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Drew:- Signage & Vehicles
just a bit I’ve done recently. Mostly kept busy with subcontract work though.
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Lovely work mate!
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Thanks Simon 😛
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Nice to see Shane
Do you get contractors to fit your free standing signs or do you load up the truck with necessary and DIY?
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Glad your busy Shane, great selection of work.
Sure looks nice over there………….need any rain? we’ve got some in fact we’ve got plenty at the moment :mop:
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quote John Singh:Nice to see Shane
Do you get contractors to fit your free standing signs or do you load up the truck with necessary and DIY?
Depends on the client I guess John.
I do all the vehicles, and contract fit for other sign shops as well, but anything free standing or signs to building, inside or out, I get a contractor to fit.
Some customers get a price to supply only, or to pay me to get installed, and they decide what they want to do.
My contractors fit for heaps of sign shops because of our wph&s laws here. You need a builders license to fit any sign to a building more than a metre off the ground, or to dig a hole for footings. So all my quotes for building signs are effectively for supply only and fitting is an additional charge.
I do a lot of DIY stuff as a result, because a client can fit the signs without any qualifications, but I need the license. . 👿 Its a 4 year course (600hrs) just to get the piece of paper to say I can drill a hole, or dig the ground.
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quote Neil Davey:Glad your busy Shane, great selection of work.
Sure looks nice over there………….need any rain? we’ve got some in fact we’ve got plenty at the moment :mop:
Thanks Neil,
We do need some rain actually. A few towns about an hours drive north are trucking in water to their reservoirs as they have not water at all. Pretty dire in some parts.
We have 11,000 litre water tanks (washing cars, watering gardens etc) to supplement our town water here at work, but most of the Dams servicing SEQ are well stocked for the time being anyway.
You guys have had some floods I see.
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Nice work Shane.
I thought we could get a limited builders license that let us erect signs etc but not build houses. I think I saw it when I when I was looking into getting my building license for something else. Might be different for different states.
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quote Jason Xuereb:Nice work Shane.
I thought we could get a limited builders license that let us erect signs etc but not build houses. I think I saw it when I when I was looking into getting my building license for something else. Might be different for different states.
Yes Jason.
Victoria is different at the moment.
Queensland were going down the limited license (Grandfather Claus) route here too until Peter Beattie and his union mates moved the goal posts.
The Grandfather clause allowed anyone who had been in the industry 10 years or longer to automatically get a limited license, but I believe it was revoked on the eve of the last Beattie election here.
From what I hear, Queensland and Western Australia are the trial states for the new rules, if it works, It will be adopted nationally.
If our sign association had been more interested in the industry as a whole, and not just the big boys who can afford to employ someone with a license, we may have seen some negotiation.
But, they accepted the governments proposal without, from what I hear, so much as a whimper. Helps when all the comittee is made up of the same big boys, with little representation for the sole or small operator.
I let me membership expire and I’ve never re-newed in protest.
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