Electricians on building sites. What is is really like?

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Tools. I assume you provide your own?

I always bring my own hand tools, combi drill and impact driver. Most sites provide a couple of drills though. SDS/anything else the site should provide imo, although i do often take my own anyway.

I assume you need an uo to date JIB card?

Depends on the role and the contractor. Some don't ask to even look at it.

Do you get specific instructions what to do or is it here is a drawing, crack on?

Bit of both. Again depends on contractor. Some give drawings, some point and shout.

What's the typical skill level of a site spark? Do ---- ones get found out and get kicked off site or is it full of ---- sparks hidding until lunch break? Lol

Some i've worked with are s**t hot, but i've also worked with some absolute chancers. Fully qualified chancers, but couldn't do much - read the drawings wrong, couldn't handle cable properly, couldn't even cut to length or mark up properly. I've found three cables in a bunch marked up as the same ring final. Found bunches of solar on massive solar farms where there's like 6 legs that all say they're the positive from one array. Or one leg will be a metre short and the other will be 12 metres too long. All pulled in by sparks. Nightmare.

Again, depends on the person.

How do you find job security?
Is it any harder than working 11 hour days driving job to job repairing faults in commercial premises?
Just trying to paint an overall picture to see if it is worth the jumpnor not.

It's physically easier imo since people aren't really pulling their tripe out.

Most are 7.30 start and '4 o clock' (read: 3.30) finish. There's usually some person or group of people that think being loud constitutes funny banter.

 

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I honestly can't think of much worse than to be stuck on a cold darkish building site doing nothing waiting for 10 hours to pass before home time...Give me a price or at least a target and im happy as a sandboy.

I walked off a £1500/week job as a mate last year because of this. 7am-6pm doing literally nothing. After 6 weeks it got too much and i had to leave.

Well not literally nothing - for 3 of the days i put up like 50 cantilever arms and did some stripping out. That was it for 6 weeks.