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Start Your Plumbing Business With Stopcocks
Our plumber in Oldham had a go-it-alone plumbing business before she joined Stopcocks. Here she talks about her experience and what she feels are the benefits of being a Stopcocks Woman Plumber. The Benefits of having a Stopcocks Women Plumbers Plumbing Business ‘The...
Water Women – Rainwater Harvesting Why, Who, How and What
Who are Water Women; Rainwater Harvesting? Why are we doing this? How have we achieved it and what are the future plans? Water Women has grown from an idea in 2011 into real results in the form of a system that can gather and store 40000 litres of harvested rainwater...
A Famous Plumber
A plumber has won The Apprentice and being famous ourselves, Stopcocks Women Plumbers have been asked to comment. Not me personally, I’m not a famous plumber, but being a Stopcocks Woman Plumber has brought me fame of a sort. Being a woman plumber has certainly...
Tap in Weymouth
Dripping tap in Weymouth? Leaky tap in Weymouth? Replacement tap in Weymouth? Broken tap in Weymouth? Call Stopcocks Women Plumbers 0800 8620010. A dripping tap is torture for a reason, no one likes the sound of a dripping tap. You don't have to put up with it any...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 12
A collection of random pictures from the trip Nancy with her machete. They're the multi-tool of choice and people use them for surprisingly delicate tasks. You're not allowed to carry them in the city in Kenya as you'll be arrested, unless you are Masai. It is...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 10
Moving rainwater harvesting collection tanks and improvising solutions in Kenya. There is a large group of Americans staying here, using KACH as a base for work at the local school - Bliss. So they can all be together we have moved into the original IPI/KACH building,...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 9
Creation of our biggest rainwater harvesting collection point in Kenya so far. This took several days and Joy took a much bigger part in the creation of this collection point as well as beginning to teach Boniface. The rainwater harvesting collection tank identified...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 8
A wedding and an unsuccessful trip out to see wild elephants; as well as some plumbing and rainwater harvesting. Taking it easier on our 8th day in Kenya. First there was some glue/welding of the old rainwater harvesting pipes, so good old fashioned plumbing. No more...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 11
Completion of the final rainwater harvesting collection tank and the vision spreads to Kisumu in the far West of Kenya. There is one tank that fills with paid-for water that had been identified as suitable to use for rain water. It is near the main building, but not...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 7
Today we fitted rainwater collection tanks onto the constructed platforms and the collected rainwater flowed! We'd love to do this in other places in Kenya. One rainwater collection tank had been bought and another was being recycled. This one was without a lid and...