Plumbing
Senior management of the big six utility companies in the UK have confirmed that bills for electricity and heating gas are most likely to rise substantially this year.
Worcester Bosch are launching a new fully equipped training facility in Bradford to offer training for plumbers and heating engineers in the North East of England.
Plumbers and utility companies have cleared out around 70,000 blockages last year from the sewer systems. More than half of the blockages cleared by the plumbers were caused by fat and cooking oil.
Many plumbers raised their concerns with us recently about the state of the economy and the falling house prices in the UK. According the leading mortgage lenders prices of properties in the UK have seen flat to negative growth rates, sending many plumbers and heating engineers into panic mode that it will mean the end of the property boom.
Boiler fitter, David Mountford from Stoke-on-Trent, put many lives at risk as he continued to work on boilers in customers’ homes despite being banned by the court. He has been taking on several boiler jobs and pretended to be a fully certified plumber while not having the right qualifications. On January 18th, he was sentenced to six months in jail.
A recent report published by the Construction Skills Network claims that more than 180,000 extra people are needed to finish the construction work for the Olympic games in 2012. The report mentions that among the missing professions there are plumbers, both commercial plumbers and domestic plumbers to complete the plumbing jobs on site. Other jobs mentioned are bricklayers, engineers and all types of plumbers and plumbing professionals.
Corgi is launching a new campaign to discourage the public from doing gas work themselves of using friends that are not fully trained to do the work. Corgi is the only organisation who certifies plumbers and heating engineers to undertake gas-related work.
Corgi and Plumb Centre have partnered up to back a gas safety initiative that would limit un-registered plumbers’ ability to buy and install gas boilers and parts. Plumb Centre and Parts Centre, both part of the world’s largest plumbing and heating supplier, Wolseley Group, are backing an initiative which was developed in partnership with Corgi (Council for Registered Gas Installers, UK) to crack down on ‘cowboy’ plumbers.