How's your luck?

[highspark]

Is everyone in the same boat? Scratching around for bits of work etc? Working full on for 2 weeks or so then a couple of days a week for a month? I've only been trading in the recession do I dnt knw the boom times. What I do know if I had a mortgage to pay I'd be out on the street.

You always get the odd lad saying he's "snowed under" etc but it's hard to believe. So how's everyone's luck are we still in crap street or is it just me?

 

[jase]

Farmer Dave!!!, It's Jase, think the last time i saw you was at the OU libary when i was an apprentice with Steve and Doug lol, seen brad once scince then a couple of years ago.

 

[electromonkey]

Is everyone in the same boat? Scratching around for bits of work etc? Working full on for 2 weeks or so then a couple of days a week for a month? I've only been trading in the recession do I dnt knw the boom times. What I do know if I had a mortgage to pay I'd be out on the street.

You always get the odd lad saying he's "snowed under" etc but it's hard to believe. So how's everyone's luck are we still in crap street or is it just me?

That'll be me. When I started back after Christmas, I had 25 jobs booked in so I'm good until March. 12 months ago though was an entirely different story!

 

[JD6400]

Jase my man , thought it might have been you !
Steve has just left us before Christmas he had been doing a four house new build for us since last Feb , he's still got the touretts though if you ask me !
Ye mate there may be some about i will pm you my number !

 

[jase]

Jase my man , thought it might have been you !
Steve has just left us before Christmas he had been doing a four house new build for us since last Feb , he's still got the touretts though if you ask me !
Ye mate there may be some about i will pm you my number !

yeah i saw steve last year when he was working for ellis, i,ve been working between ellis and amesbury for the last 2 - 4 years now, but had 2 6month lulls in the last 2 years, saw doug few months back on the last job amesbury did for RMS,!!
nice one.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Tried getting in with a few letting agents round here, waste of time, had 3 jobs out of it, all of them turned out to be a bulb need replaceing, not going to cover the cost of my part p renewal changing lightbulbs!!!

well its the PIRs/EICRs....that we get quite a lot....so you get paid for that...then any crap you find you flag it ....and you get the job to sort that out...get paid again......

 

[electromonkey]

Tried getting in with a few letting agents round here, waste of time, had 3 jobs out of it, all of them turned out to be a bulb need replaceing, not going to cover the cost of my part p renewal changing lightbulbs!!!

I once did a call out which was a duff light bulb. The customer was selling their house and I got the re wire of the new one they bought. He then recommended me to his friends for other jobs. That light bulb has brought me £5k+ of work. Never turn work down, no matter how small the job. That's my motto.

 

[silverfox1]

Had no work since early November,
as Jase said not much CIS work around at mo
I know sparks not had work since last Sept
seems poor all round