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  • UK Tiling Forum – Free tile and tiling advice from the UK Tiling Forum. Over 5000 members, 800,000 posts. Online since 2006.
  • A1 Tiling Courses – A directory of all UK Tiling Courses from around the country. Find tiling course funding, grants, mentors and more.
  • A1 Tile Suppliers – All the tile suppliers online and offline. Whether you’re looking for tiles, tile adhesives, tiling tools; it’s all here.
  • Pro Tiling Tools – Professional Tiling Tools for all tilers, whether DIY or professional. Discounts on big brands including Rubi, Karl Dahm, Montolit, Sigma and more.
  • Tilers Forums – The oldest tiling forum going. Launched in 2006 and has more than 5000 members. Free advice on wall and floor tiling whether it’s 2pm or 2am.
  • Electricians Forums – The biggest electrical advice website online. Over 26,000 professional electricians, over 1.5 million posts. Online since 2006.
  • Plumbers Forums – The world’s largest plumbing advice website with more than 17,500 members and over 1 million posts. Online since 2006.
  • UK Tiling News – Tile and tiling news from the UK’s oldest tile news website.
  • A1 Electrical Courses – An electrical courses and electrical training centre database. All electrical course providers from North to South.
  • A1 Plumbing Courses – A database of plumbing courses and plumbing training providers. Also free plumbing training advice for the UK plumbing industry.
Shower Power Booster Discount Code / Voucher Code

Shower Power Booster Discount Code / Voucher Code

Power Shower Booster Discount Codes / Voucher Codes.

We’ve had a message from Alan Wright that he’s extending the discount code for forum members. He’s a lovely bloke. Really enjoys the forum and the members all get on with him. You should head over there and chat to him. He’s the inventor of the Shower Power Booster itself.

A huge thank you
Hello from Norfolk! I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out to members of the Plumbers Forum which we proudly sponsor.

For those who haven’t heard of us yet, I first founded Shower Power Booster, confident there was a better way of boosting water pressure…

The Shower Power Booster pump range offers solutions to problems no other pump can solve, as well as an alternative to traditional solutions. We work with all systems, including Combi boilers, and we recently launched an amazing new radiator flow booster for lazy radiators.

Our team is indebted to Dan and Lou at the Forum for letting us spread the word and the chance to offer you the opportunity of a 10% discount on pumps from our website –
www.showerpowerbooster.co.uk
!

Call or email our customer service team to redeem this offer and quote ‘PlumbersForum10′

Call: +44 (0)1928 620 099
Email: [email protected]

If you don’t already follow us, our social media channels are a great way to keep up-to-date with us, on FacebookTwitter,YouTube and Instagram.

When using installing the pump, please use the hashtag #gettheperfectshower and tag us. We can feature those who share videos fitting the pump and share your details with our network.

I am always available via [email protected] should you have any questions or feedback.

On behalf of everyone at team Shower Power Booster, and the guys at Flowflex, I would like to give my thanks.

Yours,

Alan Wright
Inventor & Founder

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Electrical Courses, Free Electrical Advice, Electrical Suppliers

A courses and training website, A1 Electrical Courses An electrical courses and electrical training centre database. All electrical course providers from North to South. Electricians Forums – The biggest electrical advice website online. Over 26,000 professional electricians, over 1.5 million posts. Online since 2006. This has served the electrical industry really really well. The professional electricians on there are awesome. We have some as training mentors helping out electrical trainees that are training as electricians at a college or on the job etc. They have a private forum which is free to join you just need to help out by asking your electrical questions in there. And that brings me on to A1 Electrical Courses which is an electrical courses and electrical training centre database. All electrical course providers from North to South. We’ll have a ratings system plugged into the forum soon where all training centres have ratings and whatnot. Electrical suppliers database along with a database of products. Talk.ElectricianForum.co.uk.

