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and this post, earning and saving money
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Earning and saving money
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This is just a typical set of profiles. Profiles are erected on the construction sites, in order to give the building workers, the right size and the position of the various elements of whatever is being built, one can extend this to even give the levels required and other things.
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This is a typical small house floor plan, of course this is only one simple floor plan, but there are several plans even to build a house, starting from a foundation plan and specifications.
Earning and saving money
Dear readers, these
days in this blog we seem to be jumping from one thing to another, we place ads
for renting accommodations and building them and other things as well. So, I
have asked myself this question, everything we do we need money; therefore, whatever
you do in life you need money, perhaps the most important thing to learn in
life is how to earn money and how to save money; you see for instance, if you
don’t want to pay rent you have to buy your own place, that is the only way
open to you; for this reason, let us talk about earning and saving money
I believe that not
everybody is able to work out how to do that, so they might need just a bit of
help to understand how the others do it. In my case it was easy to learn,
because I and many other people like myself, because there was uncertainty of
not having a permanent job in the building industry, one soon learn that
whatever money you earn from your job you have to save some, otherwise you
could have problems soon or later; so, this disadvantage that we had in this
job pushed most of us building workers to become good at saving money, because
we wanted to feel safe and independent.
Now let me just
talk about money, since I have mentioned it just now. In Australia because the
economy is based on capitalism the more money you are able to earn and save the
better off you are, of course this is also true to most other part of the
world, but in Australia seems to be more so, because it is a new country, and
people rely more on what they are able to earn than in anywhere else in the
world. This is because there are not many existing reach families that live on
the earnings of the properties that have been passed down from generation to
generations, so almost everybody here has made their own way up if they have
any money. Therefore, in Australia is mostly up to yourself if you want to get
better you have to try harder and also work harder, you see most people here
are self-made so most of the people have earned their own way. Once you know
that, this question comes to your mind and you ask yourself, if other people
can do it, I am sure that I can do it too?
By knowing what we
have just said above, one can understand that in Australia, not only you have
to try to earn money, but it is very important that you save it too, and at the
same time you have to try to improve your working position, so that you can be
more independent and not rely completely on others; this would help if it
happens that you lose your temporary job and also by saving money you can start
one day to buy your own house, or open you own business, which are the most
important things that people should do, if they want to live a good life. I
know now that most of you are saying that these are hard things to do, but you
see, they can be done because I have done it myself.
Anyhow I believe
that I have said enough about this money business for the time being, so let me
go back to tell you about what I did with this job in the building industry and
became a tradesman, and also how I ended up buying our house. But first let me
tell you how and what we did and my progress in this building job, so that one
can compare what was available then and what opportunities are available now,
while I was working with this Italian small builder.
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Working for this builder
Working and
learning with this small Italian builder
Dear readers, in these
writing while I am telling you the story about myself working in the Australian
building industry, I am also going to try to give you details of how building
things were done in dose days; therefore, if you are one of those people that
have in mind to do your own building renovations one day, you can somehow guess
what you can find, in those building that we built then, because you already
know how we built them.
Now let me go back
to when I started work with this Italian builder, who was a bricklayer and
concreter, we were working on houses and because there was not enough
bricklaying work on these houses, as they were mostly built with timber, we
were building only the foundations, the concrete stumps and some brickwork as
the base of the house. Of course we did also some jobs under the existing
houses and this has given me an opportunity to learn many things about those
old houses in Brisbane.
Just for comparison
sake, so that you can see the difference between those times and today, let me
describe to you what we did to prepare a new base for a new timber house, which
would be setting on concrete stumps and some brick walls.
First of all, we
went to set up the site, if it was not already set up from the builder or
carpenter that would build the timber house. This setting up required that we
should fix some timber frame to the ground with pegs and according to the
measurement in the plan, then mark them accurately, so that we had the right
measurement to go by, in order to start digging the foundations for the stumps
and brick walls and also for building the whole house.
Then we had to dig
the foundations and this was mostly my job as I was the labour and I was pretty
good at digging when I was young and strong, this may seem hard to believe but
even digging one has to be an expert to do a good job, as the shape and depth
of the foundations is important to do a job properly. Just to show you what I
mean to dig a hole for a new concrete stump, 20x20 centimetres as most stumps
were supposed to be; the hole for this stump should be in exactly the right
place, it should be sixty centimetres deep in natural ground and at the bottom
should have a circumference with a diameter of at least 40 centimetres or more.
These were the average specifications then, unless it was stated otherwise. I
know this because I have dug several hundreds of them if not thousands.
All the tools that
I needed to do this job were a pick a post hole shovel and a crowbar, it
usually would take me a couple of days to dig the entire house holes, which
could usually be between twenty and thirty holes. You see I was able to dig a
hole in less than half an hour, but it was hard work. Sometimes when there was
some brickwork to do we had also to dig these foundations by hand; the
foundations were usually dug according to specification, which usually would be
60-centimetre-deep in the natural ground, this means that if the grounds had
been filled up that filling should not be counted as depth, of course this was
the same as the holes we dug for the concrete stumps.
Anyhow, before I
finish writing this article I want to say that those houses that we were
helping to build in the sixties with this builder contractor that I was working
for were average affordable house that the average family could afford to buy,
and therefore they were sold easily.
Now, I believe that
I have said enough in this post and although there could be a lot more that
could be said, that part we are going to tell you in our next post, which is
going to be about how we made those concrete stumps on site and other stuff,
while we were working on these affordable houses.
See you soon.
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