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well going to have a good moan , been a plasterer for 30 years got all the quals etc..c@g advanced , worked all over europe with many different materials, done plenty of cornice work in-situ etc.. and still my wages are very poor work for a company , get a van and tools uniform! and take home under £ 400! my wife who works for a local council who has no formal quals but has worked her way up in 10 yrs is now on £800 per week!!! how can we be payed so poor when i think our job at times can be so demanding not just physically but also mentally (e.g setting out complex curves etc.) its about time we got proper pay reflecting ones experience !! had an offer of price work £ 2.20 m2 , when i was working abroad to be a plasterer was a highly regarded job! not here anymore! so rant over thanks stuart
 
Yea but when she gets home she's got to make the dinner,put the washing on, put the bins out, bath the kids, iron her uniform,pour you a g&t, run you a bath before putting the electric blanket on and your sarnies in the fridge. :RpS_cool:
 
jamesthefirst said:
Yea but when she gets home she's got to make the dinner,put the washing on, put the bins out, bath the kids, iron her uniform,pour you a g&t, run you a bath before putting the electric blanket on and your sarnies in the fridge. :RpS_cool:
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I shall endeavour to mend my ways :RpS_unsure:
 
I was talking about this the other day. Sickening when your busting a gut every day/night just to make a living and you see folk that don't work half as hard taking home **** loads. Got a mate who works on the railway, he fills a form out and turns elec of so workers can fix line. He then sits in the van watches DVDs and reads books till the lads are finished then switches it back on. Around 900 a week he gets and thick as ****.


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You should just be happy with you total household income per week. Most don't earn that a month and struggle. I'd say you have a nice home and lifestyle so be grateful
 
Listen pal you must be the only spread in the world who doesn't get foreigners! Even love jobs pay now and again .just had mot and tax to pay ! Get a grip leave the company 30 years in the game you should know better! Sorry but its NO from me!
 
stuart23 said:
I was talking about this the other day. Sickening when your busting a gut every day/night just to make a living and you see folk that don't work half as hard taking home **** loads. Got a mate who works on the railway, he fills a form out and turns elec of so workers can fix line. He then sits in the van watches DVDs and reads books till the lads are finished then switches it back on. Around 900 a week he gets and thick as ****.


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Seems quite clever to me
 
If you are on the books,with a van that is a good wage pal.your firm would have to charge you out for double that to cover costs.


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Surly if your missis earns 800 a week why don't you go on your own and and stop working for a company as you would have the chance of earning more money for less time in long run ,as 800 a week is surly enough for anyone to survive on ,
 
stuart23 said:
I was talking about this the other day. Sickening when your busting a gut every day/night just to make a living and you see folk that don't work half as hard taking home **** loads. Got a mate who works on the railway, he fills a form out and turns elec of so workers can fix line. He then sits in the van watches DVDs and reads books till the lads are finished then switches it back on. Around 900 a week he gets and thick as ****.


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yes, he to be a labourer for Rigsby, but saw the light.:RpS_thumbup:
 
CurrierPlastering said:
Seems quite clever to me
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When sky first started doing 3d football games he sat and watched first half with his kids 3d specs on. At half time he phoned sky and said he couldn't see any difference, after a few checks they told him he had to buy a 3d tv and subscribe to sky 3d.......


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stuart23 said:
When sky first started doing 3d football games he sat and watched first half with his kids 3d specs on. At half time he phoned sky and said he couldn't see any difference, after a few checks they told him he had to buy a 3d tv and subscribe to sky 3d.......


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Is he from Kent by any chance? :RpS_unsure:
 
800 sheets for working at the council- and people wonder why this country is on its arse ......
 
if my mises was earning 800 a week i wouldent worry about work i would stay at home and be the wife clean the house make sure she had a nice dinner run the bath for her and of course i would have my hand out on payday and i would want a joint account
 
haha the amount of times ive said to the missus when ive got the hump with plastering "you go find a well paid job and ill stay at home and look after the kids, ones at school all day anyway so how hard can it be"............:RpS_unsure: never get anything for dinner those nights for some reason
 
stuy said:
well going to have a good moan , been a plasterer for 30 years got all the quals etc..c@g advanced , worked all over europe with many different materials, done plenty of cornice work in-situ etc.. and still my wages are very poor work for a company , get a van and tools uniform! and take home under £ 400! my wife who works for a local council who has no formal quals but has worked her way up in 10 yrs is now on £800 per week!!! how can we be payed so poor when i think our job at times can be so demanding not just physically but also mentally (e.g setting out complex curves etc.) its about time we got proper pay reflecting ones experience !! had an offer of price work £ 2.20 m2 , when i was working abroad to be a plasterer was a highly regarded job! not here anymore! so rant over thanks stuart
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I;d bin that and get a new job mate...
 
