The Bricklaying Show

Izzy The Bricky invites show regular, James Naughton (26) to join him and talk about his experiences on the tools and running businesses in the trade so far. James talks through his early days in detail, the trials and tribulations of his business management experiences and everything that he loves about the trade 

Izzy The Bricky is joined by Charlie Collison and James Roden to discuss working through the British summer. They talk about how it really is the best season for bricklayers in the UK but also comes with it's challenges. Everything from unpredictable weather, sunstroke, suncream, wet bricks, when to take time off, how late you work until and much more

Izzy the Bricky talks to three guests who have had a variety of experiences in the trade about how you can get good quality and consistent work. Izzy also asks why it's sometimes hard to progress and move up the ladder in your career as a bricklayer. James Naughton talks about his already incredibly varied career in the trade at the age of 26 and gives his thoughts on why some are struggling to fi...

Izzy is joined by two female bricklayers, who have joined the trained, to discuss their experiences so far and begin to follow their journey to becoming established in the trade

Andy Pali and Ash Mahoney joins Izzy The Bricky to talk about old school bricklaying ways, methods, attitudes and how the experience of the bricklayer nowadays compares to back in the day 

Izzy is joined by three bricklayers with experience doing different aspects of decorative brickwork to discuss why they do it, how they do it and what the future holds for some of these methods and designs

Izzy The Bricky has invited Changy, a well known Bricklayer on social media to join him and give an update on what is going on for Bricklayers with regards to site work this year. Izzy also gets an update from Gary Staines from GSQ and Ian Hodgkinson to get some guidance on when big domestic sites will pick back up again

Ash Francis joins Izzy in the studio to talk about his life experiences and how the trade has changed his life from tough beginnings. Ash also talks about how we teach the trade, commercial work and tools. Charlie Collison returns to join Ash and Izzy to talk about the upcoming Super Trowel event in Milton Keynes on Thursday 8th August 2024 (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/super-trowel-2024-tickets...

Charlie Collison, Bricklaying YouTuber with over 1.2 million subscribers joins Izzy The Bricky to talk about how he got into the trade, experiences on site, thoughts on the trade, his journey on social media and more

Izzy is joined again by Benchin' Bricky & Tricky Bricky to discuss their experiences learning the trade, on-site and their plans in the trade going forward

Izzy The Bricky is joined by The Tricky Bricky and Benchin' Bricky so that they can discuss their experiences in the trade, aspects of the trade they enjoy doing, social media and more

Izzy The Bricky talks to more competitors, lecturers and organisers at this year's Skill Build finals in MK with the CITB

Izzy The Bricky has been invited to meet the judges and finalists at this year's CITB SkillBuild finals at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. On the first of two episodes covering the event, Izzy finds out what the event is all about, what the judges are looking for, how the finalists are judged, gets a tour of the competitors zone and talks to a finalist.

Izzy is joined again by Ash Francis, James Roden and Wayne Bettess from Off The Tools Academy to discuss how you can win good quality work in your area. There's everything from pricing, quotes versus estimates, what not to do and how to stand out from the competition

Izzy is joined by Ash Francis from The Bricklayers Social Club and On The Tools Bricklaying finalist, James Rodon, to discuss how they went about setting up their business. Izzy is also joined by Trades Business Coach, Wayne Bettes (https://offthetools.co.uk/) to explain how to set up your business for success and Ben Livings from HMRC gives some advice on how to do your tax properly

Izzy The Bricky is very health concious and has invited three Bricklayers onto the show so that they can talk about their health and fitness experiences

Izzy takes a look at how health and safety is managed on-site from large businesses with multiple sites to family run micro businesses and also gets some advice on how to keep safe from a health & safety consultant

Izzy briefly talks about occassions where things don't go to plan on-site and shares some experiences when this has happened. Father and son team, Steve & Alex return to share a few of their own examples and discuss what they've learnt from their mistakes

Izzy follows up the last episode with a deep dive on how to treat apprentices and get the best out of them on-site. Gary Staines from GSQ Brickwork talks about how he approaches this with his large company with hundreds of employees. YouTubers and father and son bricklaying team, Steve and Alex talk about their dynamic and taking on an apprenticeship with family. Then finally, James Naughton cover...

Izzy takes a look at apprenticeships and how we're bringing new blood into bricklaying. Izzy's friend and bricklayer, James Naughton talks about how an apprenticeship moulded him and led him to bring proactive in bringing apprentices into his business. Jack, a bricklaying lecturer from Hertford Regional College explains how the new generation are being taught and what can be done to attract more s...

Izzy is joined again by Ian Hodgkinson and Stephen Stokey to share their memorable and standout jobs. Ian talks everything from work completed at Derby County FC to TV work and Stephen talks about putting right some shockingly poor work. Izzy also talks about his favourite job that he recently completed and talks about a job that was memorable for all the wrong reasons...

Izzy invites some brand new guests onto the podcast to give some advice for newcomers as well as time-served bricklayers. There's something for everyone on this episode! Guests include: Ian Hodgkinson, Celeste AKA Brick_Daddy_To on Instagram & Stephen Stokey

Bad organisation on-site can slow you down and hold up work. So on this episode Izzy has invited all of the guests from the debut episode back so that they can share some tips, insight and advice from their experience on how to avoid work slowing down through bad planning. There's soemthing for everyone from talking about bad weather to commercial projects and more

Welcome to the first ever Bricklaying podcast with Izzy the Bricky and Fix Radio. On this first episode Izzy is joined by four well known members of the trade, including Ash Francis from The Bricklayers Social Club, Ash Mahoney and Darcie Richards to talk about how they got started in the trade, the work they do and more. Izzy also shares a bit about himself and how he learnt his skills