 That took a long enough. I'm glad I'm better at bricklaying than fricking computers. Hello everyone. What a palaver. Right, here we go. Thanks Mum for keeping everyone in check for us. Hello Mark. Hello, Mrs. Mrs. Christie. Hello Mum. Andrew W. Yep, that's it so far. Maybe we should be more people as well. Hello, what's up? Well, that took a long enough. The problem was is we were trying to set up a new live and we're putting this one on. But we got there in the end. We're here now. For the hell? Going on there? I don't know. It's still going. Can you carry on talking while I sort this out? Er, yeah. Let me get back to the bottom. Yep, yep, we're here now. But that's sorted. Yeah, I'm just trying to get the chat up on here so we can read it. Okay, we can see you now. Yep, thank goodness that was... What the hell? That was a palaver. He wasn't dressed as half past seven anyway. Left me to it. I had to address to impress. Even though I couldn't find the shirt. Talking of dress to impress. There it is. We have got two, but I just couldn't find this. Finally got some work sorted out. Not that we've sold three, but I bought those. So far so good. It took a while, but finally... A couple of videos back, one of the little videos. We also did a steel job on it. And the guy who we did a job for is a graphic designer. And he actually approached me. He said, let me do some stuff for you. So obviously he's done the channel art. He's done a couple of designs. And he wants to redesign the van, doesn't he? Which he's working on at the moment. Which should be interesting. But the van's a bit of a sore point at the moment. Because it broke down today. It's not been a good day. We reigned off. I went out. Where did I go today? Oh yeah, I went to work to book in. The last house we just finished to get paid for Christmas. Got back to the estate. And basically it felt like some superglue to the gears. Couldn't hit the gears. So I drove down in the car to see me make market as the van. And he said, so are they going to be expensive? Or very expensive? So I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. Don't talk about that. Bob the Bricky, hello. Hello Bob. Poor old transit. Don't look down as proud of adding it. It's just over six years. So it's been paid for for two. So it's done as good. It's a bit batting now, but. It's probably time for a new one, but we'll see what happens. See how many t-shirts we saw. Mark... Also did yet throw a trend, didn't they? Yeah, it's all fixed. Yeah, he got to work properly. He got to work properly on the pikes this time instead of just laboring and pointing. That wasn't fun. I had to try going to work last week. Quick getting to work, need to patch up before the roofers come. Roofers are coming on the way. I went today, no sign of the roofers. They haven't shown up for a week. So it's a big rush for nothing. Yep. I'll tell you what, Gareth, we'll have to sell a few t-shirts, that's for sure. Hint. They're actually good quality. They're not embroidered, but they're quite... It's not like thick stuff, is it? You know what I mean? Like your ironing, it falls off. Yeah. It's all there anyway. If anyone wants to buy one, or if you know anyone who wants to buy one, Teespring is called. It's always underneath the videos now on YouTube. It's all linked. But even a minty large. Anyone got any questions to get us going? Getting up with the chocolates. Oh, what would we be feeding? I'm drinking coffee. Hi, Rob. Ask back, Lou and Steve, is it still on for your van? What's that mean, Mark? Don't get that. Maybe not, then, if he doesn't even know what it is. What? Ask back, Lou. He's asking if he's got one. I don't know what it is. I'm not saying you probably don't. If you don't know what it is. Oh, no. No. Hi, Rob. Not very well. Still smart in from the news that the van's broke. I suppose it's broken 2020. Because I didn't wait till 2021. What was the picnic like? Do you think you changed to that? No. Alex hates it. Because it's not easy. I understand how it's been, but I just don't like it. It's just you spend all those years, muscle memory just doing the same thing over and over, and then you've got to relearn everything. And when you've been at it as long as I have, it's hard work. I just can't get me around the scoop in the perp and the top of the perp never filling. I can't. You see, do you want to let me do that so I have to perp the bricks? Cheers, Gareth. Oh, thanks, Gareth. We'll put that in the van fund. That's very kind of you. Why do you hide your logo on the van? We don't hide the logo. We hide the phone number and the registration number. Because there's all you great lads are out there. There's a few idiots out there as well. So we don't give private stuff away like that. The only thing we give away to make contact with us is our email, which is for the channel. And it's come quite handy. They actually have an email so people can make contact. That's always in the description, so people can contact us. That's how I got the truck when my family grew up. Oh, the COVID thing. I'll have to look into that. Is that the sharpest knife in the drawer? No. Well, that's true. Hi, I love the channel. A quick question. How come you don't simply work for yourself on domestic stuff? I took the plunge about a year ago. It's looking like that at the moment. We've worked on foundations for 10 years, which we earned well on it. It was hard work. I did it for seven years on my own. Then Alex came with me and then it just got too much and my hips aren't up to climbing and out of trenches anymore. So we managed to get on to a local site. So we went from 260 miles a week to 17. But they'll only give us one plot at a time because we're not very fast. And the good thing about that is when we're waiting for scaffold, we can go off and do other things. Whereas I used to do everything like that weekends. So we can mix it both up. We haven't got enough work to completely do the site work. So as it is at the moment, we have to do both. I really don't like the site work because the company we work for just... No joke. They don't like Britlays, do they? Do not treat it well. Compared to the company we used to work for, they're just... They're not good. They're not... All of that's great. All of the Britlays, there's a couple of that's called Paul and Colin and they've been there for years and they see you doing anything wrong. And they tell you how to do it, keeping an eye on you all the time. And if it wasn't for them, we'd have made a lot of mistakes because we've been out of the building for so long. Obviously all the rules change all the time. We're doing... getting the course in Britain on place, aren't we? Yeah. You can't have a course in Britain. It's got to be a full block or a three quarter, nothing less. So we had to change all that. Just little things, little tips and helpful stuff. It's been great working next to them too. So at the moment we're done until after Christmas because all the ground workers are concentrating on doing emails, getting people in for Christmas, get the money in. So no plots are getting prepared. Hopefully we'll have plots in the bottom corner soon. But touch wood, we'll get that one, which is a four bed detached, which will be handy because we're not stuck next to someone then. We're not slowing them down. They're scaffolded. What's happening to the van? What's happened to the van? Dropped it fine this morning, coming back in, pulled onto our estate. Once changed down to second gear, it just wouldn't move. So at the moment, basically it feels like someone's glued the gear sticking. It won't move. If you move it with two hands and ram it in, you can get it into gear. So I've got to limp it down to the garage tomorrow and see what happens. But the thing with the van that age is it's never cheap when it goes in. Keep papering the bricks, picking dip. Do we get off on more work now that we're on YouTube? Yeah, we've been off at work everywhere all over the country. That's the worst thing, we've got to turn this one down just because it's way too far away. London, Scotland, a proper long way away. We've even been asked by Rob Songa to go and help him out on a wall. That was supposed to be this year, but that didn't happen this year. So that was the pinnacle being asked by Rob Songa to go and give him a lift. I start getting off my build to start with, but now I'm getting recommendations. Yeah, Robert, all our work is from word of mouth. And recommendations, we don't advertise. The only advertising we do is the van. And you'll get people to come up and say, maybe I'll take a picture of the van for the number. Yeah, but like when we used to do conservatories, the customer would always have you back to do something in the garden. And there's a lad called Neil from Oldskirt. He's a joiner, but he's a very, very good, he's got a good reputation in Oldskirt. He gets a lot of work and we get a lot of work off him. And then one particular estate, everyone's lentils and I could sell, just going through the estate, doing lentils. Neil's in one of the videos, the steals job, Crosston. No, that was a fake. Fake? Yeah. That was a fake. Yeah, Neil's in one of the videos, that's fake. No, I didn't work off it for a while, not sitting for a while. I should put in a skip stupid van. So... You don't need to be on it, you know, Mum. You're just going to hurt the abuse of us. You might as well just come in and sit next to us. Yeah. Looking at what you put in the van, you need to pick up. It needs to be a big pickup. The van's always round with a crap. Carrots aren't very nice at all, but yeah, big surprise that. And it's, obviously, he's a best bit layer on YouTube by far. Such a nice fella as well. And good to see him back on YouTube as well. Word of the mouth is the best way, less likely to try and screw you over. Yeah. Yeah. That's very good that you're into your lives. