it's got Brown here welcome to another exciting episode I just got picture pretty excited by there
and look no traffic so I can pull right out Wow today's exciting episode we're going to discuss
what it's like to be a carpenter in New Zealand today in the life of a carpenter in New Zealand
this is from the perspective of someone living in Auckland but generally today is just another day
I'm going to a meeting about a potential draw on the shore actually that would be a good example of
we should consider moving to remove to alcohol all right so this is my vehicle here this is probably
one of the most popular vans in New Zealand oh it's windy this is a Toyota Hiace which is one
of the most popular vans in New Zealand I think the most popular vehicle to get for a builder
though is a use the Ford Ranger or the Toyota Twitter highlights are the most popular that's
the Harbour Bridge the only viable way to get between the shore in the city and that through
the trees is Auckland City now I just use the shore as an example of a nice place to live if
you choose to move to Oakland basically if you move somewhere in the city that is connected to
the motorway you should be okay because the motorway is the main way of getting around
the transport here in Auckland isn't very good and certainly if you're a builder you're going
to struggle to get tools on buses and trains so I mean for example the trains don't even get to the
North Shore which is yeah getting a car and living near the motorway is pretty important now I got to
go to this meeting so I'm gonna do that right now and then we'll continue with this exciting episode
Oh meeting over man it looks like a big commercial drop right here so there's a couple of different
ways you can be a builder here and Auckland you can be in the residential industry or you can be
in the commercial industry and that job back there was a commercial job on the side of the road there
I think they're building a retirement village much bigger site probably like a hundred guys there at
any given time and a lot of different companies with the main contractor controlling the job and
then there's a residential site there's a lot of old houses in Auckland they're mostly made
out of timber that means there they need a lot of maintenance and in many cases they need full
renovations so there's no shortage of houses that need renovated in this country so that's
what I've chosen to focus on I like doing a lot of like almost like woodworking carpentry of you
all I like doing the finishing I like doing dicks outside and I like you know the windows
and joinery and I like doing that kind of stuff and that's perfect for residential renovations
now speaking of renovating houses I am on my way to give my mate rich a hand he's bought
a house back on the other side of the bridge and he's renovating it to sell it let's go there now
good morning
you're more a liver so how's the renovation going rich it's going slow if the diminution
phase is fast and exciting and then the framing phase feels like nothing's really happening for
a long time and then the gym goes up and it feels like everything so yeah check does super
quick yeah yeah rich himself has got a YouTube channel and he's uploaded the first episode of
this renovation right so I'll put that in a link at the end there in the description
we're gonna put a ceiling up
rich has just popped up for a meeting and this is feeling done all right all right ceiling done
yeah being a builder New Zealand this it's pretty good I like it money is something I get a lot of
questions about I don't like to talk about the money side of it too much here I'm working on
people's houses already and that's a sensitive issue in itself so putting it out there that
I'm talking about how much money these clients of spending is it's not something I want to do
and to put it simply you can earn a good wage as a builder here even if you're working for
somebody there's a lot less of the classism I've noticed here a lot of this judgment as boda when
I was working Edinburgh my uncle telling me he's done pretty well for himself he's bought
a few houses and renovated them and maybe 10 or so years ago he just bought one and a nice part
of your number he's working on it and one of the neighbors stopped by and was looking at him as he
was fixing something he kind of sort of looking at him is odd it's a nice place who bought this
thing and my uncle looked at him he said ah I bought it was my house and he said the shock on
his face was like oh you're a builder you can't you can't buy a place like this ever since he
said that to me I sort of noticed that when I was working there they kind of get talked down
to a little bit I might just being at Edinboro I know there's a list of that in New Zealand
as a carpenter basically you can expect to get paid anywhere from $20 an hour - I know $60 an
hour being on who you work for or if you work for anyone but another thing to consider money-wise
is the cost of living here in New Zealand that's a big one i foot up my van this morning of that
cost 120 New Zealand Dollars rent the average rent here in Auckland is anywhere from four
to six hundred for a pretty entry-level place if you want to buy a house you're looking at
around about 700 thousand New Zealand dollars the cost of living in New Zealand is is pretty high
so the international currency shitbox a [ __ ] so how would you rate building as the job in New
Zealand I the reason I like building and probably others are different in different countries but
yeah in New Zealand because we often like this is a probably fairly typical job bring evading
houses in building houses they're not big scale so you do so much different stuff across an a
maybe you do doors for a few days and then you're on to trim for a few days or a week
or and it's always changing and that's why I kind of that's what I like because I get
bored too easy doing the same thing I think we had that in common and the variety a yeah I couldn't
win oz Wickham TV I like TV open film because if one film you like specialize it's something
whereas TV budgets were much lower so you just end up doing like heaps of different [ __ ] we
put some water on the outside of this window Jen window reveal window rebei and then we put the
window in it and the window is stuck so we need to push it out at this point here so here's a
fun little building tip in order to do that pop a screw in here you're just inside the jam line
there we go it worked and now we can adjust the window boom alright just double-check
that I got everything I unfortunately have to leave rich is pulling this truck in now
have I got it I'll forget something I know I'll forget something it feels like I got
everything charges alright alright so now I go home with all my footage and
check my invoices that I have to do and edit this video it's usually how my day
goes thanks for watching it's exciting episode and M see you guys our next one
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