Do you buy your own gear?

[arbogrunt]

sky huck said; 'Arborgrunt you charge an extra £50 a day to climb on your own pli? jeez my pli works out to about £2 a day. I work for an AA approved contractor they like to see him using subbies with there own pli, it works well for me as i also do my own work at the weekends which goes a long way to paying it off and then some.

I have it anyway so for me there is no need to burden anyone with paying it for me its part of my rate.'

 

Fair one mate, but I rarely do any of my own private jobs, I just think its unfair to expect a bloke stump up insurance cover on a job someone else is taking the profit on.

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[arbogrunt]

oops, misquoted there Huck, meant Marc.

[arbogrunt]

'Ha, brickies are on 55-60 a day in these parts, the building bubble is well and truly bust'

 

blimey, site brickies are on about £130 a day now, dropped from £150-170 before the recession took hold (this is in London area). Saying that, its a lot easier than shinning up trees for a living and you don't have to fork out for the amount of tools, kit, ppe, training we do. I'd rather be up a tree though!

[Rupe]

They are not subbies though and they don't need insurance, sure they need enough to cover holidays but not sick pay as we don't do sick!