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Diamond Pool Finishers
I JUST FOUND THIS POST ON ANOTHER PLASTERING FORUM AND BORROWED IT TO SHOW YOU GUYS OUR TRADE OF TILING IS'NT THE ONLY TRADE UNDER PRESSURE 
Bitter old spreads
Bitter old spreads
Hello to all my fellow spreads,
Seeing as I’m sat on my arse with not much work booked ithought I’d put my views across on the diabolical work situation we are facing.
My plastering history is, at 18 years old i was given an apprenticeshipby a master plasterer and fibrous plasterer who between them probably suppliedme with about 80 years combined knowledge of both trades.
My apprenticeship was around 5 years, I’m now 43 yearsold and I’m just about as f'd off as i could be with the way our trade has beendumbed down into what can only be described as a farce of epic proportions.
I know from reading posts who the real spreaders are andthere is a fair few on here.
I lay the blame for the diabolical mess we are in on theclowns who operate these (get rich quick) courses, churning out completenovices with serious attitude problems?
Half the questions asked on this site are from monkeyswho are undercutting genuine spreads and who have either been on a course orlaboured on a spread, the f'ing cheek is beyond belief.
Do plastering course / go to screwfix and buy tools / getvan and vinyl lettering / = you are now a plastering contractor?
Well I’m sorry but you are most certainly not!
There is a reason we call ourselves "timeserved" tradesmen and that is we served our time through hard labour not af'ing plastering booth in a heated workshop?
If so-called plasterers need direction on how to do thejob they profess to be so good at then we should not be helping them.
They are the same reason we have to work for peanuts andthey are the clowns who price us out of domestic work.
Site work regs and prices are beyond a joke and in thepast when a recession has happened we always had the domestic market to fallback on, but not now.
We need to adopt the same rules as the Americanplasterers have, a British equivalent of The Operative Plasterers' and CementMasons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA).
This is the only way to get the chancers out of our tradeand to make site contractors pay the proper rates for what is without doubt thehardest of all trades.
I’m 43 and sat on my arse at home ringing round for workand pricing jobs which i won’t getbecause some "skimmer" (whatever the f'@k that is) is doing it for 50quid a day.
My years in the plastering game have given me; hands thatlook 200 years old and that don’t havemuch blood circulating in them / 2 arthritic shoulders / i also need a new hipand knee within the next 7 years.
Bitter doesn’t even begin to describe how i feel at thisstage of my life?
Rant over, the upmost respect to my fellow "timeserved" spreads
Jonny
Seeing as I’m sat on my arse with not much work booked ithought I’d put my views across on the diabolical work situation we are facing.
My plastering history is, at 18 years old i was given an apprenticeshipby a master plasterer and fibrous plasterer who between them probably suppliedme with about 80 years combined knowledge of both trades.
My apprenticeship was around 5 years, I’m now 43 yearsold and I’m just about as f'd off as i could be with the way our trade has beendumbed down into what can only be described as a farce of epic proportions.
I know from reading posts who the real spreaders are andthere is a fair few on here.
I lay the blame for the diabolical mess we are in on theclowns who operate these (get rich quick) courses, churning out completenovices with serious attitude problems?
Half the questions asked on this site are from monkeyswho are undercutting genuine spreads and who have either been on a course orlaboured on a spread, the f'ing cheek is beyond belief.
Do plastering course / go to screwfix and buy tools / getvan and vinyl lettering / = you are now a plastering contractor?
Well I’m sorry but you are most certainly not!
There is a reason we call ourselves "timeserved" tradesmen and that is we served our time through hard labour not af'ing plastering booth in a heated workshop?
If so-called plasterers need direction on how to do thejob they profess to be so good at then we should not be helping them.
They are the same reason we have to work for peanuts andthey are the clowns who price us out of domestic work.
Site work regs and prices are beyond a joke and in thepast when a recession has happened we always had the domestic market to fallback on, but not now.
We need to adopt the same rules as the Americanplasterers have, a British equivalent of The Operative Plasterers' and CementMasons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA).
This is the only way to get the chancers out of our tradeand to make site contractors pay the proper rates for what is without doubt thehardest of all trades.
I’m 43 and sat on my arse at home ringing round for workand pricing jobs which i won’t getbecause some "skimmer" (whatever the f'@k that is) is doing it for 50quid a day.
My years in the plastering game have given me; hands thatlook 200 years old and that don’t havemuch blood circulating in them / 2 arthritic shoulders / i also need a new hipand knee within the next 7 years.
Bitter doesn’t even begin to describe how i feel at thisstage of my life?
Rant over, the upmost respect to my fellow "timeserved" spreads
Jonny
