Are things getting worse all over?

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Couldn't agree more malc, I could walk back onto site first thing Monday morning for £1.60 £2.00 pm2 but I'd be walking off a dinner spitting dummy out over water/power/materials/h&s, the system of price work works well on an organised site with a good Forman, unfortunately most of the time they don't care whether you make a crust or not.

Iv seen grown men squaring up to each other in site car parks over a 25m2 wall, iv also taped a wall up and beaded, gone for a brew, come back to find a polish guy skimming the area I just prepped.

Happy days

 

[Capital spread]

It's not that bad, you get out what you put in.

I think the attraction to plastering was you didn't need much tackle to start offering re-skims.

Estate car
Cheap whisk
Hardboard & trowel
Few cheap buckets and brushes, sheets ect ect

I think that's what dragged people into the trade, I mean its not hard to learn how to re skim a wall and leave a half decent finish, look at hillside.

I think to make a decent living out of it you have to learn all aspects rendering, coving, all plastering not just skimming.

Decent van
Decent tools
Good advertisement/website/business cards/workwear/signage
Proper overheads
Qualifications

As above plus:
lots of children to claim tax credits, rented house paid for by the social to cover the weeks you are not working.

 

[Gibbo]

but do you only do site work? direct or subbie?
my gang has not done site work for years. to much aggro, to much risk with payments,and i do not like stoppages.
my other sons gangs, and my brothers gang still do site work, they make a good living but have to work hard.

i only do site work malc

 

[Arti]

Arti to get a job with the national parks just repairing fences and paths etc they require you to have a minimun HNC in country side conservation which is only a kick up the jacksy off a degree and for that they pay about 18k per year !

crazy aint it

 

[malc]

i only do site work malc

if i wanted site work in your neck of the woods, i would have a look at cambridge.
there is an advert, quite regularly in my local paper the east anglian daily times, for plastering teams in cambridge. i do not know the rates as i do not follow them up.
cambridge has always been a busy city, in slack times it can draw labour from north london, in busy times they cannot get anyone.

 

[essexandy]

if i wanted site work in your neck of the woods, i would have a look at cambridge.
there is an advert, quite regularly in my local paper the east anglian daily times, for plastering teams in cambridge. i do not know the rates as i do not follow them up.
cambridge has always been a busy city, in slack times it can draw labour from north london, in busy times they cannot get anyone.

If I lived where you do Gary I'd deffo prefer to work in Cambridge than in London.

 

[Curry]

Worked for my dads firm whilst studying and served few years with some spreads and got my quals after I came out of uni - couldn't get a job so decided to set up plastering rather than go on the dole or claim...

yeah is time maybe to get out ... 30 now so I need to sort asap, like you say need too before its too late - although finding something that pays as well as plastering is the only downside to me now

Fair play sounds like me

 

[Gibbo]

Get us the number malc

 

[scottie5]

@Gibbo theres a firm from peterboro that do a lot of work around cambridge and bedford sjs plastering 01733313588 maybe worth a try.

 

[Gibbo]

Cheers scottie

 

[scottie5]

@Gibbo no worries, also you could try jmc drywall who have work in suffolk and essex 07715024386 or office 01621810293