Posts by: Lucy Dixon

Martyn Brown, contracts and technical manager at Triton Showers, reveals the practical tips and solutions installers can share with customers to reduce water consumption and household bills. After another summer of extreme heat, households across the nation are understandably concerned about water scarcity. Bills, meanwhile, are on the rise, but that shouldn’t mean that the […]

The government has announced a crackdown on “cowboy builders”, but what does it actually mean for the industry? With data from Citizens Advice finding that more than one in four households who carried out home improvements work in the past 18 months experienced problems, with more than 1 in 3 (37%) of these facing extra […]

It’s World Water Week, so we’ve rounded up a selection of water-saving products and tips from our community of installers and manufacturers. With droughts declared in many parts of the UK this summer, and water scarcity in the news more than ever, we asked the Installer community of tradespeople and manufacturers the products they would […]

Toolstation has partnered with eLocker to install 17 collection lockers outside its Toolstation GO store in Battersea. Once the order is made at any time during business hours through the Toolstation website or app, the customer is notified, and they can collect it with a code on their phone, whenever suits them. The eLocker format […]

With young people receiving their GCSE results this week, TradesTalk – the weekly social media chat for tradespeople – asked its community what they would say to any of them considering learning a trade as their next step, and the responses were enlightening. Choosing a trade as a career is being discussed more than ever, […]