plumbing experience poll

[REDSAW]

lets find out how many years experience the forum has to offer when asking for advice!.
i will run it for a week then add it up, this will give an average/ish for a thread to be replied too by regular members.

keep it accurate please:rockon2:

 

[Keefy]

From the start of your apprenticeship or from the day you got your certs?

 

[Dotty]

I've not included the slave labour I performed as a boy working for Croppie Snr.

 

[REDSAW]

bugger i clicked the wrong un .lol

yes sparkplug, fully qualified and not a stain on your mentors knee cap, think after saying that i will leave mine as is.lol

Errmmmm. 29 years here, not including the time working with me dad when I was a nipper.

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that be 30 then john, jeeeesus
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[Keefy]

9 years.

 

[Dotty]

Started going on jobs at the weekend with me dad when I were 12, 46 now.....

That's a lot of years......

I feel realllllllllly old......

 

[REDSAW]

Started going on jobs at the weekend with me dad when I were 12, 46 now.....

That's a lot of years......

I feel realllllllllly old......

tick the damn box already.lol

 

[Keefy]

Started going on jobs at the weekend with me dad when I were 12, 46 now.....

That's a lot of years......

I feel realllllllllly old......

Did they use town gas back then?

 

[Dotty]

Takes us old timers a little while to figure out what's going on.........

 

[Dotty]

Did they use town gas back then?

Have I mentioned the ban button?

 

[REDSAW]

do you think when some one is asking for gas advice that when we tell them 212,867 years experience from the advice given says 'get a gsr in' they will get the message.lol

 

[Dotty]

212,867 years and only 3 of us polled?

Oh my aching back and knees....

 

[Keefy]

do you think when some one is asking for gas advice that when we tell them 212,867 years experience from the advice given says 'get a gsr in' they will get the message.lol

Nah, they'll probably get confused and ask which one of us did the plumbing in Pompeii.

 

[ecowarm]

1982 - 2013 and me knees are ok ish, just click every time I move em and hurt if I ever forget me knee pads

 

[REDSAW]

1982 - 2013 and me knees are ok ish, just click every time I move em and hurt if I ever forget me knee pads

i left in 1982 to do something else, was working next to the council house you were on 79-82 so saved me knees a bit, not

 

[AlexGas]

Started going on jobs at the weekend with me dad when I were 12, 46 now.....

That's a lot of years......

I feel realllllllllly old......

Lucky you, not everyone can get to 46... Hope there are many more years for you to enjoy!

 

[ecowarm]

Yuk that council house, the one with the bath full to the top with .................. well lets just say the toilet got blocked and when that filled up they started on the bath......

 

[REDSAW]

nah! the big one with the lead hopperslol

 

[Blake]

Where's the 0-3 months option for the fast trackers?

 

[kay-jay]

Nah, they'll probably get confused and ask which one of us did the plumbing in Pompeii.

that was Tamz! he was plumbing foreman for the romans:wink_smile:

 

[mountainman]

Forty years qualified in Gas for me, did my Plumbing C&G final in '79.
Depressing eh!

 

[stevetheplumber]

wheres the i cant remember option lol

 

[Keefy]

wheres the i cant remember option lol

It's the last one, 30-50 years.

 

[stevetheplumber]

finished my apprentiship in 1974 but had realy been a plumber for a year before that so that would have been 73 which is 40 years this june as we got our results in june in those days as soon as i had my guilds the firm gave me a mate and sent us out as a pair first job i did as a plumber and mate was to fit a cast iron grease trap into a 2 inch copper waste in a kitchen on the corner of eagle passage and jermyn st, piccadilly, london .Had to alter all the wastes to get the fall diffence across the trap can remember sweating like a pig with fright that id feck it up
a few years ago there was a picture in the paper of a guy stone drunk at ascot or epsom asleep in the rubbish on the floor when he was interviewed on telly a few days later i realised he was the plumbers mate from that fatefull day Frank Corke he never could drink

 

[Belly]

4 year apprenticeship then been qualified 6 years..... It feels longer than that