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Yeah, you're looking at your new movers in the winter. We'd love some inside work. Tim Webster. I hope you have a lovely Christmas. Yeah, we will. We're going to this year. Last year, we just moved into our house. We hadn't even been in it yet, this time last year. No, we've moved in about three days before. Absolutely nightmare. It's horrible. I've got a picture on my phone and everything is like, we still have a load of plastic wrap all over the floor just to keep the carpet clean. Yeah. Yeah. So we always put the tree up and didn't buy any decorations on it. Didn't even decorate the tree, did we? We just had the tree. Look, she's had it again. I need to see her gardens in my windows. But just for the record, Christine gets very upset and we get trolled and she's the worst troll ever tonight. No one can troll them but me. You can block her, can't you? Yeah, I can delete all the messages. We'll just take her iPad off her. It's a nice house in Orbscirk. I drive through there to get self up every day. Yeah. I'm from Orbscirk originally. There's some very fancy houses in Orbscirk. Oh, yeah. Up near the college. Mom's not happy. Impressive to watch some great information for the young people coming from Britleys. Yeah. We try our best. But basically, with us too, there's no bells and whistles. We're not the best. We're not the fastest. We're just too average Britleys. Just basically filming what we do. We never used to talk at first. So that was a bit of a setback. But now we're talking. We can explain things a little better. Yeah, just, we, I don't know really. It's a bit of a hobby, isn't it? For me anyway. Yeah, for you. Yeah. Go and block her. She's very funny. How's the pointy job going? Did you get done on it? Please, out the pointy job. Pointy job, Mark. I've got a day left on it. I need to finish up. I think about four square metres left. Alex has bricked the window up, which has been on Instagram. That's been done that. But because it was black, everything's black. So I'm going to finish up the pointy. And I'm going to do the Thompson seal on the brickwork. It's like a sponge, the old, the old clay commons with the four to one-time cement. It's like very porous. So we're going to just give it a spray while the scaffold's up. And then Alex is going to come with me on the last day. And I'm going to have in jet washing everything. Get the old, all the drive done and the gates and everything. Get it all back to being spotless. Been a good job that. It's been on about 12 days. So it's been a bit of a, been a bit of a lifesaver since the site work dried up. Not for me. No. The, he has asked me to sort of mass just, that was it, he was done. One day he was done. We're up to here. The landscaping, are we doing much like hard landscaping at all? Not really now. Nothing on the pipeline either. Obviously we've got that behind that computer is the garden, the garden needs doing. But we still need to do a bit of a much shift on there first and get leveled out, get some alcohol in. Yeah. And then there'll be a bit of a patio, then a wall, probably a curved wall and stone work, imitation stone steps up into the garden and then turf the top. But there's a lot of work in it. The issue is it's clay. Otherwise we'd have it done. There's just too much clay for us to move. The issue is the vanquish breaking. We haven't got any money to do the garden. The vanquish breaking. So instead of a proper job. Yeah. That should be our logo. I'll catch phrase that. To you guys, that's good as a Superman symbol. Good to be indoors with the chimneys, but it always looks like we've been working down. Yeah. That's what we look like the other day, raking out a black motor. Black as two in the morning. And you can never get off your eyes. See, it looks like you've got eyeliner on. Problems, pricing. How do you get on? I did for years. You still do? You're always on the book? Well, yeah. I suppose. Like that job we had problems on. The dog from hell? Yeah. That was a nightmare. You've got to allow for contingencies. Like, if it's like a week to eight, you've got to have another day on for anything that could go wrong or any extra stuff you need. So you're not going back to customers saying, you know what, I told you it was this much, I'm going to need some more money. That's not very good. You need to allow for things like that. You need to allow half a day just to clean up as well, depending on the job. I never allow cleaning up time. And it's unpacking your van and packing away and tidying job at the end. It takes so much time. And it works. You're not doing it for nothing. So you need to allow for that as well. Always allow yourself at least half a day for tidying up. And then if you know you're getting paid for it, then you're not rushing it and you get it done properly and you need to play spotless and you leave out before someone says just wrong. I want to get out of here quick. You need a better mask because I'm asthmatic and a mask is a lifesaver. That's the struggle. Masks are so hard to get old of and they're just stupid prices. These are quite good ones. They're like hot, rigid plastic, very tight to your face. But because they're so well-sealed, you feel like it's suffocating, don't you? But they're not like anything in with this black stuff. They're completely black. Nothing's got through them. Thank you very much, Terrence. Thank you. Keep it real. We're just going to start reading, mums. Yeah. You guys can join mums' comments. We're just going to ignore them. We won't block it. We'll just ignore it. I think she's all high and mighty over there in the room. Ship's dead. Yeah. All right. All right, guys, we're living in 1930s house. The motor is a white collar. I need to point up a few areas where the scaffolds are being. Can you recommend a matching pointing motor? Sounds like 1930s it'll be land motor. Water. I've never done it myself, but you can get white cement. So you mix up your 4 to 1, but you use white cement. It's very expensive, but you can get it. And I've seen Charlie Coleson using it on one of his site jobs. He used white cement. I've never actually used it. You can get all of it though. I've seen a lot of houses and self-port. Re-pointing white. It dries very white. Mum's even better at entertaining anyway. Stuart, do you want to ignore mum? Stuart, Stuart. Yeah. Your last video was awesome. How on earth did someone get away with the brickwork? Which video was that? Was that the house video? I know. 16 pounder bag. Whoa. You better look good for that price. Jesus. That's like 24 times the price. Have you seen the thumbnail for a live video? No. Looks like we're in crime interviews. Well, we'll have to get the angle this one day. Oh, thank you. We've actually just done an interview with Blue Circle Cement last week. A podcast. A podcast. We interviewed for a podcast. It's not out yet though. We'll let everyone know when it's out. Basically, it was two giving our life story. Good to listen to you when you're going to bed because it'll put you to sleep. Stuart, stop sucking up to Christine. You can still come for Christmas dinner. 16 pounder bag. That's a lot. Mind's your large. Just remind us which video you mean. Does the house look good? Does the house look good? Does the house look good? Does the house look good? I don't know. I don't pay attention. I don't know what to look. What garage conversion? So we've got the house, the garage conversion, the concrete. If you mean the house on site, basically anything goes. We've been told we're too neat. We need to speed up. So that's the quality you're after. Yeah. The only care about the... That's Sarah. More trouble. She's worse. Sarah's my daughter, Alex's sister. That's why she's sticking up for a month. She wants presents for Christmas. That's why. Yeah. That's where we cleaned out the cavity. I can't remember. You'd be surprised how many cavities it's very dirty. Yeah. Trying to build my own extension and building in blocks. What height should I do the lintels at 2.1? Is that measured from the floor level to the existing house? Right. You've got two main measurements, which is your DPC, which is your floor level. That never changes. And then the lintel height and 2.1. That's right. That's 2.128 courses. You can always follow your DPC and always follow your lintels. That's like the golden rule. That's what you stick to. Your lintel height will be, I think it's nine courses block on one course of course in bricks. But make sure you've got a block under your lintel, not a course in bricks. So put your course, put a course of course in bricks on top of your eighth course of block. Then your ninth course of block, then your lintel. That's the new rules we found out recently. Take it. You have the radio and wall working. What type of music do you enjoy the most? Is it cabin? I hope it is. What type of music? Not radio one. No. We don't enjoy the modern. Drivel. Yeah. And we don't like any radio station with adverts on it. So radio 2 it is. Radio 2 is our go to. Mainly just for the classic, shall we say. It's just easier listening, isn't it? And I can't find any heavy metal radio stations. No. Dad doesn't let me anywhere. No, he's not like his headphones on site. So he's got to stick with radio 2. Want a bit of a aberrant earth wind and fire. Come on, I don't mind. No, it's all right. Bit of a potmaster. But when people can't remember stuff, I can't remember what I did yesterday. Look mum, you got us a garden plan series put for 2023. I think we can block Sarah. Can we? Yeah. How long have you got left on your apprenticeship, Alex? Oh, I'm done. Yeah, he's done. First in 2017. First in 2017. Yeah. He's done it. He's what you call an improvement now. He's done, he's like passing your test, you pass your test, then you learn to drive. Now it's all about just practice and getting the speed up and all the techniques there, which just, I know, it took me, I was used to really get anxious about being confident. My confidence took years to come to me. I'd always like shy away from doing the hard stuff. But it's the opposite now. But Alex isn't afraid to jump on anything difficult. He won't do that. He'll never go anything. It's usually like on the house, build your rushing. So I'll jump in and get it done quick. So it's done. We should really leave out to do it and get the practice. Can't rush these things. Thank you, Gareth. Yeah, you can't rush these things, Mum. And Sarah. Your garden and exactly immaculite is Sarah. Yeah, send the picture to your garden, Sarah. What are your plans for next year work-wise? You've got a few things lined up, haven't you? Yeah, we've got an extension. No, not extension. Like an extension come conservatory, which looks really good. Looking forward to that one. Like I said, we're hoping for this four-bed detached to do. And Neil, the joiner, said about his price and his job. Two-story extension, but it's basically putting a new, a first floor on top of the garage. So that'll be, I should imagine it's test holes to look at the foundation of the garage to see where we can build straight off it. That's all being looked at at the moment. You might have a barbecue coming