Boss taking you for granted

[Douglas Quaid]

There is no way the roofer is earning £200 an hour. It would be an amazing job if you could earn that kind of money but if you tried to charge the amount of money you’d need to charge to earn that you would never get any work. If you genuinely believe he’s earning £200 an hour, why don’t you and your son set up in business together? He can show you the ropes and you’ll be loaded in no time...

I take it you have never had your own business OP. It’s not as easy as you think. For some reason people assume that tradesmen are earning mega money every hour of every day and don’t think about things like emptying the rubbish off the van, collecting materials, quoting, bad weather, snags and all of the other things that are necessary but don’t bring any money in.

[Deep Thought]

I would say the reality is "oh my boss got paid £200 and we'd the job done in an hour". when in reality there was getting there, getting the materials, getting set up, doing the job itself which takes an hour, packing up, getting back which maybe takes a full morning.

[Jerry Can]

it's got to be £200 per day surely? that's a grand a week, then matey boy gets £300, which seems about right.

[BIG MOLE]

I have just finished building my house, on the south cost, employing all the trades myself. Depending on the trade, I was paying between £170-£220 per day. Your sons boss is not charging £200/hr.

With all due respect to anyone on here in the building trade (I speak as someone with a lot of family in the trades) the level of skill required for a young bloke to be at a point where he can go it alone and start making proper money is not particularly high. My advice, as others have said, is watch and listen to what the boss does (particularly what goes wrong) and learn.

Most practically minded people could pick up a building trade pretty quickly. Running a business is where most people struggle.

[singlecoil]

There was a chap on here (until he got banned) who judging from his PH name is a roofer. According to his posts, IIRC, he was about to be banned from driving as well as from PH for persistent speeding. Just wondering if it could be the same chap.

[anonymous-user]

In all great comments from you all and recon he is not toooooooooooo badly done by after reading your comments, I still recon the roofer is expensive, , , , I didn't think that anyone got that sort of money these days, I assumed we were just coming out of a recession and heading into another one!

[Whatsmyname]

£300 a week? I bet you hit the fking roof.

[slow_poke]

Whatsmyname said:

£300 a week? I bet you hit the fking roof.

If the guy can make that much, don't slate him for it.

[GT03ROB]

singlecoil said:

There was a chap on here (until he got banned) who judging from his PH name is a roofer. According to his posts, IIRC, he was about to be banned from driving as well as from PH for persistent speeding. Just wondering if it could be the same chap.

Wondered where Roofer disappeared to!

[KAgantua]

slow_poke said:

Whatsmyname said:

£300 a week? I bet you hit the fking roof.

If the guy can make that much, don't slate him for it.

Probably spends every night on the tiles earning that sort of money.

[anonymous-user]

£200 an hour?

I missed my vocation earning less than that as an IT Director.

Roofer earns £400k pa. I can see the headlines now

[slow_poke]

keirik said:

£200 an hour?

I missed my vocation earning less than that as an IT Director.

Roofer earns £400k pa. I can see the headlines now

You reckon there's a ceiling on his earnings?

[KAgantua]

slow_poke said:

keirik said:

£200 an hour?

I missed my vocation earning less than that as an IT Director.

Roofer earns £400k pa. I can see the headlines now

You reckon there's a ceiling on his earnings?

The gutter press may be interested - though I think this is nothing more than a fascia to his true earnings.

[randlemarcus]

KAgantua said:

slow_poke said:

keirik said:

£200 an hour?

I missed my vocation earning less than that as an IT Director.

Roofer earns £400k pa. I can see the headlines now

You reckon there's a ceiling on his earnings?

The gutter press may be interested - though I think this is nothing more than a fascia to his true earnings.

All of you need to stop getting your pantiles in a twist about this.

[Turbodicky]

£1600 a day and hes only giving your boy £300 a week?

All jokes aside, is he an apprentice? If so; that's a fair wage.

If not, does he want to be a roofer? Is he picking up skills and knowledge? Or just picking his nose and texting majority of the day?

Things to think about.

Also, anyone looking for a roofer I will come in cheap at £180/hr

[Matt-il77s]

Mr Pointy said:

Well the minimum wage is £7.70 so is he getting that?

The roofer isn't charging £200 an hour: that would be £1600 a day & I'd be signing up for it.

Unless he's an apprentice, then minimum is £3.90

[Sochaux]

£200 an hour is nonsense, as others have said that amount per day sounds about right.

I employ roofers regularly for commercial work on major projects and the standard day rate is between £250-£300.

[alistair1234]

mgsontour said:

we are in Blackpool and there are lot's of roofs

There's lots of roofs everywhere mate

[triggerhappy21]

alistair1234 said:

mgsontour said:

we are in Blackpool and there are lot's of roofs

There's lots of roofs everywhere mate

[lyonspride]

In this country, the harder you work, the less you get paid.......