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It's one on top of two wherever
you go. So put down the horde,

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clean off the trout, and grab
a brow because is he the Brickies

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on site from Fixed Radio. We're
dropping knowledge, hin tips and big name

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guests from the trade, just hopefully
not the bricks. This is the Bricklayan

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Show from Fixed Radio. Welcome to
the Bricklaying Show with Fixed Radio. I'm

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your host, Izzy the Bricky,
and on today's episode, I'll be talking

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about a bad organization on jobs and
how it slows us down. Today I'm

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gonna be joined by some familiar faces
we've had on this show before. If

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you missed my first episode, go
check it out because all of the guests

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joining me today have already introduced themselves
for you. Enjoy the show properly brick

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in it Fixed Radio, The Bricklaying
Show with Izzy the Bricky. Joining me

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now is Ash Mahoney. Welcome back, Ash. How are you mate?

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I'm good mate. How are you
with you? Or yeah? Really good?

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Thank you? Really good? How
important is it to make sure that

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your sites are properly organized massively?
You know it's a heavy wage bill.

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We've got a team of ten on
which you know the wage billy is very

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heavy and it's it's very very important
to make sure that well they're there for

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there might hours they're doing nothing but
laying bricks and blocks bask and keeping the

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jobs moving. Yeah, now,
is that you behind that organization? Are

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you trying to make all these phone
calls making sure that the bricks are on

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time? If you've got ready mixed
more so, you've got your more to

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there, You've got your scaffold lifts
going on? Are you making all these

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phone calls? Have you got one
bricklayer in charge of each job if that

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makes sense? Yeah, So we've
got a group chat on what's that from

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the lads need anything now? Looked
like in there are for any emails after

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which needs to be sent. And
then obviously there's lads on start as well.

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I know you know glades very well
for twelve months now is an absolute

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star lot when it comes to things
that and as well we've got Nick and

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all who who's also any other jobs
and he does the back and forth and

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with what's needed. Yeah. So
I've got a good team that basically everyone

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gets involved with the planning and preparation
and everyone knows what they need that'll come

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through and tell me, or they'll
go through to the you know whoever we're

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doing the job for as well.
You know, yeah, no, that

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well, that's brilliant. That's what
it's all about. A bit of teamwork

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and things like that. On the
flip side, what if your found slows

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you down the most on site,
what's stopping you from producing your work?

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Well? As as everyone knows,
this first half of this year, it's

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been so wet. It's been an
out there and it's that's the biggest thing,

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gold thing. It's just a weather. Yeah, this started this first

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six months of this year. I
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know, look back through our books
of our wages and things out and the

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lads have last so much time just
to whether yeah we always it's an edit,

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you know, No, it's it's
so hard on like on the topic

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of weather, if you can or
how do you try to predict or where

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do you try and put the lads
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How you try trying to organize your
jobs so you think, oh,

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the weather won't affect him so much
here, so I might put them on

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them on a different job. Are
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we look on obviously on the weather
apps and because we've got different different salts

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or the other places. It was
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a job up in Evashon which is
an hour in another direction. We've got

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another job in an hour in another
direction. We've got one starting too,

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which is really local to or So
it's basically just you know, if we've

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had Ryan on one job and we've
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or die, so that's where it's
and I guess that's the job. That's

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a good thing. I guess about
having multiple jobs on the go. If

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the weather's bad somewhere, you go, right, it's eight o'clock, now

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we'll get there for nine o'clock.
We'll still have seven hours of laying.

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We should be able to still cover
our money and make a bit ourselves.

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So I guess that's quite good.
Absolutely. And then you know, any

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internal job you've had on the goal, we've we've done some lift shaffways as

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well, which when it was hammering
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got it up out of the way. Yeah, that's still work and things

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out. So I've always got something
somewhere and a sign I was brought up

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from my dad, which is a
very good sign. A lot of it

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lives would listen to as well,
and it's a sign of there's always something

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to do no matter what. As
long as you're open, you always have

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a look around. Yeah, if
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still do certain things in the rye
to get yourself aheader. When it stopped

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hining bicyclu well that's it, I
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I remember a few weeks ago outloading
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van up to go and get a
load of squint bricks made or something.

