I AM a carpenter from Western Australia. AMA

Do you wish you lived somewhere else, like America?

I've been to America. And I must say as much fun as I had, I have to say no. No I don't want to live there at all. So sick of tipping.

Is tipping only an American thing? It doesn't exist in European countries- or Australia?

Tipping is virtually non existing in Australia. Been to Europe too. Never tipped.

Ha. Was it just the tipping? Can you list a few things that America dies worse that Australia, and a few things it does better?

Worse. The tipping. It leads to so much falseness. Get paid minimum wage need to be nice to the customers to get paid. I couldn't live there with the amount of religion prevalent there also. Christian extremists are not my thing.

Best. Your traffic laws are alright. Right on red is cool. Four way stops are no so cool. Roundabouts have you guys trupmed there.

Export?

Fuckin oath. Go the bush chook.

Do you wear Ninja gloves?

Fuck yeah I do. Size 9.

How to all your houses stay standing when you use the metric system to measure the frames?

Metric system rules. A kilogram is also 100mm cubed of water and the same as a liter of water. A tonne is a cubic meter of water cubed. It all makes sense. Imperial is all fucked up. Nothing means anything. It's based on early humans measuring wieght of shit with rocks.

A tonne is a cubic meter of water cubed

Carpenter confirmed

Haha a tipsy carpenter for sure.

Machinist from Canada here, we use the metric system to make all of our parts, it's easier to hit tight tolerances and everything is just less complicated.

Metric just makes sense when precision is required

Do you use any Tilling LVL and/or I-Joists in your line of work? I live in the states and the company I work for supplies Tilling quite a bit.

Define tilling? Definitely use LVL beams. Strong as fuck.

How does it feel, knowing that every other trade can and will do your job?

J/k I've been an electrician for a few years, the things I've seen guys do on jobs when there was a perfectly good carpenter available...

Anyone can certainly give carpentry a crack but all will come unstuck real quick.

Has a dingo ever eaten your baby?

Nah but a dingo gave birth to my baby once.

Have you ever worked with traditional German journeymen? I heard wanting to work in 'straya is pretty popular among them because of the pay.

I haven't but I know what you talk about. Great carpenters.

I'm an American looking for an adventure. Are you hiring?

You skilled?

What's up mate fellow tradesman here. Glazier to be specific. How are the wages compared to Glaziers down under?

Depends. How much do you make?

Howdy there from the D, I'm apprentice in the plumbing industry for small time contractor who does work for corporations. One of our big problems is getting paid in a timely manner do you have any problems of this sort?

With our industries we usually have a tool of which no other people have to complete a task. One of ours is called a basin wrench, what's a tool that no other contractor will have?

Getting paid on time is a nighmare. Cash flow is the most important issue for a small business.

I wish we had our own tool, would stop people from pretending they can do our job.

Gotta love Festool...right?

Festool is pretty good

What's your favorite Matt Corby song?

Yep. The one that goes oooooooohhhhh, oooooooooohhhhhhh.

Are you a Scorchers fan?

Don't follow cricket but am a proud perth boy so yeah

Hey buddy. So, usually there's these issues I face like spideys hiding under architraves etc. I usually silicon those places off. But what's the best way to keep em roaches n stuff off the wooden stuff?

The best way is to not give them a nice home. Foodscraps and shit. Silicone is the best bet I think.

How many tradies do you know that have killed themselves?

Also did you work in the mines? What do your finances look like now?

I havent known of any personally but I know of a few.

I haven't lived the full mining fifo life bit I've lived enough to know that shit can get fucked.

My finances are good. I have savings and earn over 100k AUS

I ripped out lath and plaster and replaced with sheetrock, now my window casings stick out past the sheetrock, not all at the same length, how do you recommend trimming around the windows?

Hard to say without seeing it or knowing what products are available in your area. Length is not the correct term in this situation so if you seek advice locally, say distance.

Depending the size of the distance, I'd suggest fixing se quad or quarter round moulding around it. The smallest possible size moulding will hide the fact the distance changes more.

Turnbull or Shorten? Dockers or Eagles?

EDIT: Didn't see your username until after I submitted, I now see you may be a Collingwood supporter

Defo dockers. Australian politics? Who's our prime minister again?

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Building a house in the heat sucks. I've been out in the sun on a 52 degree day. That's 125 for you yanks. Birds were dropping out of the sky it was so hot.