Working in china

[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.