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@@peterwilliam4681 well you are quite within your rights to raise it with said person and ask them to deduct the 1 minute phone call from your time the $1.66 by all means, as petty as it may sound they should make their calls on their lunch break. Do you pay the lunch break ? Or are they allowed a break at all ? When does your time start and stop do you expect them to work 8 hours without stopping for a break ? I’m saying this because being self employed I rarely take a break during work time. And for that reason I dont offer hourly charge, I would give you a set price for the works because on hourly pay the client thinks they own you, and you work directly for them yet they don’t pay you a lunch break like the law demands an employer should so take those minutes spent on the phone and deduct them from the legal 2 x 10 minute breaks in a day 👍🏻 have they spent 20 minutes on the phone I doubt it, if they have then complain, a professional would apologise and adjust the bill to deduct the $30.

@@joshpowell9331 I know that’s a damn long time imagine trying to argue faulty materials with a supplier 5 years after install there’s not a chance your winning that argument you would have to take it on the chin

I was getting charged out at $55per hour as an apprentice heritage carpenter 12 yrs ago mate. Id say 80 to 100 is about right these days. You get 45 to 70 as a subbie. There is a shortage of skilled workers, and danger pay has to be considered nearly every tool you use has the potential to mame or kill you.its a dangerous job.

yeah right mate lol what do you do for work if you don't mind me asking?

@@peterwilliam4681 so how do you run a business if a carpenter gets paid $60 ? Where is the business profit ? No point in running a business if you can’t afford to pay staff and take a wage for yourself plus pay business costs. But you are right a ute and toolbox isnt the same as overheads, a shop might cost you $2000 per month a ute only $600 but the ute uses fuel at $150-200 per week, plus rego, new tyres, servicing, repairs none of which a business premises had to pay that’s the landlords responsibility. Why does anyone need overheads, they can work from home ? A carpenter can’t. Break a $1000 table saw and who pays for a new one ? We have to work for 2 days to buy a tool just so we can work does that sound fair ? If you break a pen do you have to work for 2 days to replace it ? Your ideology is way off you have no idea what it costs to be self employed, your rate is what you get fully employed, without builders you would have no home, no business premises, no hospitals, we build the world people live in and you think we should get paid low wages.? Aldi pays more than $60 to its managers and trust me being self employed is harder than running an Aldi store

A carpenter does work from home.His Ute and tools are his mobile office.Most are Sole traders.

@@peterwilliam4681 what do you do for work Peter?

@@alexcoffield6814 That’s unfortunate I guess we won’t be friends, thanks for watching 🎅

@@Winw146 sorry but if you don’t call out poor workmanship and poor construction methods they continue to happen, don’t integrate - elevate ! Australia is great but everyone who comes here says how poor building materials are and how behind the rest of the world Australia is with construction, double glazing is classed as a luxury ! That’s standard. I can’t applaud bad work to appease you I’m afraid Ps the toilet seat was fitted by a handyman, siliconed on and a gpo screw fixed to nothing, probably zero qualifications just taking people’s money and running

@@brokeking666 Haha 💯 %

@@nsbjoinery3203 best of luck 🤞🏻

@@glenfield9199 it really is the land of opportunity sometimes I think how are people not taking advantage of it when they have lived here all of their lives, but then I think well maybe they just prefer the chilled life which you can also have maybe we are just programmed to work like crazy 🤪

@@surferscollective613 I only charge on price myself but hourly gives people an idea of what they should be basing it off 👍🏻

@@ashtonormesher9682 😂 damage has already been done they stagnated wages for years in the uk, people should be on £300-400 a day now they screwed people over with the eu big time, how you liking it there ? I have a mate who’s brother moved to Aus and set up a building company had brots come over to work and lads went from Aus to work for his brother in the uk it was like an exchange service 😂

If I’m honest mate I miss Australia like mad I’ve been here 13 years now I’m separated from my x wife and I have 2 kids here that’s why I’m here I’m hoping my boys move to Australia when there older so I can go back all my family are in redland bay / Cleveland in qld my brother in laws a chippy he’s called eljay construction don’t no if you have seen him about

@@ashtonormesher9682 hopefully they do the uk has nothing for lads except partying and that’s over rated, dual citizenship is a bonus for them they could have have the best of both worlds,

@@kevinthomas9878 I did mean to say that, most people you speak to are second or third generation they forget their ancestry

Haven’t heard of that one, Facebook local groups seem to be the best, unless you have a big budget for advertising I think concentrating on free advertising is the best option to keep you busy then when you are booked up and don’t need to be so active you can use Facebook ads etc to pull in bits of work, word of mouth is also massive

