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gday all,
I have landed a job laying a few blocks. I have been out of the game for near on six years and dont know what rate to charge. Yeah i know, six years, why come back. It must be in the blood because i miss it.
The blocks are standard besser blocks (grey)
390Lx150Wx190H and
390Lx140Wx90H these ones are are a solid block same shap as pressed brick.
Can anyone help me out here.
Cheers Dave
the going rate for these parts is about $ 2.50 + gst or $ 2.75 inc.for any block in the 150 series maybe a bit more if struck both sides , hope this helps , regards
Good one Brickman, That sounds about right. I have thousands of them to lay. I have 60 units over three levels. Do you know how much the rate increases per level. I have only done up to double story height and that was always an agreed price with builder. I think back then (6 years ago) it was 850 top and bottom plus extras for bricks. Blocks, im unsure of.
Thanks for your help
Cheers Dave
Always negotiable 2 storeys and up I tend to either get them to provide erected scaffolding and hoist the bricks up for me or go a higher rate over the whole project , u really shouldnt go wrong with that amount , still beats the poor hourly rate an unlicensed trade receives , cheers
$4. each for those size blocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by oneatatime
So you tell me that when you lay an average footing of 400 blocks in one day by yourself you just politely tell them " that will be $ 1600 bucks thanks " . These doctors and lawyers who wasted their time at uni , must be kicking themselves.
I know a lawyer who'd rather be a concretor
Like a lot of things. It depends on quality of craftsmanship, number of tradespeople available and desirability for people to have it done.
I guess the worlds best bricklayer could probably justify 40 percent more than what I a mere mortal could.
he must be good if he's the worlds best:rolleyes::2tsup:
He wouldn't be our old mate Al, AKA ozwinner, travelling incognito now would he? :D
I thought he was the 'worlds best'.
Cheers
JC.
Yep, same initials, and he was a chippy as well,
but I'm still the best. :wink:
PS. I recall that the Beatles got in some hot water for saying something like that. :oo:
Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by brickman
If you give them a price to lay and you can lay them quickly its your gain.
I average $1000 per day with just me and a labourer. :2tsup:
Don't forget a brickie can't work when it rains
but doctors and lawyers keep working on wet days.
More power to the tradesman
So the $4/block is for you & your mud monkey?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brickie
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be a straightforward job for that rate. It may involve carting the blocks some distance, a bit of scaffolding, and corners everywhere, maybe cutting and installing reo as well.
I don't think you'd get that rate for a straight wall with the blocks delivered right next to it.
AFAIK around here the rate for straight forward blockwork is around $3 per block, but that was a little while back.
Mick
$4 per block is the going rate in Melbourne, time to emigrate brickman? :UQuote:
Originally Posted by brickman
Correct, all gear supplied except scaffold over first floor height its the builders responsibility for the high scaffold, hoists etc, I like my feet on the ground. :UQuote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Plus gst of course. :roll:
Think I will stay in Tassie as part of a tax minimisation scheme , besides the most time I have spent travelling to work in the last 10 years would be 20 minutes a day.
I suppose? :? If you dont earn it you dont pay it? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by brickman
At the moment I travel 10 minutes to work, all the work is right here on my door step, you have to love the new estates.Quote:
Originally Posted by brickman
When it gets within 5 minutes we'll sell up and move further out, I hate the new estates. :p
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brickie
Of course, the new estates will just follow you out to where ever you move to.:doh:
Mick
I think I might have said " In the last 10 years " which also meant not moving house , youre kids must love changing schools but I suppose when you earn $200,000 a year they would board at an exclusive private school. Brickman - Australias cheapest brickie
Hey Brickie, have you still got kids at school? :?
Nahh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Thought that may be the case. :D
Now, do you think you would work 200 days a year? :rolleyes:
what for, he only needs ter work one day a fortnight :D:D:D:D
How come youve got over 10000 posts Wombat? :?
He never shuts up.... :D scilentc has cracked it too... same reason. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Brickie
Me and the apprentice laid 450 2001 blocks in 8 hours today , cold stqrt (first day on job , eg. not loaded up ), stripped boxing and cut all steel reo and placed it . Just told to come and do it , no price given , will charge $3.00 per block . This gives me $ 1350 inc. for the day , according to the worlds greatest bricklayer this isnt enough., but if I asked the bloke who serves me petrol , or the girl who works at Woolworths if this compares to there hourly rate what do u think there reply would be . I thought the homeless people u cant avoid seeing on the streets in Melbourne were down on there luck but now I realise they are just low income earners who cant afford the going tradesmans rates for a house.
Where did I say that? $1350 is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by brickman
Who cares what the rest of the world is earning? They dont care about you.Quote:
Originally Posted by brickman
I dont care about the homeless, they dont care about me.
People do certain things and do certain actions for a certain out come, they choose, not me.
I could be homeless too, but I choose not to be.
:feedtroll:
https://www.ubeaut.biz/wanker.gif :D