It seems plumbers are guaranteed not to get that sinking feeling every time they go to work…
A survey has revealed that Britain’s plumbers are the happiest professionals in the country. In fact, 55% of plumbers said they were ‘very happy’ in life.
It seems tradespeople are way ahead in the happiness index because builders were next on 38%.
The survey was commissioned by Boundless, an experiences company with a 94-year heritage.
11 March 2018 is no normal springtime day; it is in fact the globally recognized World Plumbing Day. Initiated by the World Plumbing Council (WPC) - of which the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) is a member - World Plumbing Day highlights the global water and sanitation crisis, while also promoting the important role that plumbing plays in the health and safety of modern society.
Plumbing Pensions {UK} Ltd was established in the mid seventies, employers on the scheme were and still are, many years ahead of much of the rest of UK industry offering a very generous pension scheme to their employees. Plumbing employers have and still are contributing vast sums of money into our employees pension fund.
Plumbing Employers who have never been in the scheme and have never likely contributed or offered a pension to their employees are not caught up in this issue. In other words it’s the generous good employers that are being penalised.
More than half of tradespeople (57%) struggle to find skilled labour – 37% think apprenticeships are not respected as much as university and 31% believe school leavers are put off by a poor perception of trade careers
The UK’s plumbers, electricians, builders, carpenters and other trades are optimistic about the future, with 82% expecting business activity to remain at the same level or grow over the next 12 months, additionally, nearly half (45%) report being busier than last year. However, research conducted by trade retailer, Plumbfix’s umbrella organisation, Screwfix, has revealed the majority (57%) are reporting difficulties in recruiting staff to support them. This is primarily due to:
John Guest Speedfit is helping to make sure that the future of British plumbing is in safe hands, by sponsoring a talented college student.
The new sponsorship with Coleg Y Cymoedd (Ystrad Mynach Campus), home of Wales’ leading Plumbing & Heating course, sees Matthew Sier, a Year 2 student, win a bursary worth £1,000, to help complete his studies.
Superior, a Dorset-based manufacturer of high integrity o-rings and seals, picked up the PKF Francis Clark Family Business Award at the 2017 Dorset Business Awards.
Superior is a family-owned business which was founded in 1972 by Terrence Brown. The first ‘transfer injection’ presses were introduced to create o-rings in house, which remains one of the core strengths of the business today.
Plumbers working in Central London were warned today to check if their vans are liable for the new T-Charge – and to prepare now for the upcoming Ultra Low-Emission Zone (ULEZ) coming into effect on 8 April 2019.
The warning comes from commercial vehicle rental specialist Enterprise Flex-E-Rent. It advises that these charges could cost businesses hundreds, even thousands, of pounds if they own older vehicles and drive them into the capital.
A Bristol bathroom and plumbing company is joining forces with charity Toilet Twinning to mark World Toilet Day on Sunday 19 November, and help provide toilets in poor communities abroad.
Threesixty Services have 'twinned' their own toilet in their showroom on Zetland Road with a latrine overseas through the charity and will now be encouraging customers to do the same in their new bathrooms.
Only a decade ago, provision of quality customer service was widely perceived as a mere business cliché. This so-called ‘cliché’ has become one of the most important functions of businesses in this day and age. Customers are getting increasingly habituated to keeping a strict track of their online deliveries, the food they order from restaurants, and pretty much everything they ask for or purchase, in real-time. Such high standards have now become the deciding factor in customers choosing to do business with a company. Adapting to such high demands can only be possible for a business if they use a Service Management Software. Here’s how using a service management software can change the customer experience a business offers:
The construction products innovator, Gripple has developed in-house a complete solution for the installation, in all applications, of HVAC, mechanical and plumbing services, also delivering increased speed, higher load performance and easier adjustment.
Replacing the Gripple Trapeze and Trapeze Plus products, the UniGrip combines their functionality and best features and adds to them. With three models, UniGrip boasts an increased load rating performance up to 33%, each with a greater safe working load (SWL) of 5:1.