@@sapiens7821 I wouldnt say you get ripped off as such it depends how you look at it, you renovate your kitchen it costs $30k but adds $50k value to your home ripped off or investment you make $20k ? Now you take the same $50k and buy a small boat, after a year it’s worth $30k you lost $20k You use the kitchen daily and the boat rarely so which is the better investment. That’s how building work should be looked at. Unfortunately trades have been undervalued for years people see them as a service like delivering a pizza instead of highly skilled workers, we spend tons on tools and vans work outside in all conditions, so it’s nice to see trades being paid well instead of people working on computers in air conditioned offices drinking coffee getting all the cream, trades enable everyone else to work and without them the world would collapse sadly the uk imported too many third world slaves to work for peanuts and ruined the building industry I keep track and people are getting good rates but they should be on £300-400 a day if we matched inflation that’s what people get here so hard work does pay off. Thanks for commenting and watching it’s nice to hear a different perspective 👍🏻

@@thomjanson9644 😂 just like that, the thing you don’t see is we are also office workers we do your job and then have to go and build. The difference is we need the vehicle to carry tools and materials we can’t jump in a bus to work, it’s also classed as a work vehicle so perk of the job, don’t be jealous about that it’s a tax deduction, we also know what we are doing and guarantee our work, in QLD it’s upto 7 years, your diy might kill someone, also you dont get the call back because more than likely you come across as you want everything for free, we know the customers and can sense it a mile away, dreamers, as soon as you mention it’s easy or your budget is small we know you want the job for nothing, so it’s easier to not quote than to spend hours composing a quote to have you say too much and we get paid $0 for 5 hours of office work you have your tools so good luck 🤞🏻 Ps I think office workers just sit on their arse all day drinking coffee I think they should get $10 per hour 😂

@@bossdog1480 If you get in with a builder and work consistently then you build trust but I wouldn’t jump from builder to builder that’s asking for trouble, but like you I prefer to work for myself because it’s hard to find good trades, iv had a few do bad work for me and they look at you like your insane if you say their work is shit 😅

@@Hahehhwgajshah72726.. The only reason poor materials and jobs are done poorly is because people don’t charge enough, when people start listening to clients saying just do the basic that’s what you get, if you take advice offa customer how to do a job it’s always going to be wrong. On the other hand I have seen some rough as guts work over here and Australian standards don’t help the building quality is 20 years behind the uk in materials and actual methods, we don’t even use double glazing that has been around for nearly 30 years. The Australian building Industry needs overhauling and needs to start importing better building methods and materials they cling to Aussie made but have zero innovation, eg windows are fitted with pins no expanding foam to seal air gaps, I have taken 3 steps back in quality to conform to Australian standards and I can’t go back to British standards because I can’t find the materials 😅 I complained to a colleague about how I couldn’t do a job because it was so poor when I first got here and he said “ your not in Kansas now Dorothy” that’s how things are done here, if I say a job is shit to an Aussie they say “ don’t like it go home” so that ideology needs to change before Australian standards can improve 👍🏻 Don’t take this as bashing Australia, it’s just the uk gets good innovation from Germany and the likes, over here we don’t see what is available to the rest of the world and continue to use outdated materials and products

@@lesskinner8588 people don’t see this they think the fairies do it for us 😂

@@AdrianDaley-sn9tt Haha they didn’t train you did they you sausage

@@ProBuildCarpenter I Have a diploma of building. Go home. no work for you.

@ 😂 so your a useless paper holder, I have cert 4 plus 8 trade licences your no threat to me your the kind of bludger that pays trades shit money and this video scares them because they get asked for pay rises 😂

@@ProBuildCarpenter YOU GOT SO MANY BECAUSE YOU ARE GOOD AT NONE. YOU ARE A LABOURER AT BEST.

@ That is the worst comeback ever 😂 clearly they didn’t teach you how to troll on your shitploma 👍🏻 Your a receptionist go answer the phone and drink some coffee wet wipe

@@fragglerock5696 very good money and I came under the first quote by a couple of grand, they prob had 2-3 men for it but I did it on my own, now compare that to kitchen fitting, in the uk the min I would charge for a small kitchen for was £1200 like $2400 I’d smash one in a day, over here company’s want to pay you $60 per unit so for a small kitchen 6 units $360 its £170 how people got for that rate I have no idea it’s a complete joke , kitchens in the uk pay well to install over here it’s dog 💩 which is disappointing because that used to be the cream job for carpenters where you make good money, but that fence in the uk would probably pay you $2000 over here you get a lot more.

