Australia building industry

WELCOME TO BRISBANE AFFORDABLE RENTALS, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THEREIN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US.
-
Welcome to our blog, affordable rentals
and this post, Australia building industry
-
Australia building industry
-

When I came to Australia I ended up working in the building industry building houses and other buildings, working on building sites is hard work and usually is not a permanent job, because when one building is finished you don't know if your employer has been able to find another job to do, so your job is never secure, but if you want to work usually you will be able to find another job pretty soon. anyhow that is the way it was then and perhaps even know, if you are working in the building industry.

Australia building industry

Working in the Australian building industry

As I have said in our previous post, Australia the land of opportunity, when I came to Australia my first job in Australia was in the building industry, because I ended up to work as a bricklayer’s labour, but I lost that first job for a couple of reasons. I believe that I lost the first job, because I didn’t know much English and at the same time I had no much experience in the sort of work we were doing, and for that reason I could not guess what they wanted me to do next. After that I had another job which ended very much the same way; but then one day suddenly a small Italian builder needed a labour and he knew that I could be available, so he came to fetch me and asked if I would be interested to work for him, and this is how I ended up to work in the building industry, I worked for this builder for about two years, but then he went on holiday to Italy for a long time, therefore he temporary closed down the business, but by then the Italian building community new about me, so, in a few days I had another job to go to, always in the building industry with another builder or contractors working as a bricklayer labour.

You see in those times there was a lot more work for people wanting to work, but at the same time we knew that we had to work hard because there was a lot of competition going on even in those days, so what could we say if we work hard for it, we would always find somebody that would give us work, because we earned our wage plus a bit more for the employer. This is how I understood about the ways of earning your living in this capitalist society, which is based on competition and you are paid with what you deliver. Now, we have to say that this capitalist way is very good, as long as the workers are not pushed beyond their physical capacity, because when they are asked to do more than what is possible for them to do, a lot of troubles and injustice are happening, so everything needs to be fine-tuned, so to speak. But let us compare those times with our times.   

-------------------------------------------------

Compare the old ways with the new

Here we would like to compare the opportunities that we had when we came in Australia in the sixties as legal migrant, to the opportunities of today that all these illegal migrants have, you see the difference here is that they arrive by boat and other illegal ways, for this reason they are starting the wrong way, so to speak; but anyhow, let us compare the old ways of migrating with the new ways.

So, let us compare the way that I and most other emigrants around the sixties, with what is happening today illegal emigration, so that we might be able to spot some of the reasons why things don’t seem to work as good as they used to work.

When I and the other emigrants that came to Australia wanted to come to Australia during the sixties we had to be screened before we could have a visa that would allow us to come to Australia and work here.

This screening was somehow strict, as they did not want anybody that could become sick easily, so we had to go through a medical check, and there was another even stricter check about being legally of good character, even if you had ever had trouble with the police, in fact they were so strict about this that if one had been somehow involved with the communist party, just by saying that you would vote for the communist you would not be allowed to come to Australia.

Now I hope that I have explained how strict they were then, but I believe that this was a good thing then, because as I have already said when I went to the unemployment office even though I did not speak much English they did everything possible to find us a job, and if they could not find us a job they would pay us the unemployment benefit.

Therefore I believe that just about anyone that has come to Australia and has seen Australia the same way that I have seen it, they would know that Australia is a great country to live in; and if there is somebody that does not like Australia, it must be because they have their own personal problems and they are home sick, or they are just unwilling to work hard and pay their way.

Today Australia does not seem to be as good as it was when I came to Australia, because before anyone that could see Australia the way I saw it would fall in love with the Australian ways of living; but we have to say that we are still very well off compared to other countries. So, we would like to conclude this post by saying that Australia could be still the land of opportunities, if the people that come here come with the intention of working hard as we have been working in the past, they should not come with the intention of ripping us off, just because they would like to have an easy life for themselves.

Anyhow this post is becoming too long, so see you next time with another post about building or properties; where we could be continuing telling you my life story and what I have done in Australia to earn a living. See you there.

--------------------------------------- 
Affordable Rentals 
Australia building industry 

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, about rentals

---------------------------------------

 Some helpful links here under

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

Australia the land of opportunity

WELCOME TO BRISBANE AFFORDABLE RENTALS, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THEREIN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US.
-
Welcome to our blog, affordable rentals
and this post, Australia the land of opportunity
-
But, is Australia still the land of opportunity?
-

Even today a lot of people believe that Australia is still the lucky country and the land of opportunities, I believe that it is still a good country to live in, but how does it compare with the old Australian way of life of the sixties and there about, which is the time when I came to Australia.  