Free Tiling Advice, Tiling Courses Advice, and of course Tiling Tools

UK Tiling Forum – Free tile and tiling advice from the UK Tiling Forum. Over 5000 members, 800,000 posts. Online since 2006. Tilers Forums – The oldest tiling forum going. Launched in 2006 and has more than 5000 members. Free advice on wall and floor tiling whether it’s 2pm or 2am. A1 Tiling Courses – A directory of all UK Tiling Courses from around the country. Find tiling course funding, grants, mentors and more. A1 Tile Suppliers – All the tile suppliers online and offline. Whether you’re looking for tiles, tile adhesives, tiling tools; it’s all here. Pro Tiling Tools – Professional Tiling Tools for all tilers, whether DIY or professional. Discounts on big brands including Rubi, Karl Dahm, Montolit, Sigma and more. UK Tiling News – Tile and tiling news from the UK’s oldest tile news website.

Free Plumbing Advice, Plumbing Training Courses, Plumbing Suppliers, Plumbers Forum and Plumbers Supplies.

A1 Plumbing Courses – A database of plumbing courses and plumbing training providers. Also free plumbing training advice for the UK plumbing industry. Plumbers Forums is the world’s largest plumbing advice website with more than 17,500 members and over 1 million posts. Online since 2006. A1 Plumbing Suppliers for the UK’s plumbing supplies database, along with a comparison site for plumbing tools. Find the cheapest deals on the best free plumbing advice online. PlumbersLive.com.

Have a website that you’d like to bring in to part of our network? Then please do get in touch with your statistics and whatnot and we’ll see if we can help each other out.

Plumbing Courses and Training

We quickly ended up knowing quite a bit about plumbing courses and training in the UK.

We setup our first trade-related forum in April 2006. I think the 22nd to be precise. It went well, it was a wall and floor tiling advice website and we always supported training centres, so that we could collate questions and answer them on a central website so we had a nice big database of common wall and floor tiling questions and answers.

Late 2007 we started a plumbing forum. And then an electricians forum.

As a result of those, we support some training centres, who recommended their students come visit the forum and share their questions and advice and grow each others knowledge together.

We now have some of those members that have been fully qualified plumbers for quite some time, providing advice to newer members that are on plumbing courses, and they even help budding trainee plumbers to find the right places to go on plumbing courses.

Some local colleges to plumbing courses but it can take a while going down that route. We’ll list a whole bunch of colleges across the UK further down this page.

Some Typical Plumbing Courses found after doing a quick search online.

National Training Centres, Courses Cover Both Practical & Theory Modules – From £35 P/Week. We Take You From A Novice To Be Fully Qualified And Able To Work In Your Chosen Trade. Limited Spaces. Fast Track Career. All Experience Levels.

The UK Government Website says an experienced plumber can expect a wage of £40,000 a year. I know plumbers earning much more than that. But I know some earning a lot less too. So it perhaps does average out to about that in all fairness.

Still working on this page – Last updated 15th October 2020

Tiling Courses Reviews and Advice

Tiling Courses information can be found on our TilersForums.co.uk blog. We have some course recommendations and also tips and tricks as to what to look out for when choosing a course.

Electrical Courses Advice and Reviews

Electrical Courses reviews and information can be found on our ElectriciansForums.co.uk blog. Similar to with plumbing and tiling courses, you should be able to use the information to help you select a good electricians course.

UK Trades Forum

UK Trades Forum and Websites are some of our best properties. We have the UK Plumbers Forum here, then ElectriciansForums.co.uk, and TilersForums.co.uk. The main and best three forums we have that are trade-related.

Our UK Trades Forum Network

In the early 2000’s I worked at a tiling training centre in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. As part of working there, in my spare time I built a tile forum that could be used by attendees of the tiling courses when they got home and actually started to practice well on family and friends.

They would end up with questions that we were happy to answer on the phone or via email in the training centre. Upto 15 people per week coming through the training centre at times, whether professional or DIY. So after a while I created the forum for those people to register to, for free. Then ask the questions, we could answer them, then the trainees shared their own experience. And then we had members register that were not from the training centre, which was fine with us. And we became the first tiling and tile forum this side of the pond, and the only one that specialised in professional trade talk, not just DIY.