£400 = €470 and I tot the money was **** over here. Fu@k that get a job doing anything else. Plastering is to hard of work for that money.
 
been reading the replies with interest so many different views !! i suppose i am lucky that my wife does have a good job , but the main moan on my part is that WE as plasterers are not really well paid for the job we do !!! and i was self employed for 26 years and earned a good living, its just when you see what we are paid compared to OTHER jobs on the books its very poor!! thanks for feed back stuy ( suppose i will bite the bullet and shut up!!)
 
stuy said:
been reading the replies with interest so many different views !! i suppose i am lucky that my wife does have a good job , but the main moan on my part is that WE as plasterers are not really well paid for the job we do !!! and i was self employed for 26 years and earned a good living, its just when you see what we are paid compared to OTHER jobs on the books its very poor!! thanks for feed back stuy ( suppose i will bite the bullet and shut up!!)
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its when you start adding vans,tools,clothing,company insurances and stuff that knocks the running costs up for company's
 
stuy said:
been reading the replies with interest so many different views !! i suppose i am lucky that my wife does have a good job , but the main moan on my part is that WE as plasterers are not really well paid for the job we do !!! and i was self employed for 26 years and earned a good living, its just when you see what we are paid compared to OTHER jobs on the books its very poor!! thanks for feed back stuy ( suppose i will bite the bullet and shut up!!)
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your right to be p1ssed off, stuy. it's poorly paid compared to other trades. if you're gas registered you've got a licence to print money. and i had a spark at mine today to sign off a rewire i've done. charged £100 and he was here for an hour. and that was meant to be mates fookin rates. then again, that's better than the council spark which would have been £360. my missus earns £38 000 a year. but i dont sit there and think how lucky we are and how grateful we should be that we have a nice lifestyle. we both work for it. it's hard work for for less than what it should be compared to other trades. but unfortunately thats what its come to.
 
certificates...that's where the money's at. gas safety, electrical installation....they've got them, you want them.....
 
stuy said:
been reading the replies with interest so many different views !! i suppose i am lucky that my wife does have a good job , but the main moan on my part is that WE as plasterers are not really well paid for the job we do !!! and i was self employed for 26 years and earned a good living, its just when you see what we are paid compared to OTHER jobs on the books its very poor!! thanks for feed back stuy ( suppose i will bite the bullet and shut up!!)
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As for the pay mate , it is you that is not well paid , not all are the same , but you are sitting pretty with a wife that earns well , so be thankful for that
 
£400 a week on the cards with van, clothing and equipment chucked in, I think you are on a winner there. But that is my opinion. I don't make £20k a year running my own business but the local competition are not business men just jumped up idiots.

Now gas and sparky's will have done well at school and need certificates. Both are capable of killing people but plaster on a wall is pretty safe. I am sorry to say but one of the reasons I left plastering was the mentality of plasterers. Most I knew did not do well at school and was illiterate. They came from poor backgrounds and stay there.

I do not want to offend the spreads on here but lets bear in mind if you are on here you will have some passion for your trade and are probably proud of it.
 
Rossi46 said:
It's not henry but it's a lot more than most are earning at the moment.
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If we were on a grand a wk we would be moaning about the tax we would be paying:RpS_biggrin:

In saying that before this crash came I found it easy to make a grand a week, them days are long gone.
 
Rigsby said:
£400 a week on the cards with van, clothing and equipment chucked in, I think you are on a winner there. But that is my opinion. I don't make £20k a year running my own business but the local competition are not business men just jumped up idiots.

Now gas and sparky's will have done well at school and need certificates. Both are capable of killing people but plaster on a wall is pretty safe. I am sorry to say but one of the reasons I left plastering was the mentality of plasterers. Most I knew did not do well at school and was illiterate. They came from poor backgrounds and stay there.

I do not want to offend the spreads on here but lets bear in mind if you are on here you will have some passion for your trade and are probably proud of it.
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After my missus read and explained to me your quote, I totally agree. :)
 
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