New from Leeds

Mattle40 · Jul 25, 2015

Hi all,
a little about me.
i recently qualified as a plumber after being a tiler for 5 years.
a friend of mine suggested I left my job as a tiler to join him and retrain in an apprenticeship to be a gas engineer, sadly after qualifying in plumbing, he "didn't require another gas engineer" so cut my qualification short as he wasn't willing to lose me for a day per week. I promptly left as I took a huge wage drop to join him for the gas qualification he promised which he went back on after having used me as cheap labour for two and a half years.

im now in no mans land, I'm out of work currently and contemplating going self employed but I really want to get the gas qualification.

so I'm basically here for advice to help in which ever direction I end up going in.

thanks

Dotty · Jul 25, 2015

I would actually suggest you would be ideal for bathrooms given your background. May not be where you want to end up but it'll bring in the shekels and it'll give you a financial cushion while you do your gas.

kris · Jul 26, 2015

Welcome along mate.

newcastle phill · Jul 26, 2015

Welcome, mates hey,

Atouchofgas · Jul 26, 2015

Welcome

townfanjon · Jul 26, 2015

Hi mattie, welcome pal. You have a good combination there (tiler and plumber) stick with bathrooms , the gas part is honestly not all its cracked up to be , everybody's at it. A good bathroom guy is very very hard to find.

SimonG · Jul 26, 2015

Welcome along 🙂 Good money in bathrooms for a quality finish.

townfanjon · Jul 26, 2015

Yep agree simon, my best earners by far have been bathrooms, thats why I have stopped doing them, lol dont ask , lol

Ray Stafford · Jul 26, 2015

welcome

Mattle40 · Jul 26, 2015

Wow, thanks everyone for the replies.
Yes i feel I'm stuck with the bathroom scene now, which is disappointing as this is what I was doing before I went for the plumbing qualification and lost a lot of money in dropped wages.
I must say I'm feeling a bit defeated to be honest and that the last 2 years were completely wasted if I don't go on to do gas, as all I've achieved is a piece of paper to say I can do what I was already doing lol.

I'd thought about going on to do unvented but it hardly seems worth it without being able to install a boiler to heat it.