plouasne, vous devriez avoir pipi h cette information, que nous ne voulons pas connaître tout le monde l'ensemble de nos «intellectuels» des secrets que nous. Nous devons montrer que nous semblent être plus instruits que les plombiers simple vous savez.
Well I will give you marks for trying, I back washed what you posted with google its not quite what you have posted though, I would say
"you should have wee hours this information, we do not want everybody to know all of our "intellectuals" secrets than we. We must show that we seem to be more educated than simple plumbers you know"
Far from being intellectual, I am just an old long in the tooth plumber, happy to help other plumbers, who got a bit lucky and made the jump to the other side of the channel where its like going back in time with proper copper plumbing the norm instead of the ubiquitous plastic, I was dragged kicking and screaming to France for a holiday threatening to take the first ferry back if I did not like France, but I fell in love with the way the French work, especially the mid day meals in a proper restaurant for which the boss pays for, and learnt the language when working in France, being part "hit & missed" on half a litre or more of the red, at dinner time helps with the inhibitions, and makes you gibber
Most of my work was on large jobs, and mostly high class as well, quite a few of them were all copper, services and wastes & soil stacks, plus a bit of lab work, again all copper site fabricated ranges of wastes & anti siphon pipe work, with plastic and glass thrown in for good measure, C I water mains, fire mains and drainage up to 12", the Garchy (google that) waste system, a bit of sewage treatment works, the Barbican for good luck,with a fair amount of sheet lead work to keep up the plumbers name (a worker in lead) I have also done a bit of sub-contract work for Cornwall County Council, schools, Liskeard magistrates court, a block of old peoples flats in "Just Lead's" stomping ground, plus a few other jobs that were a little out of the normal run of the mill jobs, like 4" PVC water mains, 150 mm blue polythene water mains electrofusion welded, private water supplies, septic tank drainage, a small desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates circa 1965, plus a spell in the design office, both on the drawing board, and doing take off's from both a Bill of Quantities and drawings, central heating for pigs (no not those in blue and that say evening all) but the four legged type, the largest one I worked in had over a thousand head of pigs in it, and the sound was deafening come feeding time
So all in all I think that I was lucky to have been where I was at the time to get the experience that I have, and if I can pass on some of what I have learnt I am only too happy to do so
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Dinan the closest town to me
I forgot to say that I had my 3 boys out on the tools before they were 10 years old helping me out at times, and also helping me build a house
The eldest served his time with my company, but not with me, got 3 credits and a distinction for his C&G then went on to do another apprenticeship for plumbing in France, plus another for electrical, now he's out on his own with 3 blokes and an apprentice working for him, doing electrical, plumbing, heating (oil, gas, and alternative energy sources [heat pumps both air to water, and ground down the hole water to water] solar panel hot water/heating), but will not touch photovoltaic (too much hassle he says)
Second one after a bit of being footloose, became a fonctionnaire publique (civil servant) sewer-man, it has its uses being an uncivil serpent, like a 1% mortgage rate from the state, plus an early retirement
The third son finished his schooling in France, then went through the Lycée (like a tech college) did his 2 year apprenticeship with a plumber, then went central heating on large sites, became a coded welder, then went into the office as manager for a subsidiary of GDF Suez, doing heating, air-con, and refrigeration, and electrical work