In Australia early in the sixties there was work in the building, so, if you were strong and willing to work hard, you would easily find work on the building sites.






-

Some type of brickwork we used to do in the sixties, what is shown here is a brick-base, which most likely would have a timber house on it. The Australian building industry has been slowly changing in Australia, from timber houses to part brick and part timber house, and today there are house that are mostly built with bricks and mortar.

But, is Australia still the land of opportunity?

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our previous post called, work opportunity in Australia, where we would like to compare the old opportunities that we had in the sixties or there about and the opportunities that exist today; so, in this case we would have to ask; is Australia still the land of opportunities?

Now, if I have to use my own personal experience as a standard, then I have to say that today in Australia work opportunities are not as good as they used to be. But then not everything is or might be as it seems to me, because my judgement is that of a single person and therefore I might be wrong.

Anyhow let us try to see what has changed since I came to Australia in the sixties. There are many things that have changed since then, because of the progress humanity has made and continues to make even today; therefore working opportunities have also changed a lot, so today it is a lot harder to find a manual job; this is due to the fact that today we do not need as many hands to do a job as we used to in the past, because a lot of the hard labour is being done from machines, therefore people that have no skills and rely only on their physical strength are not in high demand, for this reason there are a lot less jobs available for these people, but if people have a trade or have studied there may well be opportunities for them.

Now that we have explained how we see today working opportunities, allow me to go back to the days when I came to Australia, so that I could tell you what sort of opportunities existed then, and after that we might be able to compare with what opportunities are available today.

In order to understand what we are going to say next, it is important also to know that economies and for that matter opportunities for jobs have high and lows of their own, therefore this effects everybody around that are looking for work. 

Now if you do not mind let me tell you my own experience when I came to Australia, because this is probably the only way that we might be able to compare the work opportunity situation, while at the same time, I would be telling you my life story that could also be used to compare with today ways of living.

There have been times in Australia when everybody had a job, so there was no unemployment at all, from stories that I have been told from people that were already here when I came, there have been times that the employers had not enough employees and they would go down to the wharfs when the ships arrived and select a few people that seemed good enough for them to do their jobs, therefore, in those days there were no unemployed people, but unfortunately those times are rare and did not last long, as I said working opportunities go up and down.

Now to compare those times with today’s’ opportunities, we are going to describe to you hereunder part of my own life story, and therefore, what I found easy or hard to cope with when I came here, and then how I was able to cope with the hardship of those times and the way that those things became solved, as this is the only way that I know how to measure, whether Australia is still the land of opportunities, so let us see what sorts of opportunities were available then.

-----------------------------------

What sort of opportunities were available in Australia in the sixties

When I arrived in Australia in March 1961 my relative and friends were all working, at the same time they were telling me that there were not many job vacancies readily available, so, I had to be patient until a job would be available. But what sort of work I could do they were not sure just we had to wait and see, what I knew about working for other people was that if a job was offered to me I had to work hard, since in my country when we hired some workers to do some work in our family farm, we would aspect them to work hard so that they would earn their pay, therefore I was in my right frame of mind to go out and work hard, whatever job was offered would do me just fine. I have said this, because it is necessary to understand that whoever attempts to migrate to another country, he/she must be ready to work hard if they want to succeed, and it all boils down to this that you need to do a fair work day for fair daily pay.

Beside my willingness to work I was also young and fit enough to do any manual job that I was offered, the only problem was that I didn't speak English, I had learned perhaps a few words on the way to Australia while we were sailing, as there was an English teacher on the ship for that purpose. But as we all know English is a very hard language to learn, especially if one comes from a country that their language is phonetic and once you know some rules, one can read from a book and somehow come close to the sound that those written words are pronounced, but English is not written phonetically so to learn English one must be exposed to the English speaking people and slowly learn from them, so as you can see I and other emigrant like me had a lot to learn, before we could speak English well enough to look after ourselves and to fit in the Australian speaking community.

Anyhow, now let us tell you that although I had very little English somehow everything turned out all right in the end, perhaps this is another reason why people think that Australia is still the land of opportunities, we think it is based on the assumption that because people before us have been able to succeed, we will be able to succeed as well.  

For me when I came to Australia I was still thinking the Italian ways, so, I was thinking that I was on my own and I had to find my own way around, but here I had a pleasant surprise when for the first time some relative took me to see the unemployment office.

