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Standingstone
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 Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Wed Jan 24, 07 9:37 pm Subject: Advice on expansion |
Thanks Tahir and Gervase.
The New Deal programme is a bit like an apprenticeship in that wages are subsidised and training is funded for a fixed period of time. That is fine in itself but where I f ... |
| Topic: Advice on expansion |
Standingstone
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jan 23, 07 10:42 pm Subject: Advice on expansion |
| Thanks, pilsbury. I have tried that route, an older guy who only wanted to do pointing and a younger stonemason. The older chap was ok but not available long enough. The stonemason may be a possibilit ... |
| Topic: Advice on expansion |
Standingstone
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jan 23, 07 10:12 pm Subject: Advice on expansion |
Thanks for the reply. Last year was a nightmare.
I went for the New Deal programme because I worked with long term unemployed for 10 years but I was unable to get them up to speed quickly enough to ... |
| Topic: Advice on expansion |
Standingstone
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jan 23, 07 9:55 pm Subject: Advice on expansion |
| I have been in business for nearly 4 years (this time) dry stone dyking and random rubble wall building. I tried to expand last year, took on a �20,000 contract on a windfarm, took on 2 people through ... |
| Topic: Welcome Standingstone... |
Standingstone
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 10:47 pm Subject: Welcome Standingstone... |
Thanks for all the welcomes
On a job near Drymen I had laid out the cope stones from an old wall along a footpath away from where I was working to keep them separate from the building stones.
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| Topic: Welcome Standingstone... |
Standingstone
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 9:38 pm Subject: Welcome Standingstone... |
| Thanks for the welcome. I am a professional dry stone dyker and work a lot with lime mortar as well. If anybody needs advice about stonework I am willing to share experience or the odd daft story eve ... |
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