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I remember I was recording it for
YouTube and people were like, why are

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you working in the rain. You
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in the pub. It's like,
well, I still need to load those

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bricks out and I still need to
go take them to go get made,

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so I may still do it in
the rain. Yeah, get home,

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and you know what I mean,
just crack on that. You know,

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only you're only getting a bit wet. Don't matter, does it? Yeah,

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that's it. Yeah. I mean
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said to my dad, who was
loading out in the Rhine, and I

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said, a load night and the
Rhine anyway. And that's what I've got

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to rind you, m George Son. And that sign stuck with me from

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then onwards, and I thought,
you know what fair plight to the man.

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He's showing me that no matter what, you can always get stuff done.

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Yeah, and you know he said, you ain't got to go home

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and lose money. There's there's always
something somewhere to get on with bicycle in

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preparation and that's all He's done really
well in the trade and it's rubbed off

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on me and hopefully bought. Time
we get to his age, I'll end

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up having what he's got talking,
you know, because he smashed it bicycler.

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Yeah, brilliant. It's it's brilliant
that you've had such a such a

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stronger in flight someone influence of that
much. Yeah. I know you speak

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about him a lot, and he
is a brilliant tradesman as well. Enty

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so something you really look about it
now fifty eight years of age and every

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morning, as you know, I
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you know, and every morning or
hearing twenty bass, it's blaring off of

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the road and his band without bile
on the dock every single day. Bless

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him. Well, you've mentioned earlier
that you've got you've got ten people working

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for you now, and you've got
like, you know, quite a big

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staff. How far ahead are you
booking working? Um, To be honest

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with you, always not if you
tell me where I'm going to be in

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six months time. I haven't got
a club a lot to leave it open.

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I know that I've always had worked. My regulars are always you know,

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a couple of extensions off every builder
every now and then, you know

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so, and then unless something big
starts, which is going to be running

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for a very decent time, it's
just I don't a lot to keep my

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doory opened. I see it because
you know, Lord, for instance,

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when I went down to Milton Keys
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like, before you know, I'll
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the door out the dory out a
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And again you can't forecast too far
ahead anyway. Really, you can

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start except but you get it well
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have a massive knock on effect.
And you're only going to end up you

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know, replanning and stuff that.
So I just a lot to keep it

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open basically. And yeah, you
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and know it's always going to be
worked for them, and so I'm probably

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I'm probably saying I'm booked up on
average free that's especially ten people looking for

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you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, but you

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know it challenge is very quick.
Every day, you know, you could

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get a phone. I remember a
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quite I'd had any work and then
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and I was, I was,
I had a job which one friteen months,

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yeah, garden in Milton Keynes as
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brick wall, and I was really
quartan about that phone call and bomb there

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we go. We was on that
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That's minting it. That's a Brittnay
stream. That job it was my It

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was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. Thank
you so much for speaking to us today.

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I really appreciate it and I will
be seeing you compete in the super

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Trial event for Brittlair Social Club very
soon in summer winter absolutely mat Yeah.

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August seventeenth, we are down at
our college in I'm not too sure exactly

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where it is a not it's down
south and yeah making on another I think

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it's far as other trowels or fantastic
bricklayers. But the yeah, there's only

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very there only one British looking forward
to it. Fantastic Ash. Thank you

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so much for your time today and
I'll speak to you Ray so mate good

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Man is the Caton Brother Thanks Radio
The Bricklaying Show podcast with is He the

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Bricky? Joining me for another chat
is Darcy Richards. Darcy. On this

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episode, I'm talking about how bad
organization on site and weather it can slow

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us all down. What's your experience
been with this so being slow down and

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things like that. The weather obviously
it's just notoriously bad in England you'll know.

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But um, the worst part is
um sometimes you can't even work when

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it's too hot. It's like my
dad always says, it's like Goldilocks Porridge,

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like mortar is because you have to
have the more death right and on

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a on a wet day it's too
money and on a hot day it goes

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off too quickly. So we really
are battling all weather conditions in England.

