Perfect Plumbing Van

[jpm]

Ever seen the state of a 5 year old Transit? I think i'll stick to the Transporter or Vito.

Nothing wrong with my transit 85000 from new,1 owner before me and FSH got it sorted the way I like it and wouldn't swap it for a transporter or 2 vitos!

 

[migoplumber]

i love "my" primastar, rear parking sensors are dead helpfull apart from when you reverse into the eaves of a low level fire station!!!

shaun

 

[david williams]

transit 350 great van lots of room and if wife kicks you out you can live in it

 

[Seb.Pickering]

W reg Transit 120 swb Semi high roof. Plenty of room BUT wrong engine !!
its a 2.5 di , About 110bhp i think, very very slow but torque is good.


Have some blue storage tubs screwed to the ply with some fittings in.

 

[Hugh]

Hey Buddy this is my first year being self employed and i decided to buy a small van. I test drove everything and the best 2 where the vw caddy and the peugeot partner, i ended up buyin the partner its nippy handy parked around town/city and you can even but 3 metre length of copper inside the van. I get about 510miles to a full tank which is awesome!!!! partners kick caddys asses everyday of the week for me they are to expensive& overated vans.

 

[Tim.A]

Yeah, but it's French.

Enough said.

 

[Plouasne]

Yeah, but it's French.

Enough said.

Well what's wrong with France then??, even a c**p French plumber would wipe the floor with a good English plumber or 90% of them, I have worked on both sides of the channel and I know which side I prefer, and that's the side that does not speak English as a mother tong

 

[Puddle]

Well what's wrong with France then??, even a c**p French plumber would wipe the floor with a good English plumber or 90% of them, I have worked on both sides of the channel and I know which side I prefer, and that's the side that does not speak English as a mother tong

What a disappointing, bigoted out burst
I see the French arrogance has rubbed off on you nicely

 

[Plouasne]

What a disappointing, bigoted out burst
I see the French arrogance has rubbed off on you nicely

No I was like that before I went to France, plumbers were the best trade etc, but seeing the arrogance of the Brits has only served to enhance it

Puddle ,
I was an arrogant sod almost from the word go, being a London trained plumber we used to consider ourselves a cut above the rest
I have been lucky in the trade, and done just about all there is, apart from hospital work, right across the board, lab work with poly and glass wastes, and 4" soil stacks,, 4" lead pipe work, cast iron soil stacks, drains, water mains up to 12", 6" copper water and soil, PVC water mains up to 4", 150mm blue Poly water main with electro fusion, 63mm Poly gas main with electro fusion and hand, gas lamp heated saddle tapping tool, also worked on sludge main in a sewerage works, steel tube up to 4" once with a solid head die stock for 4" threading, worked mostly on large developments, but done a fair bit of house bashing as well, also had a time in the office as a junior design engineer, doing pen and ink drafting, with a bit of estimating and taking off from bills of quantities, plus a couple of spells in the Middle East
When I first went to France I thought that I would wipe the floor with these "peasants", but I am not ashamed to say they used me as the floor rag, at first. Example, I was sent to second fix a school, everything was there they said, bench, bottles, a few bends, and half a dozen "bar" of copper, no couplings, no tees, in a few places around the building there were a few stumps of copper tube sticking up out of the slab, ranging from a couple to more than half a dozen, it turned out that I had to make on site the manifolds and join them to the first fix tubing, this is normal in France, how many UK plumbers would know what to do??
In the time I have been in France, I have had to go back over work carried out by UK "trades persons" to rectify the work, a good half of it would not meet the Norms, and when the person is told this, the standard reply is, we have always done it like this in the UK, whilst you might soft solder all copper pipework, its hard solder for water, and silver solder for gas, ring mains are not allowed same as unswitched neutrals in the fuse board, or 13 amp socket outlets but the "English" still insist on them
Supermarkets somebody with two trolleys, no food but just booze, arguing with the girl on the till, in English, that last time he was allowed that amount of booze, or hearing them swear in front of the girl, because he did not get his way
Whilst its not all milk and honey over here, the trade training is better, a tradesman is a respected person in the community, the wages are lower than the UK, but you can live better than in the UK for what you get, there is not the compulsion to work all hours god gave you, "family comes first" I offered to work on a sunday to help get the job out on time, and was told nobody works 7 days a week full stop
I do reserve the right to defend my adopted country, which has given me the opportunity to retire early ( I retired 2 years late at 62 instead of 60 the norm for France), a better pension, no council tax bill because I am retired and don't have enough to pay the council tax, also we are below the income tax limit so no income tax to pay (between us we pick up from the state in the way of pensions the best part of 14000€ a year say £13000) health care
we pay about £60 a month to cover us for the difference between what the state pay and what the medication cost, the state pays normally 70%, life saving drugs are 100% paid for by the state

Edit:: One thing I did forget to mention, is the fact that nobody can just pick up a set of tools and start work as a plumber, electrician, etc, they have to register with the authorities first and that means a week back at school, doing accounts, tax, vat returns, the law in relation to your work, after this is done you have to find an assurance that will accept you, for the mandatory 10 year assurance of your work
How does that grab you all you plumbers in the UK by law you must guarantee your new work for 10 years, repairs and renovations are for 2 years

 

[Barry Sparks]

expert/scudo all good vans just about right size for london 2 litre HDI with 6 speed box really nice but value for money can,t beat SWB Transit 08 van 90,000 miles with history at Dealers Heathrow £3900 compared to 08 expert £6000.