hi all..at the moment were looking at making the big move to perth!!..reason being this is where were advised (word of mouth)..that most of the construction work is..but wanted advice from all you on this site (as ive recieved great info on other subjects)..so is perth the place for building site work???..all info helps us greatly

What sort of building?


There's still quite a few skyscrapers going up in the CBD, although they're looking half built now, not sure what's next but lots proposed

There's lots of mines going up and the gas plants, but they're specialist and are 1500km away

As for housing, no idea

he's a plasterer! so mainly housing! he has looked on job site's (net)..there seems to be plenty of advertisements requiring plasterers! but unsure if thats just in the perth area..or australia as whole??

Be aware that plastering in Australia is a completely different trade than in the UK, although some one who is experienced in the UK should be able to learn the trade here fairly easily.

BB

thanks buzzybee..yes we had been told that..apparently more like rendering!!..

This may be the case in Perth where houses are I understand mainly built in double brick. In the rest of Oz where houses are built on a timber frame, the plaster hangers ( a seperate trade to plasterers) will hang all the sheets throughout the whole house, then the plasterer comes along and fills in all the joins between the sheets, screw holes, does the cornicing etc.

BB