rates of pay

[henry]

Spunk are you saying that a ritmo would be no use to you?? hmm
Nisus is there such a thing as a apprentice I spent many a happy hour skimming cupboards as a lad.
We had that on a job in hull rock a fecking joiner coming round snagging what a w**k*r knew feck all about plastering. If we had a pop at the chippies leaving
drywall screws proud of the board or just bad fecking boarding he would hear nothing on it. He got his lights knocked out from a lad from hull got moved to a different site after that.

 

[Freerider]

Yeah I see the benefits of both! like you say, atleast the walls n s**t are flat, or should be! they say old tradesmen were better than mordern but every old house Ive been in looks like its been built by a blind dude, talk about make life difficult for whoever goes in there after ya!

 

[henry]

good reply beddy.

 

[beddy]

behind all this joking and bullshit is a very well educated plastering god henry....

 

[rockhardsolidplastering]

like i say its all down at the end of day down to dough.for me doing site work the travelling and expence of that and the extra 2-4 hours that adds a day is a killer,also for me now at the age of 48 after 8om2 doing my own labouring and being out the house foe 10 -12 hours coming home knackered and not havin the energy to play with my 5 and 2 year old just aint worth it especially for all the tw ats your working for

 

[spunky]

We all feel the same mate regardless of age :RpS_wink:

 

[rockhardsolidplastering]

We all feel the same mate regardless of age :RpS_wink:

dont know about that spunks "WHEN I WAS A LAD" i ended up coming home still in my work clothes after many a mental night now if ive done a big day i can barely move

 

[spunky]

Keep you're chin up and keep going :RpS_wink:

 

[henry]

What happens rock is the older you get you see the bigger picture on life what really matters is your children , wife, brothers sister mum dad. The trick is

Work to Live and not live for work.

 

[plasterjfe]

If you work out everything you outlay for a year to run your BUSINESS

eg a sole trader:

• Van loan/lease
• Insurance
• Tax
• Mot
• Service
• Repairs, Tyres etc
• Public liability insurance
• Accountant
• Tools
• Work clothes & boots
• Phones - mobile & landline
• Electricity
• Pc ink & paper for quotes
• Diesel for quoting
• Diesel for work

This can be anything but let's say £7800 a year (this is roughly what mine works out too)

So that is £150 a week over 52 weeks

So if you are charging £100 a day

That's £500 a week minus 20% tax = £400 minus roughly £3 national insurance = £397 minus the £150 you outlay = £247 divide by 5 = £49.40

So reality is £100 a day = £49.40 a day:RpS_thumbdn:

And that's if you work for 52 weeks of the year!

I love you NISUS
I will copy this into my small print on the estimate sheets

 

[beddy]

if you dont work, you cant live, so in a sense you do live to work.

 

[spunky]

True you can work as well as you want to live