As Orange heads into its fourth straight week of wet weather many tradies and employers in businesses with an outdoor focus are battling to find alternative work for their employees.

On Monday Fraser Pigot, who owns Mid Western Mini Mix, told some of his employees to stay home with the assurance they will be paid.

“You can't bring people in just to stand around and look at each other,” Mr Pigot said.

“We have been trying to do as much catch-up work around the yard here as possible with our maintenance, but like all the others trades at the moment we just have to ride it out and be ready for the busy times when the weather improves.”

Builder Mick Fabar said many people in this industry who have young families have made the decision to take children out of school a week early and go on holiday.

“There will be a boom recovery period just as we had in August last year and that lasted six or eight weeks,” said Mr Fabar.

“But a lot of builders are starting to run out of inside jobs. For others it’s just too wet to get on to building sites where the trucks make a mess of the property and the road.”

Neil McNabb, who runs a landscaping business, is also restricted by the continuing wet weather.

“Everyone who has a business involving working outdoors is in exactly the same boat: sick of the mud and wanting to get on with it," he said.

Orange has been lashed by record rainfall in June, recording 217 millimetres.

While the ground may dry out to a certain extent with no rain predicted for Tuesday or Wednesday the forecast is for rain to return on Thursday, when it will likely set in once again.

Friday will see a 70 per cent chance of up to five millimetres of rain falling, with possible showers forecast for Saturday and Sunday as well.