by Hattie Hasan | Jan 28, 2020 | Business, Hattie, Industry diversity, Trip to Kenya
Women plumbers are just 1 in every 100 plumbers in UK, just one of them has been awarded an MBE. That woman plumber, who proudly identifies as Turkish Cypriot, seems to have found a way to get more than the usual seven days out of every week because as well as...
by Hattie Hasan | May 16, 2019 | Business, Franchise, Hattie, Join us, WIT Conference
Women ARE Plumbers, and women CAN plumb! Let’s move on Please! While the conversation around women plumbing is stuck at the first hurdle (the too often asked ‘can women be plumbers?’ or ‘do women want to be plumbers?’) the real issues of...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 30, 2018 | Business, For Customers, Industry diversity
This article from Boiler Guide about the low numbers of female heating engineers is so interesting and well researched we’re happy to point directly to it. Here are a few excerpts: 2 key accreditation bodies for the industry have estimated that: Of...
by Hattie Hasan | Jun 18, 2018 | Business, Hattie, Hattie's Book, Industry diversity, Media
On the 12th of August a reporter and photographer from Installer Magazine came up from the West Country to Calderdale to interview and film Hattie, our founder, as she worked with Stopcocks Heating Engineer Jade Adams on two old and awkward boilers in an historic...
by Hattie Hasan | May 19, 2018 | Business, Franchise, How To, Join us
Why do so many new businesses fail? The vast majority of us would prefer the freedom and flexibility of working for ourselves, so what stops us and what stops so many of us who try it succeeding? It isn’t skill, in most cases we’re good at doing what we set our new...
by Hattie Hasan | Mar 5, 2018 | Business, Franchise, Want to become a plumber?
In UK we believe the DIY myth, even when it comes to our own business it’s very powerful. Doing it ourselves is satisfying and ensures a great job. We believe DIY saves money… but does it? There are loads of important things we wouldn’t dream of...
