What country got the best paid bricklayers?

Its deafantly NOT the Uk. We are getting our Pants Pulled Down!!

£300.00 per Thousand Bricks. £8.00 per M2 of Block Insolation/DPC/Lintals/Ties/Trays all for free. Or inclusive in your price.

Avrage cost of labour for 3 bedroom detatched house. £4800.00

And the want in looking pitchure perfect.

Your will be lucky to get all your money from comany. I've been laying bricks 26 years. They allways have an excuse why they can't pay you. And make you sign contract so you have no rights before you comence work for them.

So you cant take them to court for nothing..

So anyone considering to learn brickwork.. forget it.. You will not be taught properly. You will be used to fetch and carry. There is no such thing in place now as an aprentistship. All bricklayers under the age of 40 have never done an aprentistship. There has never been nothing in place. 1989 was the final year companys really invested in aprentiships. Bricklayers of today, No disrespect to them, But they can only run the line.. They would not know where to start with bullseye's, arches, spiral piers.

In the collauges. They still teach 275mm cavity. When its been 300mm for at least 10 years. Students don't know what a cavity tray is, Or how to form one.

I would strongly advise against anyone considering the building trade. Companys of today want everything built for nothing. The managment.. Are not tradesment anymore. Just managers. Mabe were managers of a supermarket previously. They have no clue as to what is involved in major construction of a house. If it does not look like the pitchure in there book, Its wrong. They can not guide you, as they don't know. They will ask you what "your options are" to change some thing. You will need to show them, Or explain to them what you can do,Or offer as a subsertute to get around a problem in hand. They then will ofcourse give you there decision. And if its wrong..At a later date.. It will ofcourse be your fault completly. And it will cost you money from your wage. Or possibly your job. But you can not make a decision on your own.

Even if you build "As is Drawing" if this is wrong, Mesurments incorrect..This is also your fault it did not work. And they expect you to change this in your own time and not be payed for it.

Bricklayes do not exsist in the uk under the age of 40. Just trowel hands Or line men. If they were bricklayers they would have City in Guilds or Pitman. Part 1,2 and 3. With there indentures, A signed apprentiship.

N V Q is not an apprentistship of any discription. It means NOT VERY QUALLIFIED. In the building trade. Reconised.. But can not really build anything of worth. Sorry lads.. But its the truth. Its not your fault. Its just how the country has gone.