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Originally Posted by Stardrifter_WA
I was talking to someone that is getting a house built and apparently bricklayers are in short supply and are getting up to $2 per brick. This might account for some of the cost of new housing...high wages.
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The reason for that is that for the past 20 years everyone has been building with materials other than brick and thus many brickies have left the trade as they could not get work. Their work was replaced with fibre sheeting or colour bond clad houses or besser block monstrosities rendered over.
Now that architects are bringing brickwork back into their designs, the reduced number of tradesmen brickies can name their own price. You only need to look at any house built from 1995 to 2010 and see how little face brick surface is visible.