just wondering how many of us were builders? going self employed as of next week

 

btw, could anyone recomend where i can get some 4 or 5 xl hi viz gear, biggest i have seen in local places are xxl. cheers.

 

im an assistant QS but moving into construction managment in the next year or 2

 

im a scaffolder

and from what i can make out they are trying to do away with the cis card which is not good news for me as means will have to go on the cards



really could do with out paying all that tax

 

you speak the truth my friend, it was supposed to be inplicated this feb just gone but i was told they are putting it back till feb 07 but when it does happen a lot of small subbys will most likely go bust as at the moment it is very easy to employ someone on a cis basis, when you have to go cards in it will mean a lot more work for the boss to do with taxes and the like.

gus your a nutter mate i wouldnt do your job for 60k a year lol im not too good with heights though. your just behind a roofer in my list of site loonatics, roofers just arnt right in the head, there was 2 of them on one of my sites the other week fighting with hammers

 

Tell em to wear another jumper

 

no i need it myself mate! can only get a 2xl jacket and vest at the biggest at the moment.

 

have any of your posts EVER not somehow mentioned your extraordinary obescity?

 

probably not but its urgent ! sorry but a lot of builders and site workers are bigger than the average guy and as going se next week want to get a good hiviz jacket.

 

i am a self employed bricky ,since 1991
you wouldnt catch me going cards in and having to be on and of a site whwen told.
Its nice to be able to have time to pic the kid up or take her to school now and then .When a job is done and its 3 or so just to pack up and go home is quality,instead of stringing it out and being board to death

 

makes me die that they are only hitting the construction industry about the cis cards thou


wouldnt mind as much if it was a same for everyone

 

thats my main reason for going self employed is to be in control of my own time.

 

yeah Im self employed working for the father inlaw, roofing, windows, labouring, driving etc. Its quality, just hate the long hours when I rather be working on the car

 

if yourn so fat and proud, why the fuck dont you post pics to prove it

definately something dodgy about you

 

so you say mate !

will post pics soon but dont see why i have to !

 

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He`s welsh,thats dodgey

 

proud of being welsh mate ! noting dodgy about that !

 

Do you rest your gut on the back of the sheep? Or do you tuck it in between its legs while your banging it?

Im an Asst. QS too btw

 

not into that stuff !

 

Good on ya,one of my best mates who i spent 10 years doing the sites with in germany is from just outside wrexam.Top bloke do anythin for his mates,drinks like a foooking fish mind

 

sounds like me ! so i drink stupidly but i am a genuinely nice lad !

 

Im a brickie. I can also class myself as a 'builder' too though as i am skilled in many other areas, especially joinery.

As for the CIS card i couldnt give two shits TBH. I am on the books and i prefer it. Dont have to fook about going firm to firm, dont have to go looking for starts when it looks like a jobs coming to an end, dont have to do any books etc etc

Im on price and earn as much as any other bricklayer on the cis, and gauranteed work through winter doing fook all and getting paid even if its a foot deep in snow, as long as i turn up....

Being on the books has a lot more advantages, holiday pay is another...

 

i work on building sites all over the country laying precast concrete floors for bison

Ive met a few welsh brickies , but yet to see an irish groundworker

 

being self employed means you only pay 18% tax and Ł2.05 a week national insurance.plus you get a higher hourly rate than books in plus a tax rebate of several hundred pounds every year AND holiday pay after 13 weeks. if thats hassle ill take it every time

 

another plus point is that if your firm has to start laying people off you will be the last to go... CIS lads first but as you said the most benefitial point of being cards in is the holiday pay... i see so many cis lads come and go in the long run everyone i spaek to would rather be cards in.

 

any decent tradesman will be on pricework and our prices are the same for cards in and cis lads, your holiday pay is included in the 20 % uplift you get so you have to save it yourself, its not as most people make it out to be and if times get hard at the firm your working for cis lads will be the first out

 

dont knon anyone on my firm or others come to that, that would rather be cards in

 

holliday pay,i dont see it as an issue personally. If i couldnt aford to take a few weeks holliday a year there would be a problem.
Most of the lads i know could easily put a ton a week away for hollidays ,
How much do you get cards in?????.
Granted i dont do sites anymore ,as i get my own contracts ,but my best mate works in exeter and spends 2 to 3 months in thiland every year and a couple of weeks in the summer too You show me a man who is cards in get that sort of time off or be able to afford it.

 

it depends what your after really but most of our lads want continuity and would rather take say Ł100 a week less if it means them staying employed, in my office we get about 10 calls a day from lads who have worked for us or are just wanting a start becuase there not much around at the moment.
we had 2 joiners leave our company in december and rang back up for a start 10 weeks later as there was nothing around.

 

Horses for courses i would say

 

sorry to perhaps mention this again but where can i get rigger boots that can fit a 24" calf? thanks ! size 10 feet.

 

Try the local butchers maybe they can slice a bit off your leg mate

 

cheers mate. dont know whey i have never tjought of that b4 LOL! i know i am a fat boy but i need to get the kit !