A heart attack may put some people off work, but not 74-year old Len Fitt.
Mr Fitt put his plumbing training to good use despite a cardiac arrest and waiting for a quadruple heart bypass, the Maidenhead Advertiser reported.
He decided to continue with his work at the Holyport Youth Club building as he said that he didn't want to be in a hospital bed.
"I have got less than a week's work and I shall be finished. I ain't going to hospital until I finish it. No way. They will have to cart me off," he told the newspaper.
Mr Fitt is to undergo tests on September 7th to prepare for his surgery.
The building he is working on was destroyed by fire five years ago and has been rebuilt from scratch.
However, Mr Fitt is far from the oldest plumber in the business.
Harry Patch, the last survivor of World War I, was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering on his 111th birthday.