Why is the brick industry making TV advertisements?!

[Deja Q]

What's the point?

The weathy can afford brick.

Most of us have to live with wood, fibreglass, and plasterboard.

[RoeBear]

1. Heaven forbid...

...that union bricklayer's stay employed.

There are some good union people that could be victims of your class envy.

http://www.bacweb.org/bachome.htm

[blockhead]

3. Thanks RoeBear

I'm union bricklayer up here in NoDak. It is expensive to put on a home but also it may last 100 years. Thats probably why most schools and colleges use masonry. Remember the three little pigs.

[RoeBear]

5. No problem...

...some people just don't see the big picture. I use to assemble Cadillacs, nobody needs a Cadillac, but they kept me employed for years.

It reminds me of the luxury tax that was put on items over a hundred thousand dollars, make the rich pay for their playthings and all. The result was people quit buying yachts, putting good union people out of their jobs.

[Deja Q]

10. Okay, tell me the big picture. Is "THE BRICK INDUSTRY"

composed solely of the brick makers and those who lay the bricks?

Have you seen the commercial I saw? How do you know that commercial is supportive of you? Again, I saw and heard NOTHING in that advert that gave a fuck about you guys who do the work, let alone acknowledging that, golly gee whiz, it takes people to make and build the things that the rich take for granted.

Sheesh, these same wealthy people are probably shipping out the jobs in the industry I work for to save money so they can afford another 50 big brick mansions for their spoiled offspring...

Maybe we both are not seeing the big picture. But it's a big museum; we're both in different sections...

[RoeBear]

12. The bricks don't make themselves...

..nor lay themselves.

And you're right back to class envy, something I gave you credit for not having just a moment ago.

[Deja Q]

8. What are you talking about?

I criticize every industry for pointless ads. Do you know how much it takes to make just one 30 second advert?

I've seen ads from GE praising plastic for its variety of uses, just for the sake of it. WHY? If people knew what plastic is made FROM, they wouldn't be so happy... Of course, it's been a few years since I've seen GE pointlessly promote plastic, so maybe somebody caught on?

There are other ads too, I just don't remember them right now. Be sure not to ignore me and check out my posts in the future! :D

Um, the advert had said NOTHING of unions or the persons building the houses. Just BRICKS from THE BRICK INDUSTRY and how a house made from BRICKS has lasted 100 years and can last another 75 before needing work done on it. Nothing was said about the people who made the BRICKS either... Where are you conjuring this big dreamy picture of celebrating the efforts of the workers who did all the real work from?! Obviously not the commercial I'd seen... the advert catered to those who'd want to buy the house, it didn't give a flying fickle frick about those who did the work to make them.

Oh, I happen to be blue collar. Well, half blue, half white at any rate. There's no class envy from me. Okay, so I said only the wealthy could afford brick. Big deal. I said it because that's the class who's most likely to be able to afford to live in such a home.

[RoeBear]

11. "There's no class envy from me."

That where it looked like it was going, sorry if I was wrong.

But back on the subject advertising is mutil faceted, sometimes it's done to create an image. This particular image sounds like it's showing people how solid a brick house is and I'll bet it's effective. It needn't say anything about union labor because it's most likely going to be a union man or woman laying those bricks.

[gyopsy]

2. Bricks are bricks!

You want bricks, buy them. I don't see how one brick company could possibly be any better than the other.

[RoeBear]

4. Not all bricks are the same...

...anyone involved in construction knows that.

http://www.baggeridge.co.uk/baggeridge/certificates/certificates.htm

[Deja Q]

13. Awesome link, thanks!

I wish the commercials that "THE BRICK INDUSTRY" make would say something useful like this... all they're doing is catering to potential buyers and not saying a syllable of what people like you do to make them possible. That's the problem I have with those adverts, and it's one I must have badly said... Just as the tv advert mentioned nothing of the workers, I failed to mention that I support workers and loathe corporate exploitation. (but if you had never read my posts until now, you never would have guessed my ideals either...)

[Racenut20]

6. The old AP Green brickplant in Mexico, Missouri

AP Green was Senator Kit Bond's grandfather.

[Cuban_Liberal]

7. The Three Little Pigs

God forbid a house would be built that would last 200 years, and emply union labor in building it...

/sarcasm off

[blockhead]

9. I've seen non union masonry

you get what you pay for. Plus, good luck finding a rat bricklayer up here, we're organized.

[blockhead]

14. I haven't seen the ad

but i suppose the reason is to promote the industry. alot of people are going to the newer stucco systems, which I think is an inferior product to masonry. but hey, i'm biased.

[jmowreader]

15. Because brick has competition

Just off the top of my head...

You can build a masonry structure from brick. You can also build it from stone or concrete masonry units.

You can build a frame wall with wood or metal studs. Sheathe the wall with one of probably fifty different sheathing systems, and side it with vinyl, cedar, fiber-cement, stucco...

It's late, but you get the idea: there are thousands of combinations of materials that, when put together, will produce a building.

We could say the same thing about any product.