Todays Job

[noseall]

Wot, no skiing?

Yes in Feb. Solden, Austria.

 

[pete01]

Wimp

I know, I like a long break over Christmas

 

[Highway Man]

I know, I like a long break over Christmas

I like to earn over xmas as we can kick in a small fortune, then take time in January to enjoy the fruits of our labour. Make hay whilst the sun shines.

 

[SPLINE]

Gaffer rang me up and said "Work as much overtime as you want, no need to ask for it before xmas" going to do 4 hrs a night and maybe do an allnighter over the weekend. We are unindated with faults at the moment and xmas lighting, not enough men and now not enough time in our core hours. I am on the new motorway link on Thursday and was promised to double my wages if I can get 20 new lights on in the day. This really is a rich mans world.

Well done for working long hours - you've got loads of people on benefits to keep.

 

[Highway Man]

Well done for working long hours - you've got loads of people on benefits to keep.

OMG you are right. I may have to reconsider this.

 

[Highway Man]

4 hrs overtime tonight done!!!! blowing a gale and pouring with rain. Yet there I was 12 metres in the air being blown about and whisteling. I love my job whatever the weather and being able to work as many hours as I like is a big bonus.

 

[Notch7]

Certainly is. I'm not bothering in December. Might have to drive a machine on Friday. I don't plan to do much in January either.

I had too many years of the silly Christmas deadline.

I’ve been out on site week before Christmas seeing 20 guys desperately trying to finish an extension because they had promised the customer it’ll be finished by Christmas.


A nice job for a builder is having the shell of a big extension up in early Dec, sealed in, than back 2nd week of Jan to work inside in the dry doing all the internals.

Working in thick mud trying to dig out foundation trenches in Jan is not nice. Best avoided I think.

 

[noseall]

I had too many years of the silly Christmas deadline.

Know the feeling. The double garage we have just completed, I told him he'd be able to put his Christmas tree up, when we started in October. We managed to complete all the ground work (extras) too. Bonus.

I’ve been out on site week before Christmas seeing 20 guys desperately trying to finish an extension because they had promised the customer it’ll be finished by Christmas.

Yep. Done that.

A nice job for a builder is having the shell of a big extension up in early Dec, sealed in, than back 2nd week of Jan to work inside in the dry doing all the internals.

We once did a biggish job in the run up to Christmas, whereby the roof purlins (steel) were in place but precariously perched on props, rather than on the yet to be built gable end. The risk of wind was high. The temperatures plummeted as did my heart. So we bought a brazier and stacked all the gable end blocks in a circle around the brazier and lit it. We got a pair of steel trestles, a length of rebar and a metal pail, and heated the water in the pail. We put some hot embers in the mixer drum. We mixed some warm compo having kept the bags of sand inside the customers house overnight. We ran a blowlamp over the existing block tops. We built the gable under the steels with the warm blocks and mortar. We first wrapped insulation around the blockwork. Then a load of dust sheets. Then a load of hessian sacking. It was -7 degrees that night.
We left it wrapped up all weekend and uncovered it on Monday. Not a blemish. We released the purlin props and broke up for Christmas happy.

Working in thick mud trying to dig out foundation trenches in Jan is not nice. Best avoided I think.

Correct.

 

[Highway Man]

Am I going to remove this bloody flag that I got my bucket wrapped up in. This is bloody dangerous.