Young or old
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irish_spread
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Personally, I'd prefer a young bird
@ryanswart did you just go it alone from scratch? I can see that being my path with a few bits with my uncle.
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CTPlastering
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Al give the address for the morning , some random dude turn up and starts doing your work for you sounds good :RpS_thumbsup:
CTPlastering
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Haha the must of found out ur other hobbies and thought **** that , heard u liked young lads :RpS_lol:
Cos they saw 'Savile Plastering - we destroy cracks' on your van :RpS_biggrin:
:sly:Thats disturbing, I always fill em out gently!
it is very difficult to find any plasterer to teach an apprentice these days. i do not know of one plasterer who is direct employed by a firm. it was the direct employed plasterers who trained apprentices.
we are all piece workers on the lump sum, so it is a race to get finished get paid and get home. we have not trained anyone for 20 years.
my eldest son who has his own plastering business, has one young chap about 21 years old, he has been to collage got his level 2, he is a good worker but he will miss the odd day ,just when you need him, because he has been up the pub the night before.
we are all piece workers on the lump sum, so it is a race to get finished get paid and get home. we have not trained anyone for 20 years.
my eldest son who has his own plastering business, has one young chap about 21 years old, he has been to collage got his level 2, he is a good worker but he will miss the odd day ,just when you need him, because he has been up the pub the night before.
Yeah I see that on here a lot, but like you said there isn't that much help out there to get on and learn with others out to make there own cash whilst taking the time to train someone. The problem is big firms abused there position too, I did a bricklaying apprenticeship when I left school with Barrett homes for year and a half but never got anywhere near a wall, just sweeping out house after house. Didn't even mix up. The agent would go mad as his view was I was earning them ( the brickies) money if I was working for them. Cheap as chips labour that kept there budget down I guess.
barrett homes are developers, just house bashers with a load of site animals., not builders. you need to do an apprenticeship with a building firm or a plastering firm that employs its own direct labour force, that carries out quality, variable contracts.
Nail on head.
boardfinished
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I would take somebody who could speak/type english.
Cranny77
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Most are between a rock and a hard place. How can you justify paying someone £250 a week when your a sole trader. The money has to come from somewhere usually out of your pocket.
1 in 20 lads are ok. I've had one with me for a week and all he does is moan. Hopefully it will pass.
I know of two firms who has one plasterer each on their books. They'll never take on plasterers apprentices if they do they cut them loose once the funding is gone before they've finished learning.
They're needs to be more funding for employers like Danny says.
1 in 20 lads are ok. I've had one with me for a week and all he does is moan. Hopefully it will pass.
I know of two firms who has one plasterer each on their books. They'll never take on plasterers apprentices if they do they cut them loose once the funding is gone before they've finished learning.
They're needs to be more funding for employers like Danny says.
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