up. Barbecue and pizza oven. Yeah, it's almost done building. And there's a big point in job in Southport. That's been waiting till after Christmas. Garage conversion plus a stale to go inside knocking through a living room and a dining room, I think. Maybe a retaining wall at where we've just done one of the garage conversions. Which one? The... Oh, yeah, the little patio there. Yeah, another one, not the last one, the one before. Yeah. The one of the old... Yeah. Put the bins on. Yeah. A bin spot. We have a timber frame house. If we wanted an extension, would it need to be timber frame or going to be done in block? I don't see any reason why it'd have to be timber frame. Yeah, as long as it's tied in. Don't see why it couldn't be blocked. That's our fault. She's getting blocked. That's a point. That's a point. You can get it. Probably out of that fence done next week. Yeah. Maybe. Well, just carry on like this. She's not getting it. She deserves it. She keeps being a harrassment for me. She came here to have a good time. Confidence, I was just saying, we're like 30s, but there's a lot of confidence moments to start. Well done for you. Oh, thank you. I'm not saying I don't rage half the time. You've posted in the other video, you'll see a bit of this every now and again. Yeah. Whoever's having a bad day gets the hug off the other. It always seems to be on site. We have the bad days, doesn't it? Yeah. You go in with at least high hopes, and you've got all these plans, and then it's just a diggy drive. The fortress broke. Oh, he has a temper. Do you use plastic camouflage or do you form them out of DPC in West Wales? Plastic ones seem to be very popular, but spoken to a few Brails who don't use plastic ones. We use DPC, don't we? We do when we're doing lentils, but I think it's all about the step ones. Oh, yeah. Use the plastic preform ones, which is strange because the amount of stick I get for not putting cavity trays into the wall when I do the lentils, and these step cavity trays, they just sit against the internal skin. They're not tied in at all, and they're made for the job. We started on that last house, didn't we, but the other lads took over the plot. Yeah. So we put two in, and I think we did them wrong. Like I say, it's basically say, what's happening, how do we do this? And say, well, go and look at one of the other houses and copy that. So it's not the best for you, as Colin and Paul. I did timber frames in the past, and we used to use DPC. We'd cut the breather paper, took the DPC underneath the breather paper, and then tack it back with staples, and then pull it on an angle together. So every tray dipped, and a really good cavity tray worked out of us. Some days are just shit, but as long as you just pick yourself up and crack on. Yeah. I've said that twice a few times. All right, we're having a bad day. It's crap. But at the end of the day, we've got to finish this. So just get it finished, and let's get on. And I've said that to you as well. Yeah. Yeah. What's there in the one about? Never. What's there in the one about? I have no idea. I've had the one face down with something as well. Just talking to each other while they're conspiring. Especially in this cold weather. We haven't got it cold yet. We just got it wet. It's not really been cold yet, is it? We've not even had a frost properly happening. Well, I've been in the house for a few weeks, so we had a massive problem in our house, and the builder suggested putting about a wee puzzle and a picture of the garage roof so that the water didn't have to travel from the top to the bottom. Hmm. That's a problem in our house. Cavity trays over a roof or a nightmare. They really are. Without seeing it, it's hard to tell what could fix that. That's such a hard job to fix. Cold in Norfolk. Yeah, it seems to be, usually the south is a bit warmer than up here, but we've had it good lately. Yeah. We'll just get it. When do we finish for Christmas? Are we finished? I finished a week ago. We're finished on site. We're finished on sites after Christmas because we need to wait for the roof to go on before we can do all the snagging. So it's just about finishing up this pointing job, and that should be it, shouldn't it? I think so. Because there's nothing there on this extension yet. Now this. Maybe not hard to do that, I remember. I am. I've had the email say we can. M12 coats. Fully waterproof. Plenty of pockets. Storms, cuffs. So you're not getting trapped up your arm. The best of all, although it's not in now. You put a 12 volt. You know in here the camera. You put a 12 volt battery in, and you switch it on. You've got three heat settings, and you've got a pocket warmer. But I sat pointing you the day it's cold. It's a heated coat on. It's absolutely brilliant. You have an adapter. It sits in this back pocket. And you pull it in. And away you go. And the battery will give you a good eight hours, won't it? Mm-hmm. As you hold it in. So when you walk, you sense a few things. Last couple of weeks, there's another little example. You sure we're allowed to be seen? Yeah, you're allowed to show them. That's a erm, lantern. That's when you can turn on. Directionally as well. So you can have it facing one way, or you can have it going like that. Same again. That's what the, the coat runs on. The little two ampere battery. A few other bits as well. A few of the lantern things. And multi-chill, isn't it? Mm-hmm. I've got a drowned red light. Right, where are we? Oh, Stuart's got his phone back now. So there's a, there's not been. All right. There's a light we've had. That's an 18-volt battery. Unfortunately, we haven't got the 18-volt battery, so we can't show that. Any tips for emptying a swimming pool that's on the concrete slab? Oh. Er... Stones? Remember that? At least stones worked on our little swimming pool. Yeah, no, they just drained it away. Yeah. Concrete. Usually just brushing into the cavity, into the empty cavity, but as the walls are up, it's the good old spade into a bucket, and that with the bucket. When you get to that bit of concrete, you just got to spade it. Yeah, I'll remember that. It's a bit tank-insuming, but it's very effective. Also, it's been freezing for everyone. Oh, yeah? Cold in Norfolk, cold in Cambridge. I'm making my phone back now. Just put the kettle on. Mark's going to get one of those coats. Let's say get them, it's worth it, just because... Absolutely. If you've got the Milwaukee stuff, you've got the batteries already, then they're well worth it. Which, like us with the Makita Radio, we went from Mitachi to Makita, and you couldn't just buy the radio, you need the battery. So it was cheaper for Alex and his mum to buy me the drill with the batteries and the charger to go with the radio. So we've got the Makita drill for the power. But we're also looking for... So, we've got to... We've got to get the... I think it's a skill saw, is it? Like a little circle saw, hand-held. Because Derby Brickworth, we've seen them using it, and Charlie Connorsen's the same. He's got a default one. But they've been using it for the rate cuts, and it cuts 50 mils. Both sides, and you've got nice clean cuts. A lot quicker than trying to bash them with a bolster. I think it's 100 quid for a bare unit, and we've already got the batteries, so we're definitely going to go for that. Any tips on lifting breeze blocks on a level 1 brickie? Any tips? Carrying them. How do you use the... the... Brick grabs or whatever. We call them block grabs because we use them for blocks. Just setting a few block size and picking up a couple of suitcases. If you're using the heavy ones, if you're using the light ones, probably two together up on your shoulder. Benjy knees, yeah. Don't use your back. Once you're using them, you'll soon get used to picking them up one handed. You try underneath, and do it like that. Going on Amazon for it. Well, I think a load of other companies are starting to bring out the heated jackets as well, aren't they? Milwaukee has been one of the first ones. Yeah. It's probably the same coat, but there's just bad stuff different. All the controls are the same. Just keep your eye out for whatever brand. It might be cheaper somewhere else. Martin, who comments on all our videos, he's retired now, and he can't believe that there's heated coats in the six-year-old, a bunch of sissies. Works for Martin, not Hamilton. Yeah. Evening, Kieran. Watched yours before. Can't beat a bit of concrete in. They've got a fancy laser level, though. Ah. It was meant to be packing Friday until your man caught wind of it now. I'm going for a couple of days on a fussing. Oh. Good luck with that. We're not into fussings anymore, aren't we? No. Read the QS on this site, was it? Do you fancy doing a couple of foundations for us? Not really. If you don't do a couple of foundations, you're going to run out of work. It's like... OK. I mean, is that when there's another house, then? Do you just do patios, or do you do patios, or just brick-and-block work? Um... No, we don't do patios. We'll be doing one out there. We're doing my own, but I hate flagging. Any flagging you really do is putting it back when you've moved one. I don't like doing that. We're family sisters. And we'll be doing our own, but I'd never take it on as a paid job because we're not good enough. And my back's bad enough without messing down with flags. What's she going about now? I don't know. She's like, what do you just pull the pull string as she just brings out one liner? Yeah. We'll have a couple of weeks off, then the fussings, to be honest. Yep. I've been totally with you there. I think everybody agrees with that one. The last ones we did weren't bad, really. No, they weren't bad. If they're done right, they're quite all right, but half the time they just weren't. The last ones we did were... The pre-fat beams. So there's no flutters. The beams are there, and then the back filter's stone, so they are a doddle. And they were decent if they weren't in any internal walls, like if it was just like the Wordsworth, but it was just one wall or a Jenna with no wall. When are you finishing for Christmas? I'm finished. Well, you're coming in for a day, aren't you? Yeah, coming in for a day. I've not lined anything up after this point in job. I've got a couple of patching jobs to do. I'll do them both in one day, and then I'll probably just go through my jobs and see if I can get another couple of days next week up till... But we haven't planned anything. As far as site works, concern we broke up last week, didn't we? We