A few years ago, if you believed what you read in the papers, there was supposed to be a major shortage of plumbers. The press seemed to suggest that you couldn't get a plumber for love nor money, and if you could get one to visit, he would charge you lots of money for the privilige.
What's the situation like now? Has everyone jumped on the bandwagon and flooded the market?
I would imagine that the recession, together with the fact that evey town seems to have at least one 'academy' to train new plumbers (the college in my home town of Bristol turns out 170 trainees with C&G certs every year!) would mean that this situation no longer exists. Every third van on the road seems to have 'plumbing' and/or 'heating services' written on the side.
Have a lot of people paid their money, done the training, and got their certificates and gone into plumbing and found that its not all that its cracked up to be? People seemed to think that it was a way of making very good money: if this ever was the case, are they now finding that its not quite that easy or straightforward?
What are things like out there now in the plumbing industry?
What's the situation like now? Has everyone jumped on the bandwagon and flooded the market?
I would imagine that the recession, together with the fact that evey town seems to have at least one 'academy' to train new plumbers (the college in my home town of Bristol turns out 170 trainees with C&G certs every year!) would mean that this situation no longer exists. Every third van on the road seems to have 'plumbing' and/or 'heating services' written on the side.
Have a lot of people paid their money, done the training, and got their certificates and gone into plumbing and found that its not all that its cracked up to be? People seemed to think that it was a way of making very good money: if this ever was the case, are they now finding that its not quite that easy or straightforward?
What are things like out there now in the plumbing industry?