I would say put exactly what you have said on the blog, I now beleive that the fact that the Elctrical industry has taken to the MCS like a duck to water, means that the powers that be honestly believe that the plumbing industry will follow. The main problem with the plumbing industry is at this moment things are moving faster than anyone realises and the fact is the majority of people in our trade have barely heard of a heatpump let alone seen one, and to be honest I have found customers know more about heatpumps than the installers.
Now the Government are dithering around with indesicion about the RHI for heatpumps because at this moment there are debates going on as to whether heat pumps can really save money,energy efficient and are renewable, Well I reckon that they are, and the biggest problem for heatpumps is misselling and missunderstanding their limitations most important of all the fact that the majority of installers not understanding the best way of using this technology to get the best out of them, so the government have introduced the MCS with a really costly focus on QMS and not on the technology itself and because of this incompitance they are harming our industry by splintering it even further by forcing more companies to specialise instead of allowing us who are trained and understand heating systems to just get on with what we are trained to do.
I am a one man band so picture this say I have a customer who wants a heating system in their house and they want a bivalent system utilising a heat pump, solar thermal, a woodburner of some type and an oil boiler, because I am a one man band and I am gas safe right now I have lost a customer, I am fully capabable and trained to install of the above but because of the physical yearly costs of registrations, I only register the with the one body I am most likely to use, So what does my customer do, use companies that they do not know and trust, do they get a different installer for each technology.
One other thing as well I have a confession to make regarding Mickw's original boiler scrappage scheme when I first saw it I had my doubts and honestly believed Mick was waisting his time, I never signed the pettition, why because I honestly believed he was wasting his time fighting beaurocrocy. when I heard that the boiler scrappage scheme was really going to happen I was shocked and surprised at what he had achieved in what appeared to be a very short time. I am usually the first to bleat and moan when I am not happy and usually the last to do anything about it, well this time its different
Now the Government are dithering around with indesicion about the RHI for heatpumps because at this moment there are debates going on as to whether heat pumps can really save money,energy efficient and are renewable, Well I reckon that they are, and the biggest problem for heatpumps is misselling and missunderstanding their limitations most important of all the fact that the majority of installers not understanding the best way of using this technology to get the best out of them, so the government have introduced the MCS with a really costly focus on QMS and not on the technology itself and because of this incompitance they are harming our industry by splintering it even further by forcing more companies to specialise instead of allowing us who are trained and understand heating systems to just get on with what we are trained to do.
I am a one man band so picture this say I have a customer who wants a heating system in their house and they want a bivalent system utilising a heat pump, solar thermal, a woodburner of some type and an oil boiler, because I am a one man band and I am gas safe right now I have lost a customer, I am fully capabable and trained to install of the above but because of the physical yearly costs of registrations, I only register the with the one body I am most likely to use, So what does my customer do, use companies that they do not know and trust, do they get a different installer for each technology.
One other thing as well I have a confession to make regarding Mickw's original boiler scrappage scheme when I first saw it I had my doubts and honestly believed Mick was waisting his time, I never signed the pettition, why because I honestly believed he was wasting his time fighting beaurocrocy. when I heard that the boiler scrappage scheme was really going to happen I was shocked and surprised at what he had achieved in what appeared to be a very short time. I am usually the first to bleat and moan when I am not happy and usually the last to do anything about it, well this time its different