were done last week on site. Yeah. You two are not very bright. I'm not reading that. Do you have a... Wet salgon blocks are the interesting and really wet mix. I've never wet them simply because it's hard work. If you're up on scaffold, trying to get the water up there. They are better when they're a bit damp, but we tend to just... It's a salo mix, so it tends to come with rock hard, doesn't it? Yeah. So as we're filling buckets, as wet as we can, but wetter the better for salcons. New suggestions for an event to put on the outside of the house event, which is connected to the extractor fan in the kitchen. Basically, we have water coming over the extractor. And I think the water is coming in from the vent and going down the ducting ducting. Again, that shouldn't really happen. The vent going out should be running down towards the outside. Also, you can get the louver ones with the flaps. When it's on, they'll open, but when it's not on, they'll close over. They flap a bit of the wind a bit, but they are pretty good. Scarlet's put. Sea Charlie has been watching you and filled a few weeks in my doing films. A lot of your techniques have been used. That was made up when I saw that, actually. Where you load the bricks on the actual wall. That's not my idea. I can't take credit for that, but the lads we used to work for, his name is Dave Denton. He has three or four lads working for him and we worked with him for a bit and we picked a lot of things up from him. He's a good bricklayer. He's a little seller, but he's fast. To watch him, it's mind-boggling how fast he is, but I think the more relaxed a bricklayer is, the more they're not tear arcing into it. Like Charlie, if you watch Charlie, he just flows. Just to flow to him. Dave's the same. They load everything on the inside. Basically, you're not doing this. You're just dropping it straight down. With the footings as well, it's keeping everything out of the mud. It's handy and it's keeping everything clean as well. At a time, down don't run the full bed on the wall. One block at a time. Down don't run the full bed. Yeah, that's true, Gareth. Just put the bed down for one block. Yeah, like Charlie does. Put a line of silicone in the vent pipe to stop the water. It's a good idea. Wheat and bread, hello. Good evening. Talking about footings or are you missing them? Down in the slightest. Especially this time of year. It's very rare. We enjoyed our time on the footings, wasn't it? Yeah, and even if it rains here, if it's not raining too much, we can at least do something with engineer and break as soon as it started coming down with no chance. Some of the times we'd be brushing and spading for an hour and a half and then it starts again. So you go back in, have a brew, come back and you just start all over again and you're not getting paid for pushing water around for circles for two hours. Very soul-destroying, that was. Yeah. I don't know. I'm just here. I'm going to make a coffee. Not like Charlie went the toilet. Midstream. Midstream. Not yet. I'm just trying to entertain while we're coffeeing. While watching your ads as a welcome distraction. What's that? What's that? Garret's subtle pricing. Pricing jobs were a good distraction. You'll pay a bit of work. Yeah. The customers will appreciate how long you take. Yeah. Engineering, bricks and the rain are a bit of a nightmare, but seeing that Charlie's spottings look a bit pleasant. Yeah, Charlie's spottings look brilliant. The drivers really care about the brick layers, obviously. Oh yeah, they're all stripped down and leveled out. No, we were bloody in the trenches of World War I. I like seeing stills thinking of the learning. Yeah, I do want to do those. We need my little learning videos like the bricks. Which way the bricks go and all that. I've got all the ideas. It's just coming to do them. Which I don't really have any excuses now. I don't have the moment. And somebody's remembered. It's another small question to do. Yeah. Engineering bricks are godawful. We are poor. When they're wet, they dry out quick. Quick and phase brick. Oh yeah, when it's windy. Al didn't dad get any giveaways sorted? Did you not get any giveaways sorted? What? Garret's asking you, did you get any giveaways sorted? Maybe 20,000 to tell your friends to subscribe. Now 100,000 Put the pressure on. Yeah. Oh hello Charlie. Mr Collison's here Dad. Charlie Collison's here. He's making a coffee. So come on, hurry up. Thanks for joining us. Clear with us while he finishes his coffee. Tell him I like the merchandise sorted out in the video. Tell him I like that merchandise sorted out in the video. Oh he likes the merchandise that we saw in the video. Very nice quality of the area. Said to make him a broom. Milk and milk and sugar. Where you going? Oh. Let me get his bloody thing. Decent that. Could give away the jacket. I don't think we plan on giving away that jacket. My god. They are in a lodge. I will say that. Oh yeah they are. They're very nice jackets. I think he's coming now. There you go. What are you trying on? Morty vicar. I mean you've done it now. You've got to make everyone a broom. Yeah. We need the Scotch egg, don't you? Scotch egg pork scratchings. Scotch egg pork scratchings. Scotch egg pork scratchings. Speed demon is here. Yeah. I'll have to come up and do it the other day. You're welcome. Speed us up a bit. I know you are. I meant to put it in the comments. I think it's the rose trail. The yellow handle. The sound it makes. It was fantastic. Charlie came up with our pot. Oh there we go. Mum's already on it. She's had it already. Just go to her coffee as well. I know yeah. You can put it in the water to stop the water. Add it to it on the water to stop. You can glue the blocks with a dedicated glue. Yeah I've seen that. The same joint stuff. I've seen Rob Songer doing that. And then Jay Poynbrock. I'm excusing my pronunciation. He's just some amazing stuff over on that channel. He needs more subscribers. He's an all rounder. Good bricky. He does the old picking dip out the tubs. The house during the moment is just these 300 by 65mm like blue engineering solid bricks. But with a stone face on them with tiny, tiny beds. It's a fantastic job of making of it. It's not picking dip. It's shitting dip. Oh yeah shitting dip. Because he uses a plunger like a gun. But it's a big fat thing and does the bed with the gun. And he's just like doing his shit. And when he gets the air pockets in it's farting. Shitting dip. I've got to go with that. I mean we're talking about all crappy old picking dip and we've missed the picking dips on the stream now. I'm embarrassed to talk about it from today. You've got to try it sometime, haven't you? You've got to practice. Yeah. Yeah I love Jay's mug. Yeah it's a shame you're not on. What time is it for him? No they're only an hour ahead I think in Belgium. I love it. Charlie's trowel is very pointed. You see Jay's trowel it's like a It's like a spoon almost. Yeah very very round, no point to it. It's just completely different but same method. His concrete skills are amazing too. Yeah. And the rebar as well. It's just very entertaining. It's not just all brickwork, it's a bit of everything. And his attention to detail is spot on. And his health and safety is next to none. Yeah. That's funny about the stuff they do. They just be arrested over here. Oh man. But a standard issue, put a crane up. See you later. Don't be slugging off and taking dead. Thanks for joining us Charlie. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming on. See you in your next video. Yeah. The dream team. Time is it for us. We've been on 52 minutes. Any questions anybody? Anything else? I have a few. Right that's the end of the stream. Thank you see you later. We'll do it in a minute. Call to work. Thank you Dave. I'm pretty sure he's got a solar panel degree as well. Do you get involved in roofs? Trying to think ahead with my lean too. Does the wall plate extend? Extend into the cavity? I haven't. Sorry. I'll come back to you in a minute. It depends. If you're having a soffit on the end and then the wall plate goes through and then your soffit and face are attached to it. What it all depends on how the roof's done. Usually we just do as we're told. Whatever they do with the roof. It's not a standard thing with the roof. It's roof by roof. When do we get the Steve and I to brick baseball caps? Well if you want to buy one I haven't always done this T-shirts and hoodies at the moment but we can definitely add on brick. I think that would look smart. I think that would look smart. I think that would look smart. I think that would look smart. Just on the heart. I think I want to redesign this as well. A big S&A on the back and this like the small here. A bit interesting that one. Because Andy who did the older designs showed us that original design where I just didn't know how to send that to Teespring to get it done. This is just my first effort. We'll try other things. Maybe we can do a couple of novel T-shirts. But let's see if we can sell more than three so far and maybe somebody else buying instead of me. Would we be leaving site if we had enough work? Oh yeah, I think we would. Tomorrow. Yeah, definitely. It's not nice working for people who don't give a toss about you. No. I still haven't been paid for the two days where we did the garage. They just said it's been booked. We didn't do anything for that. So we did two days for nothing. Nothing came about it when we asked about it. Text the QS, never got anything back. And even the booking in Zork, we'd already word it. Everything's against you. Nothing's made easy for you. The job isn't hard enough. Basically you just get. And with this, that last video, they've done away with the whole lift of scaffold. I don't know if I've explained it well in the video, but we took over from it. So then you take it up to joist. Get it all leveled around to joist. But then you have to go past five courses with the face work. So you're above the joist level then. And then scaffold goes up again. And the joiners have to get all the joists over the top of the brickwork. And then smash the corner of the brickwork. So then instead of you just being feeling like that off the scaffold, you're now up on the top on your knees and above. And then the next lift is okay, but then the next one, they want us to reach 29 courses off the top lift and plus build the cobbles there. That far above your head. You're trying to build cobbles up there. So then you start using hop ups, which you don't get paid for. And it's