Stu Crompton

06/12/2024

What bond is this? 🧱

03/12/2024

Exactly 12 months ago I brought an idea of mine to market with patent protection. It took me 6 years to do so with the delay of the pandemic. 12 months on and my brick trowel is doing better than I could ever of imagined. Sure there’s been a few problems but after a few revisions and listening to feedback I aim to keep improving.

I have two more patterns arriving (London wide & narrow) in January 2025 and a pretty cool design idea coming next week. Doing everything myself of course as I guess, this is how things are in the beginning. Working bricklaying in the day, 5 days a week then home making & packing trowels most nights till 10-12 at night.

Few people say it’s a gimmick or a fad but it’s the market that has the say not the opinions of the few And at the moment the market is reinforcing all the work I’ve put in so far.

I didn’t really give it too much thought for the future, in all honesty I just wanted to make my own trowel so I could use it in my videos instead of marketing others for free. Also, I had unfinished business from 20 years ago when I invented a voice activated spellcheck to help people with dyslexia which didn’t work out.

The main thing though is that I had an idea and I don’t want to be on my death bed wishing I would
have acted upon it. I did it and luckily the market is encouraging. People have great ideas, that’s the easy bit but bringing it to market with patent protection is absolute hell.

If you have an idea. Or something you want to do, don’t wait around for the right time. Start now and figure it out as you go because I really believe that the feeling of regret later in life at the things you didn’t act upon when you know you could of would far out weight the feeling of failure from at least giving it a shot.

https://cromptontool.com/collections/cromptontrowels

Thank you for all of your support over the last 12 months. Stu 🧱

29/11/2024

Nothing like standing back at the end of the working day/ week and feeling immense job satisfaction. We show up and we do our absolute best to go above what is required of us.

The most important reward for me is seeing our customers whom are very thankful and happy with their decision to hire a team who put quality at the forefront of their business not slap and dash.

A little pride goes a long way in business.

Little bit more to finish off and 4 crompton pier caps going on ❤️🧱

Thank you as always to jt_brickworkltd for being such a good help. 🧱

London trowels now available for pre order https://cromptontool.com/collections/cromptontrowels

25/11/2024

Started a new job today, yet another curved wall incoming.

London trowels now available for pre order https://cromptontool.com/collections/cromptontrowels

25/11/2024

It’s a sure is a struggle starting a business from scratch. Were making progress though and I’m really excited to announce that my London trowels are now available for pre-order. I have 11”London Wide and 10” Narrow London. I wanted to get them done for Christmas but they will only be ready for delivery 6th January 2025. Also I’m running a black Friday deal across my site this week for the launch of trowels so place your orders to take advantage.

Personalisations with name or company also an option.

Thanks for all your continued support and feedback.

11” London Wide - https://cromptontool.com/products/crompton-brick-trowel-11-wide-london-pattern?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web

10” Narrow London - https://cromptontool.com/products/crompton-brick-trowel-10-narrow-london-pattern-pre-order-personalised?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web

All Trowels - https://cromptontool.com/collections/cromptontrowels

21/11/2024

That time I built a Brick & stone Transformer pier. Playing with ideas, don’t know how I found the time.

17/11/2024

Some neat tuck pointing around London 🇬🇧

17/11/2024

Curved herringbone brick garden seat. Just a few cuts in this and a bit of patience.

10” trowel stuart shared Crompton Bricklaying Trowel 10” Philadelphia - Cork Handle (No Personal Engraving) with you https://cromptontool.com/products/crompton-bricklaying-trowel-10-philadelphia-cork-handle-no-personal-engraving-1

11/11/2024

11/11/2024

Some great pieces of brick art in hullcollegegroup

10/11/2024

Beautiful history around Warrington. Always look up 🧱

08/11/2024

Round and round the garden!

We’re doing ok, the bricks are horrendous to work with but they look great in the finished wall. It’s hard to put a mangled brick in the wall as it breaks my brain but learning to let go and put them in the wall as adds to the character of the wall.

It’s very manual work working with no string line and no level. We are using the laser which is great timing because of the dull days and it’s a bit of a faff setting up the laser every course and switching over sides every two courses because of the brick bond but making it work.

There is no way you could get this wall accurate using a level. The bricks are all shapes and there is still mortar on most of them, thank goodness for technology.

Looking good, hope you all had a great week. 🧱

07/11/2024

No matter of what field of work you are in, always push your ability beyond what you think is possible. That way, you will always be improving and never staying in the same place.
Sometimes you will fail but you can always learn from that and go again.

Failure is something the critics revel in but it is single handedly the most important metric to self development. Do not be scared by failure, it’s indication of effort.

We all get one opportunity so no matter what you do, try your best to make an impact, be bold in your decisions and most of all try your best to live up to your true potential and never settle for average. Always rooting for you. 💪🧱❤️

06/11/2024

Corner details brickwork. It’s the finer detail that can make the difference 🧱

06/11/2024

Simple curved brick step 🧱

06/11/2024

Brick find- Taylor Jericho bury uk

05/11/2024

Radius wall starting to take shape now, hope you’re all having a great week. Up the brickies! 🧱

04/11/2024

Which college or organisation did you learn your trade?

I learned at wigan & Leigh college UK in 2005

I do miss teaching a little bit. Really enjoyed the academy, learned lots and it was great to meet the students and pass skills on. Hope to be doing a bit more at colleges up and down the uk next year. 🧱