Went to look at a job this morning, 10 minutes and some **** robbed my van

People will say ,why post that on here. Simple don’t want to kick the dog around the room ,I kind of like the chap.

Rotten luck conditor.

Hopefully the git will be reincarnated as a dog and get kicked around someone else's room

^^^^

Laughing at Knight Commander - not you Conditor.

Bad luck mate - Let's hope the toe-rag(s) get what they deserve.

I know damn all about plastering so while I am sorry about your loss, and hope the thieves are soon caught, why are the trowels irreplaceable (especially if not expensive)?

Same as a snooker cue or golf club I would imagine, they feel right.

Did you have a DAB or FM device, and what did it look like?
A guy down the pub said last time he saw my wife he'd left looking like a plasterer's radio, I'm still not sure what he meant.

^^^

The phrasing of the above looks like genuine naivety.


So i'm going -  PMSL.

Feel for you conditor, tools are sacred. I have a phillips ratchet screwdriver from the day i finished my apprenticeship 28 years ago and it is still going strong.

1.01 plod won't be interested.

Agreed. They are unlikely to send out cracker.

The latest advice from insurance companies is to have all plastering gear fitted with GPS microchips.
That way, you can track it all the way to Loadsamoney's garden shed.

But seriously, what is the likelihood that this opportunistic thief is a plasterer?
Did somebody nick the gear simply because they knew it would cause an inconvenience to the owner?

Probably end up getting fly-tipped once the thief's found a rural beauty spot.

DeWalt have  brought out a fake battery with a GPS tracker in it.....a wise investment sir

A family friend had her phone stolen.  Managed to track it down to a house, told the police but they weren't interested.

Stealing a workers tools is despicable.

To be fair the police were ok. Informed me that a spate of vans and sheds had been robbed in the last fortnight.. I won’t be leaving doors open in future (idiot) .its just the trowels will take a few weeks to bed new ones in.makes the job bloody hard work

Please let us know whether you get the job you went to look at.

Probably a druggy, sell the lot for the price of a wrap.

OP.
Why did you leave your van unlocked ?

No screaming I didn’t ,quoted £300 for a artex ceiling ,chimney breast and 4 walls including mats, got a text this morning, the girls father knows a handy man who will do it for £200. good luck with that one

what part of the country conditor?

I’m in Derby ,the job was in Tutbury staffs.

Speaking as a homeowner in the SW, I would have budgeted four or five hundred quid for that job, while hoping to get it done for three or four.

Don't know how anyone could be making a living doing it for two (unless they're "borrowing" the equipment, I suppose).

I vaguely know Tutbury, from the route to Uttoxeter races. It's the sort of place where the only crime you'd expect to see would be a middle-class, DCI Barnaby-style murder. If you can't leave your van unlocked there, where can you?

cut their fceking goolies off!

Whatever happened to the Chit Chat Detective Agency?  In the old days the case would have been solved within the day.

Clearly there is a criminal gang involving the girl, her father and, possibly, his mate.

left his fan open, it's an open and shut case of stupidity, nothing to see here other than lesson learned lol.

van

I agree with Hacksaw.

How else can you make a living doing the job for £200, unless you're not having to pay for the equipment?

That's nothing I once mowed half the lawn on my mams front garden  on our council estate .I only mowed half because I get tired very easily and was going to mow the other half the next day.when we got up someone had stolen the half that had been mowed and left the other half that hadn't

My mam told me then to mow the lawn that had been left .I told her straight no I'm not they will come back for it if I mow it