What tools for apprentice plumber?

[davidaholmes]

I am an appentrice plumber and want to buy my first set of tools - Advice please on what I need.

 

[SimonG]

Sweeping brush

No seriously, what sort of company you working with?

I'm sure there's been a few posts on this if you use the search.

Welcome along.

 

[Ric2013]

If you intend to look after them, start with a good bag or box and then buy good quality tools you'll use all your life as and when you can afford them.

 

[DXCross]

As above largely depends what sort of work you’ll be doing...

Start with the smaller items you’ll use often; decent set of spanner’s/grips/screwdrivers, pipe slices, level and tape. All relatively inexpensive but indispensable

 

[king of pipes]

Bacho adjustable spanner , channel lock grips , Stanley screwdriver set , 1-2-3 ft sprit levels best you can afford , Rothemberger radiator ratchet spanner, 15 -22mm pipe slices, tape measure, hammer , chisels comb and ordinary, pipe benders (Hilmor) and a good tool bag to put them in will do for starters . Good luck kop

 

[Aire]

All the above, and also:
Superfire 2 blowtorch
Box type tap spanners
And a bleed key

 

[PETE 123]

First aid kit.

 

[Rob Foster]

Spend quite awhile going around the car boots, plenty of good gear, esp. if its rusty ..10p per item .get some wd 40 and engine oil or hydraulic fluid soak and all is dandy. i expect i could re equipe myself for £100 like this over a few months with £1000 + worth of gear if it was new. just get a new rothenberger lamp for your birthday , not 2nd hand incase they blow up. I use a tesco bag for life nowadays plenty of space and easily replaced and bad boys wont nick your gear cause they think is tesco food, but dont use waitrose bags ..(joke)

Rob Foster aka centralheatking

 

[Aire]

Not sure turning up to work with your tools in a carrier bag sends the right image

 

[Rob Foster]

Not sure turning up to work with your tools in a carrier bag sends the right image

your right I am 60 own the company and dont care but 4 younger ones maybe not. chk

 

[Chuck]

I am an appentrice plumber and want to buy my first set of tools - Advice please on what I need.

Engraver so you can mark your name on every other tool you buy.

I inherited a set of tools that were originally my great-grandfather's. He was a cabinet maker and one of the things the appentices had to do in his day was to make their own set of tools from stock material such as steel rod and bar with carved wooden handles. Remarkable to look at / think about.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Engraver so you can mark your name on every other tool you buy.

I inherited a set of tools that were originally my great-grandfather's. He was a cabinet maker and one of the things the appentices had to do in his day was to make their own set of tools from stock material such as steel rod and bar with carved wooden handles. Remarkable to look at / think about.

I love old tools, have been lucky to inherit some of my grand dad and some off my great uncle, they don't make things like that anymore!

 

[quality]

Alarm clock

 

[Stigster]

All good suggestions here. As an apprentice there will be times where you have to borrow a tool from another tradesman. On a related note, it can often be difficult to know what you need to buy but one thing is for sure - If you need to borrow a tool more than twice you need to buy one for yourself. I'll happily lend tools to people I trust but if they come back for a third time I tell them to go buy their own as they obviously need it.