Apprentice

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DNgroundworks
Posts: 1951
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:28 pm
Location: Preston, Lancashire

Post: # 97628Post DNgroundworks

Im always sending our landscape architect here, mainly for info on different jointing methods and materials, epoxy resin? slurry? for flags? really?

lutonlagerlout
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Posts: 15184
Joined: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:20 am
Location: bedfordshire

Post: # 97632Post lutonlagerlout

Tony McC wrote:Maybe I should set up a commission scheme for all the jobs that are done using this site as a guide! :D
I can hear the lawyers fingers tapping their desks :)
credit where its due
PE is the best site on the interweb for hardscaping
same as dan I have had to put architects and council surveyors right thanks to this site
LLL :)
"what,you want paying today??"

YOUR TEXT GOES HERE

ambient
Posts: 393
Joined: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:20 pm
Location: bolton lancs
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Post: # 100835Post ambient

finally got sorted with citb and was promised a lot, lad went to college yesterday and came back telling me he thinks he must be an apprentice odd job man ,the course hes been put on is general construction :angry: nothing to do with groundwork or paving
ambientdriveways.co.uk ambientexcavations-bolton.co.uk

lutonlagerlout
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Posts: 15184
Joined: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:20 am
Location: bedfordshire

Post: # 100840Post lutonlagerlout

generally speaking the college side is 90% elfin safety

which in my youth was called common sense

very little practical is done nowdays, what really pisses me off is the calibre of most of the applicants

we have to pay a 1.5% levy on all turnover over 90 grand

robbery without violence

LLL
"what,you want paying today??"

YOUR TEXT GOES HERE

ilovesettsonmondays
Posts: 1071
Joined: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:57 pm
Location: essex

Post: # 100842Post ilovesettsonmondays

I got given an apprentice last week .starts college in a couple of weeks . He will obtain a lot of tickets quickly from what he was showing me.Give him his due he seems keen and he will have a go.150 a week first year.

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