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You know, I have not quite
a few days work because I've actually lost

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more days because it's been too hot. Surprisingly really when I work with my

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dad and rubbers. My dad absolutely
hated the heat, but so he refuses

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to go to work when it's like
more than like twenty eight degrees. But

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yeah, it's really hard when you
don't have any shelter. And obviously we're

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British, so we just burned.
So SI you've got no shelter, your

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muck's going off instantly, your bricks
are will dry. You haven't got a

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hose pipon like the O want to
take tubs or for water and sometimes it's

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just not worth it, you know, for didiago that you're going to go

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through. Yeah, we're constantly open
to the elements, aren't we getting threshed?

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M Absolutely? Yeah, it doesn't
anything. And it's harder in the

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summer it's too hot. It's harder
in the winter two cols. Then your

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bricks are frozen, then they're wear
the nightmare. Yeah, it's always terrible.

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Into it or just a quick one
on that topic. How did you

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get on in Australia. Obviously you've
been Britley in Australia as well. Have

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you found brittle in over there?
Because it's very hot over there, you

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know what it was relatively like.
Sundays were absolutely astronomously hot. But I

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thought that my blood was actually boiling. It was so horrifically hot. You

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had just have to What they do
on site is they have cold water fountains

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and they have sun cream on site, and you have to wear massive hats

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and you have to keep yourself covered. You wouldn't you wouldn't walk around.

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Well, some people walk around with
the tops off, but usually keep yourself

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covered up as much as possible and
you just stay hydrated that you drink so

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much water. But yeah, the
muck actually was actually so surprised it didn't

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go off as quickly as I thought
it would. But most of the time

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we're laying concrete blocks, and as
you know, if your muck's gone off

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a little bit, it's actually better
because then they don't think what you do

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to make sure that you're properly prepared
before you start work on site. So

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how are you preparing either your job
site, how are you preparing your flank

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you're going to be working on.
What do you do to make sure that

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the work gets done quite smoothly?
So are you talking about like weather conditions

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wise? I'm like kind of getting
that making sure like your spots are elevated

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as well as weather as well.
Let's say, like it's like a really

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hot day, you want to make
sure your spots away and things like that,

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having your bricks raised up just so
you're not bending down all the time,

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like making sure there's no ankle breakers, you know, you know what

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I mean, Like, how are
you preparing your walls to make sure you

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can get this brick work done as
quickly as possible? So, um,

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basically we've we've actually got this new
thing that my new bosses started doing.

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It's really cool. Um. So
he's cut up like a palette into like

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four so he carries around these like
like four mini bits of pallets with him

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which we put our brickstacks on.
And then I've got these lovely new spot

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boards and stands as well, which
are working perfectly because they muck doesn't dry

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out half as much as it would
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then what we do is usually if
it's actually a hot day and we've got

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a hose on site. We will
hose down the bricks that we're using beforehand,

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because they just lay so much nicer
when they're a little bit damp rather

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than um too dry. And yeah, basically, if if it's going to

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be dusty, we will just hose
everything. It was two dry up,

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We'll just hose everything damp. Yeah, just make and a thing gets so

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perfect. Yeah, pretty much.
And then you know, if we're going

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to have some showers, obviously we
get our brick jackets on um. But

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in terms of stopping the muc from
and where, I just don't think there's

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anything that can spot that. If
it's going to rain. It's going to

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rain, isn't it. Yeah,
that's it. Well, Darcy, thank

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you so much for joining me once
again today. I really appreciate it.

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You take care of yourself and I'll
speak to you very soon, no worry.

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Thank you Bye. This is the
Bricklaying Show from Fixed Radio. Joining

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me is Harrison, better known as
the bench in Bricky on TikTok with just

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over twenty thousand follow us. Harrison
a bad organization and whether can really slow

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us down in the trade. What
do you find the main reasons what are

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slowing you down on site? It
could be anything. It could be whether

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it could be organization, What's something
what really slows you and your gang down?