healthy safety courses on hop ups. We get done for that. But it's apparently saving £1.2 million not having this lift of scaffold. Well, we got done having step orders up the inside on this site. Yeah. We got told off forever step orders to get into the thing because it wasn't safe. But what is safe is climbing up on the brickwork and possibly just falling off instead of having a step order. There wasn't even a hop up to get in there, but we had to climb on the bricks to get into the inside. Yeah. Or if we join a climb on the cobbles just after they've been built and destroyed. Yes, and they do a great job. Well, we can't take any credit. What was that? Off wheat and bread at the SNA. So it was great. Well, we can't take any credit because we designed one and then when you shown it to and it was like, no. Oh, we had the one drawn out. I'd been thinking about this for so long and then trying different things and then so we came up with one between us, showed it to Andy and went, what do you think you went? I wouldn't do that and I wouldn't do that and I wouldn't do it. There was absolutely nothing like that. Ours was like bricks and trowels. Bricks to trowels and then like brick playing with Steve and Alex on it. And then everything just went. But I like what we got. Yeah. And we were trying to get down to BUSAA because it's shorter. So we came up with that. So all the videos that we had in the past where it's like trying to shrink it down, BUSAA now it's not relevant anymore. And the intros I've been doing shows I've had that software for ages, but you've always had to have a logo to make it work properly. So now we've got a proper logo. The beginning is better now with the new one that's been on the last couple of videos. It's so much better with a proper logo to work with. We made our own brick trowel, what about our own trowel? What was that? We've made our own brick tones but not our own trowel. We can't really make our own new trowel can we? I wouldn't stand the physics behind it to be honest. There's cash grab as well, there's no really blatant. With the brick tones it's simply just to make it easier to move whole bricks. Yeah. There's so many trowels out there and so many people prefer different types of trowels. It's a bit of a nightmare really. And the brick tones we're trying to simplify the design because I think it's 30 per cent made and the amount we sold them for compared to the amount of time I spent buying the stuff, cutting it, fabricating it, paying the welding. We probably never made any money on whatsoever. They're great things but we need to simplify the I'm trying to, I'd like to make them adjustable so that you can not all bricks the same, the holes like the engineering bricks we're using with ten holes they wouldn't fit through too so we had to slot one side through the middle but it's adjustable obviously you can fit any bricks as long as they're perforated. That'd be ideal thing and just simplify less welds more bends, less welds. Any advice on plastering and how to get a job into it? We don't really have any ideas if you want to smell plasterers. No, I know plastering is hard work I think it's probably harder than bricklaying I wouldn't like to do plastering because you're inside in the hot days and trying to do the plastering makes going off. If you want to be a plasterer then probably best looking into it maybe like going to a college. Yeah, going to a college and asking there, seeing where are we at? Wheat and bread. Thinking about domestic work is you have to do more than bricklaying to keep busy as I have learned but better than site work. There's only a number at the end of the day. Yeah. A very low number as well. Builder saving money at work is struggling as always. Definitely. They said it was to help the roofers No, it's plainly not. They plainly just want to save money. Oh yeah. It's to make the scaffold safer for the joiners. The joiners hate it and it's to make sure it's right for the roofers. So the roofers are on there for a day the joiners are on there for a day. We're probably on there for three weeks but it doesn't matter as long as the joiners and the roofers are okay. And the joiners aren't okay, they don't like it. No. One of the gangs on our site had a complaint about it because everyone had been doing it for the first time and then basically got told if you don't like it, f off. That's the attitude. That's what we're against. Yeah. Always cut your dirt off cleanly guys. Oh yeah, cut it off so you can reuse it. Yeah. I've seen people just cut it off straight on the floor and it just gets... The builders, the bricklayers we all work with, they don't pick it up. Gareth. That's all I do on my Facebook page on my jobs and family shares at the beginning then. Word of mouth from there. Sorting your own work out isn't as easy as it looks but so much more freedom. Yeah. There's a lot more work when you get home after work but it's a lot more rewarding as well and you're appreciated by your customers because you're one to one with your customers. Yeah. Oh, I almost read that out. Blip to the site where you can go do what you do best. We would if we could. You've got vans to pay for. Mm-hmm. Mum complain about the windows. Mark, I haven't tried his brick tongues out yet. Well, you love them when you get going with Mark. They really are good. Run like clockwork. Mum can complain again. Worst ever trials do we prefer Philadelphia? Yeah. Last time I had a London pattern I wasn't even a apprentice. It was before I started my apprenticeship when I was on YTS and you bought this little blue vibe with all your basics in it and it was a 10-inch London pattern. Very, very narrow. I remember seeing a bricklayer called Mick using the 11-inch Philadelphia thought it looked like a spade but then even that, I was still on the WHS for a long time but that was when they were good Spearing Jackson WHS like the one Charlie got engraved in the blade and I always remember David Garner's scheme saying the steel isn't the same anymore so it's cheap steel. You can tell they've changed it and the engraving disappeared and they went downhill from there. Same as Marshalltown don't last long enough for the price. That's why I use the OX because it's comparable in quality but so much cheaper. What do we prefer laying block or brick? A bit of both. A bit of both, yeah. Laying bricks is obviously easier because it's not as heavy but like when you've done like a four-wall block quickly and it looks like you've done a lot. Yeah, especially the cellcoms. We did like them doing the garages on our old foundations because we did them flat so we used to really throw them in. They were really good. A lot more than what they're fun to do. Sorry about the effort. Oh, don't worry. I'm just not allowed to say it. I say it plenty of times out of the house. One blip under your breath. It depends on how bad the job is. Is that Russian? I think so. It looks Russian. I can't read that but I anyway. Yeah. Yeah, mum. What? A bit of piece of clothing. A bit of piece of clothing. A bit of piece of clothing. A bit of piece of clothing. A bit of piece of clothing. A bit of piece of clothing. Hello from Oxford. Hello, Oxford. Down the way down there in Oxford. If you are going, thanks for joining us, Dino. Rob Songa before any of them. Oh yeah. I don't think anybody thinks they're better than Rob Songa. He's so unassuming and just he's just a genius. He's above he's above craftsman. He's just mind boggling the stuff he does and the patience he has. Like in chimneys he does it's just insane. The apple basket. The apple basket and the stairs. And I'm just seeing that bit by bit. I'm just great. He does the kind of work that you see from hundreds of years ago when you think how the hell was that done? How Rob Songa does it? Yeah. Steve and Alex enjoy your video with great content. Oh, thank you very much. I think I've been watching for a while. Thanks for the video and the bands. Thank you for being a watcher. Thanks Mr Moonman. I recognise that. I recognise the guitar. Have a good night boys of your content. Thank you. Thanks for stopping by as well. Cheers Dino. Who's on Warzone tonight? I can't stand Warzone. I'm good at zombies but not Warzone. It's Call of Duty. I see you in many ways. Rob Songa for skillset. Charlie for price work. Stu for part time bricklaying. Rob Songa is the god of bricklaying. Yeah, that's the best way to put it. Yeah. I can't remember his name but he's learning off the best. Yeah. Hello from Chalkov. Hello. We've got people in Russia. I can say goodbye in Russia but I can't say goodbye when we find out what Hollywood is. Just to be polite. Make sure it's not a swear word. I know it's a swear word in Russian. Harley. Yeah, that's the name Harley. Google Translate. You never see him in the videos but he's definitely a man. Got a bit of a shadow off that light. I was good at trying to say goodbye in Russian but I don't think I can say that. No. Best place to do that. Yeah. Actually, Mikey as well. Chalkov is in Ukraine. So it's like Russia is in Ukraine. Yeah. Well he understands us. Yeah, thank goodness. What's this chapter? Mikey as well. Is he another one who works for the World War II? It could be. What are the news that we got? We don't have any news. Mikey. Oh, Mikey. Do you even get to watch any of his from all over the world? Well, every single one. Keep up the great work. James from Edinburgh. Well, thank you, James from Edinburgh. It's always nice to see the people enjoy the videos. You work for Rob. I think Mikey might be the labourer. Wait for my next sparrow launch video. Oh. Keep an eye out for that. How far is your coverage area? It's quite small at the moment. As we've just finished travelling. I spent the last 10 years travelling along the way. So we don't really go that far out. Probably. I'd say Southport is probably the furthest, which is about 15 miles maybe. I don't really like going any further than that. Like I say, we're working. We're doing 260 miles a week. So we're in the van for like most of the day. 10 hours a week. It's just, you know, getting up at 20 past 5, travelling 10 hours a week. In this, now I think it's two and a half miles to work and two miles back. No, it's two miles to work. One and a half miles back. And sometimes we're coming home in the white stone. Right, yeah. And I thought we'd better stop the sight work. Please get poor treatment in the build time for the plots. It's ridiculous to do in private so much happier. Definitely Dean. With the nail on the head. Yeah. I was trying to get on another site locally and it's a timber frame. And he said, we've got plenty of foundations. He said, no, I'm leaving the foundations. I want to get onto the structures, onto the supers. You know, right, we've got loads of them to do. He said, but we're bringing our own gangs in at the moment. He says, but we need each plot up in 10 days. And these are big, big detached houses. He said, every plot's got to be up in 10 days. That's not a chance for us to. You're a good mason. Oh, thank you very much. Right, building and landscaping. Hi guys. Thanks for joining us. Ethan, I am in Worth north of Rochdale, a bit too far for you then, which is a shame because we really like your work. