Working in china

[Frenchey]

Does any know where I can get any information on Chinese plumbing installations etc. do they use the same size pipe work as here in theU.K.? . Also domestic gas information .

seems a long shot to ask here , but who knows some one may know . I need the info to price up a job!

 

[Barry98]

Fuel costs will be off the grid

 

[iain85]

Getting materials from the supplier will be difficult. Communication barrier would be almost insurmountable. Also the labour rate is about 1 Peking duck a day so can't imagine you will get rich working there. Also they say RoR instead of LoL.

 

[Frenchey]

I wonder if they use metric or us imperial , good excuse to pop down the takeaway for advice
RoR

 

[Killy Bing]

please elaborate why !!
i went and did some work in france, different pipe sizes and such
looked at spains and thats all different
had a butchers while in germany and thats all different bar steal work
i'm going over to bulgeria to do some and hey, thats like voodoo !

moral is it will be different, maybe slightly but you won't be able to understand the instructions or regulations unless you can speak it or have a full time translator !!

another thing is soon as you're not a local prices shoot up.
it's all a recipe to cost you alot or leave a very unhappy customer.

not to mention anything bar tourism is still a closed shop in china !!

 

[Frenchey]

Just setting up a display ..... If the sales go well we will be exporting to china .

 

[TBServices]

Know a bloke who's just bought a house in Spain actually, think he wants a boiler and a swimming pool boiler fitting there - I have no clue where to start lol.

 

[Killy Bing]

Know a bloke who's just bought a house in Spain actually, think he wants a boiler and a swimming pool boiler fitting there - I have no clue where to start lol.

likely to be all lpg from when I researched into it

 

[stevetheplumber]

welded bamboo

 

[Ray Stafford]

Know a bloke who's just bought a house in Spain actually, think he wants a boiler and a swimming pool boiler fitting there - I have no clue where to start lol.

Start in the UK, and take absolutely everything with you. Every last thing.

We had a customer in Spain who used to come to us every 6 - 8 weeks in a pick up, towing a trailer, and stock up. His lad drove it back to Spain while he spends a couple of days with his old mum, and then flies out.

He swears blind it saves him a fortune.

 

[TBServices]

Hmmmmm. May have to go on a recce first

 

[Nostrum]

Hmmmmm. May have to go on a recce first

For 2 weeks in august with your shorts and t shirts?

 

[sheff paul]

Does any know where I can get any information on Chinese plumbing installations etc. do they use the same size pipe work as here in theU.K.? . Also domestic gas information .

seems a long shot to ask here , but who knows some one may know . I need the info to price up a job![/QUOT







most installations outside of the UK,learn towards American standards with country variations to suit local climatic conditions,Bath taps fixed in walls,all pipe work concealed in walls with mini stop valves on the surface,all wc's with s trap's and drainage under floor.If the job hasnt got a massive mark up you could be shooting yourself in the foot,a lot of buisness in south east Asia including China relie's on bribing local officials,building control, permits etc

 

[TBServices]

For 2 weeks in august with your shorts and t shirts?

Ohhhhh yeeeeaaaahhhhh

 

[Irish]

Start in the UK, and take absolutely everything with you. Every last thing.

We had a customer in Spain who used to come to us every 6 - 8 weeks in a pick up, towing a trailer, and stock up. His lad drove it back to Spain while he spends a couple of days with his old mum, and then flies out.

He swears blind it saves him a fortune.

dunno why that is? My girlfriend is from Barcelona and I'm the kinda sad fool who when abroad compares tool prices etc and thought the prices were pretty similar except tiling tools kinda thinking of brining back a rubi tile saw at Christmas

 

[Ray Stafford]

dunno why that is? My girlfriend is from Barcelona and I'm the kinda sad fool who when abroad compares tool prices etc and thought the prices were pretty similar except tiling tools kinda thinking of brining back a rubi tile saw at Christmas

It was boilers, rads and pipe & fittings he was picking up.

He reckoned there were no specialist plumbing & heating merchants over there, and it was like having to get everything from Jewsons.

 

[TBServices]

So was he just doing everything to the British standard then? Seems strange

 

[Ray Stafford]

So was he just doing everything to the British standard then? Seems strange

He was a brit, working almost exclusively in the Brit ex-pat community. But yes, everything was British - straight off our shelves.

 

[solutions]

I worked in a house here in UK that was owned by a German engineer. He had invented a bunch of stuff used heavily In Germany. Those neumatic time delay light swithces for instance that are used in comunal hallways in flats. Anyway he had everything in his house supplied from germany all metric pipe metric conpression fittings etc. People like to fit what they know. I would much rather we moved over to proper metric it should be ilegal ti even say imperial let alone print it on packaging. Under my new regime carrying a tape measure with inches gets a long sentence without parole.

 

[Irish]

Yeah but then I wouldn't be able to confuse the oldies on a job by saying 2 lines after 28 and a half inches ! There would be mitigating circumstances surely !!

 

[stevetheplumber]

i worked with my old partner for 12 years and we had our own measuring system whereby 20 and a gnats was twenty and an eighth twenty and a bit was twenty and a quarter and twenty and a big bit was twenty and three eights

 

[iain85]

It was boilers, rads and pipe & fittings he was picking up.

He reckoned there were no specialist plumbing & heating merchants over there, and it was like having to get everything from Jewsons.

The answer to this is to set up a shop out there and I will run it for you as its my brilliant idea. By run it I mean have people working there whilst I look at all the fitties on the beach. Sorted.

When do I go?

 

[Dannypipe]

Loved the first few posts on this thread. ROR.