Builders Academy Student Story

16/03/2015
Builders Academy Student Story

Being the inquisitive types we are, we want to know who is doing what and what they’re doing it with. In order to help us answer these questions, we’ve started up a little series called ‘Show Us Your Tool’. How it works is we go down to a work site, interview a bloke and ask him to tell us about his trade, his tool and his story – how he came to work in his chosen field.

The first tradie in the series is a roofing plumber named Luke who, at only 30 years of age, has his own business putting on gutters and roof sheeting. We caught up with him out in Mernda at one of the Simonds Homes sites, where he was using his trusty Makita Impact Driver to get the job done.

Take a look at Luke’s story below and follow the Show Us Your Tool series over on our Facebook page.

“My tattoo reads ‘Veni Vidi Vici’. It’s Roman for ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. I think my wife should have it, not me.”
“My tattoo reads ‘Veni Vidi Vici’. It’s Roman for ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. I think my wife should have it, not me.”
“My drill is a Makita Impact Driver. I like it because it has a quick release, which comes in handy because I’m always switching over the head. It gets beaten up on the sides because I use it to tap the rafter brackets into place as I go, because they have to be dead level. The sad thing is this drill is only six months old.”
“My drill is a Makita Impact Driver. I like it because it has a quick release, which comes in handy because I’m always switching over the head. It gets beaten up on the sides because I use it to tap the rafter brackets into place as I go, because they have to be dead level. The sad thing is this drill is only six months old.”
“Basically, a roof plumber puts on gutters and roof sheeting. I’m in and out in a day on most jobs, and I’ll have eight different sites to head to most weeks, depending on how busy I am. I mainly work on my own, because I have to go through before the roofing guys come in.”
“Basically, a roof plumber puts on gutters and roof sheeting. I’m in and out in a day on most jobs, and I’ll have eight different sites to head to most weeks, depending on how busy I am. I mainly work on my own, because I have to go through before the roofing guys come in.”
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