Future plans

[-=HaZ=-]

I currently work full time but over 3 days a week so i can work whatever 3 days i want, i have been under a plumbing course now for the last couple of years, stopped when i had an operation but now i am just about complete i am looking at the options i have for the future, i know work isnt garunteed etc but wondered what people thought about been a general bathroom fitter, i enjoy all works in bathrooms and i like tiling, the only thing i havent done is plaster before but i can soon learn that and add it to the list, also i will be looking at other things to do so i could offer the full package

As a bathroom fitter is this a good route to go down in terms of money, i have been looking at this, also my dads company take on pipe fitters for courses every year and he can get me in there if i wanted and then there is the option of working abroad as there are plenty of fresh grad-entry level jobs which i have asked about

just wanted peoples views on what i have mentioned

thanks 🙂

 

[Subby]

Bathrooms are hard work.
Heat pumps are the future so I am told.

 

[lame plumber]

havent done a bathroom for 2 years, thank god! too much like hard work

 

[TBServices]

Combi swap a day would do me nicely lol.

 

[mickie]

its quite nice fitting a bathroom from time to time..

i can see how people may like pulling a big heavy boiler about and working on your knees all day while looking up.. such an easy job..

 

[on31ll]

i get depressed being stuck in same room from start to finish on a bathroom

 

[-=HaZ=-]

i like the easy jobs that i have done but i just like been stuck in a bathroom doing dirty work and planning with someone how they want it and what im going to do, like the last one i did where i had to box something in as it was an old toilet and it was on the ground floor, it was my biggest challenge yet but enjoyed it..... over the next couple of months i will be looking into what i want to go into for definate, as said i work full time so i can start up on my days off and go from there

im not sure if i want to do my gas, i know there is ment to be good money in it but im not too sure i want to work with it yet, i will look into it though

 

[Roger Welton]

If it interests you give it a go, expecially if you can test the water by running business alongside working.

 

[Avatar]

Bathrooms are hard work when you get em!

Not so many these days as people are skint . . . .

Do anything else - dont get into plumbing!

 

[TBServices]

My biggest gripe with bathrooms is the amount of problems I uncover usually, and the fact that people expect me to dedicate 3 days of my time, unpaid, before they've even accepted my quote, to finding them the perfect suite. Does my head in.

 

[Avatar]

simple fix - charge triple!!!

 

[DMPPlumbingN/E]

Hello mate, I'm interested in what you said about your dads company, so do they train plumbers to be pipe fitters and send them abroad? Sounds ideal to me haha, I'm more of a bathroom plumber myself and live in county Durham, seaham in fact, so any news you can give be appreciated cheers!

 

[erpkid]

Bathrooms, kitchens it doesn't really matter. As long as you do a good job work will come in and eventually you will be able to pick and choose. Best money is boiler swaps but you can't always get them. I have spent most of my day in a Vicks under the nose house doing all sorts. Not ideal but it pays the mortgage.

 

[TBServices]

Bathrooms, kitchens it doesn't really matter. As long as you do a good job work will come in and eventually you will be able to pick and choose. Best money is boiler swaps but you can't always get them. I have spent most of my day in a Vicks under the nose house doing all sorts. Not ideal but it pays the mortgage.

Got 2 next week. Well chuffed. Wish I could get 2 a week every week!

 

[SimonG]

Bathrooms all the way, plenty of them and they pay well. Well the ones I do. 🙂

 

[TBServices]

they pay well. Well the ones I do. 🙂

So do mine, which is prob why I don't get many booked in unless its on a recommendation.

 

[SimonG]

I priced up a shower room about two months ago, just in the next street, never heard anything. The bloke was in the pub last night, 'oh we're nearly ready for you, we've had a bit of an issue'. Turns out their next door neighbour has 18 cats, and the room next door to where the shower room the cats have been using as a toilet. The cat pee has got into the timbers and through the wall. They've had to gut the shower room and restructure it all. They only got to the bottom of it when they brought in environmental health about the smell.

 

[TBServices]

Wow..... That's disgusting. Hope they've had their cats taken away?

 

[SimonG]

No, all still there. He said when it all started the smell kept him awake on a night.

 

[TBServices]

Christ, surely there has to be laws to prevent this? I can't even tell you how I'd react.

 

[SimonG]

If there are any laws he should know them, he's a police inspector. To be honest if it was me there wouldn't be 18 of them left by now.

 

[CXR100]

I HATE BATHROOMS, alway some foreign fitting/thread that nobodys ever seen! always something leaking when you turn on, (monstly the basin pop up waste for me that i always have to remove pedistall to get to!!!!) then you have the dreaded shower screen that customer tells you they paid a grand for when your in the middle of fixing it! i love to do unvented cylinders and central heating! always seems to look impressive once finished!

 

[erpkid]

Bathrooms all the way, plenty of them and they pay well. Well the ones I do. 🙂

One of our better bathrooms, friendly customer, quick payment, regular tea and either home made or Waitrose biscuits........









Most of the time we fit more modest bathrooms for buy to let landlords and have to fight for the business with the guys laid off from the meat factory.

 

[TBServices]

One of our better bathrooms, friendly customer, quick payment, regular tea and either home made or Waitrose biscuits........

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Most of the time we fit more modest bathrooms for buy to let landlords and have to fight for the business with the guys laid off from the meat factory.

Very nice matey. Bath and basins look top

 

[Alpha man]

I love bathrooms and kitchens, have done loads as of late, good money and has cut my diesel fuel bill back a bit too,

 

[Keefy]

I love bathrooms and kitchens, have done loads as of late, good money and has cut my diesel fuel bill back a bit too,

I take it you're saving fuel because you're on a single big job rather than several small jobs?

 

[Alpha man]

Yep, at the same job for most off the week!