Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:59 pm
Forest, all of those tickets seem a bit OTT to me but the fact that your potential employers want them is no surprise.
If you did have all of the above and it cost you say 2k then you would end up with a job paying you £750 per week minimum without the hassle of quoting, ordering and paying for materials, vat returns, big tax bills ect and 2k in training for all that is nothing compared to a collage course in any trade.
As far as price vs day rate is concerned it's always a gamble.
You might get on jobs where it isn't possible to get down the same as others.
What if there's only 1 fork lift loading out a whole building site and the materials are a mile up the road in a storage area for example.
Last year I did a labour only job and got £10 per m2 on the block paving and £40 per m2 on the natural stone.
The natural stone we made good money on but the block paving was charcon woburn rumbled and because the came in packs that we couldn't use a block Barrow on we had to doubles handle everything which meant it took at least twice as long to lay so we might as well been doing it for £5 per m2.
I still made better many than the day rate which was £160 per day but they kept the blocks close with a tele handler. On other site's I might not have been so lucky.
Just stuff to think about mate.
Ilovesettmondays my my dad had and brother had there NVQ paid for by the firm they worked for. Some kind of site assessment I think.
Sod paying a grand for a price of paper I don't need though lol.
The £150 for the labourers card is bad enough.
If you did have all of the above and it cost you say 2k then you would end up with a job paying you £750 per week minimum without the hassle of quoting, ordering and paying for materials, vat returns, big tax bills ect and 2k in training for all that is nothing compared to a collage course in any trade.
As far as price vs day rate is concerned it's always a gamble.
You might get on jobs where it isn't possible to get down the same as others.
What if there's only 1 fork lift loading out a whole building site and the materials are a mile up the road in a storage area for example.
Last year I did a labour only job and got £10 per m2 on the block paving and £40 per m2 on the natural stone.
The natural stone we made good money on but the block paving was charcon woburn rumbled and because the came in packs that we couldn't use a block Barrow on we had to doubles handle everything which meant it took at least twice as long to lay so we might as well been doing it for £5 per m2.
I still made better many than the day rate which was £160 per day but they kept the blocks close with a tele handler. On other site's I might not have been so lucky.
Just stuff to think about mate.
Ilovesettmondays my my dad had and brother had there NVQ paid for by the firm they worked for. Some kind of site assessment I think.
Sod paying a grand for a price of paper I don't need though lol.
The £150 for the labourers card is bad enough.