Unfortunately I parted company with the training centre and gave them the tile forum

The First UK Trades Forum; TilersForums.co.uk Was Born

The UK Trades Forum, TilersForums.co.uk was born in April 2006. This forum still online now and is doing brilliantly (just had a new phase start but more on that later). Towards the end of 2019 we switched domains from .co.uk to .com to share our brilliant tile forum with the rest of the World not just the UK.

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UK Plumbers Forums part of the UK Trades Forum

UK Plumbers Forums was born around the same time. It’s still online to this day. The main forum for this has moved to a PlumbersForums.net

Free Plumbing advice and help from the World’s largest Plumbing Forum

You can find free plumbing advice in many places these days. Though not all places are wise to get plumbing help from.

This is our FREE PLUMBING ADVICE AND HELP PAGE where all people of varying skill levels when it comes to plumbing, can ask questions and seek advice for your plumbing projects. All you need to do is add a few photos to a thread and give us as much detail about the job you have on, and a whole team of professional and DIY plumbers alike will respond with answers.

When you have plumbing problems in your home it is easy to become annoyed and assume you can’t do much about it. But that’s just because you don’t know how to fix it. It’s easy when you know how, as they say.

The following help and advice page is guidance in general, we can’t take blame for the actions you make based on using the advice on this page. However, if you head over to our forum you’ll find you can post a new question, add videos and images, explain a bit about your problem, and get advice from over 13,300 plumbing members. Mostly professionals, but some DIY plumbers too.

Whist there are many jobs that require plumbing professionals, you’ll find some good plumbing tips will help you with plumbing maintenance which will make a plumbers life easier down the line should an issue really need a professional in at a later date.

If you do need to hire a plumber, make sure you get good recommendations. Avoid rate-a-builder and check-a-plumber type websites. They all get cheated in one way or another. Good plumber listings sold on to new plumbers who shouldn’t really carry the 5-star reviews of the previous listing owner for example. That’s massive now. False positive feedback, always been a rogue feature of the websites thats charge the plumber to reply to work. They can refuse bad feedback to go live on their website stating the issue isn’t yet resolved. Then they leave it in that state and the feedback never goes live. Other dodgy ways they do things on those sites too.

With a forum, you can see that a member has been registered as far back as April 2006 and is still a member now. You can see what advice they have given other plumbers, and how many ‘likes’ their good advice gets etc. It’s all open and transparent.

Though always get three estimates, they aren’t always “quotes” as such because sometimes until they start pulling radiators off walls or whatever it is they need to do, they don’t really always know the damage yet. So they should be called an estimate if it’s a professional plumber who knows what he’s doing.

They will often have a proper van, with their business name on it. Not just a blank canvas. Should have nice branded clothing, but not always. Should appear busy, a bit of dirt on their clothes when they’ve just come from a job to check your job out is fine. If they’re squeeky clean and come at 10am – why is that? Why hasn’t she got a job on today?

Most vans should have the basic stocks in them to repair taps and the likes. Small jobs should be easily done in a day.

Blocked toilets are a problem and the foul smell some of them give off can be harmful to your health. Some plumbers may do this, but you might need a specialist with the camera kit who can look from the drain outside to see what’s going on.

In colder times of the year, pipes freezing can be a swine. Make sure you have insulation around all water pipes when outside for sure, but even insulating pipes in a downstairs loo that perhaps doesn’t get much heat to the area would be wise too. It doesn’t cost much and can save a burt pip plumber callout.

When speaking to a plumber, and they’re at the stage of estimating for your job, try to get to know them and their business. Get a feel for them and make sure you’re speaking to at least three plumbing businesses and not just one a friend has recommended down the pub or on a golf course. The times I’ve known a “plumber” do a good job of putting a bath in to then get recommended to do a full bathroom refit – and then be way over his head because he needs to do a bit more than tiling and plumbing. He needs to build stood walls on this job and he’s never done that but will price for it I bet. So thank your friend for the recommendation, but unless the job is like-for-like the same as theirs, your job needs its own plumbers to come and take a look at it.

Be really sceptical of positive reviews online. Don’t trust them on any websites. Try to find where the plumber shares his knowledge with his peers online, things like a plumbing forum would be a good start.

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