Joe soap shuttering

thestar

This is not really relative to after hours but I din't really know where else to put it. Basically I have been offered a job shuttering. I have very limited experience working with concrete and carpentry. A friend of mine told me that anybody could do it.

Is it easy to learn?

bitemeluis

You came to the right place my friend - shuttering is it? wtf is shuttering?

Kevin McCloud

Shuttering for building tanks is it op?

Birneybau

What do you mean not relative to After Hours?!?

Oh, I read it again, it's not.

thestar

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Shuttering for building tanks is it op?

No its not tanks, its on a building site

Dr Turk Turkelton

Are you about 6'4", 20 stone and from the wilds of either Kerry,Mayo or Donegal?
If not shuttering is not for you.

Kevin McCloud

thestar wrote: »

No its not tanks, its on a building site

Shuttering on building sites is grand work.

mfceiling

I work in construction OP...
You won't be able to bluff being a shutterer...it's dog work and really only for a qualified tradesman...

You'll make an eejit out of yourself if you turn up as green as the grass!!

Irish Steve

Get in while you can.

If it's any way easy, before too long, it will require 20 different licences that will be insisted on by either the union that covers that trade, or the Health and Safety system that wants to stop all "easy" work, or by being "regulated" by something like the Private Security Association that charges an arm and leg and more to be a member, with massive fines of you're not.

fleet_admiral

I would imagine its an easy enough job, all you do is turn the key and the shutters come down

Justjens

If you can read a tape, swing a hammer and work a Skil saw shuttering's a breeze

wendell borton

Can you operate a vibrating poker op?

biko

Sh-sh-sh-sh-shuttering.

Tail Docker

It's all good fun till 20 tonnes of liquid concrete runs away down the stairs.

Tokyo

Tail Docker wrote: »

It's all good fun till 20 tonnes of liquid concrete runs away down the stairs.

Or down on top of you with overhead shuttering...

Kevin McCloud

Tail Docker wrote: »

It's all good fun till 20 tonnes of liquid concrete runs away down the stairs.

If they are pouring a floor the stairs for that floor would not be in situ yet.

kingchess

ahh it is simple work to do,no great skill involved,hell-you are not even classed as a chippie, just a step or two above a labourer.just pretend you were on the beer the night before and you will be grand

Tail Docker

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

If they are pouring a floor the stairs for that floor would not be in situ yet.

Yeah. Try shuttering a column if you've never done one before. I've seen some seriously lol versions..

Kevin McCloud

Tail Docker wrote: »

Yeah. Try shuttering a column if you've never done one before. I've seen some seriously lol versions..

Thats some column if it takes over 8 metres.

efb

Everyday I'm shuttering

rolliepoley

There is all different types of shuttering OP its eazy enough just follow your mates lead and you'll pick it up in no time.

https://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en-IE&q=shuttering&gbv=2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&gl=IE&sa=N&tab=w1

Joe prim

This thread is very reassuring to those of us in the market for a new-build house, which I am not, thanks be to f@€k!Incidentally, I've just been offered a job as an electrician, I might as well accept, as I'm not easily shocked.

Tail Docker

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Thats some column if it takes over 8 metres.

Ok, first day on the job, and it's a section of a lift shaft...go shutter that, new boy..:)

Kevin McCloud

Tail Docker wrote: »

Ok, first day on the job, and it's a section of a lift shaft...go shutter that, new boy..:)

Lol this is getting amusing now, first you say its all fun and games when 20 tonnes of concrete comes down a stairs from pouring a column, now you change your mind and say its a lift shaft. If you were pouring a lift shaft you would be on the ground so no stairs


Bar stool comedy classic.

bitemeluis

Joe prim wrote: »

This thread is very reassuring to those of us in the market for a new-build house, which I am not, thanks be to f@€k!Incidentally, I've just been offered a job as an electrician, I might as well accept, as I'm not easily shocked.

Tail Docker

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Lol this is getting amusing now, first you say its all fun and games when 20 tonnes of concrete comes down a stairs from pouring a column, now you change your mind and say its a lift shaft. If you were pouring a lift shaft you would be on the ground so no stairs


Bar stool comedy classic.

Really? What about shuttering a retaining wall? Or a complex gable, or a staircase - I've seen all these turn pear-shaped when the shuttering fails, even simple little opes shat themselves if they're not properly done, when poured. Or when the foreman throws a big pile of peri-panels at him and a drawing...good luck with that.

Kevin McCloud

Tail Docker wrote: »

Really? What about shuttering a retaining wall? Or a complex gable, or a staircase - I've seen all these turn pear-shaped when the shuttering fails, even simple little opes shat themselves if they're not properly done, when poured. Or when the foreman throws a big pile of peri-panels at him and a drawing...good luck with that.

Yours posts are all over the shop.

Think a bar needs propping.

The other fella

Are you familiar at all with power tools and technical work? If you are and the shuttering is only plywood holding a couple of meters of concrete, then go give it a bash.

But if its for lift shafts and columns i wouldnt bother, it can get tricky

Tail Docker

The other fella wrote: »

Are you familiar at all with power tools and technical work? If you are and the shuttering is only plywood holding a couple of meters of concrete, then go give it a bash.

But if its for lift shafts and columns i wouldnt bother, it can get tricky

Or a bridge.... or bridge supports.... "Jimmy, there's a drawing, throw in the re-bar and get that bit ready to pour, lad"


..."erm...."

crockholm

TBF most of the chippies I know consider it dogs work and Little more than semi-skilled (which is not to say that it is) However,2 friends of mine Went to London back in the better Days with a toolbelt and hammers Calling themselver shuttering Carpenters.

They would be run off site in no time but back then you could walk 100 yards to the next job and get a start, each time they built up a Little experience and would last a bit longer on the job until after x amount of sackings they got kept on and were regarded as shuttering chippies.

However,when they refer to themselves as chippies,they are quickly reminded that they are not Carpenters,bluffers,frauds,mushrooms etc but no,not tradesmen

Hitchens

Tail Docker wrote: »

Ok, first day on the job, and it's a section of a lift shaft...go shutter that, new boy..:)

you should try shuttering in a mine shaft

Tail Docker

Hitchens wrote: »

you should try shuttering in a mine shaft

We do a good few big concrete bunds for industrial diesel tanks - watching a new lad try and shutter one of them can be comedy gold alone and that's about as simple as it gets. The run for more screw/props/timbers/underpants when they realise how much pressure a cubic meter of concrete exerts on formwork can be good for a giggle too.

diomed

In the late 60s when I was 18 I did some shuttering dismantling. The proper workers put up the shuttering, the concrete was poured, and on the Monday and Tuesday a few of us tore down the shuttering and stacked it for the real workers to repeat.
You might need to know what you are doing, and someone needs to be able to read plans/blueprints.