Fed up with outside work
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Olican
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Hard-core some of them boys.
keithuk
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The weather my friend ,we all have to deal with , the price is up to you , best of luck and chin up :RpS_thumbup:
Olican
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Same here, couple of render jobs come in this week. Can't do them for a while (domestic hack offs) will have to wait til the weather gets really shiite
plasterjfe
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Scaffold is a major problem.
Every bad scaff means you lose money and time and sometimes even compromose the job.
Good scaff is not impossible its just very very rare. They either dont give a flying f or they dont understand. And what I cant get is all the scaff gaffers own top top cars. ...they must be raking it in
www.jfe-rendersystems.co.uk
Every bad scaff means you lose money and time and sometimes even compromose the job.
Good scaff is not impossible its just very very rare. They either dont give a flying f or they dont understand. And what I cant get is all the scaff gaffers own top top cars. ...they must be raking it in
www.jfe-rendersystems.co.uk
stuart23
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They must make a fortune. After the initial layout for the scaffold all they have to pay is wages, yard and vans.
plasterjfe
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H and S rattle on all the while and they have regs for scaff but when thw lifts are bad and you have to stoop about carrying 25, 30 kg materials or evwn heavier buckets they have nevwr addressed.
You do much morw damage to tour back working on scaff all yoir life than manual handling on thw ground every day.
www.jfe-rendersystems.co.uk
You do much morw damage to tour back working on scaff all yoir life than manual handling on thw ground every day.
www.jfe-rendersystems.co.uk
Fatarm
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Could be worse,,, you could be plastering. blindfolded ..:RpS_wink:
plaster man
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if u think working outside is bad u should give unemploment a go
Fatarm
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Yeh, seen it,
Ya feckin nutter ..and your a leftie .:RpS_scared:..if you could see some of my plasterwork you would think it was done blind folded.:RpS_biggrin:
JessThePlasterer
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Won't catch me rendering, inside with a brew all day long nice ' snug! Although I have done roofing and I have fallen from scaffold :RpS_scared:
Rigsby
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I have fell off scaffolding. 2.5m onto rocks. Thought in the ambulance thats it the lights are going out and you realise just how much you love your mom, dad and the wife! Never want to go back there again I can tell you.
Outside work? crap. but that is how I have set up my business. Rather work outside though than plaster all day. Plastering is 8 hrs of aerobics and at the end of the day you are looked down on by others.
That plaster will still be there on the walls when you are pushing up daisy's and no one will give a monkeys. Hard graft for little reward and it makes you an old man before your time!
Still it is a skill to be proud of and we should be proud of ourselves.
God bless spreads!
Outside work? crap. but that is how I have set up my business. Rather work outside though than plaster all day. Plastering is 8 hrs of aerobics and at the end of the day you are looked down on by others.
That plaster will still be there on the walls when you are pushing up daisy's and no one will give a monkeys. Hard graft for little reward and it makes you an old man before your time!
Still it is a skill to be proud of and we should be proud of ourselves.
God bless spreads!
plaster man
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allways thought myself thats were the best money is in plastering it is hard work but u can turn good money fast if u have good runs off work
Similar,
wild horses wouldn't drag me back on the insides again, even in winter.
Make your money march until December then you don't need to graft in jan and February.
Rigsby
TPF Special Forces
Yes, that is my goal at the beginning of every year. Save up enough dough in 9 months to pay off the Council tax, water rates in full come the bill in April and have enough saved to cover the utilities and Morrisons weekly shop bill for the coming winter.
Come Jan and Feb I can then afford (hopefully) to relax. Didn,t manage it last year with all the rain. Lived on stews and porridge all winter. My weekly food bill for me had to be no more than £30 a week and £5 spending money. Don't get me wrong I have savings and rental income but I live on what I earn rendering the rest is for retirement investment.
It has often been said I will not part with the snot off the end of my nose. :RpS_biggrin:
Come Jan and Feb I can then afford (hopefully) to relax. Didn,t manage it last year with all the rain. Lived on stews and porridge all winter. My weekly food bill for me had to be no more than £30 a week and £5 spending money. Don't get me wrong I have savings and rental income but I live on what I earn rendering the rest is for retirement investment.
It has often been said I will not part with the snot off the end of my nose. :RpS_biggrin:
plaster man
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rigsby seems to be a name that suits u well then
spunky
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rigsby can you do inside work?
cossyshamo
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I never retire , I had enough feckin time off the last 4/5 years, looking at the four walls most days ,scratching around to make afew quid, being offer shite work at shite rates becoz the people know the position yer in ,does yer head in . started to stay in bed all day becoz yer p%^$& off with yerself and every one else, and I have hobbies like fishing and my young lads football team , but you still need to get out there and do something, so hpefuly see all you Happy B%^^&$£% in weeks to come !HA!HA! told yer it does yer head in !
Mickyboy
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I've plastered in side for nigh on 30 years . The last 3 years we've been rendering with a machine which takes all the hard work out of the game . I wouldn't want to go back inside banging on skimming for a poor wage at the end of the week . Yes we do get rainy days but the money's better and the works easier for us old gits . Roll on sunny days
keithuk
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True mate , but don,t tell everyone ,lets keep it to ourselves :RpS_wink:
Rigsby
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No Spunky gave up plastering in 1989. The builders and fellow plasterers did my head in so I gave it up up to keep my sanity sort of. I don't miss it 1 bit! 8 hours of graft but I am talking of mixing 50kg of browning (hardwall) in a tin bath with a shovel and mixing skimming with a podge. Dot and dab was just coming in back then. Electric whisks didn't exist.
Loved the end product but thought the method of application was way out of date and besides it was the fact of it being such a skill but I did not get the recognition I deserved.
Now if the Ritmo was around back then it would have been perhaps another story.
Outside work is call at shop and buy 2 litres of milk, have a cup of tea, set up, have a cup of tea, do for an hour or two then another cup of tea then clean up and repeat again after dinner. Heavier gear but not 8 hours of slog at wage only rates. Saying that plastering was usually for builders and when I went rendering it is for private customers only. Rarely builders, don't trust them tight gits!
Need to brush the teeth more often to get rid of the tea stains.
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