Shortage of tradies ? NSW

rcj162000 · Nov 05, 2019 6:10 pm

Hi to all,

I am building in North West Sydney ( 2 storey house) and is currently in bricklaying stage.
It is also my first time to build so forgive me if this may sound naive. I have been going to the house every 3 days and notice that there are only 2 tradies doing the job. Literally speaking, only one person is doing the bricklaying, and another is in doing the sand and mortar. Is this normal? No wonder progress is really slow. 2 weeks have past and they havent finished one side of the ground floor. (30sq home). Builder is mid-level type of builder and dont think they produce more than 100 homes per year.

ourrawsonbalmoral38 · Nov 05, 2019 10:31 pm

rcj162000

Hi to all,

I am building in North West Sydney ( 2 storey house) and is currently in bricklaying stage.
It is also my first time to build so forgive me if this may sound naive. I have been going to the house every 3 days and notice that there are only 2 tradies doing the job. Literally speaking, only one person is doing the bricklaying, and another is in doing the sand and mortar. Is this normal? No wonder progress is really slow. 2 weeks have past and they havent finished one side of the ground floor. (30sq home). Builder is mid-level type of builder and dont think they produce more than 100 homes per year.

yes similar thing occurred for me by rawson took ages to finish the brickwork! (Newcastle NSW)

rcj162000 · Nov 06, 2019 7:55 am

ourrawsonbalmoral38

rcj162000

Hi to all,

I am building in North West Sydney ( 2 storey house) and is currently in bricklaying stage.
It is also my first time to build so forgive me if this may sound naive. I have been going to the house every 3 days and notice that there are only 2 tradies doing the job. Literally speaking, only one person is doing the bricklaying, and another is in doing the sand and mortar. Is this normal? No wonder progress is really slow. 2 weeks have past and they havent finished one side of the ground floor. (30sq home). Builder is mid-level type of builder and dont think they produce more than 100 homes per year.

yes similar thing occurred for me by rawson took ages to finish the brickwork! (Newcastle NSW)

So how long yours took? No wonder houses take a while to be built here. Faster the build= happy clients & more houses built which is a win-win situation. Hope builders consider that.

ourrawsonbalmoral38 · Nov 06, 2019 10:39 am

rcj162000

ourrawsonbalmoral38

rcj162000

Hi to all,

I am building in North West Sydney ( 2 storey house) and is currently in bricklaying stage.
It is also my first time to build so forgive me if this may sound naive. I have been going to the house every 3 days and notice that there are only 2 tradies doing the job. Literally speaking, only one person is doing the bricklaying, and another is in doing the sand and mortar. Is this normal? No wonder progress is really slow. 2 weeks have past and they havent finished one side of the ground floor. (30sq home). Builder is mid-level type of builder and dont think they produce more than 100 homes per year.

yes similar thing occurred for me by rawson took ages to finish the brickwork! (Newcastle NSW)

So how long yours took? No wonder houses take a while to be built here. Faster the build= happy clients & more houses built which is a win-win situation. Hope builders consider that.

Our brickies took a tad over 8 weeks