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Il second that.I love cutting in roofs
Lot of chippies aren't up to it these days.
Trusses everywhere.
Il second that.I love cutting in roofs
Il second that.
Lot of chippies aren't up to it these days.
Trusses everywhere.
My last build on Jersey. Great crew to work for. We're not afraid to spend the money doing it well. Sold for 1.7 mil iirc.Don't remind why I've come to hate my trade.
In as far as I've been taught; in the UK there is a job title recognised as "welder", although as you point out other job titles also include welding.
Afaik, there is no such thing as a welder in Ireland as there is in the UK, you are a fabricator and welding is part of your trade, but welding is also taught to fitters, car mechanics and other trades like that. I worked in a large fab shop years ago and one of the idiots who used to do a lot of the welding, especially on site, was not time served, or trained, he was a "make it up as you go along" merchant.
I seen him doing muck welds like the op's on sites, but no one seemed to care. One of them was a new power station here in Dublin.
My last build on Jersey. Great crew to work for. We're not afraid to spend the money doing it well. Sold for 1.7 mil iirc.
Note the proper mancave
So much bedrock came out of that site I was first on and last off.
Do regret not staying on island for the hotel conversion to flats. As we were a small team I was involved in everything from foundations and steel fixing to second fix
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Yellow trailer was a compressor and sand blaster used to remove all the old render residue from the original granite walls
All the carpentry was mine. Enjoyed cutting those roofs
I looked into it. Was gonna cost me so much it wasn't worth my time. I'm far to antisocial to work on big sites and that would have been the biggest benefit of it.What i think is a shame is how difficult it is for experienced workers to get onto an nvq which would give them qualifications. Little information and less places interested. But this a countrt wide in all trades
Now that sort of work and client i like.
I also like garden rooms they can be fun
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Really enjoy the oak framed garages.
Always good fun to build.
Green oak in general is a lovely material to build with.
Confuses site bashers no end as your working to an invisible timber inside the beam. A level and tape only gets you so far with it.
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Builder I was subbing for couldn't even build the base square
Ive done complete sole plates around whole houses followed by lime rendering.
Im proud of the specialist parts just despair seeing the usual numpties
To me, you have to have done the 4/5 year slog in a recognised apprenticeship to be called qualified in any trade. I have seen complete chancers calling themselves mechanics/plasterers/welders/fitter/fabricators etc. If anyone can call themselves anything, you wind up with situtations like the op has. "Oh yes i am a qualified welder", even though all they have is a worthless cert from a six week introduction to welding course from the local tech.
There are numpties in every trade. Some go to work in a van and deceive you with their lack of practical skills. Others go to work in a shirt and tie and deceive you with their lack of knowledge. The only sad part is the innocent punter that gets done over
The difference between a pro and a chancer.To me, you have to have done the 4/5 year slog in a recognised apprenticeship to be called qualified in any trade. I have seen complete chancers calling themselves mechanics/plasterers/welders/fitter/fabricators etc. If anyone can call themselves anything, you wind up with situtations like the op has. "Oh yes i am a qualified welder", even though all they have is a worthless cert from a six week introduction to welding course from the local tech.
For me at the time it didn't seem important.But you can be highly skilled and not qualified, a problem not helped by the cost and time to do it later in life.
"Oh yes i am a qualified welder", even though all they have is a worthless cert from a six week introduction to welding course from the local tech.
But you can be highly skilled and not qualified, a problem not helped by the cost and time to do it later in life.
The difference between a pro and a chancer.
The pro knows when it's time to call in help to do the job right
For me at the time it didn't seem important.
Jerseys 9*5 miles
You pick up the phone and talk to a few people to see if they cut the mustard.
Get back to the UK and end up being sidelined for 22 year olds with a bit of paper that say they can do the job despite the fact it takes em hours to cut a simple cove mitre
Or shoot a door in.
End up working at places you don't want to just to keep the money coming in.