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that's a shame. If you're up at Rochdale, you know, guide, that's where we were. If you're going to the M65, you can actually see the Wayne Holmes flags because it's the houses back onto the embankment. So as you're coming up the hill from Blackburn, you've got the turnoff for guide and then you can see the blue flags. That's the site we were on there. And that's one of the closest ones. We were before that we were across to the side of Blackburn. We've been up in a pulse in the sands, pulling the filed. That was 18 mile round trip. Oh, yeah. We've done enough travelling. That was my first proper site, Poulton. Yeah. Just that my own YouTube channel with the videos. Great stuff. Thanks very much. You'll enjoy doing the YouTube. If you can edit the videos together, you can do it too. I couldn't even switch the Mac on. Look how much trouble we are trying to get this set up. Yeah. Yeah. Try the agro props. Tried the agro props. Tricked the upsteadle until it worked fine once. Got a good fix. Yeah. It's definitely a good one. What I did when I got stuck, if there's a window frame in the way like a seal, I put the strong boys at the bottom. So you can take your, you just got an extra bit. So you're not trying to slot the agro into the wall. And then that worked to treat. Yeah. To understand I mean telecoms, every Monday and living out the premier ends. Oh, not for us that. Super. So these are two greedy as well. 500,000 is, you know, only nothing for it's true. Yeah. You read that. That's what we're on now. And when that's not through a subject, that's direct. So imagine what it would be through a subject. Price is a pool. I think it's 1450 for block. And that's all you get when you say, I've done this, that and the other, but it's all in. It's all in price. Well, as well in the garages, like, the garages that are attached are all priced and they don't take into account if the garage sticks out. There's like all that extra brickwork in the corner that they don't even account for. No, they have a price for a garage, a detached or an attached, but not if it's stepped back. So you've come off the back of the house, then it returns and then the back of the garage. So you've got that return. No, but they didn't laugh at that. So you're doing 200. There's a bit of a pike in there as well. So you fill them up with a pike and it's often just not counting for it. Yeah. He's going to bed. I wish you all good health and happiness. Thank you. Appreciate it. It's the most enjoyable thing about your bricklaying and what really annoys you. You miss mark out. Yeah. Oh, this is about the accrual. Yeah. That just came to me driving to work one day. I've used it a couple of times since. So what do we enjoy? Oh, and hello Andrea from Italy. Hello. So I think one of the most satisfying things is when you've finished it and you get to look back and there's what you've done, whether it be like a little fancy garden wall or a bloody house. Or a picture of the house on Instagram. I've got a picture of the new one. Yeah. What's not finished, is it? No. There's a roof on it, yeah. No, the satisfaction of seeing it finished is definitely one of them. Mainly because that's one of the reasons I wanted to be a bricklayer because I love Lego. And it's like when you build a bloody Death Star that's taking you a week to build, that's like that is satisfying to look at to finish. Bricklaying is just that on a grander scale. And I want people to appreciate it. Where are we from? We're of UK. There you go. There's our first superstructure. We'll plug our Instagram as well, go and check it out. Yeah. So that's Alex's first house. I kept putting that and people kept thinking it was Alex's first house to live in. But no, it was the first house he's ever built. Ever done any 600 per thousand and 15 on block roughly around Cambridgeshire. Wow, that's a lot better than it is. We're getting 515 the foundations for face work and we're getting 18 for trench and 1650 I think for four inch, but there were seven Newton block. The foundations they paid well just did as in because we used to get paid 250 event, 250 lintel over the events 40 quid to set out even if there was nails. So it all added up. Have you done any stonework? Yeah, in the past. Hate it. I think the closest thing to stonework I've done is the stone bricks. It's the closest I've done. I've done random and close stonework and me apprenticeship, I did a lot of it. We did barn conversion and stonework, you can't be fussy. I was always told to pick it up, put it in the wall, don't pick it up and I'm too fussy like that. What was that? Crap. I think this Andrew is new to this channel. What is this? It's Bricklay's live stream. What are we reading about? Nothing. Hi, Steve. Have you ever considered working dairy with a big company, steady money and doing your private work at weekends? Oh yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah, especially some of the pension attached. It'd be nice to be cards in. I've not been card in since pretty long. Sarah is 28. I just found her up to 30. I was 28 so I think last time I was at cards in was before my daughter was born, she's 28 so I've been slogging out for 28 years. Best job in the world being a brickie. I'll ask you that again on a really cold and wet day when you can't work. There's been many Alex. Yep, well done my second one kind of. Yeah. One of the three quarter houses I've done. Did my apprenticeship on a site now after first lockdown I went with a general builder. What's the easiest way to get back into site work? Site work is not as easy to get into as you think. You need to you need to ask around. It's more who you know. Charlie Collison is always looking for lads if you're close by. You'd be a great lad that you create to learn of as well. But it's it's not been easy finding site work has it? No, the site that we're on we approached there a while ago and they said we can't take you on. Took us two or three attempts didn't they? Yeah, took us a long time to get on to a new site. Where are we at? Be your own boss, site work sucks. Yeah. Nice delete mistake. That's what I deleted and then more exactivist. What was that? I'm just saying that's what I deleted look. All right. I was tempted to go get my beef out of the fridge. Be your own boss, site work sucks. Yes. Yeah, that's right. That's what I was told. 35 years in lads still think it's the best job in the world. Yeah, same year 35, I left school and went on to the YTS to be a joiner and here I am. I would butcher. And I'll go to meet two birdies for tea. What did you pour? Stop eating animals. That could be the bit lane channel. Oh yeah. If anybody watches him see the wheel through Adam's eyes he's funny because his day revolves around break time and dinner time. He has roast beef horseradish mayonnaise every day. That would be a good one for him to watch. Seeing the wheel through Adam's eyes the happiest brick lane channel on YouTube you want to check that one out. The tricky brickies. You pick pieces of stone up you should use it. Adam is a happy chappy. He certainly is. Adam is hilarious. Have you seen him yet? No, but yeah. I don't want to subscribe. His laugh is just too much. Boom, he does that a lot as well. When he finishes he goes boom. He does a PewDiePie brofist. He's a character. He's funny. He's in every morning. He just gets on with it. Whatever the day throws at him he just keeps happy. He must have to do a lot of edits and then edits out any like. I said tonight so he needs to be on the radio too. He didn't pause for thought in the morning to get everyone set up for the day. To get everyone happy for the day. But he's a good bricklayer too. He's good yeah. They're working a gang. He does. There's a lot more laughing in his channel than he does in ours. I think this is the most we've ever laughed on this channel. Yeah. Adam is the new Mr Mosey V8. He certainly is. I watched him after me in the van breaking down. He chained me up in the wind. I started watching him after most days. Yeah. Spot on. Five persons. I might have to wrap up in a minute. We'll go to an hour and a half. OK. We'll stop an hour and a half. We'll have another eight minutes. See if there's anything else anyone has to say. He tells you to a great company. That's because we don't talk on our videos. We talk a bit now. You do. I've fixed the micro as well now so I don't mumble anymore. Good honest people. Like you said we just try our best. We only started doing videos because we had to do it for my college. Yeah. I had to get video evidence for college. Going to the dog. He's got a lead. That's the biggest thing. See you in bed. See you Friday. Good luck as well walking in at nine o'clock. Clothes are good, don't they? They're 600 an hour. Videos give the wrong impressions. But he's set up his... I need to read again. Very true Dean. It's all about... I always say that when he works there's no... It looks like there's no effort going into it. It just flows. It's hard to describe but it's just good. What are your thoughts on apprenticeships? They're not as good as they used to be. And I believe you get penalised for having apprentices now rather than a grant. I think I got 1500 quid for him. He has a whole apprenticeship for everything. And you just get one lump sum. And I think it took us about 18 months to get that. So... Obviously, it's all fast track now, isn't it? When I... When I did it, it was three years. And we skipped the year as well. And then we did a... We skipped year one, did year two, and did our... Advanced. I mean, another black hole might. And we got taken on by the builder, luckily. But... We did a lot of college work, day release. We just spend the whole day in college. And the rest of the week at work. We do two hours night classes. Doing... And the full day was nine