Making more money in 90s than now working 6 days a week working like a dog

We need more videos giving people an insight to how shite life is!! Please do a weekly, some more painters prices would be nice!! Cheers me up 😊

You’re highly skilled, time to choose the jobs that motivate and make you happy.

Thanks for selling me the brush mates last week and the advice on collection. Get off site and back on domestics fella.

Im 64 and gave up house bashing/site work early 80s. Private and sub contracting only at £230 per day and always busy.

55 year old here. I stopped decorating after 25 years running my own small business working on my own. I gave up a few years ago as my knees & back were giving me to much pain. I never didn't hardly do hardly any big site work as it was all domestic. I've now been running a small courier business. It's a different game but still hard but I'm not in that much pain anymore.

Painting hinges 😂

Get off site mate it clearly isn’t good for you. Easier work, more money, fewer hours, happier Candleman….?

Become a moaner.

No thanks.....Too much like hard work

I’m a self employed painter and decorator solo worker and I have private customers only. It took a long time but I eventually became well established locally (every customer within a 7 mile radius). It is still very difficult and it does take over my life more than I’d like but I earn a fair wage and I’m always booked in advance of around 3 months. It’s definitely not an easy trade especially when you have pride in your work and it isn’t always appreciated how skilled you need to be to do this job. It’s never too late to put your skills to better use if you’re not getting what you deserve from your efforts. I wish you good luck in any future ventures you may take and it’s sometimes the jobs and not the job that’s not working. Hope you find the right thing for you!

Just do your own work nice and steady 🎉

The hardest game on a site painting plots . The hardest game to earn money from with a brush...painting plots 😲

Got out of house bashing 18 months ago. Now working as a painter on the books with sick pay and 28 day's plus bank holiday pay for a 37.5 hour week. Works out just better than day rate without busting your nuts. Will never go back.

Try being a roofer and builder in all weathers I’m 61 and still grafting

You can make money mate buts it’s hard work saying that I got out of house bashing a couple of years ago up north we were getting £500 for a 3 bed doing 2 a week was hard work . I preferred a good site 4 bed for £850 4 days 3 day weekend .

Nice to have you back mate , I think we all go through periods when we are fed up , especially on sites , not the most sympathetic environment to be working in , they dont appreciate you until you have gone Try not to overthink it

Billy mitchell

Im 55 and can feel im slowing down in last couple of years, i thought it was long covid why i was gettin tired, my old fella told me u aint a kid no more it happens, i price my own jobs for around £30 an hour and only work from 8 till 2 and do the odd weekend, i will no longer chase money to the detriment of my health. Take a holiday recharge your batteries or find more down time and your enthusiasm will come back. Good luck.

Mate been decorating for 18 years and I feel nothing will change with this game! Had job after job declined due to pricing last week alone! I’m sure people think we still take £100 a day! Starting to give up too! Hope things change for you

The expectations on us is greater than the jobs worth mate after 42 years in the game I lost my enthusiasm years ago when they started paying peanuts for a first class job as the old saying goes "work kills donkeys!" we're killing ourselves to work!

Can’t feel your pain enough I’m in the exact same boat gaffer doesn’t like spray machines and the prices are hard enough to make on one coat never mind two ! I’m 36 and my body is in bits by the weekend can’t imagine how the older boys feel especially on there pocket!

Gave up house bashing in 2008 when the crash came and apart from 3-4 houses since never went back , crying out for painters where i am , my rate is £20hr 9 hours a day painting hospitals and schools mostly , do my days work and thats that , im 55 in 5 months and realised grafting on price and taking a bit of pride in your work got you nowhere . Just keep looking for other opportunities and maybe realise the days of chasing money have been and gone , your health and family are far more important . Best of luck to you

Poor Candleman. Try keep it burning

I need you for a ONE2ONE interview.. when you next working in Nottingham??

Hope you’re ok mate, have you thought about doing residential homes on your own? Great to see you back and hope to see more videos from you again soon

Hi Mr Candleman, Would you consider private painting ?

Gaffers taking the pics mate can't wait to get immigrants in to do the job when you quit...loose the place go on the domestic trip.

Just do your job and be quiet!

50 year old decorator here...decorating is hard grafft. 😎

I'm a plasterer, i did a month on site house bashing i soon foked that off, some fat cont sitting in a office creaming it in off my back while I'm grafting my nuts off not a chance, site is a mugs game. i work for a company earn ok day rate putting one bag of gear on wall a day, van+fuel card, pension, holidays, use there materials for private work and there skips for the rubbish win win.

maybe its time to start your own firm and see the pressure the boss is under then you may stop moaining about the prices all the time and wait months to get paid

Me and my boy (he’s 26 years old) ALWAYS work on a price , knock our tits off earn nowhere near what I used to because the prices are getting so bad ..and then the snagging painters go in the plots us production guys have done and piss arse around in there , 3-4 of them together …front door locked all day ….easy money for choosing not to graft 🙄🙄. I want out but to do what ?????

Good job youre back Candleman! KZfaq gone to shite since you disappeared.. put up more videos! Any consolation, money on sites in Ireland are crap too

We have done loads of plots last year or so were you rush your nuts of to make £40 more than day rate and then get complaints about the quality ( because you have had to rush to make anything at all)

I’ve been bailed out of new build for 18 months now. Always do when I know the prices are going to drop because of poor sales/ high interest rates. It’s hard enough graft even for decent prices, not worth it when they reduce prices

Trouble is the more you keep doing the work for those prices nothing is going to change….price is rubbish….ask for more if not you walk….I’m sure you’ve worked that out by now….only person that can change that is you mate…clock is ticking on us all 👍

Time to be a contracts manger, Company van, fuel card, salary 👌🏻

Give up the house bashing find a firm that pays decent flat rate slow the pace dwn do bit of overtime here and there and do ur own jobs on the side mate longer hours but needs must if u want a decent wage every week

Come on put your teeth in...cant understand you...😊

What do you think should be the going rate for a day’s work?

Here comes the new boss he's the same as the old boss😂 i m 56 still chasing it mate its shite ,its dog eat dog everyman for them selves ,stupid prices ,sad but you know always some prick says il give it a go ,you need a rest , and a new firm😊

That's the problem, you start investing in an Airless etc and you just take on the cost of the sprayer. Your employer takes the benefit of your investment. He provides the job, and you provide everything else. He earns his money off you, so he will leach as much as he can off you. You mean nothing to him.. because he can replace you. They don't like you earning decent pay They want you chasing decent pay!

It’s the same everywhere it will only change if we all stay at home and say enough is enough we will only come back to work if you make it worth while

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Age is a factor I’m 59 and I know I’m slowing down😢 it’s a bitter pill to admit your not at your best

If youre run down all the time mate get yourself checked out!

Old joiner told me once u hit 50 it changes, guys come off sites as too hard for over 50s big difference in fitness 30/ 40 to 50 /55 . Its hard going , you be better with Mrs Smiths living room easier life at the later years of painting if your good always get work. Bonus think all the cups tea you will get 😂

If your work is only 95% then it certainly needs checking.

Firstly you've been missed , i thought you had took ill or something i loved watching you batter in to a new plot and making a few quid , it brought back memories from myself when younger , im now 67 and all this has took its toll to some extent on my body , your getting old to , so if they are not paying the money or not letting you spray then just do day work , yes you will earn a wage but not much i understand been their etc , any way glad your ok and hope to see more of you on the channel , dont let that go you spent to many years building it up , you just need cheering up mate , all the best chaz