The youth of today, grumpy old men and nice women.

whelan1 said:
Was driving up the road last night. There was an artic in the hard shoulder. As I was passing it the driver rolled out from under the trailer onto the road, it was dark, I had to swerve to avoid him. Got an awful fright.
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Pet hate of mine last few years winter work jackets especially and no or very little reflective straps and usually dark colours I try and get mostly some sort of hi vis now.
 
Years ago two lads were coming home from a night out. One lad had the jeep and dropped his friend off and headed home. Halfways home he got a phonecall from yourman saying you may comeback you backed into me. Both had a couple of pints and when your man got out he pulled up for a piss and the other lad backed the jeep into him . He was allright after😃
 
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Any takers amongst the youth on here,I spotted above over a month ago now on donedeal, he must have got a client for the post I assume as it wasn't refreshed till now. €20 a hour rate was on ad previously. Not bad for money for sitting on ones bottom.
 
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Any takers amongst the youth on here,I spotted above over a month ago now on donedeal, he must have got a client for the post I assume as it wasn't refreshed till now. €20 a hour rate was on ad previously. Not bad for money for sitting on ones bottom.
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if i was any closer and had the safe pass, then probably would. 20/hr is insanely good compared to what i get doing my few days here and there
 
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Any takers amongst the youth on here,I spotted above over a month ago now on donedeal, he must have got a client for the post I assume as it wasn't refreshed till now. €20 a hour rate was on ad previously. Not bad for money for sitting on ones bottom.
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Jesus great money is right. I'd go for it if I hadn't the leaving cert to finish. Seems to be a desperate shortage of drivers on sites. Have a cousin from Wexford asking me to go working in Lexlip on a tractor, have a teacher in school as well and then i have yourman who I do the odd bit of work for at the minute. I stick with him because he can be flexible enough with the hours and he's a good man to call on for favours but I wouldn't be on anywhere near that. I've friends who are doing plastering and they're only making 110 a day.
 
MeathMassey3 said:
Jesus great money is right. I'd go for it if I hadn't the leaving cert to finish. Seems to be a desperate shortage of drivers on sites. Have a cousin from Wexford asking me to go working in Lexlip on a tractor, have a teacher in school as well and then i have yourman who I do the odd bit of work for at the minute. I stick with him because he can be flexible enough with the hours and he's a good man to call on for favours but I wouldn't be on anywhere near that. I've friends who are doing plastering and they're only making 110 a day.
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They must be shite plasterers
 
It's good money alright lads for driving a tractor, but that's gross pay quoted in earlier ad i assume. Starting pay on any machine on a cif site would be €18 a hour gross,obviously most machines with the exception of a tractor require a cscs ticket & that is costly. So the tractor has that advantage.

Personally I would be 3 hours travel a day from Dublin, so when you factor that in, you'd be at nothing,unless maybe a van was traveling from your greater area & saved some costs that way.
 
MeathMassey3 said:
Jesus great money is right. I'd go for it if I hadn't the leaving cert to finish. Seems to be a desperate shortage of drivers on sites. Have a cousin from Wexford asking me to go working in Lexlip on a tractor, have a teacher in school as well and then i have yourman who I do the odd bit of work for at the minute. I stick with him because he can be flexible enough with the hours and he's a good man to call on for favours but I wouldn't be on anywhere near that. I've friends who are doing plastering and they're only making 110 a day.
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Is that on the Intel site meath?
 
CavanJacks said:
Is that on the Intel site meath?
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yeah. I think it's a sinnot or a Murphy he's working for from Wexford who has a few machines hired in on the site. Puts the cousin and a few other workers in accommodation and all. think its 16 euro an hour he's offering.
 
CavanJacks said:
It's good money alright lads for driving a tractor, but that's gross pay quoted in earlier ad i assume. Starting pay on any machine on a cif site would be €18 a hour gross,obviously most machines with the exception of a tractor require a cscs ticket & that is costly. So the tractor has that advantage.