In Italy when you go to an Italian office if you want something done quickly you need to know somebody in there, otherwise before your turn comes the office hours are over and you have to come back the day after, so I was wondering how could we succeed in these Australian offices, since I didn’t speak English and my friend was just a little bit better than me.

Anyhow we waited our turn and soon we were being interviewed from this middle aged man that seemed to have so much patience and understanding of the whole situation, he slowly worked out what we wanted by asking and repeating what we did not understand, and he noted everything down as he asked me many things to see what sort of job I would be able to do, I remember even now that one of his questions was if I were afraid of heights and I said no as I was going up some tall trees to prune them, he also asked if I knew anything about building or building maintenance, here again I said yes as we sometimes would repair some farm building. I believe that these two things gave me the first job in the building industry, as I was called one day to go to work for the first time in Australia. My first job was on a chimney stack in the brickworks where bricks are made, which somehow I managed to hold for a couple of weeks, until a bigger gang came and I became a bit confused in the middle of all those people, and I lost my first job for lack of knowledge or lack of understanding English. But anyhow I had my first work experience and I was sure that soon there was going to be another one.

Before I close this page and start another one, I really want to say that Australia is/was a great country to be in, just because people are given their opportunities as they deserve, as long as they are willing to work hard for what they deserve.

And in the unemployment offices the officers are just great people to deal with, or at least they were when I came to Australia. I am going to continue this article and talk about how I ended up working in the Australian building industry for good.

But I believe that this post is becoming too long, so I will continue this same issue in our next post, where we are going to talk about, working in the Australian building industry. See, you next time.  

----------------------------------- 

Affordable Rentals 
Australia the land of opportunity 

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, Australian building industry   

---------------------------------------

 Some helpful links here under

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

Work opportunity in Australia

WELCOME TO BRISBANE AFFORDABLE RENTALS, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THEREIN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US.
-
Welcome to our blog, affordable rentals
and this post, work opportunity in Australia
-
Work opportunity in Australia

Even today a lot of people believe that Australia is still the lucky country and the land of opportunities, I believe that it is still a good country to live in, but how does it compare with the old Australian way of life of the sixties and there about, which is the time when I came to Australia.  

When I came to Australia I found work in the building industry and by working hard I learned bricklaying, so, I have worked as a bricklayer most of my life, therefore I think that I have had a good opportunity, as I earned good money from my work.

Work opportunity in Australia

Welcome to our article of: Work opportunities in Australia

Dear readers, in this post we would like to compare the work opportunities that existed in Australia, when I came to Australia to the opportunities that exist today; therefore we would like to ask, if Australia is still the land of opportunities. As you may know when you start asking this sort of questions other questions arise, this is only natural because we need to compare the present with the past.

So, let us start by telling you the opportunities that we had in the past when I came to Australia, So that, we would be able to compare the opportunities of the past to today opportunities in Australia, and how those opportunities played a part in the lives of those people that migrated to Australia then. Today it might be slightly different, but I suppose that every one of us whether we are migrant are have been born here have a story to tell, and we are pretty sure that everyone have a different story and different views of the past, according to our experiences and work that we did; but let me tell you my personal story, so that you could see my experience the same way as I have seen it and then compare it to today’s opportunities.

If I were to use only my personal experience in Australia as a standard, we will have to say that Australia opportunities today are not as good as they used to be, because things have changed a lot since I came to Australia. Now if we would like to compare the fewer opportunities that are still available today, with what used to be available in the sixties I am going to write the opportunities of the sixties in my life story right here, just the way I have lived and seen them happen to me personally and to the other people that came to Australia in the early sixties, as well as the Australian people that were born here, and then, my life story opportunities could be compared with what is available today; but first of all let us start with what the majority of people in the world think about Australia today.

Today, everybody in the whole wide world thinks that Australia is still the land of opportunities, and that is the reason why people are still trying hard to migrate to Australia; but, are all those opportunities still there one may ask? Or is it just a myth now and the opportunities that existed in the past do not exist any longer, or they are a lot less than they used to be especially for those unskilled people that are coming to Australia these days.

Having been a migrant myself a long time ago in the early sixties, and being in a way lucky to find some relative that helped me to settle here in Australia, I know that migrating to another country is not an easy thing to do specially if there is no one waiting for you and help you when you arrive, and it is even harder if you don’t speak the language of the country you are migrating to, but today there is a great movement of people throughout the world that migrate from one country to another, and a lot of people want to come to Australia one way or another, they even risk their lives during their journey, boarding unseaworthy boats that might just break up and disintegrate in the ocean.

