Social housing work

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Hi boys are any of you doing any social housing work at the minute I am in Gwynedd north wales it is soul destroying the work is crap but I can't get any other work just wandering what your take on it ??????:RpS_thumbdn:
 
KevRM said:
money is not good but, doesn't seem like a lot to do in a day if all your doing is filling in chases
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In the kitchens board ceiling and skim bond chases and skim and the same in the bathroom no chases there tho by yourself no labour mate
 
I take it the £100 is labour only? If it's constant then as spunky says stick at it but would defo be looking out for something else.
 
done some of that kind of work in notts a few years back and round mansfield right soul destroying at times time to make job good etc and they want to much done etc any probs that put u back they think ya taking the mick etc i used to cheat though and use universal 1 coat in the chases so didnt have to skim em
 
did some work last year ,120.00 quid a day easy money really just patching after sparky etc, but dear me some of the houses and the people were disgusting, it was another world in some extreme cases the sparkys were walking out until it was cleaned up before they went in
 
hector said:
did some work last year ,120.00 quid a day easy money really just patching after sparky etc, but dear me some of the houses and the people were disgusting, it was another world in some extreme cases the sparkys were walking out until it was cleaned up before they went in
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My mates old neighbour had tenants choice at his home, the place was riddles with dog **** and piss - no one would work in it, one bloke came out and threw up. When he left they had to fumigate it.

I did a job in a house that was overrun with cats - everywhere stunk of cat piss, got right to the back of your throat.

Another job (insurance work) on a kitchen ceiling at a Chinese occupants shared house made me feel sick - everywhere was swimming with grease and everything was sticking to you. They had warnings about the upkeep before and our complaints to their letting agents probably got them evicted.
 
Dont even get me started with this type of work lol! Rewires, kitchens and bathrooms. I was foreman on a council site (not all tenants are the same) but f**k me, dust sheets everywere that are dirtier when u leave, bulls**t claims against the lads:RpS_thumbdn:, dog hairs in me brew:RpS_cursing:, needles and crack pipes lying around:RpS_scared:, dont strip me wall paper and then to the positives- single house wifes trying it on :flapper: staying at tenants houses:RpS_thumbup:, tenants requesting you for there work:RpS_blushing:, bacon buttys:RpS_thumbsup:, speed dating around the estate:cool: and so on.... it was a love hate experience.
 
You could use some more smileys in that post longy! Think you've just broke the forum record lol:RpS_laugh:
 
haha i was getting emotional then fellas, the highs and lows of council work. "it dont need troweling, its getting papered" "Thatll do, its getting tiled tommorow" "Mix bonding and skimming together, weve got another job to do and its 3 oclock"
 
worked in a house with a pot bellied pig in the kitchen and a sheep in the living room the air was so thick you could chew it
 
in no particular order here is just a few perks of doing this kind of work, arrived at one job at 8.20 am could not gain access as the woman had collapsed drinking carlsberg special brew behind the front door and yes you read that right 8.20am, dog /cat muck trod into the carpet, one job there was big dollops of spit running down the windows where of course they had been having a spitting contest inside as you do, unwashed dishes stained with muck/rotten food etc lying there for weeks, on occasions as soon as they had there new kitchens /tiles/boiler etc all installed few days later it was all ripped out, one job the electrician was taking photos of the house to show his girlfreind as she did not believe me, and on and on and on, but my own personal favourite was a house where there was human crap just lying on the bedroom carpet and the woman tells me she has met jesus said he just looks like he does in his pictures and the bungalows where the angels live, just packed my gear up and walked out. happy days
 
these jobs go from one extreme to the other.
we where told try not to talk to the people as they can not help you they will only want some thing from you ie materials. genreators must be chained to scaffolding to stop them pulling into the house. genny would be sold up the pub that night, you could knock on the door all day long nobody would answer. these where on ewi jobs in london.
the only time that we where told we could not work was when a young mans body was lying in the front garden of a house on the white city estate in colchester
 
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