block rates

[journeyman Mick]

AFAIK around here the rate for straight forward blockwork is around $3 per block, but that was a little while back.

Mick

[Brickie]

I guess the worlds best bricklayer could probably justify 40 percent more than what I a mere mortal could.

$4 per block is the going rate in Melbourne, time to emigrate brickman?

So the $4/block is for you & your mud monkey?

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.

Plus gst of course.

[brickman]

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.

[Brickie]

Think I will stay in Tassie as part of a tax minimisation scheme ,

I suppose? If you dont earn it you dont pay it?

besides the most time I have spent travelling to work in the last 10 years would be 20 minutes a day.

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.
When it gets within 5 minutes we'll sell up and move further out, I hate the new estates.

[journeyman Mick]

............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.
When it gets within 5 minutes we'll sell up and move further out, I hate the new estates.

Of course, the new estates will just follow you out to where ever you move to.

Mick

[brickman]

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

[Cliff Rogers]

Hey Brickie, have you still got kids at school?

[Brickie]

Hey Brickie, have you still got kids at school?

Nahh.

[Cliff Rogers]

Thought that may be the case.
Now, do you think you would work 200 days a year?

[echnidna]

what for, he only needs ter work one day a fortnight

[Brickie]

How come youve got over 10000 posts Wombat?

[Cliff Rogers]

How come youve got over 10000 posts Wombat?

He never shuts up.... scilentc has cracked it too... same reason.

[brickman]

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.

[Brickie]

Me and the apprentice laid 450 2001 blocks in 8 hours today. This gives me $ 1350 inc. for the day ,

according to the worlds greatest bricklayer this isnt enough.,

Where did I say that? $1350 is good.

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

Who cares what the rest of the world is earning? They dont care about you.

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.

[Cliff Rogers]