The most skilled trade?

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From a customer point of view, a good heating engineer comes across as very skilled and intelligent. Maybe I am lucky with my one though! He was a BG manager for many years before going solo (after they messed with everybody's accounts). Too bloody busy now!
 
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noseall said:
Not completely. If you are one of those builders that encounter many different trades and skill sets, then you are in a position to give an informed opinion and an interesting overview of all those you encounter. Anyone working with me will experience a lot of those on that list as well as an old fashioned insight into forgotten skills - i.e. like building fireplaces and chimneys, ripping slates and repairing, fixing glass with glazing sprigs putty etc, haunching and flaunching, float & set plastering, and many other weird and wonderful things.
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Thank you for accepting the topic in the spirit it was intended!

Person A: Who do you think has more skill, a panel beater or a mechanic?
Person B: I'd say probably the panel beater, there's a real art to that trade.
Person C: IT'S SUBJECTIVE ... AND WHAT ABOUT THE TYRE FITTER, YOU DIDN'T MENTION THEM!!!
 
charliegolf said:
Plumbing? All push, lick n stick now isn't it?
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The reason why we get so many cowboys in the trade. They go on a 3 week course for £7000 and come out thinking they are now plumbers having pushed a few fittings together.

Shocking really
 
noseall said:
Jeezus, our work is scrutinised weekly.:rolleyes:

I suppose it helps when a lot of your work is covered up, in cupboards, under floor boards etc.:mrgreen:
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Noseall are you licensed by law to carry out yer work ??

Do you have to turn up at some centre every five years and do a practicable examination and a written examination

rheorical question because the answer is no

panel beating
Stone masonry
Is a very highly skilled job

estate we work on all the props are built with what I refer to as cork screw type brick work on the chimneys

the brick layers that do that are imo highly skilled

roofers / ref lead work copper and zinc work very highly skilled

Carpentery and joinery

all trades have highly skilled individuals
 
If I have my time again I'd be a carpenter. What you can produce and the satisfaction must be great.

Agree with Transam plumbing & Heating must be the most stressful
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noseall said:
Jeezus, our work is scrutinised weekly.:rolleyes:

I suppose it helps when a lot of your work is covered up, in cupboards, under floor boards etc.:mrgreen:
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Every five years we do our Gas so not to kill people and show we just know.

Every five years we do our Unvented so not to kill people and show we just know.

I've did my water regs recently .. and my Part L.

Then we must have the most tools and exspense of any trade.
 
Jobs in the building trade no longer require much skill; they have been de-skilled. Compare a new building of today with one from 100 years ago; can today's builders make anything as beautiful as an Edwardian villa? Perhaps the specialists who work on stately homes and cathedrals.
 
Everyone thinks the sun shines out of his own a7se . Especially on here.
The days of singling out one trade and bowing to it are long gone.
A jack of all trades is a master of none........But still better than a master of one.
 
A decent carpenter, beautifully cut joints angles and structures does it for me, esp working with large uneven timbers still making them look perfect.

Same with dry brickwork/stone walls.
 
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