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I can write a book on this
subject. Well. Obviously we work

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on site under different principal contract contractors, so a responsible sort of for material

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ordering, lintels, locked brick,
et cetera. And when they're not on

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top of that, we're the ones
that sort of falls back on. Fully

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enough, today I've had this act
exact situation where the wrong lin tools have

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been ordered, run out of briquettes
as well. Really, so I can't

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get it. I can't get a
joycelift finished literally because they haven't kept on

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top of ordering. Wow, yeah, that's how I didn't. It slows

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ff one down, slows all,
it slows every single trade down as well.

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Doesn't just slow you down? Yeah? So that's it? Yeah,

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yeah, definitely. Well, leading
on from that, how do you find

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working with other trades such as joined
us trying to get your Joyce lift on?

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Do they often let you down?
Or do other people cause you delays

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on sites such as you know you
join us putting your roof lift on and

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things like that um fair in general. In my experience, the trades do

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work particularly well on the sites I've
been on, but we try and sort

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of build decent relationships between us and
we you know, we trying to avoid

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that situation. So yeah, yeah, the riggers we on top of us

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when we when we're and then ready
for the chippies. And yeah, that's

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not sort of the issues that slow
us down. No, no, well

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that's good in't it. Especially you
just mentioned like building somewhat of a relationship

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with other trades people. I know
I've worked in the past on site and

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one of the foreman or the bricklawn
foreman I was working for, fell out

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with all of the join us,
so we were always last to get all

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of our lifts and things like that, and it's just a nightmare. You're

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better off just giving them a little
drink or something and saying come on,

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mate, hurry up. Absolutely,
we're all trying to achieve the same end

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goal. So if you work together, you've got to get that quicker bit

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of teamwork. Don't don't arm anyone. Now we're coming into summer. Now,

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do you remember last year we had
that heat wave? Didn't we It

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was killer? Did I can't forget
it. And did you find working in

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that? Mate? It was brutal
night and I think I knocked off about

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it was. I mean my memory
is sort of fading on it now.

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But we were only talking about this
today actually, But it was on thirty

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five degrees on site at some points, and you know I had apprentices going

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down with heat strokes. It's yeah, it is a tough working environment.

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It's dead. Didn't you mentioned?
Obviously you work on a site, so

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everyone's got to be in their correct
ppe. Do they allow shorts and t

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shirts or are they strict on trous
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on this float we're on now,
shorts are okay. You know I have

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worked through summers on jobs where bull
trousers, goggles and that it becomes a

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different ball game. Yeah, that's
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so many things already holding us back, so we may as well at least

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get the sun to our skin and
try not to be too warm while we're

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thrashing our body. Easy. Yeah, that's it, Harrison, Thank you

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so much for joining me today.
I really appreciate it. Just to quit

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one before you do go, where
can people find you? So they can

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find me on TikTok. They can
find me under the name benchtioned Bricky,

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and they can also find me under
the same target name on Instagram, sand

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perfect. Thank you so much mate, our speech, You're very soon,

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lovely, thank you for having me. Thanks Radio The Bricklaying Show podcast with

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is He the Bricky joining me now? Is Ash Francis from the Bricklayers Social

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Club. Now, as you have
some experience in commercial a bricklaying, so

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what example can you give us of
where bad organization has really hindered one of

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your jobs or you've experienced a job
that has really struggled with organization. So

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well, hello is he for a
start? So yeah, I mean I'll

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give you like a little insight.
So I work in commercial brickwork. I'd

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manage brickwork packages. Give you an
example of poor organization typically comes from the

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main contractor so tier one contractors.
They the way they normally work their systems

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is they want everyone to get their
job done at the same time or with

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very small time frames, and then
they're very unrealistic targets. They all work

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by by programs and there's not a
lot of room forever. So what do

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they not take into account certain things? Yeah? Yeah, so I mean

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if wee, for example, if
it starts raining and you lose a day,

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you lose two days. Although it's
kind of inclement weather, it's an

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act of God, there's nothing you
can do. They still don't factor in

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that there's going to be bad weather. Now, if you're working on a

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domestic job, you would just literally
say we've got two days off. We'll

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see you with a couple of days
time or hooever's clip. It doesn't work

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like that. It all has to
be marked down, recorded reasoning. Why,

