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Starting to learn the practical side of training to be a plumber often means just getting to grips – literally – with some basic awkward access problems! One common challenge is the task of fitting an effective waste trap that complies with building regulations, beneath a modern shower tray with a negligible working gap !This […]
Everyone’s talking up the green shoots of recovery these days. In the UK there been a bounce in mortgage approvals and signs of increased economic output. The number of loans handed out for house purchases in the UK rose by 16% in April compared with the previous month, according to lenders and the National Institute […]
The evidence keeps stacking up that an increasing number of electricians – and others – are being defrauded by falling victim to shoddy second or even third rate training providers who offer worthless qualifications. As early as February of this year, this disturbing trend, uncovered by Citizens Advice, reveals a rise of nearly a third […]
Able Skills now has 2 Electrical Training Centre’s which has enabled us to separate our ‘Domestic Electrics’ from the more technical areas. We have been teaching Electrical based courses for 5 years now and we have finally reached the stage where we have a ‘Technical Centre of Excellence’ and a Centre dedicated solely to the […]
It is to be expected that during the current economic downturn that there would be an increase in the number of bogus tradesmen trying to make a quick buck by passing themselves off as bone fide contractors in the construction / utilities industries. The NICEIC – who are the electrical contracting industry’s independent voluntary body […]
A British woman has won a share in a $1m business after winning a Middle Eastern television reality show. Hannah Dodkin, 30, a qualified plumber from Somerset, took part in “Hydra Executives” that was shown on Emirates TV and four other Arab TV channels. The show, based in London and Abu Dhabi, has two teams […]
So you know all about the lucrative pay that electricians or plumbers can earn! And the fact that they may only work 3 or 4 days a week! The question is : how do you get yourself into the trade and become a fully and properly qualified electrician ? Especially if you are starting from […]
Australia wants our plumbers ! It seems they are one of the professions on its wanted list as it raises its annual target figure for skilled workers coming into the country. So why are our plumbers in such demand?”It’s very indicative of how the economy is doing because demand for plumbing services rises when the […]
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 […]
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 […]