Personally I would be 3 hours travel a day from Dublin, so when you factor that in, you'd be at nothing,unless maybe a van was traveling from your greater area & saved some costs that way.
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Lads around here leaving here just before 5 to be in Dublin shortly after 7.
Most have a van , diesel and toll money provided or a few will travel together.our whats app group normal starts beeping from 5.30 am on with "SV " and " hair dryer " alerts coming in with the usual rad and customs abit later on
 
Carrigogunnell said:
Go again, 2.50 to 2.80 around here now some joke
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Sorry to drag up a thread/post from quite a few months ago but since I saw some knowledgeable posts on this topic and I'm struggling for information on how pricing is now. Currently doing a self build house in the midlands and will be ready for blocklaying in about 2 months time. House is 2900 sq ft and I've got a price of 25k to blocklay - I'm told by the block layer that its spec'd quite highly which is adding extra work along with large cavity etc which is pushing up the price. I have asked numerous other block layers but none so far will even look at the plans they are so busy and say come back in 6 months or more so I just want to try get a feel if the price I got is in anyway reasonable in the current climate for a house of this size?

Edit: for context the post I replied to is cost per block for blocklaying.
 
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Sorry to drag up a thread/post from quite a few months ago but since I saw some knowledgeable posts on this topic and I'm struggling for information on how pricing is now. Currently doing a self build house in the midlands and will be ready for blocklaying in about 2 months time. House is 2900 sq ft and I've got a price of 25k to blocklay - I'm told by the block layer that its spec'd quite highly which is adding extra work along with large cavity etc which is pushing up the price. I have asked numerous other block layers but none so far will even look at the plans they are so busy and say come back in 6 months or more so I just want to try get a feel if the price I got is in anyway reasonable in the current climate for a house of this size?

Edit: for context the post I replied to is cost per block for blocklaying.
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Not sure why the cavity size would make a difference. Blocks are blocks. Are you putting in a full fill cavity board aswell?
 
FIAT 450 said:
Not sure why the cavity size would make a difference. Blocks are blocks. Are you putting in a full fill cavity board aswell?
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That was my thought too.

What's included in the price? Labour only?
I'm out of the loop since building mine.
But a lad was telling me yesterday that common bricks are £1/each to buy now now. Let alone blocks!

I went on day rates and bought all the materials myself.
 
Thanks for the responses - it's labour only I will be supplying all materials.

Cavity will be pumped so no board insulation. I wasn't sure at first why the cavity size would matter but talking to someone else they said its harder work and a bit slower reaching across with the blocks. Technically speaking I was told that if keeping the H&S rules it should be blocklayed from both sides but I don't believe the blocklayer plans this going by what he said though I am not sure - I guess that would involve extra work and more up and down etc

Blocks around here bought from a quarry directly are in or around the 75 to 85 cent a block incl VAT at the moment but due to go up soon.
 
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I would guess at that size of house, depending very much on the design that there could be in around 8000 blocks and at 3e a block is 24k. Steel shouldn't be much issue for then really as it's a case of put it in and full around it. Rates are generally a bit cheaper when they don't have to put in the insulation while building. I don't know what rates are up there but theres no way I would be willing to give e3 a block anyway. I would be think more so 2 to 2.20 a block. A load of blocks is going up another 90 at the end of April
 
Carrigogunnell said:
I would guess at that size of house, depending very much on the design that there could be in around 8000 blocks and at 3e a block is 24k. Steel shouldn't be much issue for then really as it's a case of put it in and full around it. Rates are generally a bit cheaper when they don't have to put in the insulation while building. I don't know what rates are up there but theres no way I would be willing to give e3 a block anyway. I would be think more so 2 to 2.20 a block. A load of blocks is going up another 90 at the end of April
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Thanks, I was assuming around 7000 or 8000 blocks in my own mind but then the block layer would be pricing though openings also presumably.

I feel the quote is on the high side but at this point we are probably willing to pay a bit over the odds (once we are not being totally ripped off) to secure someone to do the job as waiting 6 months+ for a blocklayer is just not feasible (that's assuming I even get a better price). The one thing is he is a good block layer with a very good reputation and he is very clear that he is pricing for everything there will be no "extras".

On the blocks themselves, yes I am hearing about increases up to 10% on concrete products coming but speaking to the quarries in the area they are telling me if I commit to buying the concrete for the foundations and the blocks that they will lock in block prices for me.
 
I'd be weary it's a case of I will put a stupid price on it and if I get the job great and if not I won't loose sleep over it kinda thing. How big is the cavity? Is it a 2 story? He pricing scaffolding too? Prices are nuts by the sounds of things. We built in 17 and got blocks for about 70c. I supplied everything cement, sand, water and gave the boys 9k for labour and some cash too for similar size house
 
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