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  Neal Barker @ Etesia uk February 25, 2019 at 1:23pm

  Hi Dan

  there are online calculators which will help with working out materials needed etc however to also then price in the cost to do the job and run this as an all in price would mean your laying speed would need to be equal to what the calculator is worked out on.

  if you know how many bricks you can get down an hour then you can work a price back from that.

   

  see links below for some material calculators

  https://www.inchcalculator.com/brick-calculator/

  http://www.cashbuild.co.za/Bricks_blocks_and_mortar.php

  https://www.jewson.co.uk/working-with-you/for-self-builders/prelimi...

   

  jewsons calculators are probably better if you can also get the materials from them, also add in a breakage count and 10% extra sand etc etc as joints per person will always be a little different.

   

  its one of those jobs that once you have a good few you will not use calc's as you will already know in your mind what your looking at in a job

  

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    Daniel Edwards > Neal Barker @ Etesia uk February 25, 2019 at 3:09pm

    Thanks Neal, very useful links
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  Andrew Betteridge February 25, 2019 at 2:00pm

  When I was a lad a bricklayer being paid a daily rate was expected to average four hundred bricks a day laid and pointed with a labourer mixing and carrying.

  Andy.
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    Daniel Edwards > Andrew Betteridge February 25, 2019 at 3:10pm

    Thanks Andrew. Gives me something to work from
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  Colin Hunt February 25, 2019 at 7:10pm

  There are plenty who will give you unrealistic ideas of how many bricks can be laid in a day, which is OK maybe when house building or very long walls, but in our game, most brickwork is on a relatively small scale.  Setting up, setting out, loading out bricks, knocking up muck, clearing up, washing out the mixer and cleaning tools all takes time.  I used to do all of our brickwork, quite often on my own and would count 200 per day on my own as a good day.
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    Andrew Betteridge > Colin Hunt February 25, 2019 at 9:46pm

    If you have gang of two bricklayers and one labourer laying 800 bricks a day it works out to around 260 per man. So 200 -250 for a guy doing his own labouring is quite realistic.

    Up north a bricklayer on day work used to set out and build the corners leaving brickies on piecework to fill in, which is where the thousand a day brickies are, not building lots of corners and reveals.

     Andy