Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 2Feb 09, 2022 12:15 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 4Feb 09, 2022 2:50 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 6Feb 09, 2022 3:44 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. 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Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 14Feb 10, 2022 12:34 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 16Apr 28, 2022 11:40 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 17Apr 28, 2022 11:54 am Ashington Homes Honestly, other than some ovens we couldn't get this month and timber, our business hasn't suffered any significant delays on our projects. Prices are very high but we are finding trades available. We just have to spend heaps of time phoning around. We are finding that some items are delayed like front doors but luckily our clients are working with us to find alternatives so that our projects can keep moving. I think the issue is that builders have priced jobs on old rates and they are struggling to find trades for cheap prices to avoid losing money. Case in point I am starting bricklaying tomorrow. I had budget $1.20 for commons and $1.40 for face. I put the call out for bricklayers on Monday, I had 8 crews ready to start this week, problem was most wanted $1.30 for commons and $1.80 for face ( for my footings this means an extra $6,000). We kept phoning around and I found a crew for $1.15 commons and $1.55 face. Point being is that trades are available. In the end I am paying an extra $1800, but interest is costing me $1500 per week so it makes sense. The main issue remains frames, but we have switched to steel which has a 3 month lead time, so we book frames in day one so there is no delay, just need to be organised. cheers Simeon Sounds like you are being proactive and organised well.. good for your clients and thanks for the info. Honestly, with my project.. I wish the builder was just transparent with what is going on to manage clients expectation at least. There are so many days I drive pass the house just to find out nothing has progressed and get frustrated. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 18Apr 28, 2022 1:34 pm Without trying to be too dramatic, and I am not sure who you are building with, unfortunately builder's delaying and not turning up could be a sign that they are in financial difficulty and not paying subbies. Obviously if subbies aren't getting paid they wont show up. I hope that is not the case for you Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 19Apr 28, 2022 7:25 pm The issue with Tradies on New Builds are many depending on the Builders choices of Subbies or Rates. Since the pandemic a lot of overseas workers left and went home in fear of being trapped in Australia unable to get back home for an extended period of time. A lot of overseas workers that were working on sites both commercial and residential are on either Student, Holiday or Short Term visas which is why a lot left Australia to go back home. A lot of companies that work in the industry have the Boss who lives here permanetly and than rotates staff when they fly in to work, which worked well until Covid hit which resulted in no fly ins. The other issue is Rates which a lot of Local tradies just can not afford to live on after paying their tax, gst, super, insurances, fuel & wages. Some builders generally the smaller guys tend to pay higher rates and this gives them more consistant build times because they can use local trades but maybe less margin. Saying that most will have less overheads than the Large Volume Builders. The boom in property price is also a problem which has resulted in a lot of people having equity in their house and can not afford to buy elsewhere due to high prices so people have opted in the past few years to renovate and borrow back on their equity. Renovation pays higher for tradies than builders but work can be up and down when in this type of industry. The past few years has seen high growth in the renovation market so most local tradies are generally prefering these type of jobs. Fires & Floods are having an impact to certain supplies but generally speaking its not that high volume of supplies that actually come from Australia. The insurance claims have also caused a lot of tradies to do insurance work which can be better money for them but its quite chaotic trying to schedule your long term works as they are often required to be completed asap or job goes to the next in line. Our reliance on overseas materials is a major problem becuase a lot of Australian Companies are owned by overseas countries. When Covid hit most suppliers stopped shipping because of the panic, confusion and the unknown of what we were all going through and wanted to keep products for themselves first suring up their own supply. This caused a domino effect as the shipping industry came to a halt and a lot of shipping companies either parked their ships if they could afford staff and maitain the ships or sent them to scrap metal as a lot did. The big Volume Builders are building less today than they did 4-6 years ago but we didnt have Covid or the extreme weather events which we seem to be experiencing more often. Re: Feb 2022 - Is there shortage of bricklayer in NSW curren 20Apr 28, 2022 7:56 pm Splashers The issue with Tradies on New Builds are many depending on the Builders choices of Subbies or Rates. Since the pandemic a lot of overseas workers left and went home in fear of being trapped in Australia unable to get back home for an extended period of time. A lot of overseas workers that were working on sites both commercial and residential are on either Student, Holiday or Short Term visas which is why a lot left Australia to go back home. A lot of companies that work in the industry have the Boss who lives here permanetly and than rotates staff when they fly in to work, which worked well until Covid hit which resulted in no fly ins. The other issue is Rates which a lot of Local tradies just can not afford to live on after paying their tax, gst, super, insurances, fuel & wages. Some builders generally the smaller guys tend to pay higher rates and this gives them more consistant build times because they can use local trades but maybe less margin. Saying that most will have less overheads than the Large Volume Builders. The boom in property price is also a problem which has resulted in a lot of people having equity in their house and can not afford to buy elsewhere due to high prices so people have opted in the past few years to renovate and borrow back on their equity. Renovation pays higher for tradies than builders but work can be up and down when in this type of industry. The past few years has seen high growth in the renovation market so most local tradies are generally prefering these type of jobs. Fires & Floods are having an impact to certain supplies but generally speaking its not that high volume of supplies that actually come from Australia. The insurance claims have also caused a lot of tradies to do insurance work which can be better money for them but its quite chaotic trying to schedule your long term works as they are often required to be completed asap or job goes to the next in line. Our reliance on overseas materials is a major problem becuase a lot of Australian Companies are owned by overseas countries. When Covid hit most suppliers stopped shipping because of the panic, confusion and the unknown of what we were all going through and wanted to keep products for themselves first suring up their own supply. This caused a domino effect as the shipping industry came to a halt and a lot of shipping companies either parked their ships if they could afford staff and maitain the ships or sent them to scrap metal as a lot did. The big Volume Builders are building less today than they did 4-6 years ago but we didnt have Covid or the extreme weather events which we seem to be experiencing more often. Interesting post Splashers But that doesn't explain why these builders aren't getting any work done for months at a time. Things aren't that bad out there. There has to be another explanation, and my bet is on a lack of cashflow. Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. 10 years ago was a different software than we use now. it has had a lot of changes over the past years. Improvments to the software and changes to how Nathers models need… 8 1452 In NSW the maximum deposit for building work is 5% until the builder provides HBCF insurance 1 4821 Hi All, see above image. 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