@@rl7586 how much an hour you get for your regular job?

Unfortunately some people can’t build they don’t have the skills or tools to do the works so they have to pay, I just paid an engineer $4000 to do a basic steel structure drawing must have taken him 5 hours that’s $800 per hour so depends what you class as a ridiculous rate because that is obscene, it’s swings and roundabouts

@@danielp3345 Rates are crazy I just said to someone on another comment it’s just work for whatever your happy with, if someone has a massive office they have to pay for they will have to charge more but they go for bigger company’s that ignore the small guys because they assume bigger is better, it’s a crazy world but if you are willing to put in the hard work you can achieve anything, your also never too old to retrain and upskill. Good luck with whatever you want to do if you can get into carpentry it may take a few years but it would be worth it in the long run 👍🏻

@@needaman66 Hi mate I’m Brisbane and surrounding areas, I get the idea of separating the skills but the problem is there aren’t enough people to do the work, if there were masses of carpenters fighting for work I could understand but when people can’t get anyone it’s crazy, in the uk we had roofing carpenter then all rounders that would include fitting kitchens, here I’m not allowed to build kitchens because I don’t have the cabinetmakers licence or qualification which is crazy because it’s mdf and chipboard screwed together in boxes 😂 I’m glad it’s hard work sometimes because the uk letting anyone do anything means rates are highly competitive here people are lucky if someone comes to quote so it’s good for trades but bad news for home owners, wish I would have come here 20 years ago it’s a great country we love it

​@@ProBuildCarpenter welcome to the new motherland. Hope you do well. Im in Caboolture area. Doing small jobs to keep myself moving. We came here in 1886 😁 I prefer all rounders, keeps you on your toes. 2008 I was lead carpenter running jobs with 6 carpenters.

@ Thanks appreciated 👍🏻hopefully my son has a good life here the uk is a shit hole . I worked quite a bit up the Sunshine Coast with the last company i worked for, I’m happy doing small jobs now I can handle I’m not interested in being big it takes it out of your hands depending on others

@ProBuildCarpenter same same

@@jasonclark950 yes this is the standard method of patching holes, if it is a small hole you can buy metal wall patches with lots of holes in that stick to the wall and you plaster over them but generally everyone uses this method, Quick tip to get a good tight patch, cut a piece of plasterboard slightly bigger than the hole in the wallet put the patch over the wall, draw around it and cut the excess out of the wall, this removes any busted board and gives a tight fit 👍🏻 also use fibre tape not scrim tape the fibre tape lays a lot flatter and the plaster bonds into it where scrim tape you can have bits of it sticking out if you sand too deep

@@ProBuildCarpenter Thanks! 👍

@ no worries thanks for watching I hope you subscribed 😉👍🏻

@@ProBuildCarpenter Subscribed 👍

No idea what you are talking about mate. You have gone from everyone wants cash and scams the ATO to now politics. Someone has upset you but it was nothing to do with me giving advice on carpenters salary’s.

@@smilingjack7622If you charge the right prices you don’t need to do cash jobs, register for gst and claim for everything legally, it’s the people not earning enough that want cash to boost wages. As for inspection reports no idea what you mean by that, but if work is over $3300 in qld you report it to the QBCC and insure the works with warranty. Sounds like you are a little disgruntled if you pay the right prices you get the good trades. ABN is a standard practice as with registering your business name it’s easy and free, also qualifications are recognised you just need to get recognition of prior learning and transfer them to an Australian Qualification, I transferred mine and now I have 8 different trade licences soon to be 9. Money is easy to make here there’s no reason to try and scam the system

I have heard a few horror stories of people not being paid by builders, I try not to work for them and try to get my own work preferably from businesses, it’s a minefield there’s always a scum bag that will abuse your trust. I have been done in the uk went to court and they counter claimed for nonsense, the female judge sided with us both and we both got nothing. Its all about doing what your happiest doing 👍🏻 I was advised get on a union site but was told they are hard to get on, I think the crown casino was paying chippies $200,000 a year Thanks for commenting 👍🏻

Never heard of that happening. Make sure you got it in writting, or hourly rate. Work for builders who are going through the banks. Banks control the payments and builder will want as much as possible as the working on percentage.

