Plumber seeks work and new life

[jedi69]

Hello everyone, my wife & i are serious about emigrating to Australia and living & working in Perth or the surrounding area, i am a Plumber & my wife is an Office Administrator for and Insurance Inspection firm, and i am after any information on the job market for people with our work skills in & around Perth.
In 2005 we took a voyage of rediscovery for my wife who lived & grew up in Mount Newman during the 70's and a holiday of a life time for me when we travelled through WA, we want to come back to Australia perminantly and looking through the various websites dealing with emigrating i am coming across alot of "information" thats not helpfull, so if anyone can supply any information/help as to the best way to achieve this it will be greatfully recieved.
:)

[Bobcat]

Hello everyone, my wife & i are serious about emigrating to Australia and living & working in Perth or the surrounding area, i am a Plumber & my wife is an Office Administrator for and Insurance Inspection firm, and i am after any information on the job market for people with our work skills in & around Perth.
In 2005 we took a voyage of rediscovery for my wife who lived & grew up in Mount Newman during the 70's and a holiday of a life time for me when we travelled through WA, we want to come back to Australia perminantly and looking through the various websites dealing with emigrating i am coming across alot of "information" thats not helpfull, so if anyone can supply any information/help as to the best way to achieve this it will be greatfully recieved.
:)


Whereabouts in Lancashire are you freezing? :(


I'm a plumber from Preston; served my time at Tommy Crofts on Blackpool Road. Been off the tools for quite a while as i have been in the real estate game for the last decade................... have my own real estate agency north of the river here in Perth.

You'll find plumbing totally different here in WA but don't be disillusioned ...... you'll quickly pick it up. You are unlikely to come across Yorkshire capillary joints here............... everything is silver soldered so if you did the brazing, bronze welding bit as part of your City & Gulds ............... no problem .............. you'll be able to do it standing on your head.

Down-under plumbers need to be multi-skilled and we are expected to carry out a lot of tasks that in the UK we'd expect other trades to do. For instance .................. one of my first jobs in Perth many years ago back in 1976 was to sheet a gable end of a building. I managed it eventually but I was a lot slower than was expected of me ...................... mind you I'd never done owt like that before; but I soon got the hang of it.

Another job I copped was to make a square to round ............... well I didn't even know what one of them was? Turned out to be more of a tinker's job and it involved duct work for air-conditioning............. anyway; once I'd been shown how to operate the rollers and folding equipt .......... I soon picked up the hang of it.

Unfortunately the quality of plumbing work here in the west isn't the best ........... it's definitely cowboy territory.

Re Mt Newman................. our middle lad has just recently graduated from Uni at Kalgoorlie and he went up to Newman as he scored a post-graduate position with BHP in January. He loves it up there.......... doesn't mind the isolation at all.

[jedi69]

Thank you for the information, currently freezing buns off in Leyland, near Preston.

I will try to find out how to silver solder.

Thanks again.

[Bobcat]

Thank you for the information, currently freezing buns off in Leyland, near Preston.

I will try to find out how to silver solder.

Thanks again.


Don't fret over it............ it's a doddle. You'll pick it up quickly here in Perth; it's just that your Sievert will be of little or no use.......... neither will those portable gas lamps................... you'll use E size oxy-acet bottles down under.

Let's hope North End beat Watford tonight?

Sooner you get over here the better eh................... we were in Preston this time last year freezing our buns off............. found it very depressing sadly.

Good luck with your move down-under.

Ask away if you have any more questions.


Regards


Johnno

[jedi69]

Prestons still depressing, have to take the wife there later, its her birthday, no doubt i will have to spend alot of money today
:( I learnt how to use Oxy-Acte when doing a module on lead work will be digging out the books to refresh myself, do plumbers use compression or pushfit fittings in Oz?.
Glad your enjoying life down under we hope to be soon, everything is at the very early stages at the moment.
Thanks once again Johnno, your a wealth of information, i will more than likely be asking a few more questions.

Yous Simon.

[Bobcat]

Prestons still depressing, have to take the wife there later, its her birthday, no doubt i will have to spend alot of money today
:( I learnt how to use Oxy-Acte when doing a module on lead work will be digging out the books to refresh myself, do plumbers use compression or pushfit fittings in Oz?.
Glad your enjoying life down under we hope to be soon, everything is at the very early stages at the moment.
Thanks once again Johnno, your a wealth of information, i will more than likely be asking a few more questions.

Yous Simon.

I need a good plumber Simon................ urgently!!

We've sprung a leak under a slate floor in the family room. I let my fingers do the walking and leafed through the yellow pages. Plumber sent a leak-detection guy................ leak detection guy recommended a pipe location expert ..................... plumber turned up................. but it's a dog of a job as it involves jack hammering the floor up............. or re-routing pipes through the roof.

Apparently some goose laid the copper pipe right under our concrete slab when the house was built............... can't remember if we were allowed to do that in the UK.............. maybe if we wrapped the pipe in Denso Tape it was permissible? Out here anything goes.:mad:

We have it sussed now............. have a quick shower then quickly turn off the hot water feeding down from the solarhart up on the roof. Had another plumber turn up today.............. he's going to give it a go so hopefully he'll bring his Kango hammer tomorrow?

I'd have a go myself but I've just picked up 8 new rental properties this week so in between trying to lay a limestone block retaining wall to keep the new workshop where it is.........I'm busy trying to recruit a good property manageress............... plus the old girth is a bit too big these days to be prancing around up in the roof space!!!

[jedi69]

Hi Bobcat, sorry about the delay in replying, have had some friends staying so i've been pretty busy, sorry to hear about the leak under the floor they are always a pain to sort out, the pipework should always be sheathed or wrapped if it is being laid under a concreat floor to prevent the cement eating into the copper,it happens alot here in the UK when people have new kitchens put in & someone lays a pipe in the floor instead of routing it around the walls, if the plumber can cut into the pipe work at some point & reroute it through the ceiling void & reconnect it again at least you would not have to dig up the floor. good luck with the leak and every thing else, we are off to a job & immgration expo in leeds next month to ask alot of questions and hopefully find out if we stand a chance of being able to get to Oz.