Therefore, when I hear or see people migrating today like desperados that want to reach Australia at all cost, I always go back mentally to the times when I legally migrated myself and think what I could and would have done if there had been no one to help me when I arrived in Australia; here I should say that just thinking about it makes me shudder, so, to see these people these days trying to come by boat illegally and knowing that they may not be welcome here make me wonder how desperate they feel to try to migrate at all cost; they must be really desperate to try to migrate this way, because they also know that most times they are unwelcome, but they still force their way in.

So, let us see what could be the reasons of this forceful and strange migration of today; we all know that just about everybody would like to live a good life, it is only normal to try to live a good life; in the past a good life meant that there was enough food to put on the table all year around and that there were other things that made you feel safe enough to live a modest life. But today people are different and they want more, so they migrate more easily.

We believe that one of the reasons this is happening is because of the television and the computer people compare their own standard of living in their countries with what they see on TV. Or say public programs on the computer like Face-book and others programs, and they compare what they see with way they do in their own country, so they believe that they would be better off if they would be able to come to Australia, because everybody seems to think that Australia is the land of opportunities.

Looking at what is happening these days we know that the world has got a real problem with people migrating to other countries like Australia, as we all know, here in Australia we are very upset about those people coming in by boats, and we would like to stop them and even send them back where they came from. Now, here I need to say that in Europe is even worse with people coming in from North Africa every day, they are so many that is hard to count them and we might have a guess and say that the same amount of people that migrate illegally to Australia in a year may migrate to Europe in a week or even less than that. But anyhow here we are not going to talk that much about illegal migrants, because we want to talk about if Australia is still the land of opportunities.

However this post is becoming too long, so we will talk about this subject in our next post, is Australia still the land of opportunities?

-------------------------------------------- 
Affordable Rentals 
Work opportunity in Australia 

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, is Australia still the land of opportunities?   

---------------------------------------

 Some helpful links here under

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com

Stones Corner house for rent

WELCOME TO BRISBANE AFFORDABLE RENTALS, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THEREIN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US.
-
Welcome to our blog, Affordable rentals
and this post, Stones Corner house for rent

-
IN ONE OF THE BEST LOCATIONS
THIS HOUSE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT

House and carport as seen from the road.
To inspect inside you need an appointment

Stones Corner, 2 bedroom unfurnished house for rent

Cost $400.00 per week

A stone throw to all amenities neat and tidy home in a very good position in fact it would be hard to find a better position.

Address; 20 Vera Street Greenslopes

Tenants are invited to inspect the property by appointment;   

Call Frank on 3397 9614 or Veronica mob. 0455 542 425 between 8 AM AND 7 PM.

Two bedroom with built-in and or wardrobe
Separate bathroom and toilet

Close to public transport

Large covered back deck very useful on hot afternoon and evenings. 

If you are looking for an affordable accommodation that has access to everything and is self-contained you have found it. 

-------------------------------------------------

Here under are some photos of the house for rent 

-------------------------------

The kitchen, featuring cupboards and an upright a gas stove

Large lounge room with ceiling fan

This is half enclosed veranda, the other half on the other side could be use for an office or sleep out.

large back deck very handy in hot evenings.

----------------------------------------------

Affordable Rentals 
Stones Corner house for rent

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, another rental or real estate article  

---------------------------------------

 Some helpful links here under

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com

These wooden houses need care

WELCOME TO BRISBANE AFFORDABLE RENTALS, IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THEREIN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US.
-
Welcome to our blog Affordable rentals
and this post, these wooden houses need care
-
These wooden houses need care

This is a typical timber house in Brisbane Australia, now this is a smaller version of the houses, sometimes they are called workers cottages, because they were made for people that could not afford the more typical Queenslander


-

The timber house have some enemies that eat them away; the white ants can easily destroy an entire building, see what has happened to this one, they have eaten all the wood inside and now the whole lot is collapsing

The natural habitat of the white ants.
Termite nests in the bush of north Queensland, they are strange little creature the white ants, they seem to work always from the inside, except for the worker that sometimes goes out to deposit the soil, and so the white ant mount grows

These wooden houses need care

Dear readers, let us continue to talk about these wooden houses in this post, just to see what these houses need in order to be kept well; it is just as most of us thought, these wooden houses need some maintenance and care

For those people that have not own or lived in timber houses before, they should ask questions about them before they get involved in owning one of these houses; perhaps the first question that would come to their mind is: are these houses safe to live in and how long these houses can last? And then, what sort of maintenance they require? You see, they have a right to know that, so let me try to explain this timber housing situation.

