been quoted £1500  for laying 2000 bricks 350 blocks
garage extension straight forward 1sided extension lean to roof 5.8 x 3.1 to exsisting gable end wall footings etc already done is this price fair says will take a week 2 brickies 1 labourer

Obviously the brickies will get more than the labourer, but a very simple calculation is £500 per week, per person. Or £100 a day.

That might be the going rate (I don't know), but it comes across to me as being on the low side. Other tradespeople charge £200-£300 a day. When I was operating I based my charges on £150 a day, that didn't include brickying.

HM

JERRYD is right, not even a weeks work for a decent brickie and a labourer, especially as it is a simple job, even if there is a door/window reveals, end and centre piers, with straight runs, once the corners are pulled up, then the courses run in, it should take a good brickie no more than 3-4 days tops... the only variable which you would need to think of in terms of materials is the blocks, if solid concrete over 6" wide, then you can not go more than 8 course high per day, with out the risk of "swimming" due to the weight loading on the muck!!
my old man reckons a good brickie should lay down about 6-800 face per day, and with blocks if thermos/light weights, the 350 should easily go in a day...
well they did with his crowd.... (for those that know my ol' man from previous trade web sites... has over 50 plus years as a brickies/stone mason behind him, and still refuses to fully retire!!!!! started at 13 is now 72 going on 73!!!!  blimey nearly 60 soddin' years pop!!

and if they use Blake profiles they'll be in the van going home at lunchtime on day 3

toys for the NON-pro brickies, or the inept, as my ol' man calls 'em!! they are pre marked with courses, and assist with building up the returns/corners!!

p.s. sorry if my ol' man's comment upsets some of you younger brickies, but he's VERY old school..(slate and chalk merchant), in the days of setting out by hand... you know when houses were REAL!! as he calls it!!!
and he can still lay up a return by eye to within about 1/8".... flash.G*t

I just knew that it would rattle a cage or two!!!!
Right, and anyone can check if they so wish...... BLAKES PROFILES as Jerry D kindly points out,is a NON marked profiling system...(and they were established in 1966, as an all metal profile system which has been improved on ever since......(and still is!!)  the company WHICH OWNS the copyright to them , "BLAKES BUILDING PRODUCTS... which is a subsiduary of a larger steel in buildings corperation FROM the USA!!!! has like any company bought and sold companies to suit there needs, )
how ever, the original "PROFILE SYSTEM" BY BLAKE!!! (and that would be Reginald .D. BLAKE the "master bricklayer!!) was a pre-marked wooden affair which dated back to the early 50's, and was used to bring up corners.....My ol' man's company DID try them , found them to be a waste of time,
BUT like i said, my ol' man IS  73... and has been laying bricks , (and started as an apprentice) since  he was 12..(AND YES MOST MUCK WAS KNOCKED UP BY HAND THEN>>) like you did in them days.. and at his height had just over 400 brickies, and 200 labourers upon his books, , like what he said, building REAL buildings, monster sized ware houses, power stations, complete housing estates, which had no timber framed tops, or tile hung areas, just pure brick and solid block from top to bottom, and all internal walls were the old clinker blocks, or the ash blocks... and in them days time WAS money, as they used to let them settle for the regulated 6 months before you could move in!!!!! companies like Croudace, wimpy, bovis C>E>G>B> were all glad of the ol' mans co when he ran it..
And as one old apprentice of his, who i now do the odd bit of turning for states, "we would go home with our F**kin' fingers bleedin cos of 'ow 'ard he'd push us lot!!!

The modern Blakes Profiles, may make life a lot easier for the newer generations with these new fangled homes etc.. and as YOU stated JD..  making you  lots of KERCHING (sorry if i spelt it wrongly!!)
but when he "semi-retired a few years ago, He had 2 homes(no mortgages, new top line motor each year, and 2 crusies a year, and only on P & O's top ships, Med and CARIB ) but like he states, it was harder in them days, no new fangled machines... no electric hoists, no power this or that... no additives in the muck, lime mortar mixes etc, an old empty oil drum, metal bucket, and a length of rope in HIS DAYS!!!!
he even has a very grainy photo of two shire horses bought in to break up the ground with a plough for the groundsmen to start digging the footings!!!! J.C. WHAT!!!

i am sorry if this is a long post, BUT LIKE I SAID ORIGINALLY , IT MIGHT OFFEND SO PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT SO... but some one did!!
but then again, it's like me, i have a good thicknesser/planer, but i'd much rather do a board by hand with a plane and scrapper!!!!

I am truely glad, that no offence was taken, as one thing my timber mentor always harped on about was peace between trades, and i will admit that i like it that way, and NO!!!! i had not noticed one bit that you might like BLAKES.... Wot, no more pig courses, now where's the fun in that!!!!!
LOL

one thing them profiles are not any good at, last year i was asked to help the ol' man with a repair to a castle's gate house turret, and all the bricks had been eroded on one side, well, with some new,, hand made bricks(specially made for the job in hand,) i had to carve out each bloody brick by hand,matching up cardboard templates i had taken from the leaward side... with club,scutching chisel and a granite/carb stone to finish each smooth, and then with him bedding everything in lime putty mixed with "leaf" multch mix..(yep you read it right!! LEAVES FROM TREE'S).. the finished job looks stunning, even if i do say so my self...however, the castle dates back over 1000yrs, but the heritage trust that looks after a part of it, took nearly a year to actually realise, we had finished it, and have just had a newspaper article taken out saying how nice it is now the repairs are finished!!!!... strange people!!!