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[Barry98]

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if there local and in your pay range why not apply for them?

 

[Hybrid]

Those job listins are for GSR. Taking the first link as an example you can't expect to earn just £12 a day less than a GSR for basic plumbing work.

 

[royston]

Im not interested in admin and paperwork either but i have to do it to run my business feed the family etc.

 

[jase158]

if there local and in your pay range why not apply for them?

I will be, but using all my options.

I am quite surprised at the animosity towards people getting in the trade.

Why is it that everybody is stealing your work, undercutting you and making a mockery of the system yet when somebody wants to offer you there services you don't want to take it up.

Think about it, you are still paying the advertising, the same amount of diesel, the same amount of everything, but you can take on some of those jobs you never want to take on like toilets or bath taps i.e. get paid for it and have no other outlay.

There would be no diesel costs, no flux, solder, gas bottles or anything of the such. so you could charge £150-£200 a day for my services and pay me £100 per day.

If you took on an apprentice for £20 per day you have to pay fuel to pick him/ her up, pay for the extra materials when they mess up, spend time teaching them and then spend time fixing their mistakes.

 

[RCJ]

I work with a plumber when work is available, doing basic plumbing, odd jobs, gardening in summer and get £6.50p/hr, which I relive is very reasonable for what I do, he takes me to jobs, lunch etc... It's spot on! I have my own van etc too... But if I said to him pay me £100 a day he'd think I was mad if I expecting constant work!

Your only hope is that every now and then a big job comes up where they need a hand! But 1. £100 a day will be lucky 2. They are going to often use people they know!

Good luck, but as previous said, you might be better off going through tr admin hell

 

[sparra1100]

so ye want £500 a week and then theres tax ,insurance plus if ye work satudays i dont get that jase mate and am gas safe etc think you in the clouds mate most no doing the same as you get £50-£60 if the works there or £150 to £200 a week to help out granted you got a family and have to earn but going of ye quals mate i recone youll be lucky to get £250 mate

 

[CES]

What about liability insurance, tax, (or CIS). Put yourself in our shoes, what would happen if you burnt someones house down when soldering a bit of pipe, or flooded out a bathroom and brought the ceiling down on the room below?
If you want to earn £100 a day either go self employed or find another trade mate. No-one will pay you that rate for the job you are wanting to do.

 

[SimonJohns]

I was fully qualified doing boiler install and breakdown working what ever hours were required and I was earning the grand total of

£200 A WEEK

 

[sparra1100]

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there all gas safe heating engineers your not that mate

 

[CES]

Id like to add that the plumbers mate job advertised at £10 an hour is for one day's work too.

 

[Hybrid]

Honestly there are few people these days who are so busy that they're regularly turning away £200 worth of work a day. Those in that fortunate position would be busy because they've been at it a while and are good running their business. As such they'd have taken on an apprentice as their work load increased.

Your only hope is to either sub for cheaper than a PAYE employee would cost or find a job.

 

[SimonG]

I will be, but using all my options.

I am quite surprised at the animosity towards people getting in the trade.

Why is it that everybody is stealing your work, undercutting you and making a mockery of the system yet when somebody wants to offer you there services you don't want to take it up.

Think about it, you are still paying the advertising, the same amount of diesel, the same amount of everything, but you can take on some of those jobs you never want to take on like toilets or bath taps i.e. get paid for it and have no other outlay.

There would be no diesel costs, no flux, solder, gas bottles or anything of the such. so you could charge £150-£200 a day for my services and pay me £100 per day.

If you took on an apprentice for £20 per day you have to pay fuel to pick him/ her up, pay for the extra materials when they mess up, spend time teaching them and then spend time fixing their mistakes.

There is no animosity and it's not the way to go using the 'worlds against me'. They're are fully qualified plumbers out there working for less than that.

You offered your services and people have replied with honesty. They have simply expressed their belief that you are selling your services at too high a price, something to which I agree.

 

[Barry98]

There is no animosity and it's not the way to go using the 'worlds against me'. They're are fully qualified plumbers out there working for less than that.

You offered your services and people have replied with honesty. They have simply expressed their belief that you are selling your services at too high a price, something to which I agree.

some big words there for a sunday simon , very deep too. you ok mate

 

[GQuigley67]

when I get taken out on a day rate with the company i sub to, they pay me £100 a day, I pay my plumbers mate £40 a day when hes out with me when I'm subbing.

I'm a GSR Engineer with my own van, £100 a day is not ideal when I take away tax and the £10-15 diesel and traveling time, but there is not much out there.

 

[SimonG]

some big words there for a sunday simon , very deep too. you ok mate

Sound as a pound. I suppose it's 'green' etiquette speak.