till six or seven at night as well. It was a long day. And so we did learn a lot. And Alex was lucky because he was the only apprentice in his class. So Paul, his tutor, basically his collection was winning. I had plenty time for him. So what I couldn't teach Alex on site, he was exhausted at college. So it worked really well. And because Alex was basically the only one who wanted to do it, Paul enjoyed teaching Alex. He could spend more time with him. Because if someone wants to learn, then you want to teach them. If they're not interested, then you're not interested in giving you time to them. There's plenty of those in Alex's class. No, as good as it used to be. Other boys, such a shame. I did YTS 1989. Such a shame for the young lads. Oh yeah. I was a YTS 1986. I bet you did YTS 1989. But they didn't go much longer than that. I think we packed it in a bit after that. We spent most of our time in college learning a lot of health and safety stuff. Like a ridiculous amount. Which like half of it is just common sense. And like, oh my God, some of them keep people in my class about thick-headed. It was painful. We did a few practical lessons. We did a load of practical lessons. I remember the first day we did barbecues and then we did the first list of a house with Victorian Bayers and everything. But a load of times we just spent doing health and safety. Way too... BS. A load of stuff that you get told on site. It's common sense. It's like, don't be an asshole on site. Gareth Hope. Drip for a couple hundred here and there. I have to pay them all year round but didn't get much funding as it was just me and the company, more money the day I get the company. There's no incentives there to take apprentices on. It's got to be worthy while because as Charlie says, when you're teaching someone you're losing money. You're putting your money into their training. And it's not until they get a bit quicker that they start adding new money for you. It's hard really. Don't many young lads coming into our game now. Average age is the same as me and you, Steve. Young lads would rather sell weed than work. Very true. Smoking on the scaffold like it pulls it. What's it called? What's that site with it? You can smell them all day long. And on this site as well that we're on. And on this site as well. That's not the people who work in there. That's the people around the footpaths. But this site was actually one of the bricklayers. Smoking it all day long. I think it was Poulton. I don't get how we deal and get fired. What close did I go to? I went to West Lancs Construction Economy which when I went was its own separate building away from the college. It was great. If next to the college and it's like it is much worse. I'm glad I didn't get to see that. It's a metal version now. To put it into perspective the size of what we had there was loads of different rooms. Massive... You had a corridor. Probably about 12 foot wide corridor. Block walls each side. With doors going off the corridor. For each trade. Massive rooms. When all the construction tutors got shown the drawings for the whole thing I was just the joiner's room. That's the whole thing. I couldn't believe it. The room they went from was just... 12. So much smaller than what it was. You and me went there didn't we? Left now isn't it? I love teaching brick words and sharing skills. Once in other things before they've tried. James is heading off now. See you later. You have a good Christmas too. Thanks for tuning in. Do you have a favourite glove? Yes, my left one. We use all sorts. Port West or click. Port from Best Workwear on the internet. About £18.90 a pair but the last couple of weeks. They do the job. Obviously not as good as they used to be. We used to have the red ones in the way. The Milwaukee ones are good as well. Can't wait for my son to start making money. Good time for all. I don't know what I'll do when you retire. I think I might retire with you. Let's go 15 hods then picked up a trial. I learnt that I went better than college. That's true. As long as you've got someone else who's got the time to teach you. No place to lay down like on site either. I went to Wig and Tech which is still going. I always went there. Would have just been hard for you getting there. Wig and Tech was a really good college. It's got a good name. It used to be a bit of building called Library Street. I think it still has a culture of ours. It's a bricklaying college, isn't it? Yeah. But then that stopped and he turned the Library Street complex into the town hall at Wigan and moved into like an old warehouse when we were there. And then once we had left he built a brand new college from scratch in the grounds of the warehouse. And he did away with where we did night school. That's got rid of everything. It was all taken in one place. We used to walk in them down the length of Wigan every day walking back and forth to different places. An hour and a half. Let's just see if anyone's got anything else to ask. Final call. We did an hour and 50 minutes last time. Did we? Love college loads of us. And it was all stupid thick-headed blokes in my college. No offence if any of them are watching this, doubt they are because none of them were there to bricklay because they failed all the bloody exams and that was the only place they could go. That's very true, Dean. I know Scam College struggled to fill the places every year. Can you build a big wall at Dover? A bit of a trek for Dover but we'll be up for it otherwise. I went to the wrong one then. The main reason I went to that college was because it was close to home. Convenience just to get home quick. And it was good when it started and it just went down the nicks like everything else. When you talk to the tutors it's education, it's all BS behind the scenes. It's not about how well the students learn it's about hitting targets and stuff like that. There's so many people but all the people who taught Alex have all gone. They've all left. We missed any out. Well, thanks, Joe. Excuse me. My son just started loving it. Good. I'll take it he's on the trial then. Thanks for joining us, Gareth. Yeah, and thank you for your generous donation as well. Yeah, that's great. I couldn't talk him out of it. I think that was exactly like you. Yeah. If I'm plural that's just not going to kill people if I make a mistake. You're a dying breed of grafters. Good to see your life has a great look. Must be proud. Very. I am. Good. Do anything besides building? I was the UK BMX champion when I was 15. It's about hitting really. Show me you don't have your trophies nearby. I know. I was the novice under 15s champion for the whole of England and then I broke my wrist and that was the end of that. That's it really. Is that why you sometimes don't wear your wrist because you're knackered it? No, actually that's me and it goes numb. That's the one I broke. In Birmingham. Can't put me to shame here. 15 now and they're just playing. Playing Minecraft. You're champion novice of England. The other big thing I do now is obviously the YouTube channel which takes up a lot of time but it's good. It's good fun. Oh no. There's time to end the stream now. The battery must have been charged. We've actually got more when we started. That's why I don't want to spin now. I don't want people to join in my gym when we start. There's a question for everybody else who's in. There's nowhere everyone's from. If your hand goes numb it could be cardboard. I think as a bricklayer one should diversify and do more than just bricklaying. You can do a whole private extension. Yeah, that's true. I don't want to kill anyone. We do the digs, the foundations that digs the concrete to foundations the brickwork and the slab and I know plenty of joiners who can do the rest between us we can do the whole job. I'm not confident doing things like roofs and stuff like that. I'd rather leave it to people who know what they're doing. The way I get prices wrong I'm probably working for nothing. I did that kind of thing. I work with a few lads and it's their job. We'll come and do the superstructure for them and then they'll organise everything else. It's what's easier as well, just organising what I know. Brian's from Chester, Tim's from Portsmouth, Nick is from Stratford and John's from Bolton. Bolton? You worked up a Bolton, didn't you? Yeah. Bolton is just a bowl for Ray. Yorkshire, you know it's the best. You're from Stoke? Stoke. We like Stoke because Orton Towers is near Stoke. Our little favourite part. We take our pilgrimage to Stoke every year. Chester's not far from us. Bolton. Where was it? It was just off. Trolley New Road and we were there. I can't remember what the site was called. We were there for about 12 months before we had an excuse. You can do carpentry in Brooklyn and you're set to go. Stick to what you're best at. See those lightweight blocks aren't available down south. The trench block or I think the trench block you mean? There's some Norwich. Norwich. Norwich is Rob Song's and Tim. You know Tim Margerson? He's from down there too. You know that nail gun came on one way? He did. That was good at geography as well. It's just grammar. Shut up Mum. I bet you would have read it as Norwich as well Mum. Just a few miles down the road. Fibrillates. Oh yeah. I think they're made in Chester area. I think that's where they come from. What was the farthest you would travel to work? 50 miles tops. That's reluctantly. No word at the moment because your van broke. Neil the joiner we were at with. His van broke. We were on the road. We were on the road. His van is five years old. It's done 23,000 miles. Because he gets that much work on his doorstep. He doesn't need to travel anywhere. It's funny when you're working down his street. Everyone who drives past waves because everyone knows him. He gets so much work just on his estate. Everybody knows him. He's got such a good name. He doesn't need to go out of the town. It's very rare he goes out of town. Got to look with the van to fix. I'm going to get into the garage first. I don't want to do that. It takes two hands to get it in gear. I don't want to get it into gear. I can't drive this yet. I can't pedal for it. Every time I've tried to drive something stopped me. Now it's COVID. 2021 will be my year. Is Mark still here? If you are, Mark. How's the truck going? Doesn't yield to gardens or porches. She's going to get blocked in a minute. Had to build the outside out of 7 Newton. Hard work looking them all through. Four courses so far. I'm not looking forward to building up further. 