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photo evidence there's a lot more stringent. Try and take photos of the

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rain. But to show that,
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Right, okay, a week,
on a weekly posed basis, I'd

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have to do a drop line on
a program. On the program, it

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would tell me how how much work
I've achieved. If my my drop line

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is working in line with the date
provide on the program, and it'll leave

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slipped forward or slip backwards depending on
progress or weather, and that I have

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to make note of that, and
I have to deliver that report every week

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to my contracts managers and like the
side managers of the main contractors to demonstrate

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reasonings why the programs behind and that
could be because of weather. Right,

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Okay, then well what's a good
rule of thumb then to make sure that

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you stay organized. I'm governed by
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But it's all about people management.
Managing your programs. They're your time frames,

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and then you're working your men to
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Yeah, and then from that liaison
movier QS ensuring that materials on site

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at the correct times. Do you
always want to be working at least two

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or three weeks ahead of yourself.
That's one of the key things that I

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try to do is you've got to
be forward thinking. You've got to be

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thinking what's capping next week, what's
happening the week after that? Will I

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need four bricklayers next week because I've
got this amount of brickwork. Will I

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need these sunduries for this section of
brickwork. Will I need to get the

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mastick man in to start doing movement
joints? All these kinds of things.

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You've got to be forward thinking constantly, and that's that's how you keep your

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work force working efficiently to ensure that
your job is still making money. Otherwise

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you could have twenty bricklayers doing the
work of four bricklayers. Yeah, no,

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no, I know exactly what you're
saying. Actually, the people management,

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it's all people management. Yeah,
and looking ahead. Yeah no,

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definitely. Well, Luckily for me, all I've got to do is manage

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one person. How many people are
you managing? So the most I've ever

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had at one given time was about
thirty five bricklayers. I had the lowest.

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I've just had a lot of missilf
in the laborer. It's nice Normally

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when it gets towards the end of
a job, I would like a champion

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start doing some snakes and stuff.
That's brilliant. Nice, that sounds well.

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Just because you're on the commercial side
of things, do you have I

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don't know if it's really relevant to
you, but it could be if you

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ever do private things, do you
have any like tips, tricks, or

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any advice on predicting site delays or
how to avoid them yourself? If you

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is doing an extension, how would
you try and avoid any sort of delays

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that you may overcome? May see? Do you know the honest arts to

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that is experience and it's trying to
walk, not run. If you're pricing

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up jobs and you're not too sure, you've got to ask the question.

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You've got to put it out there
and start and do some research or whatever,

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because it's going to cost you thousand
if you get it wrong. I've

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done I've made the mistakes some of
the conversations about the the bricklayers in the

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past, they've lost tens of thousands. Yeah, scary and't it. You

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can't predict the weather. You've got
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delays. What all I'd recommended for delays

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and stuff like that job is just
record it constantly. Especially in my world

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in commercial it takes keep taking photos
right down in a diary what's happened every

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day, so you can you can
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year two years time. So,
actually, remember being on a job and

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I had that delay? How do
I deal with it? How can I

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do it differently? Yeah, you
have to face that problem again. Having

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a sight of diary will help you
keep that information and always give something to

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refer back to, and it will
also support you in any way if if

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you did come to a dispute or
something. You could say, well,

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I've got a diary here, and
in the diary on this day and that

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day you said that was going to
have the electricians and plumber finished their first

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fix. I can come in and
do some links or something like domestic job,

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but make your plumbers didn't turn up, so now I've had to find

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work for two additional days, etc. And you've got all that evidence there

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that will support your case. Yeah, no, brilliant, Ash. Thank

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you so much for all of the
information you've just provided us, and I

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really appreciate it. How can people
contact you or get in touch with you?

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Have you got any socials? Yeah, so we're on Instagram, we're

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on LinkedIn, and we've got a
website which is Brickly Social club dot com.

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Fantastic. Most everything's pretty much free. We do have a membership section

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which offers a lot of great benefits
of discounts to members, including free tickets

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for Super Trowl. Yeah, but
we'll touch on that another day. Fantastic,

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Ash. Thank you so much.
Really appreciate speaking to you, and

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