Weather with your trade?

**Dan** · 20-11-2009, 09:10 PM

How does the weather affect your trade? And have you been suffering more this year?

**Jason.S** · 20-11-2009, 09:13 PM

I have been getting much wetter getting from the van to the door.

Does that count?

**Simon** · 20-11-2009, 09:14 PM

i got wet loading my van up today! the traffic always seems to be rubbish when its raining but i guess im lucky that i work indoors most of the time the problem i have is customers having their heating on full whack in august!

**skrim** · 20-11-2009, 09:41 PM

heating is a sod if your trying to get a gage on a lid over artex

**GMad** · 20-11-2009, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Jason.S

I have been getting much wetter getting from the van to the door.

Does that count?

Same here except for the van part!
Getting from the estate car to the door!

**AT HAND SERVICES LTD** · 20-11-2009, 11:22 PM

I've had to ride my motorbike to the office rather than cycle - does that count?

**Plastic lad** · 03-12-2009, 11:28 AM

Am I the only one that works outside I do flat roofing and Roofline so if it rains I'm stuffed

**Dan** · 03-12-2009, 01:33 PM

Unlucky plastic lad. Wrong bloody country to be working in if you're relying on dry weather. Know a couple of roofers and they all sit by the phone in the morning if it's raining to see if they've got the day off, usually unpaid. Luckily their gaffa (who I know them through) has them doing student houses up that the firm rents out so they're pretty handy lads with partitioning and whatnot so they're not always out of work fully if it's raining. In the summer though, they're the first with their shirts off lol - whereas tilers and the likes get stuck in a muggy house. So I guess you take the rough with the smooth hey?