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    Any ex soldiers

    I am an ex soldier mate. I used the pitiful re settlement that i got towards and intensive 6 week course, I already had a spread lined up to work for when I started. I dont think I would have done it otherwise. It was a big finantial risk but I had a few quid in the bank from being away so much...
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    What do you pay your apprentice's/Trainee's ?

    How is it you can only afford to pay him £25 quid? He is commited and will be learning fast. "So you think i'm wrong in give the boy my time my experience?" He is giving you 8 hours a day, making you money, there is no way you are "giving" him half of that. Dont get me wrong, its good you...
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    What do you pay your apprentice's/Trainee's ?

    It wont take a fairly intellegent lad long on that money to start feeling used. They will have a good idea what kind of money your on. They will be rubbing their hands together dreaming of the day they can ditch you, and earn five times as much as they were earning and still undercut you!
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    What do you pay your apprentice's/Trainee's ?

    I dont think I could sleep at night paying another human being £25 a day. Is it any wonder young lads either give up or do the minimum time then move on? If they are any good they are going to be grafting all day resenting you. Paying someone what you got paid when you were an apprentice in...
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    uni finish cost£££££££

    doing a loft conversion a while back needed a 1m bit of stop bead, had a ratch about in the van (no joy). Decided to drop into a jewsons a few hundred yards away from the job (dont have a jewsons account) the guy said "no problem mate, that will be 9 quid" we laughed and said yea good one, how...
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    Led lights

    Just came across these lights in costco today, they are very bright and feel like very good quality. I think they were around the £30 mark. LightMates DURALITE LED Worklight 1000 Lumens | eBay
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    room 101 of plastering

    nice one, there may be one more silverline tool making its way to me!! ha ha
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    room 101 of plastering

    Fair play i have never tried those. I have had a good few bits of theirs though and it has generally been very low quality stuff.
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    room 101 of plastering

    Tools with "sliverline" written on. Absolute sh*te gear!
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    getting electric shocks whilst plastering

    I got a wee belt when I was screwing a blank cap onto a radiator pipe a while back. Told the lady, she said thats strange we have just had the house re wired. So she phones the sparky that did the work (he arrives in ten minutes flat) he says its impossible that I got a shock as all the pipework...
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    Interesting, but..........

    Im building a house at the moment, we are aiming for a highly airtight building. The windows are hardwood. Airtight does not have to mean plastic SH*TE.
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    Anyone tried these stilts?

    Doesnt everyone do it? Like a sort of ad mix. The stilts are just to add a bit of danger! ha ha
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    Anyone tried these stilts?

    No way artisan, it would be like w*nking with someone elses c*ck!! Thats the people who are selling them on ebay mark. I will go for them I think.
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    Anyone tried these stilts?

    Tarps not included, no mention of it, and for those reasons (deep scottish accent) "aaammm ooooot"
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    Anyone tried these stilts?

    Ha Ha, I dont like the look of that job lot deal artisan, "dead mans shoes". And that yellow dewalt pish will look all wrong with my makita gear!!
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