Most Brick Layed In A Day On The Job (that Still Sold)

stacker

week and a half if stuart did it.

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Dam he's fast

stuart45

Was it in the West Country on the way to Longleat Safari Park? I remember that one well, I had to buy ten rolls of braided nylon and splice them together, and a box full of twigs.
TBH I can't remember counting how many bricks I've laid, at the end of the day I just wanna clean and trowel and go home. I leave that to the foreman to count up and bitch at me for being too slow. On facework when you are building corners up to gauge, setting in the frames, fixing frame cramps and rubbing up to a decent standard I reckon most trowels would average about 600. You could easily double that on the inside work, especially on the 9 inch party walls.
I live in Somerset.
BTW if I was cutting the rubbers for that niche I would still be on it at Christmas, probably the 2010 one.

jomama

Welcome stuart. Glad to see you made it from the DIY site. I'm sure there are quite a few here who will take interest in how you do things in England.

lukachuki

TBH we liked you better before TBH.


Welcome to the forum of true "ahem" professionals.

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stuart45

Thanks for the welcome guys. I thought I'd cut my teeth on DIY forums giving advice on how much washing liquid to put in the mud before stepping up to the Major League.
how's it goin jomama, I didn't recognise you without the 45. Does it mean the same as mine, the number of bricks you can lay in 10 seconds

harpomason

You guys are funny. 750 bricks in 6 hours on rough in for fireplace, H/O's wife new nothing about how its done so i said it will look great after we paint it don't you think? Her reaction was priceless.

6stringmason

I put in my personal best today. 1000 in 3.5 hours. Straight run.

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Framer53

2 days at Stu's rate!

NJ Brickie

4 and half to 5 brick a minute. That is really moving. Was it all struck and polished?

dakzaag

We are going to need pic's to verify the accuracy of you claim.

That's dropping them in pretty good for a cheese head.

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6stringmason

Ha dakzaag!!

I'll get some pics tomorrow. It was the side of a garage.

And no, the majority of it was not struck. We did that after lunch. It took another half hour.

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6stringmason

Alright, heres the pictures.

I did the right half of the wall. It was 960 brick in 3.5 hours. I did have some help for a little bit of it with mud spreading, but most of it I did myself.

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dakzaag

Nice work, what brick is that? Looks like Hansen Royal Oak, queen size maybe?

Put a window in that jail cell will ya.

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lukachuki

I hate to be critical but all those lines run to one point....how can that be level?




Good work man....even brett favre couldn't do that.

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6stringmason

LOL! A gnats hair.

It is a queen size, not sure of the name though. I didnt order the materials and it wasnt my job. I was just helping a guy out. Its not the prettiest work I've done, but I would say its sellable and we really slammed 'em in.

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masonryworks

Most 8x8x16 block up in 8 hrs with 2 hod tenders, it was a 12' high retaining wall with a bond beam and 2 #5 bar every 2 feet we had two 22.5 angles on it and was cutting those and all rebar with a manual cutter, we were able to get 550 block up that day. It might not be much to most of you, but it was a lot for me. I was wore out.

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stacker

the most 8 inch block i have laid in a day is 630,with one laborer.it was a foundation for a house that was moved in.the guy wanted it done in a day so he could set the house in a couple days.the bill came to $1260.00 and he threw a fit."12 hundred dollars for one days work!"i told him if it would have made him feel better i could have stretched it out over 2 or 3 but that you wanted it done today.

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masonryworks

Good Reply Man, people just don't realize an inexperienced mason would have taken 3 days, and the homeowner wouldn't have been upset, kinda strange.

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todd8541

well im looking for masons if your counts and quality is that good pm me we need to talk. However, if you can't do it in reality ill send you home that same day haha