Mark McGettigan

Mark McGettigan – Editor of Installer – looks at how plumbers and heating engineers are using social media to improve the industry: One of the most common complaints we hear at Installer from our readers is that no-one ever asks their opinions when it comes to making legislative or regulative changes. From Green Deal to ErP, the […]

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first cover we’ve run at Installer to promote the need for CO awareness. In fact, this one of several that we’ve run in the four or so years that I’ve been with the magazine. What that tells us is that somewhere along the line, the message isn’t getting home. The various […]

We recently received an email from one of our readers in which he lamented the simple fact that his customers were far happier to splash out several thousand pounds on a two week holiday in Florida than they were to upgrade an inefficient boiler – in spite of all the obvious benefits such as increased […]

In certain areas, our industry is continually breaking new ground and challenging the accepted norm. In others, it is surprisingly slow to react to the changes around it. There’s no denying that the technologies continually being developed in order to create more efficient products – in the heating, plumbing and renewables sectors – are impressive. […]

Undoubtedly, a lot has changed in the heating and plumbing industry since Issue 1 of The Gas Installer first appeared back in February 1992. In the intervening twenty-one years, there have been a number of Government initiatives, industry schemes and trade association-led movements launched to try and solve the common problems of our industry – […]