site work

[dazza1981]

Hi chaps
Ive just recently started out on site again and been given the task of installing lots of cable tray sets ( made by hand ) that go into mains cupboards etc.
All this is to be done on a price per meter so i have been tasked with finishing off what the last guy didnt do which is all the tricky time consuming bits where you earn bugger all.
Whoever installed the tray has just done all the straight runs on 10 floors creaming it in and buggered off and left all the sets reductions step overs etc out. Each floor has 5 cupboards which include fire alarm data and mains all using different tray on entry to the cupboard.
Each cupboard is taking me a day to complete so looks as if im going to be doing this a while and basically earning nothing with a family to support and once my fuel costs are taken out im earning next to nothing.
I really want the site experience as i qualified in mainly a maintenance background doing lots of testing fault finding and installations within schools.
I just wondered if anybody has had similar experiences, i really dont want to rock the boat at this new job but also need to be earning some money and not have the **** taken.
Thanks

 

[CockneyReject]

Bit of a difficult one mate, is all the work price?

i'd get the tray work done as quick as possible but make sure it's spot on and looks the part then eye up a nice little earner and point out that you've got them out of the brown stuff with the tray work you've just done

 

[Gavin A]

if Dazza hadn't finished the tray work in the half a year since his post, then I reckon he'd probably have been kicked off site long ago anyway

 

[tazz]

Most construction companies insist on manufactured bends....if you are allowed to make your own, then make sure all cuts are filed down, and galv painted..

 

[Johnuk]

old tread, but we had that with this guy done all the easy straight bits, but we end up correcting this work as it was not level, but this guy got away with it all on the job coz he was so much up the arse of the foreman lol