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Having just moved over here from the UK with the express purpose of renovating my other half’s house i have been gob smacked by the restrictions over here.
I have an Engineering degree and a great deal of experience maintaining equipment to supply chemicals (many potentially dangerous) to large industrial equipment where the consequences of a failure/leek could cost hundreds of thousands an hour or at worst seriously injure somebody! Yet it seems i am not allowed to plumb a bathroom or replace a tap! My old man was a plumber and taught me plenty about what to do and i have done all manner of jobs from guttering replacement to installing a gas combi boiler (although i didn’t touch the gas). I have re-wired a house with my dad, we had it inspected by a sparky mate and it was given the all clear, he reckoned it was spot on. <O:p></O:p>
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Now there is plenty i won’t do but i am an intelligent capable person, why the hell should i be forced to pay someone to do a job i can do as well and with 100 times more care. It is just indicative of the `nanny` culture that pervades everything we do these days, or can’t do! Now we are going a similar way in the UK and i thought i could escape this by moving to somewhere like OZ, in many ways its worse over here. <O:p></O:p>
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Needless to say i have installed the bathroom and i shall do the same with the kitchen we are about to buy, neither of us can afford to pay the small fortune to tradies who have no time for `small` jobs so why should we. I’m not going to endanger anyone else, and if i choose to endanger myself then that is my choice. I mean not even being able to replace guttering, for gods sake what harm can poorly installed guttering do its not rocket science!
Sorry bout the rant everyone but i just found this site what better place to vent my frustrations, and the girlfriend is very sick of hearing all about it!! :roll: