Brick-Mate 8m Pocket Tape I Made in UK I Width 25mm I EC Class I I For metric measurements I Optimized for professional bricklayers I 3 functions I Hultafors

Super

Great tool for setting out and if you need to estimate quantities of UK metric bricks or blocks. Can save a lot of time instead of setting out dry, moving and relaying. Especially when you can't remember what works to a certain meterage etc. Just keep it clean and only use for setting out and use a cheap 5m or 8m tape for other stuff as it can get gunked up a bit, and its quite expensive. Hadthree of these tapes over a 15 year period. Just bin the belt clip as it is massive.

The quality of these products are terrible for the price. My first one started to stiffen after a week or so until one day it just wouldn’t retract any more. The second one, I knocked off a pack of waist high brick, which proceeded to not retract after as well. For the money I cannot say quality wise these are worth it. Just get yourself a pack of two Stanley 8m taped for half the price of one of these, then mark the gauge on it yourself.

These tapes are a useful bricky tool just don’t seem to last very long in the harsh English weather and riggers of building I know they are not going to make them indestructible not good for business,but my last one only lasted a month before recoil went inside. But then my sons lasted a couple of years. Just your luck I suppose going to try one more.

if you’re in Brick Layer one of the best items you can buy!

So well made useful and accurate should have bought one 50 years ago rather than the cheap Stanley I have been swearing at for those same 50 years. Can of course be used aava class 1 ordinary tape measure. And unbelievably made in the uk!! What more do you want!

I thought it abit pricy. As never brick laid before and did a diy 1000 brick project. This is a real mate ! Easy to use ! This has a belt hook where the tape detaches from that hook and attaches so easy ! Tape has concrete block and STANDARD brick size markings. Please note handmade bricks might not work well with this tape depending on the style/type course you are laying. This is because handmade bricks could be slightly thinner or less depth than machine cut. So eventually the tape and course go out of sync. The markings include mortar joint of 1cm

Good easy to read and reliable

Super helpful for brick building, built a wall around my grill, first time doing brick work and this made it much quicker and easier to ensure my measurements were level.

Im going to say 1 star just because of my own ignorance I wish they had one like this in imperial system. If I was a tape measure company I could see a market for it. So the tape measure is great far as quality. The biggest issue is have is our brick and block in the united states are smaller than that of Europe.