Trade and skill level
A tile mason setting large-format stone and a tile mason doing a bathroom are priced differently, and pretending otherwise is how you end up with the second man on the first job.
Manpower services
The crews we send you are the crews we build with
We are a building contractor. We employ twelve trades to build our own jobs, which means we run a standing workforce rather than a database. When your site needs those trades, we send the same people, and we know what each of them can actually do because we have watched them work.
Trade, number of workers, site and start date is enough to begin.
Same crews
our sites and yours
Twelve trades, one payroll
The trades we supply
Structure and shell
- Block Mason
- Steel Fixer
- Carpenter
Surfaces
- Plasterer
- Gypsum Installer
- Tile Mason
Services
- Electrician
- Plumber
- HVAC Technician
Finishing and support
- Painter
- MEP Technician
- General Helper
Need a trade that is not on the list? Ask. We will tell you straight whether we have it. Single trades, full crews, or a crew with its own foreman.
- Block Mason
- Steel Fixer
- Carpenter
- Plasterer
- Gypsum Installer
- Tile Mason
- Electrician
- Plumber
- HVAC Technician
- Painter
- MEP Technician
- General Helper
- Block Mason
- Steel Fixer
- Carpenter
- Plasterer
- Gypsum Installer
- Tile Mason
- Electrician
- Plumber
- HVAC Technician
- Painter
- MEP Technician
- General Helper
The whole difference
We have seen these men work. That is the whole difference.
A manpower company that does no construction of its own knows its workers the way a recruiter knows a candidate: from a document and a short conversation. It finds out whether a tiler can tile at the same moment you do, which is on your site, on your programme, at your cost.
We find out on ours. Every trade we supply works on our own contracts as well as on yours, under our own supervision, to a standard we have to answer for as the contractor. When we tell you a plasterer is good, it is because we have had him on a job where our name was on the handover.
The second difference is what happens when someone does not work out. A broker's answer is that he is only the agency. Ours cannot be, because the man goes back onto our own site and we still have him.
Tested on our jobs before he is sent to yours.
Four steps
From your call to men on site
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You tell us what you need
Trade, number of workers, site location, start date and expected duration. If you have a programme, send it: it changes what we recommend.
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02
We tell you what we have
Who is available, from when, and at what rate. If we cannot cover something we say so at this point rather than after you have committed. Usually within four working hours, and the same day at the latest.
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Paperwork and mobilisation
Agreement, site induction, safety documentation and access passes for your building or community. We carry the labour contracts, the insurance and the MoHRE filings. Building access passes are raised in your name, because the building issues them to the occupier and to nobody else.
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On site, with someone answerable
The crew works to your programme and your site rules. One named contact on our side for the whole engagement.
In the agreement, before the first man arrives
What you can hold us to
Every item below goes into the agreement before the first man arrives. None of it is unusual. What is unusual is publishing it, and we publish it because we have no track record to publish instead.
- Replacement
- If a worker cannot do the work he was sent for, we replace him and you do not pay for the days he was there. Replaced within two working days, the days he was there uncharged, and no cap on replacements in the first two weeks of an engagement.
- Notice both ways
- You can release a worker and we can withdraw one, with the same notice on both sides. Three working days.
- No minimum you did not agree to
- You pay for the days worked against signed timesheets, not for a block you were talked into. Five working days is the minimum engagement. There is no minimum headcount: one man is an order.
- Timesheets signed on site
- Hours are signed by your supervisor before they are invoiced. No reconciliation arguments at the end of the month.
- Rates fixed for the engagement
- The rate agreed at the start is the rate for the agreed period. Changes are written and agreed before they apply, not applied and then explained. A rate holds for ninety days from the signed rate sheet.
- One named contact
- One person on our side for the whole engagement, named in the agreement. If he changes, you are told.
- Safety and equipment
- We provide PPE, workwear, hand tools and our own safety induction. Power tools, consumables, scaffolding and any site-specific induction are yours, and the rate sheet says which is which line by line.