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just got a price of $3,500 to lay 1500 brick (labor only). I live in the Chicago area, seems very high. no fancy work just a straight wall, ranch house, no scaffold. I will get other bids, but what is the going rate? I know it varies per region but $2.33 a brick seems a bit high anywhere.
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NE Ohio, $650.00 per thousand. Someone is trying to have there way with you. Good Luck
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I just built a new house with a little brick on the front, about 19 feet long and 5 feet high. Had it done for $.30/brick. I could have bricked the whole house with another brick layer for $.23/brick. But I only wanted the front section done in brick. this is in Central Missouri.
G.
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$300 per thousand for a top notch job + extras like coined corners,ribbons around windows and doors etc., around $210 - $220 per for sloppy and fast. This is for whole houses, I'm sure small quantities would be higher, NE Oklahoma.
Chuck
*Some of the masons with the current glut of work have adapted a "quote high and quote often" approach to small/private jobs with the thinking that if they get a few they win big (none of these pay their guys any bonus for this) and if they lose the bid there are plenty of bids available for the taking. FYI when I check out the credit of these guys, they all seem to have had trouble, bankrupt/slow pay/ or collections charged against them. The masons that charge fair seem to never have the same kind of blemishes on their credit rating, some kind of cosmic justice.
*Hi Chuck,and Frenchy,I'm currently trimming a new house that's getting all brick on the exterior. The builder went with the lowest bid; $185 per thousand. The bricklayers started this job 2 weeks ago and aren't even half way through yet. They show up on the job at 9:00am and sometimes don't stay very long. I guess you get what you pay for. The builder's gettin pretty frustrated.
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just got a price of $3,500 to lay 1500 brick (labor only). I live in the Chicago area, seems very high. no fancy work just a straight wall, ranch house, no scaffold. I will get other bids, but what is the going rate? I know it varies per region but $2.33 a brick seems a bit high anywhere.