Quite so. But the Brit builder seemed to think he had done a good job.
He said he was a bricklayer, not a builder

A small "builder" is usually just a tradesman turned project manager. He
does the bits he's trained to do and gets the other trades in as
required. It's when he does the whole job himself that the trouble starts.

I like the yellow pages ads that say "specialists in all types of
building work"