Kingspan insulation

[nod]

be very careful with your insulation we have had £6k in insulation stolen over the weekend from an office block 

All was loaded between three floors They simply tossed it out of the widow opens 

We have a partial number plate 

Police have been really helpful and asked us to try and get the rest of the reg 

 

   Get it onsite and use it as quickly as you can 

 

[Big Jimbo]

Well i promise it's not the PIR that has just gone into my posh shed.. That must have taken some serious transportation. Scum. I had a mate years ago who dis 6 years for torturing a thief that he caught in his house. Even if your thieving scum are caught, they will either get off, or just get a slap on the wrist. It's not the fact that you will be £6k out of pocket, you will now have to organise a new delivery, and deal with the delay to work. Might be worth trying to check the delivery companies registrations. There was an expensive wood flooring company a few years ago, who where delivering, and coming back that night, and stealing it back off the site.

[nod]

Yeah it’s not great 

 

K rends a problem 

We get ten packs delivered 

and lift them with the telehabdler as we need them It’s really easy to Chuck a pack in a van £500 quid The city centre job are like Fort Knox 

But these industrial estates can be quite remote and always within a mil of a motorway junction 

[joe90]

Yes no real deterrent for those caught. I wonder how much thieving gets done in the Middle East where they chop your hand off if caught?

[SteamyTea]

12 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Yes no real deterrent for those caught. I wonder how much thieving gets done in the Middle East where they chop your hand off if caught?

You can check here.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Saudi-Arabia/United-Kingdom/Crime

[Jeremy Harris]

5 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Yes no real deterrent for those caught. I wonder how much thieving gets done in the Middle East where they chop your hand off if caught?

 

 

Not a lot, if my experience in Manama, Bahrain, years ago is any indication.  Being young and foolish I had too much to drink at the sailing club and on the walk back to my apartment I must have just crashed out.  I came to in a doorway being looked after by two local guys, who helped me to my feet and saw me home.  I was pretty amazed to discover the next morning that my wallet was intact, and still had around 50 dinars in it (at the time worth a bit more than £50 IIRC).  Theft seemed to be pretty much unheard of there, and generally it seemed a pretty safe place, as long as you accepted that, being non-Arab, you would always carry the blame for any incident.

[ProDave]

52 minutes ago, Jeremy Harris said:

 

 

Not a lot, if my experience in Manama, Bahrain, years ago is any indication.  Being young and foolish I had too much to drink at the sailing club and on the walk back to my apartment I must have just crashed out.  I came to in a doorway being looked after by two local guys, who helped me to my feet and saw me home.  I was pretty amazed to discover the next morning that my wallet was intact, and still had around 50 dinars in it (at the time worth a bit more than £50 IIRC).  Theft seemed to be pretty much unheard of there, and generally it seemed a pretty safe place, as long as you accepted that, being non-Arab, you would always carry the blame for any incident.

It's not all bad here either.  At the local music festival several years ago when my daughter was just a toddler, we had a backpack with the camera, video camera and SWMBO's phone in it.  At some point it fell off the buggy.

 

While we were frantically looking for it, my phone rang.  The finder had been going through all the numbers in the phones address book trying to find the owner of the phone and the backpack and we met up and they gave it back to us, all completely intact.  I gave them a cash gift to reward their honesty.  That would not be so easy now with a modern smart phone locked to the owners fingerprint.

[Dreadnaught]

Theft is a major concern. As soon as my build will be weathertight, I am sorely tempted to camp within, torch-in-hand.

 

My plot (just a garden at present) has been broken-in-to once already since I have been its owner (!!)

[nod]

The annoying thing is 

I’ve had to place another order for next week 

[ToughButterCup]

56 minutes ago, Dreadnaught said:

Theft is a major concern. As soon as my build will be weathertight, I am sorely tempted to camp within, torch-in-hand.

[...]

 

Next major predicted hoolie, that's what I will be doing ....?

[nod]

My sons just sent me this 

Great to have a bit of sympathy 

 

[Cpd]

I’ve had quite a bit of stuff stolen over the years when working in Australia, the most classic was when we were working in a  bit of national park, about 10 minutes walk uphill on a Bush track to the nearest road head, we were building a board walk and had all the power tools ect, had a few sites over about 100m of track. Stopped for lunch and we all sat down at the end of the site as it had the best views and after lunch one of my lads comes up and says someone has pinched the generator !!! Bloody big thing that’s a struggle to lift with two strong blokes. 
 

the most frustrating was when I had  10k worth of stone delivered to site in the afternoon and by morning when we turned up it was all gone !!!!!!! Two bloody trucks worth. Thank god i had it clearly stated in my contract that when the stone was delivered to site the council would have to take full responsibility for it as I was unable to secure insurance for it. 
 

Part of the reason for living where I do is to avoid all the worry of such crap, I have not locked my house door in seven years (there is no lock.....) and I don’t think there has EVER been a robbery or crime committed in the whole community since the 70s when some friends of  “my nice” decided to use a remote farm house as a pit stop for an international dope smuggling exercise........ 

[zoothorn]

Well I sympathise with the theft in the OP. My builder mentioned a job he was doing for local authoriy, left 5k worth of kingspan on site under tarps/ out of sight, only 1 night.. whole lot gone by 1st thing next day.

[zoothorn]

On 01/02/2020 at 19:23, Cpd said:

Part of the reason for living where I do is to avoid all the worry of such crap, I have not locked my house door in seven years (there is no lock.....) and I don’t think there has EVER been a robbery or crime committed in the whole community since the 70s when some friends of  “my nice” decided to use a remote farm house as a pit stop for an international dope smuggling exercise........ 

 

Likewise here Cpd.. apparantly there's been one major incident in 15 years, someone's mower dissapeared. police came. turned out he'd forgotten he'd just leant it to a mate. No crime too: you get very lazy & leave all sorts of things open all night, but, touch wood.. let me not tempt fate etc.