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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 31, 2019 8:58:29 GMT
I’ve been offered a green labourer CSCS card.
The H&S course, CSCS test, card etc.
It’s all free but the course is an hour or more away & it’s 5 days, yes 5 days!
Now, I know the test is £36 in Slough & a one day CITB H&S day is £120’ish again local to me.
Although I’m quiet I reckon it’ll cost me £75 in diesel there & back plus stacked up on the M25.
I think I’ll pass on it.
Anyone else have a card?
I’ve never actually worked on a site
I think I’m bored!
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Post by tomplum on Jan 31, 2019 9:07:46 GMT
I never got one, Its a fuckin' scam, I have to prove I can work safe to some 20 year old university Boy/girl, and pay for the privalige, then to rub salt in the wounds, renew it every 5 years, Then show it to site managers to prove I'm entitled to work there, no fuckin way, it should be the other way round .  |
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 31, 2019 11:38:23 GMT
I’m not doing it
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 16:04:39 GMT
You wouldn't like site work Rocky  I've done plenty over the years and they are meeting ground for fucking arseholes.  |
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 31, 2019 16:24:17 GMT
You wouldn't like site work Rocky I've done plenty over the years and they are meeting ground for fucking arseholes. View AttachmentYeah PB. I think I just bored! |
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Post by tomplum on Jan 31, 2019 17:47:30 GMT
they're not just a meeting place for arseholes. they breed um there and any decent blokes who come on are converted over a short period of time, Site workers are interested in one thing only, ££££££££££££'s  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 19:08:07 GMT
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Post by clart on Feb 1, 2019 14:39:45 GMT
I’ve been offered a green labourer CSCS card. The H&S course, CSCS test, card etc. It’s all free but the course is an hour or more away & it’s 5 days, yes 5 days! Now, I know the test is £36 in Slough & a one day CITB H&S day is £120’ish again local to me. Although I’m quiet I reckon it’ll cost me £75 in diesel there & back plus stacked up on the M25. I think I’ll pass on it. Anyone else have a card? I’ve never actually worked on a site I think I’m bored! 5 days and at the end of it you only get the green card? Fuck that! I'd want a black card for five days of bullshite! A green card will get you on site but a lot of these builders won't let you work as a plumber only a sweeper upper with a green card. |
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Post by dickpuller on Feb 1, 2019 18:54:22 GMT
My CSCS Card is Trade specific.
I love working on new build house bashing.
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Post by DIYDafty on Feb 2, 2019 16:21:36 GMT
The plumbers that put in the pipework in our house in the 70s didn't care too much about ramming pipes hard up against joists and floorboards. The lucky new owners wouldn't have noticed anything until they turned on the heating and it starting clicking and ticking everywhere. I've no doubt that the new site card system totally solves that problem by raising standards to new heights....  Would also be interesting to know if the big developers at least, even ensure the building regs notching/holing regs are followed? (I imagine there is nothing in the regs about noise from pipes next to woodwork?) |
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Feb 2, 2019 16:38:46 GMT
The plumbers that put in the pipework in our house in the 70s didn't care too much about ramming pipes hard up against joists and floorboards. The lucky new owners wouldn't have noticed anything until they turned on the heating and it starting clicking and ticking everywhere. I've no doubt that the new site card system totally solves that problem by raising standards to new heights.... Would also be interesting to know if the big developers at least, even ensure the building regs notching/holing regs are followed? (I imagine there is nothing in the regs about noise from pipes next to woodwork?) The CSCS card isn’t anew thing mate & on sites now it’s all plastic pipe & polish you tube experienced workers! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2019 17:45:59 GMT
A 5 year old could carry out site work plumbing  no skill needed and hence the reason most of them on site are morons.  |
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Post by woodbine66 on Feb 2, 2019 17:55:00 GMT
The plumbers that put in the pipework in our house in the 70s didn't care too much about ramming pipes hard up against joists and floorboards. The lucky new owners wouldn't have noticed anything until they turned on the heating and it starting clicking and ticking everywhere. I've no doubt that the new site card system totally solves that problem by raising standards to new heights....  Would also be interesting to know if the big developers at least, even ensure the building regs notching/holing regs are followed? (I imagine there is nothing in the regs about noise from pipes next to woodwork?)
I always use plenty of hair felt between pipes and joists DD, especially ch and hot water. Nothing worse than having a system that ticks and clicks all the time. The ch system in my own house drove me nuts. It was put in in the early 60s, pipes just laid in notches with the occasional bent nail instead of pipe clips. Replaced lots of it that's accessible - hair felt between any pipes and joists or where pipes are close to each other.
Now, as Messrs Simon and Garfunkel would say, I have 'the sound of silence'. Except that is when I come back from pub late and Mrs starts nagging. 
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Post by dickpuller on Feb 3, 2019 18:38:35 GMT
A 5 year old could carry out site work plumbing no skill needed and hence the reason most of them on site are morons.  Thanks for that!!! Oh house bashing is repetitive & simple, but there’s a degree of skill required to do it neat & fast. It suits me, no greetin faced customers, nice comfy tea hut & toilets. Then there’s the Cleaners, hot young things - swinging their tits around. I’m always in the same Plot as the Cleaners, funny that!! Turn the CH right up & watch them peal off🤪🤪🤪😍😍😍 |
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Post by joinerjohn on Feb 3, 2019 19:11:05 GMT
Had a gold cscs card many years ago. Never got asked for it once. Although I almost used it. Sent a fitting team to a new build B&Q store to fit a couple of kitchen displays. Site manager sent them away because they didn't have a cscs card. Went up myself and told the site gaffer he was a fuckin idiot. He told me the store was being handed over to B&Q within the next few days. Sent the same chaps back two days later and helped them myself. B&Q management didn't want to know anything about cscs cards, unlike the site gaffer.
As Tom says, the cscs card scheme is a bloody outright con, to keep some pen pushers in cushy office jobs.
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I've done plenty over the years and they are meeting ground for fucking arseholes.
no skill needed and hence the reason most of them on site are morons. 
