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Kids just don’t work hard anymore!
Do you ever get sick of hearing how young people today don’t like hard work? With the right training and a little encouragement they work as hard as we ever did. Nice use of personal protective equipment way.
Posted in By Marcus
Tagged angle grinder, building construction, Hard work, house building, housing
What in hell is a BAL (assessment)?
With parts of Victoria and NSW currently in flames and parts of Queensland under water it can only be summer time in Australia. The fire season sadly always finds people poorly prepared to face the significant dangers created by a … Continue reading
Diary of a disaster
What do you reckon this bit of plastic cost? I just spent about $ 1000 on a button for a in wall toilet! The tale is like a Dr Seusss story We had recently fitted out an architectural bathroom. Above … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, opinion piece
Tagged architecture, building construction, disasters, mirror doors, residential, verbal instructions
The old 100mm trick
I had a plumber who used to say A Man who has never made a mistake has never made anything. I like this sort of home spun wisdom, in those few simple words there is so much to learn. You … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged 100mm trick, Builders, building construction, housing, Metric, metrification
Builderforlife-Tweet 186
#170dayHouse day119 like a flush in poker on site I see Colour! The texture coat is applied to the render. Hmmm olive green.
Posted in 170 day house, 170dayHouse Tweets
Tagged #170dayHouse, architecture, building construction, house building
Builderforlife-Tweet 185
#170dayHouse day118 Underground cabling for telephone installed. External cladding nears completion. http://t.co/qoju8wwl
Posted in 170 day house, 170dayHouse Tweets
Tagged #170dayHouse, architecture, building construction, house building
Builderforlife- Tweet 184
#170dayHouse day116 and 117. The builder is away due to a grave illness in the family. Fixing continues.
Posted in 170 day house, 170dayHouse Tweets
Tagged #170dayHouse, architecture, building construction, house building
Tell me again about your problems.
As a child if I complained my mother would always tell me that someone was worse off than me. Somebody had it tougher than me and I should suck it up.This is who she meant
Posted in By Marcus, profile piece
Tagged arm less, building construction, carpentry, disability
Working at Heights
Just hold it there, steady, steady….. back a bit
Posted in By Marcus, just for kicks
Tagged building construction, workplace deaths, Worksafe
