by Hattie Hasan | Nov 26, 2012 | Business, For Customers
I caught a conversation on Facebook the other day. Someone was asking what a fair price to pay a plumber was. Of course, I dived right in there. The price she’d been quoted I considered high; more than what our Stopcocks Woman Plumber in her area would charge. I...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 23, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
This is Lilian Baumbach, the first woman who trained to Master Plumber level in 1951 in USA. There is no record of the first woman to train as a plumber in UK although we know that a woman plumber helped Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Germany during WW11, so women...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 19, 2012 | For Customers, Speaking, Water
World Toilet Day is becoming more widely recognised every year, and something we focus on every year at Stopcocks Women Plumbers. But surely, a toilet should be for life not just one day a year? Here in the UK we take toilets and effective sanitation for granted,...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 3, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
Without work based learning training in plumbing is as useful as learning to drive in a car park and never going out on the road. It doesn’t matter that your workshop training was brilliant, if you don’t have the opportunity to hone your skills in real...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 22, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
A woman in Scotland contacted us. She’d just signed up with a large private training institution to train as a plumber here in England. I know there’s a difference in the qualifications in England from in Scotland, so I checked. I found that a plumber who...
