About Charlie Cummins...

Charlie Cummins Consulting Services My name is Charlie Cummins, a master bricklayer and mason. I began working in this great trade in 1963 back in Dallas, Texas. I have been a bricklayer, masonry contractor and masonry school owner since 1975. I was a union contractor in Alaska for twelve years, then I paid my $120,000 plus in legal fees to get out of all of the unions, then operated for another eighteen years as a non-union masonry contractor in Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky and California.I have laid brick, block, stone and everything else but eggs – without squawking – in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida, California, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky – and Vietnam. I have seen a lot of things, made a lot of good decisions, and a lot of bad decisions, that cost me millions of dollars over the years. I am an expert on what to do, and what not to do, because I have done plenty of both – BIG TIME. I plan to live to be 130 or die trying, and hope to die with a trowl in my hand. I want my ashes to be thrown in a batch of mud and have my favorite bricklaying buddy take me up in to the beautiful Rocky Mountains and lay me up in a pile of brick and stone, under a tree with a GREAT VIEW. I love this trade.