Every industry has its ‘urban legends’. Bricklaying, as you might imagine, would lend itself very nicely to an amazing story or two. You will, no doubt, come across bricklayers who claim to be able to lay a thousand bricks a day, day in day out! It is perfectly possible for bricklayers to lay a 1000 […]
According to the The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) – the professional body for the UK plumbing and heating industry – there are approximately 120,000 people who call themselves plumbers in the UK, but sadly not all of these plumbers hold qualifications or experience and so the industry is experiencing a shortage […]
To most people, carpentry was what they tried to avoid doing at school! It was a double lesson afternoon of attempting to fit together two pieces of wood to make coat hooks or bookends without slicing your finger off or bashing your nail which would leave a bruise that took six months to fade away. […]
Being an apprentice used to mean you were working at and learning a trade skill. Not running around in a big black Chrysler SUV, suited and booted and issuing orders down a mobile angled horizontally at your lips!It was, and still is of course, a fully approved and accredited course of rigorous training in a […]
It will kill you – that’s a fact! The problem now is that the current economic downturn could result in an increase in fatalities linked to unsafe gas and electrical installations. Research carried out for the new Gas Safe Registry reveals over 4 in 10 people (41.4%) admit they are more likely to tinker with […]
It probably goes without saying that one of the biggest obstacles to taking the plunge and applying to go on a course of training is the cost factor. So if you haven’t got enough savings, or anxious about using any redundancy money or tax rebates you prefer to hold onto now in these uncertain times, […]
According to research conducted at the end of 2008, product recalls had reached a record high of 230 over the year, an increase of 20% compared to the previous year. Consumer goods saw the biggest increase from 91 cases in 2006-07 to 120 during 2007-08. 40% of the consumer goods recalled were made in China. […]
‘…One of the most important skills a plumber should possess is the ability to bend pipes of various materials quickly and accurately. Copper tube is probably one of the most widely used materials for both hot and water cold water supply and domestic heating and it is essential that a plumber can bend it quickly […]
For a small feature, it has a mighty job to do – to correctly flush away the relevant waste material from your WC!The development of the water closet, from its humble beginnings as a box filled with earth through to the well known high level ‘chain-pull’ and low level lever type, has suddenly accelerated in […]
One popular destination on civvy street for personnel leaving the Armed Forces, or other defence services, is the construction industry. However, keeping your boots polished won’t be necessary on a skills training course – just steel tipped! Being physically fit for some of the more demanding challenges of the building or plumbing industry is a […]
But you do need to double-check first! In popular destination countries like Australia and New Zealand, the regulatory bodies will have their own official certificated qualifications that are mostly accepted and broadly recognised as equivalent to the UK’s City & Guild NVQ at the appropriate Grade, in their officially listed trade occupations.However, you will also […]