Trade Entrepreneur Podcast

#38 - 'Why We Want To Train Chimney Sweeps' - Interview with HETAS CEO Bruce Allen (Part 2)

October 02, 2022 David Sudworth Season 1 Episode 38
Trade Entrepreneur Podcast
#38 - 'Why We Want To Train Chimney Sweeps' - Interview with HETAS CEO Bruce Allen (Part 2)
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In this wide-ranging interview, David quizzes HETAS CEO Bruce Allen on some of the solid fuel industry's major talking points:

🔥 Training chimney sweeps 

🔥 Accusations over HETAS’s ‘not for profit’ status

🔥 Its stance over rogue installers and customer complaints

🔥 The emergence of the Federation of British Chimney Sweeps and the chimney sweeping NVQ

🔥 Whether sweeping in the UK will be regulated

Biggest Name - Biggest Criticism?
Most Common Myth
'Not For Profit'
Rogue Installers
H003 Admission To Easy?
'Always Side With The Customer'
History: HETAS Approved Sweeps
The Servicing 'Gap'
Strained Relations - The Associations
HETAS Training Sweeps
Sweeping To Be Regulated?
Will Stoves Be Banned?
Woodsure - A Money-Making Exercise?
FBCS: Future Relations
Power Struggle?
Views on the NVQ