7 Newton is not fun. We know what that's like. Now doing that pike. We used to just put them up to waist height. We used to build them up to waist height. But now because we got to do a pike out of a lure up here with them. On hop ups again. Dangerous hop ups. We're working close to home. But leaving work at 7.30. Leaving forward. I will leave them forward at 7.30. That's great. Especially on air. 10 minutes before site opened. When we first left the foundations and started on this for this builder. We were actually on our estate where we live. We originally tried to get on with this builder 12 months ago. And if we had, we'd have built our own house. Gutted we didn't manage that. So we managed to get one last house out of the last six. We got the detached one. The rest of them were big pairs. So they give us a chance on there. We could have walked to work, but for the tools. That's your knowledge. Hello. How are you? We're great. Thank you. You're lucky you're at your quarters when you nearly ended the stream 10 minutes ago. Thanks for joining us. Oh, just don't fancy that. I think I'm going to splash that on a scaffold. Yep, love it. But the door back is is nowhere to be. Oh. I think with how good your work always looks. All the adubs through word of mouth don't have to advertise. Yeah, that's true. Never advertised. No. It is just word of mouth, basically. Like the amount of times I've done one job and we've just like got 10 jobs from that. I did a wall once down this street and ended up doing nearly every wall in the cul-de-sac. Just working around the cul-de-sac. Because everyone wants the same walls doing. The garage conversions on the site and our old estate. Oh yeah, we've done about 10 or 12 garage conversions on our old estate. And the last couple we've done if we had three to do, one of them fell through. Conflictations. Conflictations. I thought the other way had a bit of a complication with them. That fell through. And then we did across the road and it's the same house. The videos are up on the? Yeah, the second one's not yet. The most recent garage conversion on, well I'm sure they'll recognise like all the houses are the same. Yeah, yeah. But these, it's funny enough we did one a while ago on a similar house but it was a four-bedroom down the road. But that wasn't a very good brick match because the brick syndition discontinued and the last three we managed to get a really perfect match, same bricks. And then I remember Mark asking where we got the sills from. The sills come from Doncaster which is a bit of a trek from here. But the customers are picking up in their cars because it's 70lb delivery. So the last couple of customers went to Doncaster and got, because they're coming two pieces picking up themselves. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, hope you enjoy this. I hope you'll be able to watch all our other videos. Do you ever tell your contact details on YouTube? I must say I didn't even know where you were located. Perhaps it would help getting more private jobs. You only contact us the email really, isn't it? Yeah, if people can contact us if you want to. We've had a few people you can contact us on Instagram as well through a direct message on Instagram. But we also have our email in the description of every video underneath. If you click on the description of the video everything pops up it shows our Instagram and our email. Because we did some giveaways at 10,000 subscribers so we had to give a way of contacting us. So we've left it up there now. We have had people contact us for work all over the place. We have a builder who I talked to and he is exactly the same as he said I can't escape from our state. That's the best way to be. It would be great. You get a lot of local work now. A lot of our work is in home skirt. That's what we've been for the last 12 days and it's a point in job. And then there's always lintels to do. I think we've got a point in down in Southport to do that's going to be a long trek but not compared to what we used to do. I had to get up really early for that one. But I've also found a really good scaffold company JRH scaffolding I think they're called fantastic. Really good scaffold, reasonably priced and a really nice guy as well and I've met him doing well with him and I'll always recommend him anyone local. Well my neighbours won a porch too. They do Mark and Tracy won a porch do they? Yeah. Mark was talking about it yesterday. Is perfection like yours? Who's that? Ah, yeah. YouTube helps helps keep you on your toes because if you make any mistakes on YouTube then you get hammered for it. There's a lot of things I used to do differently until I started doing this YouTube channel. And I've learnt a lot of things. We get a lot of nice friendly comments saying about how we've made some slight errors. Yeah. Where's your F in this? I wish I had a pound for every time someone said we hadn't put ties in or we hadn't tied to the house. Well I overcompensate with bloody ties. Yeah. Good luck keeping it up on Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you too. Same to you Dean, thanks for joining us. Do you go to 50? Yeah. We've got four minutes left. We need to get a gazebo made for the back of you. We've got a bookmark with a little zip door on it like a portal. Goodness. You're the one who's here. You can go anytime you want. You weren't even invited. So you've got Amazon. What's your favourite currency insulation? What's it called? I can't remember what it's called. It's the... I like the full fill fiberglass stuff. It's an apprentice. And it has a lot of people who don't like it but I've never had any problems with it. Recently we've had a much better stuff. The better stuff that's more solid, you just sloth it in. Is there fighting with it? The full fill is the stuff I like. Like Charlie Collins says, if you've got the 100 million slation make your cavity. 105, 180 or even more 210 but you'd better be careful going too big for your lentils. But always make your cavity slightly bigger because that stuff will expand. And if you get the really cheap stuff that's crap it really does expand a lot. If you go for the kind of one which one it's called it's in a yellow packet. And it's very rigid and it keeps its shape and it keeps its size. It's very easy to work with but always just make your cavity slightly bigger than the insulation is. I'm using full fill, any tips to stop that one. And then the mark. It's toilet. If I look at it's better with your trial I find. If I look at it's better with your trial I find. Yeah it does. We always use that trial for cutting. Good tip. I'm using the Knack Knack Yeah I think that stuff is the brown stuff the reconstituted plastic bottle stuff. The stuff we use is the yellow. Just keep them I've got a picture of it. We've got a minute less of the stream anyway. Right. I do have a picture of it on here. I took a picture of it so I can remember what it's called. There it is. Confetti because we're ending. There you go. Isova It's not air, it's elbison. There's the name anyway, Isova the yellow stuff. You google it, it's about 30 quid a pack. Isova and it's the CWS 36 Isova CWS 36 You can get it to shop around and it's probably about the same price as the stuff. It comes from B&Q. When you go to a merchants shop around for the Isova you'll find that stuff is miles better stuff. I'd rather pay the extra and use that stuff than get cheaper stuff locally. Here we have to keep currency between the external leaf and the insulation full fill insulation is not allowed. Yes, in that that's Adam seeing the wheels of Adam's eyes they do that you build the block work, joint it put your insulation and then you tape it and it's a bit of a plial but it's a good way to do it. It's a pain in the arse to build but you can't do your face work first. Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to you both. Thank you and you too. Thank you very much John. What's this? Where are you? Where are you in Rintz? In Scotland they have to do that because of the weather what's that? Oh yeah Rintz. Here we have to keep, oh it's talking frame. One minute 50 Okay same. That's it, I think we'll wrap it up now. Thank you very much for everyone coming in. We'll have to do another one maybe after Christmas. Let's talk about our plans for next year with everybody. Right it's coffee time. One quick let's see if I can improve just a quick question for you. My neighbour wants his front wall built he has taken it down to the bottom course. I think that's probably the first part of the question. Exactly in all these first insulations. It's four metres long and five calls high. Assuming the foundation's alright then that's Isn't that the question? Any ideas on the price? Let me look four metres long That's a nice little wall to start off with. I'd price it on day work and work how many bricks are in it and how many you can do in a day. You could get the custom to buy all the materials which is what I used to do. Just keep it simple. You work out what you need, tell them what they need and get them to order it and then you decide how long it's going to take you and then charge accordingly. It's up to you you know how good you are at the moment and you'll know how long it will take you obviously we haven't got a clue about so it's all up to you really it's a tough one to price for somebody else if you know what I mean when we don't know your abilities but that's what I do get the custom to buy the materials and then you come up with a day work price for it just needs a trench spot for each end and a couple of profiles so that's it then time to call it so thanks for everyone tuning in and happy Christmas and happy new year stay safe and have a good make the most out of the end of this terrible year let's look forward to it hopefully 2021 is going to be better we'll all be there getting our injections in the new year someone's quicker than others because I'm 52 I'm 21 yeah I'll be last yeah so that's it it's time to end the stream just give a quick minute for everyone to say goodbye get along that's mum saying that do it for a drink and learn from it that's a good one Gareth cheers for that no problem pal any time you want any advice you just go in the in any of our videos go in the comments and we answer every comment we never ignore any comments if it shows up we always try our best to answer everybody's or just or drop a message on the Instagram as well yeah we answer everything on the Instagram too shame this plug see you later thanks again