by Hattie Hasan | Apr 18, 2013 | For Customers, Media, Speaking, Want to become a plumber?
‘The Stopcocks Solution’ is is our plumbing solution and what makes us different Many companies offer plumbing solutions, but what kind of solution are they really offering? As a company of women we understand the issues other women face. Because the...
by Hattie Hasan | Dec 30, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
One of the more radical innovations of the Stopcocks scheme for creating fully qualified, skilled female plumbers is for all Stopcocks Plumbers to be self-employed from the beginning. Many years ago when Stopcocks was Stopcocks Woman Plumber Hattie tried having an...
by Hattie Hasan | Dec 5, 2012 | Business, Training, Want to become a plumber?
Plumbing can be the perfect new career for women. Many seemingly successful women are finding that high status jobs aren’t always the bed of roses they’ve been lead to believe in by our driven culture. We’ve been surprised at the calibre of the women...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 27, 2012 | For Customers, Speaking, Want to become a plumber?
Girls can have just as much fun with power tools as boys you know. I remember opening my birthday present when I was 6 years old with excitement and anticipation. Out came the huge box and to my bitter disappointment it was a build it yourself fort, complete with...
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 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...