Timber houses need perhaps more maintenance that masonry houses; because first of all you need to paint them for the timber to last longer, otherwise the timber on the outside walls will slowly rot away, but then, there are also some advantages because, you see if you want to change something it can be done easily a lot easier and cheaper than if you have a masonry house, therefore, it is a lot cheaper also to do some alterations, so it can work well after all.

Having said that we need also to say that these wooden houses have some problems of their own, apart that they need to be painted for the external timber to last longer, they also have some vermin enemies everywhere in the houses, because the timber is more vermin friendly than masonry and bricks and cement, but the normal vermin are not a big problem for the house structure itself.

The greatest enemy of these wooden houses are the termites, or white ants as some of us calls them; The white ants can really destroy entire buildings by eating the wood from the inside, a lot of times people don’t even know that the white ants are there eating their houses away while they are living in them; you see, unless you know what you are looking for, it is hard to see any sign of them from the outside. So one day suddenly one can find out by toughing or putting some pressure on a spot where the white ants have eaten the wood from inside, and here one can have a great shock to see this happen, as everything starts collapsing inward and where there was a wall now there is a big hole.

Therefore, it would be worthwhile to learn how to recognize the signs if there are white ants; and definitely call an expert to check the building if you are going to buy it.

---------------------------------

How to defend our homes from these pests

The white ant problem

How to defend our homes from these pests

These is how the white ants (termite) look like, they seem so soft and vulnerable that at first sight one would think that they cannot do any damage to anything, that is until one can see what they can do to wooden structures.

All timber posts under a house should have ants capping to insure that crawling insect and the white ants cannot come in that way

There are a few things that we can do to prevent this pest destroying our homes; the first thing that one has to do is to check that there is a barrier that stops the white ants to enter your building, for instance if your house is a high-set house on stumps, check that at the top of the stumps there is a metallic ant capping; this metallic ant capping is usually a large galvanized round dish or square of metal and it is bent down at the edges so that any crawling insect will find it difficult to enter your house that way; we hope you can see the picture? The ant capping prevents also the white ants to enter through the stump itself, if the stump has been infested with white ants, because when they reach the top of the stump they cannot eat through the metal capping and so they are stopped entering that way, of course there are a lot of different buildings and a lot of different ways to set a barrier; but sometimes the white ants find their way around.

Now there are ways that one should be looking for if there are white ants; here the first thing that we have to keep in mind is that white ants eat everything from inside and they don’t like to be exposed outside for long, so, the first thing one can do is to tap on anything that is made of wood; if the wood sounds hollow then the white ants might have eaten the inside, so a complete check is needed to see what is the cause; another way to look for white ants signs is that if they are forced to go outside to move from one place to another, they will construct a tunnel, so that they can go up and down without being seen, so one has to look for these signs anywhere under the building: Now some expert has told me that what happens here is that the white ants need moisture, so they have to travel to the ground to get the moisture and then they go up again their tunnel to eat the timber; now if the building is solid and there is no other way for the ants to go up they will construct their tunnel from the ground up, so we should be looking for signs to see if there are ants tunnel constructed, and if there are tunnels, it means that there are white ants also, therefore you need a pest control expert to poison these pests, and you need him fast.

Some natural enemies of the white ants

White ants have very few enemies because they live and hide inside the timber, but there are some natural enemies of course in their natural habitat, a couple of which are pictured here. As I said before, one needs to learn the signs how to spot the white ants presence, and do something if you find that they are there, otherwise they could eat your house away pretty quickly.

Here under we have pasted two links about termites that other Huber’s have written for you to check them out.

How to Control Termites Naturally

Termite Control

Good luck to all the houses owner!

Dear readers, our intention here is that we are going to write several hubs and talk about houses, how to own them, how to maintain them and how to build them, because that is what I have done during my life; so, even though in our next hub will be talking about: is Australia the land of opportunities, we will be talking about the opportunities that I had in the house building industry.    So, see you soon in our next hub.

-------------------------------------------

Affordable Rentals 
Australia wooden houses 

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, Australia land of opportunity   

---------------------------------------

 Some helpful links here under

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com