
Mark Hall
Heating engineer and heat pump installer at SMH Gas Specialist in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and guest on UK trade podcasts about installer competency and the gas-to-heat-pump transition.
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Sep 22, 2026
What Retirement Actually Looks Like After 50 Years In The Trade w/ Steve & Mark Hall
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Mark HallGUEST
Yeah, I officially took over the business a couple of years ago anyway, didn't I, on paper, although in later years we've run it together.

Mark HallGUEST
So, yeah, I've got this unusual situation where I've always lived away in Hampshire and the business is up in Oxfordshire.
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Are We Letting Undertrained Heat Pump Installers Loose On Homeowners?
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3:11MarsHOST
the evenings and, and just a stupid amount of maths.

Mark HallGUEST
Um, there's a lot of software now that can help you with that, but it all starts from the heat loss report.

Mark HallGUEST
But the training is a difficult one because let's say our goal was to produce 200,000 really good heat pump engineers, um, so that every job they did, they produced a really good, uh, heat, a heating system and all the, the customers were really happy.

Mark HallGUEST
What would we need to do from a training perspective to do that? It's a challenge [chuckles] because you've gotta say to these guys, "Let's take a month off and do-- go to college for four weeks in a row." Because in reality, that's what you need.
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19:45MarsHOST
I've never asked this question before, but the, this two to three-day training course that, that you, that you said that installers have to pass, which is a bit of a tick box, uh, exercise, what exactly does that course cover?
