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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:18 pm
by cookiewales
well boyos got my gold card today passed h/s test monday scanned my city guilds bricklaying cert over and hey presto won a gold card . funny thing 35 years ago when training to be a bricklayer i was told i would be paid in gold . ha ha have a job on monday with a angency monday paying £11 pound per hour for me. thirty years ago i paid my boyos at least £20 per hour to pass me setts and bricks bring back the old days better craic 
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:41 pm
by lutonlagerlout
its all gone very quiet round here cookie
I have been painting,kitchen fitting all sorts just to keep the $$$ coming in
sure it will pick up soon mate
LLL
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:53 am
by cookiewales
good thing i can go to work on me push bike
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:07 am
by lutonlagerlout
its not just the building game cookie
all sorts of firms are on short time right now
if they did summat with the ridiculous 20% rate of VAT it might kick start things
talking to our waste firm
skips down 50% on this time last year
car repair garage, all men on 4 day week
developers, banks wont lend any money for housing projects
i am sure this is someone out there creaming it right now,but I dont know them
oh wait a minute
yes the utility companies
charged us £4k to run electricity into 1 of the new flats
1 guy and a skinny digger 2 hours
2 lads did connection 1 hour
just the reinstate footpath team now
nice work if you can get it
LLL
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:55 am
by rimexboy
its all over chaps guys we deal with are on a 4 day week and have beeen for ages, the family firm i work for in the metal industry are doing ok at thee moment, but its getting alot harder out there thats for sure.
we have some big jobs going through and thats helping us alot but with the prices of metal all over the place its much more cut throat now days...
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:43 am
by local patios and driveway
Im just getting by, looked very busy in jan but illness and lack of work now are the order of the day, my accountant tells me of the 12 tradesmen he has on his books, all are suffering big time, yet when iask other men at builders yard etc, many still want to blag how busy they are...
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:39 pm
by seanandruby
3 years on the same job. Some drainage on that job and still pipework going in, my part for the main building, including 14 months of remedial works because of design changes finishing next Friday. Off to a soup farm next.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:04 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
Laing o rourkes were advertising for men last week
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:03 pm
by seanandruby
Yes they want deep drainage gangs.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:16 am
by cookiewales
Well had my first day on the trowel dident need it was puting on brick slips . Working with a young fella who knows it all was telling me how to do it I listened like you do as a new starter . He decided I was going to do some pillers which every whan had dodged I to my self :laugh: . I went looking for him two hours later . Asked him a more of them four sided pillers need doing:p the look on his face was worth the £11 per hour on a big gable today taken out bricks wonder if the young will show me how to do it 