September 2010

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  1. Electrical RCD Toolkit Campaign.

    Electrical RCD Toolkit Campaign.

    A home’s consumer unit – or fusebox, as it used to be known – is at the very heart of the house electrical supply circuit. It’s absolute ability to provide a safe and secure control to both prevent and minimise risk from any possible electrical supply discontinuity, malfunctioning or overload is crucial to home and […]

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  2. Electrical course attendees advised over health and safety agreement

    Electrical course attendees advised over health and safety agreement

    Workers in the process of completing an electrical course may be interested to hear about a new agreement between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Building Control Alliance. The arrangement, which was signed at 11:00 BST on Friday September 17th 2010, will see the two organisations working more closely to improve standards on […]

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  3. Youngster's comments may inspire others to take plumbing courses

    Youngster's comments may inspire others to take plumbing courses

    Plumbing courses could see more demand from young people if the remarks of one apprentice are taken on board by others. Stephen Jackson, who is 16 years old and from Chester-le-Street, managed to secure his apprenticeship through a joint project between Sunderland Football Club and Cestria Community Housing. He revealed how grateful he is to […]

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  4. Plumbing course attendees may be needed for energy-efficiency drive

    Plumbing course attendees may be needed for energy-efficiency drive

    A spokesperson for Friends of the Earth has called on the government to make sure people living in poverty have energy-efficient homes, which may require the expertise of workers who have completed a plumbing course. The charity suggested a new law should be introduced to protect those people who cannot afford to heat their properties, […]

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  5. Professionals with electrical course qualifications 'required for complex DIY'

    Professionals with electrical course qualifications 'required for complex DIY'

    The skills learned by technicians who have attended an electrical course may be required by homeowners, it has been suggested. Anna-Marie DeSouza, editor at Build It magazine, pointed out that there are plenty of people deciding to improve their current home rather than move to another property. She noted that this has led to a […]

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  6. Plumbing Skills Training - Theory And Practical!

    Plumbing Skills Training - Theory And Practical!

    Recently, secretary of state for education, Michael Gove announced that an independent review of vocational education for 14 to 19-year-olds is to be carried out. It had been suggested that when it comes to Higher Education training, there needs to be a balance in vocational courses between teaching practical skills and building job competencies.In other […]

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  7. Call out professionals with plumbing course qualifications 'straight away'

    Call out professionals with plumbing course qualifications 'straight away'

    People should make sure they stay on top of home maintenance by calling engineers who have taken plumbing courses as soon as a problem appears. Tim Doherty, managing director of the National Self Build & Renovation Centre, noted that larger projects do require more planning and preparation. However, for issues such as bleeding radiators and […]

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  8. Pre-Winter House Health Check Up

    Pre-Winter House Health Check Up

    About this time, every year, the advice is given out to all property owners to conduct a timely house health check up as the first signs of autumn appear. Sadly, all too often the sensible words of advice are not always heeded and inevitably, another hard winter sees the depressing list of statistics of people […]

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  9. Popularity of electrical courses could be set to rise

    Popularity of electrical courses could be set to rise

    Demand for electrical courses in Scotland may increase in the future as a result of the investment provided by Iberdrola, since one source has suggested many jobs will be created. Chief executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland Duncan McLaren claimed the investment the nation is set to receive from the Spanish firm could help […]

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  10. Skills acquired on electrical courses may be needed for energy microgeneration

    Skills acquired on electrical courses may be needed for energy microgeneration

    Electrical courses attendees may be needed in order to install microgeneration appliances, which one source has suggested are focused on the creation of electricity rather than export on to a wider grid. Tobi Kellner, information officer at the Centre for Alternative Technology, noted the UK feed-in tariffs (Fits) are similar to the German equivalent, except […]

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  11. Able Skills Plumbers Begin Work with Ontime Trades

    Able Skills Plumbers Begin Work with Ontime Trades

    Ontime Trades have recruited two Able Skills plumbing students to join their experienced and highly skilled team.Andy and Martin are set to put their heating and drainage skills to the test for Ontime Trades after completing accredited plumbing courses, gas training courses, commercial gas courses and renewable energy courses with Able Skills.Both men started training […]

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  12. Plumbing courses could be useful for overseas property owners

    Plumbing courses could be useful for overseas property owners

    New research has shown that people who own property overseas are paying a significant sum of money to technicians who may have attended plumbing courses. A study by the Post Office showed central heating is the third biggest maintenance cost for houses abroad. Homeowners may benefit from taking plumbing courses, so they do not need […]

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