Thanks for sympathy. Had a call from the police not 20 minutes ago, and they have arrested the kid (15) who broke in. Everything found in his house.
Turns out a neighbour heard the commotion, saw said kid and recognised him. Did not initially want to get involved but seems her conscience got the better of her.
Been on to Screwfix and I can go in store Saturday, cancel order and get immediate refund.
happy days m8ty.
just aswell you had the spends to be able to replace them very quickly(now not needed)
i knew of a guy who had his kit taken and the guy was basically destitute,needed the tools to earn but had none to earn.his m8s rallied round the best they could to reset him up so he could at least start earning a bit of a crust again.
hopefully the chav who nicked yours gets more then a slap on the wrist.
We need another section in the forum for Tool Mourning a place that any tradesmen can express conventional manifestation of sorrow and loss for a tool, where it can be formally expressed by grief and anger and welcomed by rational like minded people, maybe even have black avatars as an outward sign to others to show some respect
But until then, 15y/o doing a van in and taking, gippo c***s
I rip on Screwfix/Plumfix all the time over pricing issues etc, one thing they do well is trade accounts, last year a friend of a friend got his van done, SF tripled his limit and stopped interest on the account for about 2 months or so.
It was a gesture of course and might not have been needed, i don't know, but more than a bank would do these days.