Concreter and Formwork Hire Melbourne

Concrete work does not forgive a short crew. Once the truck is on site the pour runs at the rate the concrete sets, not the rate your people can keep up. Being two hands down on pour day is the difference between a finished slab and a cold joint you will be explaining to the engineer.

Bluestone supplies concreters, formworkers and steel fixers to Melbourne civil and construction contractors, both for scheduled pours and for the crew you suddenly need on Thursday because the pour moved. We place experienced hands who have done the work before, not general labourers with a shovel.

What we supply

Trades we place

Concrete work is several trades sitting under one heading. We supply across all of them.

Concreters and finishers

Placing, screeding, floating, trowelling and finishing. Workers who understand what the mix is doing and when to be on it.

Formworkers

Setting, bracing, stripping and cleaning formwork for slabs, walls, columns and civil structures.

Steel fixers

Reinforcement placement, tying, chairs and cover to the drawing, including mesh and bar work on civil structures.

Pour day crews

Extra numbers for a single pour, where you need the hands for one day and not for the fortnight.

Kerb and channel

Crews and support labour for kerb, channel, crossovers and footpath works.

Concrete labourers

Support labour for prep, pump lines, vibration, clean up and the work around the pour.

Concrete crew screeding and finishing a fresh slab pour

Compliance

Verified before placement

Concrete crews are only as good as the person you did not check.

Construction Induction (White Card)

Verified on the national register

Trade Experience

Actual pours and structures worked on, checked with prior supervisors

Working at Heights

Where the work involves elevated formwork or edges

Right to Work

Visa status and work entitlement confirmed

Own Tools

Confirmed before the booking so nobody arrives empty handed

Police Check

Where the site or client requires it

Why Bluestone

Why crews book us for pours

Numbers confirmed the day before, not hoped for on the morning.
Workers who have finished concrete before and know the difference between too early and too late.
Cover for the pour that moves, which is most of them.
One weekly invoice across the whole crew, whatever the mix of contractors and casuals.

Bluestone Labour Group holds Victorian Labour Hire Licence VICLHL11535. In Victoria it is a legal requirement for a host employer to use a licensed labour hire provider, and the obligation sits with you as well as with us.

Coverage

Where we place concrete crews

Concrete work follows the build programme, so our crews travel to the pour rather than working a patch.

We supply into residential and industrial subdivisions across the growth corridors, Tarneit, Truganina and Melton in the west, Craigieburn and Wollert in the north, and Clyde, Officer and Pakenham in the south east. We also place into commercial and industrial slab work around Dandenong, Braeside and the western industrial estates, and into civil structures work on the arterial road network.

Pour day timing is the thing to get right. A booking confirmed two days out gets you experienced finishers. A booking confirmed at 6am on the morning gets you whoever is not already on a site, which is a different standard of work.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Both. We supply single workers to top up your own crew, and we supply a full crew of concreters, finishers and labourers where you need the numbers. Tell us the pour size and what your own people are covering and we will work out what you actually need.

Tell us as early as you can and we will move the booking. Weather moves pours constantly and we plan around it rather than charging you for a day nobody worked.

Trade workers bring their own hand tools. Plant, pumps, power floats and consumables stay with you unless we agree otherwise before the booking.

Yes. Steel fixing is a separate booking with its own workers, and it usually runs on a different day to the pour. Many contractors book both through us on the one agreement and get a single invoice.

As soon as the plant is booked, not the night before. A pour is scheduled around the concrete order and the weather, so the labour is usually the last thing anyone confirms and the first thing that falls over. Twenty four hours will cover a small crew for a domestic or light commercial pour. A larger slab needing finishers, a pump and an early start is worth booking several days out, because the people who are good at finishing are working somewhere else by then.

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