Gluing alarm cables to UPVC Window frames & Door architraves

[Tuxornot]

Hello again Tuxornot,

Thanks for your message.

I know exactly what You mean when you describe an Electricians Trade as not being easy - dealing with Regulations, Customers, other Trades, Admin, Competent Persons Schemes, LABC etc.

I have been a Plumber, Heating Engineer & Gas Engineer for over 53 Years and have had to deal with all of the above including Gas Safe Mandatory Registration, Gas Safety Regulations, Water Supply Regulations / Bylaws, Building Regulations etc.

Without wanting to contradict your assessment that of all Trades the Electrical Trade is the hardest:

I would guess that the Heating Engineer / Gas Engineer / Plumber`s required knowledge and adherence to - Gas Safety, Plumbing / Water & Building Regulations - Gas Safe Mandatory Registration - the mandatory registering of installed Gas Appliances / Heat producing fixtures [e.g. Unvented Hot Water Cylinders etc.] would be more than comparable with similar in the Electrical Trade.

That is taking into consideration what I am guessing is required to be an Electrician working in both the Commercial / Industrial & Domestic areas of the Industry - as the Heating Engineer, Gas Engineer & Plumber has to be fully conversant with the knowledge, regulations, registrations and admin for what is really 3 Trades.

I do have what I and others would consider to be a good sense of humour and I like to engage in Banter at almost every opportunity when in light hearted conversation.

I am definitely not adverse to it on this Forum if I can recognise it - but perhaps because I write very long explanations about what I am asking when I then receive replies which are worded as if the respondent has not read anything that I previously described I wonder whether they are on a wind up / deliberately trying to cause me to write a response reiterating everything that I previously wrote ?

Chris

Well thank you for a very interesting post, wasn't too long and got your own view over clearly. My views on electricians as a trade being a tough one is based on my own experience but we all have our own personal view, at the end of the day what ever we do / did do as a job, its to make a living.

As they say no one knows until you walk in their shoes or something like that. ( Thats not a surrender, its an olive branch, puns intended )

I do have some understanding of what you plumbing / gas fitter lads have to deal with, one of my friends is a gas fitter and on the day he was moving my gas pipe his scam pulled him in, spot check I think, out of the blue, no reason, maybe some one was bored in the office day, who knows but it caused endless worry. Now he had to make a few calls so took his eyes off his trainee who was routing the pipe and fixing clips, only took his eye off him for a few minutes but in that time his trainee managed to drill into a marked safe zone and clipped a cable, not a problem because I just replaced that leg of the ring and re tested it then made good.

These things happen its life end off, but it reinforces my desire to petition government to make it legal to stamp on an apprentice from time to time, just for fun, because we can and should

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