thank you very much. Thanks George. Thanks Gary. Thank you Angel will you? Thanks everybody for watching everyone's wrapping up for us they all want to go too. Tomorrow will be the premiere of the next part of the extension video the Slab Prep and I guess that's all there really is to say about that. Slab Prep brickwork, finishing the brickwork off and our trip to Bowie's to get to the scene. Make sure you tune into that. I've edited out the crying but you'll see at the end of the video the relief of getting this still on the map. Yeah, other than that I hope you're all doing well. Do you get that trip off? No. We'll see you tomorrow see you tomorrow everybody. See you at 8.30 Thanks for joining us.