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23rd June 2008, 20:41
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Construction industry
hey just wondering if there was anyone from sax-p being hit hard and there jobs at risk with the lack of house sales,due to the banks being up sh!t creeck!its pretty serious up scotland way alot of building companys shutting up shop,im safe just now but the question is for how long!
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23rd June 2008, 20:45
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im a sparky and my boss seems to think we got more work than ever!
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23rd June 2008, 20:45
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I'm a brickie and I reckon that we are going to put out of jobs soon and i'm from just past Dundee!
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23rd June 2008, 20:49
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yeah for some reason the sparkys in our company still have alot to do but i think thats due to them raggling the houses after plumbing and roughing is done and my uncle is a bricky from fife and there pretty dry just now and rekons that they only have few months left! i suppose it all depends on who you are working with and how much work you have on! there talkin about this lasting maybe into next year so a cant see there being enough work to last till then. gouverment needs to step in i think!
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23rd June 2008, 20:51
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There's only so much the government can do to stop it all going tits up!
Cannot believe how dead the housing market has been - the flat downstairs has been up for sale and to let for 6 months, and hardly any interest!
This time last year, it would have been snapped up like that!
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23rd June 2008, 20:53
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yeah its scary man! there is a building company up here in fife that are handing out a brand new polo to everyone that buys one of there houses lol thats how bad it is
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23rd June 2008, 20:54
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Originally Posted by keenan_lod
yeah for some reason the sparkys in our company still have alot to do but i think thats due to them raggling the houses after plumbing and roughing is done and my uncle is a bricky from fife and there pretty dry just now and rekons that they only have few months left! i suppose it all depends on who you are working with and how much work you have on! there talkin about this lasting maybe into next year so a cant see there being enough work to last till then. gouverment needs to step in i think!
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company i work for do a lot of work for the housing association so its not too bad! and they are building houses down on the sea front for fun  not the housing association!
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23rd June 2008, 20:57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by keenan_lod
yeah its scary man! there is a building company up here in fife that are handing out a brand new polo to everyone that buys one of there houses lol thats how bad it is
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Who is it thats doing that?
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23rd June 2008, 20:57
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lol well glad to here its all happy days your direction mate hope it stays that way! theres enough people loosing the jobs in stuff at moment!
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23rd June 2008, 20:59
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a lot of places stopped building here. were hanging on atm
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23rd June 2008, 21:00
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JEEMO
Who is it thats doing that?
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am in two minds here lol it was in the fife free press! it was either boyack homes(not 100% on spelling) or thomas mitchel mate!al give you the deffo tomoz lol
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23rd June 2008, 21:15
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works gone quit for us aswell.
i do the site investigation with a cable drilling rig to test its hard enough for the houses etc to be built. luckily theres something else we have planned so not too bad
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23rd June 2008, 21:15
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A weird way of getting people to buy a house tbh, never heard of that before. 
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23rd June 2008, 21:20
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im a sparky,....
alot of people down here seem to be going under aswell, especially the big established companies.
im pretty lucky though as the company i work fr either does alot of industrial and small domestic meaning that dont really have alot to do with new builds.
do alot in schools aswell so thats not gunna stop
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24th June 2008, 23:03
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Originally Posted by JEEMO
A weird way of getting people to buy a house tbh, never heard of that before. |
sorry mate it was none of the two i said, it is pennman homes that are handing out new cars with every purchase lol
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24th June 2008, 23:05
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Yep, got no work. Being forced over to private.
Had to take all last week off, this week I'm doing a cobble, next week god knows!
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24th June 2008, 23:35
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yeah its a sore mate! hope it gets better for you
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24th June 2008, 23:56
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Im an apprentice Sparks down here just coming into my last year, still quite alot of work for our firm, so much that i work on my own most days of the week. and still looking for another person to be employed!
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24th June 2008, 23:58
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its the same here across the waters everyhings slowed up and construction has stopped..house prices are dropping but everything else going up?? nobody has any free cash and everyone wants trades car wise..hence why my car is stilll for sale
im just finished uni and am buying a house with my boyfriend and all this talk is scaring me 
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25th June 2008, 00:48
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me and my old man have enough, to see us to september.....
but there old customers no new ones.......
also one of the cheapest builders around are aera, cheaper than some pols lol.....
at the start of the year, we had no work for 3 months, a mate of my dads owns a diggers and hire's them out, he busy 24/7 easily on a grand a day (driver+machine) and has something like 10 machines all on site........
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