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Would forget about tips, Tricks to speed it up, Put it down to expirience and take the hit and adjust your pricing for similar next time!!

Cut off the click groove and glue it, You can get clamps to hold it in place!

Other Trowels are a "Cow" to use!! Lol

Think outside the box? Roadkill ?? You know you want to, It's only your brother tasting it so why not? :-) lol

You ain't coming out alive!! Make sure people know where your at!! Lol

He let the Sun go down on him!! ☀️

Don't bend it to that point!! :-)

Disagree :-) Before they were banned, Price work on "Grunters" Soild 9x9 concrete blocks fairly put you into your socks , Not that I do it now but Price work on houses we always stacked out with the labourers to give them a head start then Pick them up again to build! Would rather use a...

Would that be plastering in a house that us builders built for you and provide you an income, Lol :-) I remember when I was 16 and told a mate I was going to be a brickie, Arsehole looked down his nose as though it was shittiest job, I asked what he lived in, A house he said! Replied with a...

Sure was, I'll never get that time back again! :-( Not that I watched every minute, Even fast forwarding was painful! :-)

Not a chance get me on them!!! https://www.facebook.com/garey.stewart/posts/1186626538057939

Lol had a customer like that recently, I put in a price to hack off 30m2 Double harled garden wall and rehit, He said I wasn't expecting that much , Told him for the price he wanted that's a days wage for two guys plus material, Who am I Feckin Houdini!!! Turns out he now wants a price for a...

Bit of a difference though between "have a go" and "Builders" that have grown into it like myself and a few others on here, I've not had a call back on any plastering, Roughcasting, Skim etc? Been in the trade 30 years! If you want a laugh at a "Have a go" YouTube Macplastering Renovation 5 ...

More Guys from the better side of the border!! Welcome :-)

Most likely what happened, Just be thankful your getting them when starting out, Rather that than wide awake at 1.45 worrying how to put food on the table?

Most likely what happened, Just be thankful your getting them when starting out, Rather that than wide awake at 1.45 worrying how to put food on the table?

Most likely what happened, Just be thankful your getting them when starting out, Rather that than wide awake at 1.45 worrying how to put food on the table?

More Tantrums and toys out the pram if someone hits the "Dislike" Button!! Lol

Doggy style Lone Ranger = Dslr :-)

We always gave the labourer an even split of the price, Building houses on price is worthless without a good labourer, Money talks if you want the best labourer !!

That's the back of the van? :-)

I stayed there for the last 8 years! Moved back up to NE a year ago, Was on Abronhill :-)

Ive never thought it slow, First check is always broadband speed?

Thanks Guys, Straight off it sounds s**t!! Got more thinking about this to do! :-)

Since starting on my own I'm getting asked about work that isn't my trade, So instead of losing jobs I could sub it out, Sub out work isn't something I've ever done so don't know the details of doing it, As in % of what I get on work I give out, Any ideas would be appreciated, Everydays a...

Like your style Zombie!! Probably a good attitude in some cases to have, I done a Reskim the day, Guys mother came in to see and she wants her room done! Got another tomorrow , Kind of good as I've not long went on my own, As long as the nerves hold up :-)

Do you expirienced guys still worry about a Reskim incase it comes off? I'm a brickie but always put my hand in on plastering, Render etc, ( My old man was a plastering for 50 years, No worries at all about Roughcasting , Render etc, Reskims always give me a twitch lol in case it comes off...

Build one with that big bucket and watch blue peter!! :-)

I think there quite funny, Watching some of there videos shows what's seems lost in today's sites , A laugh and good banter between each other, Apart from the mucking about they seem good at what they do! They're marketing is top notch and it's working for them, Fancy vans with their faces all...

I agree not that I've had any ailments seeing as I'm a brickie n hard as constipation working out in all weathers on site looking into the houses when it's freezing outside and the plasterers are inside with the heaters on like a furnace, Sweat pishing off them!! Seriously though if you don't...

Babe station? :-)

:-) :-)

Currently sitting in my rowing boat sitting offshore beside a remote island waiting on the courier Ffs!!! .. Was going to order a couple of trowels from FFX Came to posting and said "Offshore/Remote Island Gees £12 !!!! No Sale!! Not for posting costs, Bloody cheek of the remote s**t!!'

I took the works van home a few years ago, Parked it outside my house, slightly less than a body width to the next car to protect side door, Woke up at 6 am following morning , Side door open and Wacker plate and Stihlsaw GONE!! No idea how they did it, but they did!! Proves if something is a...

Man walks into the doctors wrapped in cling film and says doctor I think I'm going mad, I can't help getting getting naked and wrapping myself in cling film !! Doctor replies: Yea I can clearly see your nuts!!!

I've had a few things vandalised while working for companies but didn't really give a s**t, But when it was my own work starting out on my own I was raging!! Worst place without a doubt was Maryhill in Glasgow, Building flats and two wee Neds shouted up "Here mate we're gonna firebomb the...

Recently done a Roughcast job, Customer rang me and said I need to come and see it! Some wee s**t scraped chunks off it, Asked what can be done? Bugger all apart from a hack off and rehit!!! Wee shits parents will pay for it but I'm really pissed!! In all the years I've never had a rehit due...

It did actually help knowing the customer was !! I've never cleaned and washed on a job so much in 30 years!! Was thinking maybe I'm ocd aswell lol

Finished a job Roughcasting garden walls, Build a new wall and Roughcast for a customer who was away on holiday , Apparently she has ocd , Kinda knew it by the house and garden , Nervous couple of days until her return for her opinion , Well more like shitting myself, Got a text today saying...

Come up to the North east of Scotland! English love it up here, So much the f**k**s sell up and move here. :-) Joking about f**k**s but it's true!!

Analytics takes about two days to start seeing what's happening on your website, You won't get any previous info and you'll need access to your admin panel to insert a code so analytics can see your website, Wordpress websites are the way to go as everything is drag and click to install stuff,

G Google webmaster tools, sign up and register your website, you'll see most things you need, and Google analytics, they are free!

@flynnyman very true you need to target your area, Just trying to put across the point a website is a long term investment and not a quick fix to get the phone ringing the following day :-)

Important to know that you'll get little to no return on a website for quite a while possibly years unless you have loads of money to advertise via Google Ads, I've had a few websites but it's not a quick thing before any return.

Wise words, Although I'm a builder but no devil lol, I'm also starting on my own , Got a months work ahead of me starting Monday , For the first time in years a Monday can't come quick enough, Ye start to worry for no reason if your sitting about!!

Thought i'd bring this up, Ive packed in my job and going it on my own, Came across this and initially its great, Good looking quotes, invoices etc, One fault i noticed the is the "Markup" when pricing labour and materials, This bit is the mind bender - It doesn't calculate or factor in profit...