Little Things You Hate

[Flow-Rider]

It's an utter nightmare.
this is a mates plan after discovering it's close to impossible to hire someone to pour his slab for his shed atm, 12*27m slab

register as an owner builder
2 days training per heavy equipment ticket, $600 each
Coats/Kennard's will hire earth moving equipment to you no dramas even without the ticket if it is your land, but you want tickets so you have half an idea
Cut the block as needed
make form work.
lay reo.
hire bunch of old concreters, cash, beer on tap once done, on site catering, organised transport to and from site.
hire a concrete pump and operator if access is crappy.

Going back about 3 years ago, it cost my insurance company around 7k to rebuild about 1m x 5m long Besser brick fence, and about six months later a friend jumped over the top of it, and parts of it fell off again.

 

[Flow-Rider]

Lunchtime maybe, by Friday arvo they’ve already loaded up the $180,000 caravan and hit the road for the weekend.

Where did I go wrong?

 

[Asininedrivel]

Lunchtime maybe, by Friday arvo they’ve already loaded up the $180,000 caravan and hit the road for the weekend.

Not if I put me fkn pitchfork through the...... um..... what tyres come on Raptors / Walkie Amaroks?

 

[beeb]

Where did I go wrong?

+1

Mechanical trades pay shit compared to brickies/concreters/chillies, etc…

 

[slowmick]

@Squidfayce - there a plenty of shit concreter out there. The guys doing the knockdown rebuild work around here are shocking. The team who did the exposed ag driveway next door had 4 goes at it to try and stop it looking patchy. It may be worth going down to the local batching plant or concrete supplies and see if you can get a recommendation. Probably worth seeing what sort of exposed AG they offer. The mitre 10 / Bowens around here have pin boards with business cards on them. They guys behind the trade counter will know who the tossers are. I would suggest you are better off calling than emailing. There were a mountain of tyre kickers over the covid lockdowns - when talking to them both sides will quickly figure out if the other is serious. Good luck with it all. Have friends in Bacchus Marsh that had endless trouble getting a small studio built in the back yard.

 

[Squidfayce]

@Squidfayce - there a plenty of shit concreter out there. The guys doing the knockdown rebuild work around here are shocking. The team who did the exposed ag driveway next door had 4 goes at it to try and stop it looking patchy. It may be worth going down to the local batching plant or concrete supplies and see if you can get a recommendation. Probably worth seeing what sort of exposed AG they offer. The mitre 10 / Bowens around here have pin boards with business cards on them. They guys behind the trade counter will know who the tossers are. I would suggest you are better off calling than emailing. There were a mountain of tyre kickers over the covid lockdowns - when talking to them both sides will quickly figure out if the other is serious. Good luck with it all. Have friends in Bacchus Marsh that had endless trouble getting a small studio built in the back yard.

i may have to go down that road. soo much effort though. Imagine if it was this hard to get a taxi or do your grocery shop lol

 

[Squidfayce]

Going back about 3 years ago, it cost my insurance company around 7k to rebuild about 1m x 5m long Besser brick fence, and about six months later a friend jumped over the top of it, and parts of it fell off again.

ah the good old non core filled besser block fence trick.

 

[Flow-Rider]

ah the good old non core filled besser block fence trick.

Just the capping brick fell off at this stage.

 

[Flow-Rider]

+1

Mechanical trades pay shit compared to brickies/concreters/chillies, etc…

When I was a 4th year apprentice I was on $380/week, my mate was a 2nd year chippie on a highrise building getting $800/week. It was then that I realised how I had fucked up.

 

[Squidfayce]

When I was a 4th year apprentice I was on $380/week, my mate was a 2nd year chippie on a highrise building getting $800/week. It was then that I realised how I had fucked up.

did you switch or did you keep making the same mistake for the next 20 years?

 

[Flow-Rider]

did you switch or did you keep making the same mistake for the next 20 years?

I really liked doing it and liked a lot of the people I worked with at the time, I moved into 2 other industries after that. I can only recall of 1 person that stayed on as a mechanic from my trade school years and he was handed down a BMW workshop from his parents. Jobs weren't easy to get in the 90's in Qld either, so most people took what jobs they had offered to them, there simply wasn't a choice for many.

 

[Squidfayce]

I really liked doing it and liked a lot of the people I worked with at the time, I moved into 2 other industries after that. I can only recall of 1 person that stayed on as a mechanic from my trade school years and he was handed down a BMW workshop from his parents. Jobs weren't easy to get in the 90's in Qld either, so most people took what jobs they had offered to them, there simply wasn't a choice for many.

i finished a chefs apprenticeship as a teen. But made a switch after that. One of the guys i worked for was a well known Melbourne chef and he was working while receiving treatment for leukemia. When talking to him about it, it quickly dawned on me that owning and operating a restaurant requires such a level of commitment and self sacrifice that at that age I just was not prepared to work my life away for. Luckily was young enough to make a switch without any detriment to my back pocket.

Fast forward almost 25 years and I def would open a joint. Though it would be Pizza, takeaway only.

 

[Flow-Rider]

i finished a chefs apprenticeship as a teen. But made a switch after that. One of the guys i worked for was a well known Melbourne chef and he was working while receiving treatment for leukemia. When talking to him about it, it quickly dawned on me that owning and operating a restaurant requires such a level of commitment and self sacrifice that at that age I just was not prepared to work my life away for. Luckily was young enough to make a switch without any detriment to my back pocket.

Fast forward almost 25 years and I def would open a joint. Though it would be Pizza, takeaway only.

My mates GF was an apprentice chef at the Brisbane casino, 1st year was something like 140/week on nightshift. She used to lament about it all the time. After she finished the apprenticeship, she left and worked as a receptionist at a drafting firm. It's a bit like the hairdressing trade, I suppose.

 

[Dales Cannon]

I worked with a rigger who was a fully trained chef, he gave it up because of the hours (working when mates were partying) and the sexual harassment from more senior chefs.

 

[beeb]

I worked with a rigger who was a fully trained chef, he gave it up because of the hours (working when mates were partying) and the sexual harassment from more senior chefs.

Must've had quite the rig on them.

Hey-o!

(I'll see myself out...)

 

[Squidfayce]

I worked with a rigger who was a fully trained chef, he gave it up because of the hours (working when mates were partying) and the sexual harassment from more senior chefs.

all my mates were chefs. We partied Thursday through Sunday while working. We had help. fucked work for the body though.

 

[safreek]

Everyone should go to the pub on Friday avros and find the builders.

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The builders I work for have subbies that come and go at a whim. The work quality of the tilers and painters is atrocious but if the builder bitches they just fuck off.
No complaints from me, it adds near a grand to each job unfortunately you pay that cost

 

[safreek]

all my mates were chefs. We partied Thursday through Sunday while working. We had help. fucked work for the body though.

All kitchens I worked in most used a little bit of help

 

[Flow-Rider]

The builders I work for have subbies that come and go at a whim. The work quality of the tilers and painters is atrocious but if the builder bitches they just fuck off.
No complaints from me, it adds near a grand to each job unfortunately you pay that cost

 

[pink poodle]

That bloke on top must be full of amyl!