Tradies’ surprising find in faulty electrical box highlights quiet national crisis
A couple of tradies got quite the surprise when a typical maintenance job turned into a full-blown rescue…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #electricalbox #feathertail #habitatloss #nestingboxes #Tradies #Victoria #WildlifeVictoria
https://www.newsbeep.com/79887/
Once again, I need tradies to do some electrical work.
Once again, I've contacted a few for quotes, and only one has bothered to reply. Well technically two, but an email telling me they'd be in touch, followed by silence doesn't really count...
🤷♂️ Sigh. But what would I know? I'm not a business owner whose livelihood is dependent on getting back to people seeking to employ me.
My dear old home is transforming at the hands of talented tradies. My grandparents who built our family home (& many houses in this central NSW town) in 1909 may be feeling as pleased as I do with the care shown by this lovely young team. A few more months to go until the work is done.
#Home #Carpenters #Painters #Tradies #Grateful
Trees lopped, mess cleaned up. Weirdly, they just finished, packed up, & left. Not even "We're done mate, see ya". Nothing obvious wrong with the job, making it odder. 🤨
I was going to ask if I paid the quote/invoice or they send a final invoice, because they also wisely removed a small tree likely to fall on next door's boat - hollow base & a huge lean (got my ok to do it yesterday).
I guess I'll wait a few days & see.🤷♂️ Mind you, I haven't checked the boat...
Day nine cont
“Claire ONEIL: 1.2 million homes in five years
The Minister is focused on building more and wants 1.2 million new homes in five years.
“We need to build more #homes at the affordable end of the market – that’s why we want 1.2 million homes built over #FiveYears and assist #FirstHomeBuyers.
Construction capability is very important – we’ve got to build more homes; we need to build our construction sector’s capacity, and one of the most important aspects of that is that we’re training more #tradies.
Fee-free #TAFE is now permanent. Tens of thousands of those have been people #training in #construction.”
There is no mention that I can find on housing from #Labor. The Government Minister for Housing made the above comment on 14th March in the #Melbourne #NeosKosmos.
#AusPol / #Labor / #CaireONeil #HousingCrisis <https://neoskosmos.com/en/2025/03/14/news/australia/build-build-build-clare-oneils-bold-plan-to-tackle-australias-housing-crisis/>
They are on 6pm-6am. So far, they had a group meeting, all the fellows in high-vis tops, probably about how they could make the most noise.
I think they decided that the best idea was not to turn off the beeping noise off the reversing vehicles.
Have a couple of #tradies doing some work in the backyard which is generating quite a bit of noise.
This has created a massive dilemma for my cat, who cannot decide between running away and hiding from the noise vs satisfying her curiosity and watching what they are doing.
The plaster has nearly finished sheeting the kitchen/ laundry ceiling and walls.
I wonder at which point in time, do I congratulate the builder for purchasing a magical pile of insulation, that is sitting on the floor next to the kitchen and doesn't seem to have reduced in volume.
#renovations #tradies #magic
The beginnings of the tradie war, we’ve won the first battle. No they can’t run extension leads to our house to get power and get your f^*ken vehicles off our drive 😡
right. Opinion me. Should I buy a RUBI TS-43 tile cutter or a QEP 63cm big clinker mk2 tile cutter?
The RUBI has a better mechanism I think, but is shorter so gives me less options. I can't afford the 63cm RUBI.
The QEP seems to be same design as Ishii; but I'm not sure why if it's much cheaper than Ishii because of lack of branding, or poorer quality manufacturing.
Attached videos of them cutting, but not sure if second guy is just getting worse results due to bad technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNMniKT1xY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZjWpGRQXs
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I think it's pure #classism when a majority of longtime #Fediverse users from #academia blame #artist|s and #sexworker|s for trying to generate #income by doing #promotion in the Fediverse.
What else are #academic|s doing than to promote themselves when they expose their #skills & #knowledge in the Fediverse?
I consider it #bigotry on #speed to blame #tradies, #artists & #sexworkers for trying to generate #income here.
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That was unexpected. Had a leaking pipe, and the earliest I could get a plumber was 4 Jan. They rang this afternoon, and now plumber is fixing pipe. Awesome. The pipe burst under my lounge, so we had to lift the carpet, and cut out the floorboard.
The Queensland government is being blamed for slowing down the recovery of struggling flood-affected communities because it has refused to sign on to a national scheme for #tradies, arguing other states have "substandard licensing regimes". (That’ll be NSW, we have some dodgy tradies here)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/interstate-trade-recognition-scheme-queensland-nsw/101728910
Construction is going on.
This is friday night shift.
The guys work hard demolishing.
Lots of noise, lots of sweat
