Originally posted by DimPrawn
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Really good and easy money in the building trade. 99.9% working in it are complete and utter *******, so even with just a smidgen of a clue one can make an absolute packet. One of my hobbies is to do up really really old houses. The current project was built in 1599. Now since it was built the Danes took on this metric system madness, which basically means that even if a workman has the tools, they don't have the right sizes (absolutely fatal to use the nearest metric), and very few have any education in what is needed. I've even taken over a project where someone thought they knew what they were doing ... until the roof collapsed.
Easy money.
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How can being a plasterer be more fun and more rewarding than doing .NET?
You should be beheaded.Leave a comment:
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If you are prepared for work to be done out of the normal working day then the best way to get a decent tradesman is to approach the site manager who would most likely pass a message on to the site trades. This way you will know the tradesmen is likely to be genuine otherwise he would not be on site. This was the way it worked when I was a chippie.Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
I can understand a plasterer not wanting to do small jobs as to do one 3 metre length of wall would take only 30 mins to plaster but the mixing/cleaning up/waiting to dry before next coat will add another 2 hours and nobody wants to pay for that. It also means another job cannot be done on the same day. Plasterring is easy - you should learn it.Leave a comment:
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Similar experiences here. I am refurbing an old house. Plumbing quoted at 13K eventualy got it done for 4K. Plasterer quoted 14 quid per meter as the going rate and wasnt interested in single rooms, wnated the whole house at once to make it worth his while. I have found a much nicer bloke to do that job too.Originally posted by hyperD
Apparently a lot of tradesmen are struggling as they have all been working on our local Uni extension (hence the stupid quote) but now that has dried up they have no work on, the ones who kept it sensible are still plodding away.Leave a comment:
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Some people get quite tetchy about having a creche or such similar near their homes. Up the road from me (family orientated estate near a 6th form college) someone bought a house, got planning permission to set up a creche but had to abandon the idea and sell up because the local NIMBYs kicked up a fuss about the noise of children playing in the back garden.Originally posted by hyperD
I think the person must have been mental anyway though - who would want a houseful of screaming snotty nosed spoilt brats anyway? Are the tax benefits that good?Last edited by ladymuck; 16 May 2006, 15:50.Leave a comment:
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Internet is where it is at.
Plan B is selling Viagra online to old IT contractors that can't get it up anymore.Leave a comment:
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I think there's plenty of electricians about: I got quoted over £600, £500 and £450 for rewiring two lights in a room. It's just finding someone that will quote something sensible.
Eventually got it down to £150... and yes, cash in hand as that was what he was assuming we were talking about.
Big bunch of scammers. And the costs for charging commercial properties: £500 for a blocked business toilet. Mind you, it was a biblical coming together of a large chilli kebab and a KFC chicken...
British Gas came in to review a MEGAFLOW system for our house: £12,000!!!!!!!!!!
Quick quote from a heating engineer: £4000. And we're taking our time finding a better quote with assurances...Leave a comment:
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There's a good reason there are not enough plumbers/electricians/joiners/plasterers and that is most work is building site work which is not that well paid (£150 per day self-employed) and when the weather is bad you don't get paid. For domestic work everyone only expects you to work in the evenings and weekends when they are home and nearly all demand that they pay you cash in hand to avoid paying VAT - they don't seem to understand that if nothing goes through the books you will get screwed. There are a lot of misguided reports about tradesman earning thousands.Originally posted by DaveBBuy into a franchise business.
Become a plumber/electrician/joiner/plasterer - Cant get one of them for love nor money atm.
Start your own micro brewery - Thats my eventual retirement hobby / plan Z
I for one am glad I am out of the building trades.Leave a comment:
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Crouch vale Brewery
Crouch Vale is a good brewery...very nice beers.. big awards...
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They're all over the place, Jakes Daddy. Britain has the highest number of micro-breweries per head of population in the world (just over 400). I can highly recommend the Cwmbran brewery's Crow Valley bitter. Brewed by some mad old geezer in a shed in his back garden. Microbreweries (defined as those producing less than 36,000 barrels a year) even get preferential tax treatment since the budget before last.Originally posted by Jakes DaddyMicro brewery - now you're talking ! They are really popular in the States (popular with me anyway
), but not many (if any ?) over here ......Last edited by Tex; 16 May 2006, 15:28.Leave a comment:
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Not as easy at it seems. You'll be encountering the same problems as a small freelance IT services company: big companies and big competition.Originally posted by Jakes DaddyMicro brewery - now you're talking ! They are really popular in the States (popular with me anyway ), but not many (if any ?) over here ......
And no: good flavour and no chemicals is hard to promote and make a survival profit with the big businesses around!!!Leave a comment:
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