@ iv heard a few tales off people apparently a local guy took over his dads company took loads of deposits cocked up loads of jobs and went under didn’t pay anyone, it happens, what would be good was if QBCC actually did stuff that worked like an escrow service where they charge a small fee and check completion stages and release money that the client has put into the escrow there doesn’t seem to be anything like it across the globe look at the big home builders going bust taking deposits they should t even have the money

If you get reamed its your own fault. Use baby oil

Ask for the brand P Diddy use, must be good he buys it buy the bulk.😂

@paulandrews2235 scented

@@Tony-eb5kh never too old to earn, maintenance pays really well there’s a company here called fallons they charge the earth because the promise to be there the same day, my friend showed me their rates and they were paying him $35 ph he would charge $500 for a small plaster patch, if your doing maintenance you want $300 min for a small job plus materials that’s a full days wage with a company

​@@ProBuildCarpenterzackly. They charge it out anyway to business to like a HOA type company (property Maintenance) who get a percentage anyway. Im 63, doing small jobs for private owners. I only charge 70 +materials but only work local

@ I always say work for whatever your happy with dont worry whatever someone else is getting 👍🏻 plus no one knows what overheads people have so others have to charge more doesn’t mean their profits are more you find people like yourself get more profits with less overheads and less stress

@@neilgillespie7435 nope I don’t rely on others to find me work, how do you think a company pays you $70 on ABN do you think they charge $75 ? They are charging $120-150, ask yourself this are you worth more than a plumber that squashes plastic pipe together ? Because they charge $125ph

Of Rand businesses and I'm telling you if he's charging 100 bucks an hour after everything's got to pay out there's not much left

Says Neil who's never done a day on the tools in his life and never will

Well you would be wrong Built fences built kitchens Worked on cars found trades lie their guts out do not provide value for money and love cash

Plenty tool here and l know how to use them you live in fairy land

@@ronnie8991 😂 I’m expensive because I am fast and highly skilled I have 8 licences soon to be 9 I do the job of 8 different Australian trades 😎

@ Thank you 🙏🏻

@zeitgeistprepper1967 really ? A warehouse worker at Aldi gets $37.82 yet you expect someone to train for 4 years, spend $6k on a set of tools, pay $100 per month for insurance , then buy a work vehicle for an extra $60 ? That doesn’t include time spent quoting where you don’t get paid or time spent on admin or even advertising costs. Really ?

​@@ProBuildCarpenterexactly , no paid leave, sick days etc Only a person who has never worked a day as a tradie would say crap like that.

I charge $100 an hour as a videographer. Not including editing after. I’m not even qualified. Just TH-cam everything.

Where do you find these jobs? My husband is carpenter

@@MrMaxm144 I know a chippy in Perth now he says over there is crap $45 ph he can’t afford to live with his family in QLD on ABN you would be getting $65-70 instead your on a secluded mine site working 12 hr shifts for $55 you need to go self employed mate get licenced a regular carpenter in qld is on $120-40k per year for 40 hrs per week on ABN. houses are expensive but you can’t live in the mines forever and the prices just keep going up we bought ours for $700k last year had it valued last month for $925 when it’s finished it will be $1.2-.13 mil if you get in with a few little builders you would be laughing. To be living in a mine away from family site I would be wanting $100 ph+

@@leannegodwin7308 tell him get licenced and start advertising, post in local facebook groups, go to businesses offering handyman services go to local small builders they are all looking for workers you just have to find them once you get in with them keep looking and grow your client base , Facebook has groups eg carpenters wanted in Queensland plenty of people offering jobs

those jobs are for Australians only.

@@henryfletch3860 haha tell that to the Australians and Australian company’s that are over the moon giving me the work because 1 ) I turn up 😎 Only yesterday the Aussie asbestos checker didn’t even turn up to sample a wall, left me and the client hanging, seems it’s common practice here.

@@danielkiss78 some trades are totally taking the piss I had a woman who said she was quoted $500k for a side extension, I valued it at $150k, houses are so expensive and we put so much time and money into training and buying shed loads of tools it’s fair we get paid well, without carpenters there would be no homes so if a selling agent gets $25k for selling a house that takes a week why should we not get paid well, if the home owner wants the sales profits then we deserve a good wage don’t you think ?

@@libatalklieb5793 unfortunately people see us as slaves ripping them off then they go an pay $150,000 for a car made in thailand that costs $20,000 to make they see value in shit products but not the time and skill of a tradesman, it’s how it always has been and probably as it always will be 👍🏻

@@stephentoby8750 haha don’t remind me of that pos 😂 time has flown by, hope you are well 👍🏻

@@jimmymorgan3324 good job I took them off faster then 😂

@@ainsleyknott8628 I did mine with these guys in 2019 but in the uk visaskills.com/about-us/ it’s easy enough but worth doing to get your AQF3 , just take pictures of everything you do