hahahaha

I laugh at people like you, inventing synonyms like C.U.B so you can act like you are some kind of expert when anyone with an IQ over 15 can see you are just ignorant and arrogant.

Im such a “bogan” cos I managed to win awards during my apprenticeship for workmanship, and got another award for getting the highest score on any trade exam in the country. Still have the certificates.

I went on to work for the 3rd richest man in the country at his Wolsley Rd mansion.

If you were half as smart as you pretend, you would have realised that $120 was back in 2000 as stated clearly.

another point is that tradies wages were largely unchanged from 1990 to 2003. I remember as an apprentice in 1992 we were charging $45/hr, and I was still charging that in 2003. So we are just playing catchup for years of under-pay.

so please, remind me of how much I suck and you rule……

A warning on warranties……..they are not worth the paper they are written on. To prove this, the cheapest nastiest chinese units have real long warranties. WHY? the make 100,000 units then close the company and rename it.

The old a/c is probably OK, may just need a re-gas.

Buy a decent brand, or it will cost you no end of money and inconvenience. I used to work for a company who installed chinese crap, their markup was 100% and they allowed for a 50% failure rate after 2 yrs.

mummy, Im scared! I agree with L.A.!

oven issue is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

re tools

Ive been through the GMC's, the Ozito's, even the Ryobi's and B & D's……all these powertools died within weeks / months of trade use. Use Dewalt ever since & never had an issue.
They may cost 5x more, but last 50x more and provide more power which saves time & money.

$750 for a cordless drill. and the public whines about our charges when we use it on their house.
Left a $600 Ramset drill at a customers house once, went back to get it a week later, customer says, nah no drill here mate. Not much I could do……….

the difference is though, people only make one trip to work per day. tradies can make 10-15. MOST of our day is spent travelling from job to job, or job to wholesaler to job. a large chunck of our day is spent in wholesalers buying materials (and its normal to lose 2 hrs here since service is sometimes shocking) or in traffic. also we spend hours after work doing paperwork.

I was a sparky offering 24/7 service.

I was often called at 2am in the morning.

I went out and fixed the problem immediately, and charged $60 callout and $60 an hour (with min of 1 hr, this was back in 2000)

you wont believe how people whined!

lets look at it from my point of view:

at 2am, my house gets a phonecall. everyone wakes up.
I spend 10 mins getting dressed, and 5 mins looking up the address in the map.
at 2.15am, I start a 30 min drive to the client (on average)
at 2.45am, I start work.
at 3.15am, I stop work and issue an invoice for $120
at 3.50am, I arrive back home, have a shower, family wakes up again
at 4.05am, Im back in bed

so thats effectively over 2 hrs work for me, plus petrol, plus the inconvenience of my family having a crappy nights sleep.

I argue $120 isnt nearly enough!!!

Yet people say things like:
"$60 an hour!? so thats like $1 a min, are you for real?"
"$120 for half an hour, your a friggin shark!"
"if I had known you were going to charge that much I would have got my regular guy who charges $45/hr"
"Ive NEVER been charged that much in my life!"

hmmmm…….does your regular guy come out at 2am? Im guessing no since you called me. Of course you have never been charged that much, since youve never called someone out at 2am before. half an hour…….yeah mate, I teleported here!
$1 a minute………yep, you just wasted $2 bitching about it
$120 for half an hour…….but that saves you taking the day off work and saves $300 of food in the fridge from going off.

so remind me again, who has the low I.Q……..the public or the tradies?

dont use floating floor.

one drop of water and its ruined. Its noisy, looks crap, affects resale and warps in the sun.