Do You Agree?

[mikehsmith]

Spot on . I’d put this across all jobs everywhere . I’m a senior IT project manager and remember a five hour trip to london on the train for a meeting in the days when trains had a buffet car. The person in the buffet was on their own and she made a comment that degraded the importance of her own job. I said ‘you’re joking !!! Aside from the train driver and the guard you’re the most important person on this train of 500 people - who cares if I don’t get to that meeting, what difference will it really make to people’s lives ? But if you the buffet car attendant weren’t here people are five hours without a drink or food- you’d have 500 people who would arrive in London stressed, hungry, dehydrated and irritable !!’ She seemed to grasp what I said and stood taller ! EVeRY job is as important as another right across our society .

[Dr.Stacker]

As a DIYer and what got me into all these videos to begin with is getting sick of being fleeced by trades for sub standard quality work. It would be nice if someone kept track of a ballpark dayrate for each region to compare against, happy to pay above those ranges if tradesmen can demonstrate the quality of thier work.

[porter]

Not a tradie but completely agree, but we are in a world where its all about greed....

[MikeSmith-qsnr]

They get up every morning and help build the shoddy houses we get ripped off on.

[simapark]

My advice to an 18 year old is forget going to Uni and forget being a 'tradesman ' . If you go to Uni you will end up with a huge debt and if you go into a trade you will end up 55 years old, physically knackered with no pension until you are 67 and then it will be just the basic state pension.
My advice is go into a public sector job ie Police, Nursing, Fire Brigade, Armed Forces, any NHS job ( cleaning, Porter,Receptionist Security, Admin etc ) even local government sat behind a desk getting bored .
Secure job, full pay if off sick, cast iron pension (with huge employer pension contributions )
Most tradesmen work very hard and earn decent money from 18 to 55 but are up the creek after that .

[derekrobertson]

Totally agree big cooperations.shitting on the hard working little guy who makes all the money for them, no matter what company it is they are all the same.

[Rowan-dy]

Wise words.
Stop the beef between each other, whilst you are doing that, the greedy ones that don’t care about anyone other than themselves are raking it in watching you beef over the small stuff.
Stick by one another, you are equal in value, respect that and join together.
They like it when you are separated and arguing, don’t give them that satisfaction.
You are all worthwhile.😊

[MegaGavinski]

Here’s something I always held as true: It doesn’t matter what you charge, as long as you give value for money. The key to this is the customer is the person that makes the value judgement.

[johnriggs]

When I was leaving school, in the late 60's, we had a 'careers' lesson from a teacher. He went through various trades/professions, then mentioned the building trade. After he'd finished with the pros and cons of the different trades, he finished by saying this: "... Of course, obviously, when you're on the bus going home (because your clothes would be dusty/dirty) everyone will know you're in the building industry..." as if he was saying everyone would look down on you as some sort of lower life. And for years - they did. Until all the Poles etc., went back home, and you can't get a plasterer/plumber/joiner etc for peanuts anymore...

[booshallmighty]

Never a truer word spoken. I don't hate on hard working men who pick up the tools every day. No matter how bad the weather is, you will see some bloke in a hi vis.

[Andymc]

I have a price I use for day rate when I ever do govvy jobs and that's it. What others/other trades charge doesn't interest me as it's their business.
All I will ask is each tradesman thinks about who has to follow them to make their life a bit easier and not just how to make it easier for themselves 🙂

[loopypoodle]

Woman in 60s I've done bits of my own plumbing. Fitted a sink etc, would not attempt plastering.

[OYCHEST]

That truly touched in the reality that is today

[johnrscossy]

Ex plasterer of 25years and did my time as a labourer in my teens
Its hard graft no messing plastering and brick layers
Even in my younger days id go home completely knackered
Labourers have to be animals especially on rendering work
I always respect these guys

[stephensheridan]

👌🏼 spot on mate. The people who say this aren't the grafters.

[danieldashwood-smyth]

Well said… we have to play as a team in this. It only takes that little extra thought of who comes next and it’ll make there day!!! We all in this together!!

[thegamechanger]

Absolutely brilliant mate. Great video.

[CarlSab]

Let the truth be spoken brother, Respect.

[dizzeeg]

24.8 million households with 2 million plumbing callouts a year most needing servicing also with only 81, 000 plumbers in the country. without adding commercial properties and existing renovations its amazing they make it site to build new. Because of this supply and demand shortage and overregulation/training plumbing pricing is very high.

[ahscfc]

As a diy’er who does a bit more than paint and fit a few shelves I watch these videos for tips and the basics.
I’m fed up of paying trades £300+ a day for what turns out to be pretty shoddy work.
Paid a plasterer £300 a day to plaster a bedroom - the plaster has chipped away where I’ve later fitted some shelves. The finish coat seems to have not adhered to the bonding.
Paid £23, 000 for a new roof - the amount of crap that came down the cavity when removing the old roof was ridiculous - I had to go out and have a word with he main bloke. They then left a skip worth of debris up in the loft and the condensing pipe off the boiler which led to a damp ceiling.
Paid a plumber £430 to change the old lead pipe to a plastic to increase the pressure of mains water. Quote was for 2 blokes for a Saturday. He turned up by himself and was gone after 5 hours. Paviors where he dug up all sank 3 or 4 inches over the course of the next 12 months.
I DIY to save some £ but mainly because I want a job doing properly and not being rushed because the trades want to finish at 3pm.

I did have a whole new heating system fitted. £4100 - new boiler and 11 new rads. 7 blokes on each day for 2 days. All old stuff ripped out and new fitted. Couldn’t fault them apart from a bit of shoddy patching up but I was happy to go around and smooth things over.