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TIL you can lay 1,000 bricks in a day with a helper, or 600 alone, and I picked the wrong one
Two summers ago a guy in Waco offered me a job on a motel remodel. He told me I could bring my cousin as a tender or run it solo and keep the whole rate. I did the math wrong, picked solo, and spent 11 days hauling my own mud and brick. My back was shot by day four and I finished the west wall 200 bricks behind the other crew. Next time I would split the money. Any of you run tender only on bigger jobs, and does it actually pay off?
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wells.christopher18d ago
That "split the money" line is close but not quite how the math works out. A tender is usually a day rate, not half your brick rate, so on a small remodel the helper might cost you more than the extra brick you lay. On bigger commercial jobs though, keeping a tender fed and watered all day is what lets you hit the wall count, so it can pay off there.
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