PROINSTALLER.CO.UK
THE VOICE OF THE TRADE
ISSUE 54
SEPTEMBER 2017
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04 Windows fit for a World Heritage Site 31 Lifting the lid on
cowboy customers 36 Timber vs 50 Will your job be
A triumph for Modus PVCu
windows from Eurocell. Rogue traders may well be
out-numbered. Looking to timber for
quality and sustainability. The impact of robotics in
the construction industry.
PVCu Special
terminated by robots?
REVIVAL IN FATHER-
TO-SON BUSINESSES
Far from being a legacy of the past, the father-to-son business is undergoing
a revival, being most enthusiastically taken up by the Millennial generation
(aged 35 and under). Fifteen per cent of young business owners say they took
over the family firm, double the number of older people (six per cent).
The results vary great-
ly between occupations.
However, a tradesman’s son
is four times more likely to
follow his dad’s occupation
than the rest of the popula-
tion. In the building trades,
26 per cent of people say
they learnt their trade from
their dad, and one in five
trace their trade back to
their grandfather’s genera-
tion. In retail, 15 per cent
took up dad’s occupation,
and just six per cent in
graduate professions.
The building trades have
seen a sharp acceleration
in father-to-son businesses
over the past generation.
Almost half (45 per cent)
of tradesmen in the 18-35
category say their dad was
a tradesman (compared to
23 per cent across previous
generations).
Long-term job stability
(“there is always work”,
“people will always need
us”) was the top reason for
young men to take up dad’s
trade. This is particularly
understandable, given that
in a separate study, AXA
found the average 25-year-
old today has already
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