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Hi guys
I'm a newbie and my name is Colin and from bridgend south wales. My full time job is a workshop engineer building and designing gambling machines. For the last four years I've been plastering on the weekends and very busy, got three full houses to skim including a load bonding. Any way.... I really need you guys advice. I'm thinking of packing my full time job and getting into plastering properly with a company earning bigger bucks. Like us all I have two kids a wife and mortgage, so obviously need the security! So what's your thoughts on the trade out there?
Any advice is really appreciated
Cheers,col
 
welcome along colskim :RpS_thumbsup: how is trade in your area generally? do you know many local spreads?
 
Colskim said:
Hi guys
I'm a newbie and my name is Colin and from bridgend south wales. My full time job is a workshop engineer building and designing gambling machines. For the last four years I've been plastering on the weekends and very busy, got three full houses to skim including a load bonding. Any way.... I really need you guys advice. I'm thinking of packing my full time job and getting into plastering properly with a company earning bigger bucks. Like us all I have two kids a wife and mortgage, so obviously need the security! So what's your thoughts on the trade out there?
Any advice is really appreciated
Cheers,col
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Teach me me how to be a workshop engineer and I'll teach you to plaster for nothing Colin. And I'm not joking either :RpS_thumbup:
 
become a caricature artist on charles bridge in prague instead. i paid one the equivalent of fifteen quid for ten minutes work and i bartered him down. he would easily get fifteen or twenty jobs a day. a pint of beer in the side streets is eighty pence. you can learn how to do it on youtube
 
Jurek said:
become a caricature artist on charles bridge in prague instead. i paid one the equivalent of fifteen quid for ten minutes work and i bartered him down. he would easily get fifteen or twenty jobs a day. a pint of beer in the side streets is eighty pence. you can learn how to do it on youtube[/QUOTE


Ur profile looks good Pawel :RpS_laugh:
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:RpS_confused: its richard watterson
plastering trade
 
Colskim said:
Hi guys
I'm a newbie and my name is Colin and from bridgend south wales. My full time job is a workshop engineer building and designing gambling machines. For the last four years I've been plastering on the weekends and very busy, got three full houses to skim including a load bonding. Any way.... I really need you guys advice. I'm thinking of packing my full time job and getting into plastering properly with a company earning bigger bucks. Like us all I have two kids a wife and mortgage, so obviously need the security! So what's your thoughts on the trade out there?
Any advice is really appreciated
Cheers,col
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The basics of this trade is easy to learn , you can say your a plasterer and earn money at it , but thats the same for everyone who has the dream its a easy ride , theres some great tradesman out there , and idiots , as for security that sounds like a great idea to me but you wont find it in this trade , at least you have some thing to fall back on unless "online casinos " is killing your trade , just like people like you are killing ours , good luck with what you deside :RpS_thumbup:
 
Hiya guys
With my job it's been on the cards for me to learn autocad at college for a while now and my boss isn't happy with wot they're gonna teach me, so he said he will teach me! I want a qual to set me up for the future. I'm knocking on now I'm 32 lol so I need to get a trade or qual in the next few years to sort me and the fan till I retire u know?! My work is very good quality and I have a lot of pride in wot I do, which is why I get pretty regular work. I get chosen over company's coz a lot of there work is disgusting and charge stupid money and I've seen many of them or the years! I'm not cheap but fare. It's extremely hard on my own ploughing the hours in on the weekends, Fri afternoon till Sun. I'm starting to think sod it I mite work for a company and have a labourer and do it as a trade? Which is why I was interested to know wot the trade is like out there? Do blokes still skim in there 60's? Bizarre question maybe lol :RpS_biggrin:
 
Colskim said:
Hiya guys
Which is why I was interested to know wot the trade is like out there? Do blokes still skim in there 60's? Bizarre question maybe lol :RpS_biggrin:
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i am at the wrong end of 60s and yeh i go piece working each week. not just a bit of piss like skimming try floor screeding! a few of my colleagues are also well over 60 but a hell of a lot of the weaker ones have fell by the wayside!
 
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God fare play to you mal. I was on the civils for 8years screeding for slabs and driveway used to give me knees jip and really bad sciatica. I was only 28 then and I ended up packing it in. Well.... it was the rain more than anything lol
 
I did a full weekend of skimming and my elbows ******! I'm part time but fit for my age 40. But my elbow couldn't take the pounding of this game full time
 
My elbow is effed from banging the kurbs and slabs. It's like a tooth ache, it's the only way I can discribe it lol. When I'm scrapping artex then pva and skimming ceilings the same day then it hurts for bloody days
 
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You ever none or heard about colleagues having bad lungs from the dust? Call me dramatic lol:rolleyes)
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i am borderline copd, blocked airways. you need to hit above 70 when you blow into the machine the best i can do is 68. i have got a spray which i use twice a day and every thing seems fine.
the plaster dust is far to fine for our nasal hairs to stop so it gets into our airways, a local plasterer retired because he had copd and he says the moment he stopped his breathing improved.
 
Bloody he'll malc that's serious shite mate. I think I'll be wearing a mask whilst mixing instead of using my t shirt. Your a man of experience malc. What u think I should do? Go for it and make a living out of it or continue as I am?
 
Colskim said:
Bloody he'll malc that's serious shite mate. I think I'll be wearing a mask whilst mixing instead of using my t shirt. Your a man of experience malc. What u think I should do? Go for it and make a living out of it or continue as I am?
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i would say continue as you are. you need a regular wage at your stage of life. it is a big gamble to become self employed you need an apprenticeship in plastering then an apprenticeship in how to drag that extra pound out of a customer.
 
And then an apprenticeship in getting paid of contractors!

And one in all the paperwork

And one in all the health and safety
 
malc said:
i am borderline copd, blocked airways. you need to hit above 70 when you blow into the machine the best i can do is 68. i have got a spray which i use twice a day and every thing seems fine.
the plaster dust is far to fine for our nasal hairs to stop so it gets into our airways, a local plasterer retired because he had copd and he says the moment he stopped his breathing improved.
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if you die can i have your old trowels ?:RpS_blushing:
 
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