G_Man
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Registered: 4th Dec 04
Location: Darlington Drives: Seat Leon Cupra R
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Anyone still busy, plumbers, brickys, joiners etc.
Seems a lot of companies are going bust etc, just wondering if anyone is still busy with work, or still surviving at least... 
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
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I'm in engineering and its busy right now, but not much for November / December. I know many brickies out of work and my sisters boyfriend is a joiner and he was made redundant. I'm a sparky and there's still lots of work about it seems.
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G_Man
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Registered: 4th Dec 04
Location: Darlington Drives: Seat Leon Cupra R
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Seems the sparkies who are contracted in to do our houses at work have plenty of work on too. Think we are the only builder in town to keep building at the moment, but we arent selling, boss just said he wants to carry on lol
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andys sxi
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Chester Drives:Scirocco tdi bluemotion
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i do suspended ceilings and partition walls and we are quite busy we have had to get a few extra people in to help us cus there is only 3 of us that go out on site and we have got 3 more people to come and help us
about 5 months ago we was really quite but its picked up well now
April 08 feature car
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AlexSXI
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Registered: 10th Jan 08
Location: Colchester, Essex
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i'm a trainee site manager for a main contractor, a few of our sub-contractors have gone bust this year--- Warners Electrical, Trojan Aluminium and AD Sullivan + DGT Steel+Cladding are both struggling i believe, we made 4 labourers redundant in the summer and rumours going about that 2 site managers will be going in january as 4 of our contracts finish at christmas  
hopefully on the up though!
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jonnysri
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Leeds (Ilkley)
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my hours are getting cut down at work, hoping not to get sacked just before xmas but might not be able to help it
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Tiesto
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
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Engineering consultant bit of construction, for house buiilders mainly. Some of our competitiors have gone bust, but we are finding bits of work, not major jobs but pays the bills. Escpecially Lidl/Aldi, building alot of new stores.
[Edited on 15-10-2008 by Tiesto]
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
Location: Northumberland
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Have small development company with a couple of properties to sell which has effectively forced us to shut up shop until the housing market recovers, however I was lucky enough to get a start with Carillion as a QS so just biding my time at the minute. However I do know a lot of construction companies in the NE are struggling and I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of established companies struggle over the next year or so.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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I work for a storage solution company. Not busy, but not quiet. Riding the storm well as they say. Every week we are getting new enquiries though - companies wouldn't do it if they weren't interested.
The thing with what we do, is some companies benefit and some lose out from the 'credit crunch' and being in storage, racking, mezz floors etc, some companies will have a requirement 'cause they're doing well.
We've recently had one come in from 'Trek Bikes'. Obviously doing well 'cause people are buying bikes to get to work, which is a good example.
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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we are ticking over nicely at the moment. Domestic work isnt suffering like site work
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JadeM
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Registered: 9th Feb 06
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I work in construction, contracts are still coming in atm. We're not involved in a lot of new build, mostly renovation work etc.
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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renovations are where its at right now alot of repos out there
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
Location: Northumberland
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I've noticed alot of the small to medium sized contractors in our area only seem to be getting revites and the like. It's only the larger firms which seem to have any new build on
[Edited on 15-10-2008 by Mad Moe]
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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Ive been very busy this week, Its patchy for me at the moment, 2 blokes from our company were laid off today
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Dav
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Registered: 23rd Jul 02
Location: Falkirk, Scotland
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I was in engineering but I was made redundant. Seems the company is still struggling. They're getting rid of more staff, demanding pay cuts, etc. I'm glad I got out of there to be honest, but I do hate being a skint student now!
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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I work for a engineering consultant so not directly on the front line but still in Construction industry.
Its the housing side thats slowed up for us but we have plenty in other fields to keep us busy at the moment. Supermarkets, schools etc. plus we do Hydro Electric work too.
A lot of wealthy people are looking for somewhere to put their money instead of banks and Hydro is a good investment. After a few years you've made all your money back and are in to profit.
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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We make the arched window frames, and we are seeing the square window frames struggling around us. Think in the last few months there have been 4 or 5 large companys go.
Our work has been coming in nice and steady, Not as busy as this time last year, but still fairly busy.
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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i hear mcabes are going under and wimpey are not far off it either and they are to of the biggest in the construction industry
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Charlene
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Registered: 29th Sep 04
Location: Darlington
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Graeme 
Well my boyfriend is a joiner, he lost his job in june/july time and applied for a few but most had gone as like you say around here most companies are going bust etc so not taking on any more people
He decided to go self employed, and start up for his self, it has been going really well and took on another member, so its looking up but for how long, as people can't really afford to pay people to do work on their house etc but fingers crossed
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Tiesto
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
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We had a phone call from George Wimpey this morning and told us to stop all work on their sites, said all of thier sites have come to a stand still.
Share price dropped to 13p or something stupid like that.
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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I'm a trainee building surveyor. We're as busy as we've ever been. Few enquiries but we're also working on three massive jobs (well, they are for us) which alone would keep us all busy for 6 months.
Good times (touch wood  )
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Jules S
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Registered: 24th Dec 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
I work for a engineering consultant so not directly on the front line but still in Construction industry.
Its the housing side thats slowed up for us but we have plenty in other fields to keep us busy at the moment. Supermarkets, schools etc. plus we do Hydro Electric work too.
A lot of wealthy people are looking for somewhere to put their money instead of banks and Hydro is a good investment. After a few years you've made all your money back and are in to profit.
I wouldn't hold your breath about public sector spending....I had a meeting with my CEO the other day, and the likely major cutback to pay back the bank loans is Govt spending on schools and LA buildings.....god only knows what will happen with the proposed housing expansion, 6000 in my LA area, and nobody to build them
Personally (if I felt my job was under threat) I would be looking towards the Olympic contractors/subbies...
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CORSA NUT
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Registered: 3rd Aug 01
Location: Wirral
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Spark and never been busyer 
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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I used to be a QS in a new build sub contractors (Plumbing & Heating), left around 2.5yrs ago, last ive heard of them there down to 1/2 office staff & even less technicians & are on the brink of folding. Not good for anyone that worked there, im very happy I left!
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Although I'm not in construction, I am in engineering and manufacturing.
We hit our turndown last September (2007); we laid of 17/18 people; we looked set to shut down in January but had a stay of execution with 4 boat orders which kept us going. In the 12 months to July (2008) we had our worst 12 months takings in 18-20 years, only taking in £1.5million; to put that in persepctive, in the April 2005 to April 2006, We took £10.5million
Anyway, we now seem to have bucked the credit crunch trend, since August we've had £3.2million worth of orders and have taken on 8 of the guys we laid off last year. Further to this we had notification today that we will receive a contract award in January worth £3.5million - We seemed to have bourne the brunt of the downturn and have now come out the other side 
[Edited on 15-10-2008 by LiVe LeE]
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