Re: Wanted down under - bricklayers
 

daft sod, let them to go to QLD :lol:

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You're a woman! :o

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to be honest ,i watched quite a few ozzies at work.i never said they were lazy.

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of course :ohmy: well I was the last time I looked, Ive took over from hubby he dosent even get a look in on here now, when he tries all I do is look like this :mad: and he soon shifts :D

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Lol, well I apologise I thought you were a bloke

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Hi all Been watching the programme this morning and im a brickie too sat at home because of the weather in crappy north wales and was thinking of visiting perth in august and seeing if there was much work there as im sick of the uk :frown: My brother lives in sydney and has been there fo 20 years and he wouldnt come back here if you payed him:lol: Is there any sites to search for jobs out there ..
Sick of being ripped of here.

Re: Wanted down under - bricklayers
 

mate if you can imagine the whole of the job section in your local paper,thats what the building section is like in perth..i have never seen anything like it..

ast

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When are you hoping to go??? Our house is up for sale at the moment - got someone coming for a 2nd viewing today. The dog is booked into quarantine on the 20 June- but my wife and I hope to be there aroung the 8 July.

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Hoping to get out there for august dont know the dates yet as my wife is in uni so waiting for them to give her the dates

Re: Wanted down under - bricklayers
 

it was like that 6 month ago still a lot a work around but nowhere near like it was dont know about north of river but down south has tappered of perth has been flooded with brickies over the last few years

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you will be sat at home here in july and august when it rains it really rains

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The brickie just started on our house - 4x3 in Tapping (North Perth). He earns $1 a brick and reckons he lays around 1000 a day, he has approx 13000 bricks to lay, so that's $13,000 per house. Not a bad job. There's just him and his apprentice, and from what I have seen so far he's doing a lovely job.

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Hi there

Did you get a company in to build your house - or are you just setting up different tradespeople yourself?? We might do that when we get over there. (I suppose we'll just have to see what happens).

Laura

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Ooh no we got a company to do ours - Gemmill Homes.

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I see there are quite a few on here thinking of doing the build themselves.


Just wondering if you guys have looked into things in detail, is it the same as here in the UK with the banks releasing at stages of the build even if your project managing on your own, or are they strict about where their money is being spent and mostly insist on a company taking on the build?

If any you guys have done the self build either way can you give us some feedback on the finance side of things