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On site work or domestic? Not sure what I should try and focus on first. Think I would rather do on site work then its a decent steady wage and I don't have to worry about getting the work but then again I am on my own now so can see it being quite nervy if I go straight to site.... Well if any of you hear about any work let me know, Willing to travel anywhere :RpS_thumbup:
 
Site work all the time for me.
assuming you can find a start somewhere, and the rates are ok,
Its not always that easy to get a start on site though, we have lads all the time popping in on site looking for a start all the time. But it doesn't take many men to look after even the biggest site if its organized properly. Dont limit yourself to one or the other if your only just starting out the more nets you cast and all that.
 
You have to be a lot more experienced with domestic, you come across all sorts, site work is sticking new boards on and skimming...
 
cassie said:
You have to be a lot more experienced with domestic, you come across all sorts, site work is sticking new boards on and skimming...
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Load of balls @cassie, any 2 week courser/chancer/fly by night could muddle their way through the majority of domestic jobs.
Id like to see half the domestic lads come on site and smash 700m2 of ceilings and walls in a 3 storey house in a week, while having it scrutinised by someone whose being paid good money to find fault with it. and not get shown the gate after 1 house. Imo
 
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Lol.... frckin knew it was comin....:RpS_laugh:

Domestic or site???,?... witch is better???????





...........FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
 
scottie5 said:
Load of balls @cassie, any 2 week courser/chancer/fly by night could muddle their way through the majority of domestic jobs.
Id like to see half the domestic lads come on site and smash 700m2 of ceilings and walls in a 3 storey house in a week, while having it scrutinised by someone whose being paid good money to find fault with it. and not get shown the gate after 1 house. Imo
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Done both kinds of work mate over the years and ''smashing it'' is probably correct, lol, at the 2 week courser.. you have to have way more knowledge on domestic.. how can dabbing boards and skimming them be harder ( more physical definately....) but the variants in domestic work, you need a lot more experience.. ie. preparing and finishing shite walls, then fixing cornice in the room, screeding the floor to accept tiles, then outside to scaffold and tyrolean the exterior... way more technical in my opinion , just back from berlin, so not going to get in a row, too tired..lol.....
 
Extensions and domestic is definately the way forward,like others have said,busting your balls on site won't lead to a long career!and I've found sites to be full of pricks a lot of the time!
 
scottie5 said:
Load of balls @cassie, any 2 week courser/chancer/fly by night could muddle their way through the majority of domestic jobs.
Id like to see half the domestic lads come on site and smash 700m2 of ceilings and walls in a 3 storey house in a week, while having it scrutinised by someone whose being paid good money to find fault with it. and not get shown the gate after 1 house. Imo
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What a load of bollox scrutinised my arse, the skill needed for site is very low and the standards the same as. Dab and tack a board, tape up fix beads and skim it's F*****g simple exactly what a two week course is geared up for. Don't give out scare tactics of 700m a week it's bollox you get payed for what you do minus 20% of the real measure, you don't have to do a certain amount, I've never heard so much **** in my life. The level of skill required for site is low and so is the standard, I've worked for plenty of big firms in Manchester and can honestly say looking at it like a family tree I can trace every lad through out the firm who once laboured for another spread and so on. And all the time the skills are getting less and less and so is the standard but these contractors couldn't care less coz they will deduct and send in a snagger. The amount of Times I've seen the gaffer approach a labourer who can fix a board of skim just about and say " when Are you going on your own" which in other words is, there is a job for you just get yourself a labourer, so stop trying to big up site as a skilled job, 20 years ago maybe but not now.
 
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What a load of bollox scrutinised my arse, the skill obelisk for site is very low and the standards the same as. Dab and tack a board, tape up fix beads and skim it's F*****g sime exactly what a two week course is geared up for. Don't give out scare tactics of 700m a week it's bollox you get payed for what you do minus 20% of the real measure, you don't have to do a certain amount I've never heard so much **** in my life. The level of skill required for site is low and so is the standard, I've worked for plenty of big firms in Manchester and can honestly say looking at it like a family tree I can trace every lad through out the firm who once laboured for another spread and so on. And all the time the skills are getting less and less and so is the standard but these contractors couldn't care less coz they will deduct and send in a snagger. The amount of Ike's I've seen the gaffer approach a labourer who can fix a board of skim just about and say " he. Are you going on your own" which in other words is there is a job for you just get yourself a labourer so stop trying to big up site as a skilled job, 20 years ago maybe but not now.
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Bollox the finishing foreman on the site im on would ruin most of your so called domestic plasters
 
scottie5 said:
Load of balls @cassie, any 2 week courser/chancer/fly by night could muddle their way through the majority of domestic jobs.
Id like to see half the domestic lads come on site and smash 700m2 of ceilings and walls in a 3 storey house in a week, while having it scrutinised by someone whose being paid good money to find fault with it. and not get shown the gate after 1 house. Imo
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140m2 per day?
 
That's a big town house, we did 10 good sized town houses a few months ago and they were 560m2 each
 
Olican said:
I bet the stairwells are a pig, hope your on a good rate :RpS_thumbsup:
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Use the oxford safety system on stairwells the stairs are a doodle in the big plots.
There much worse in the 2 bedders as they having 2 quater turns in them.
And yes we get a proper good rate.
 
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