Following the tragic carbon monoxide poisoning deaths in Corfu, ReactFast, one of the UK’s largest one-stop emergency maintenance providers, are taking positive steps towards ensuring that these kind of incidents are a thing of the past. Many people are un-educated or ill-informed when it comes to Carbon Monoxide (CO).

The UK’s fastest growing companies are on the Stock Market, right? And I guess they must be in IT, or maybe defence, or oil? As to private companies, they’re probably tiny by comparison, aren’t they, and not making much money? Wrong, wrong and again wrong.

In the recent Budget, Gordon Brown announced a scheme to encourage women to enter traditionally male professions – such as plumbing. ReactFast supports this initiative and welcome women onto all of their courses. At present they have one female plumber on the road. Samantha Pardoe, 29, from Wolverhampton works alongside David Powell, the ReactFast franchisee for the Dudley area.

ReactFast, purchased by Kevin Lewis, Mick Fitzgerald and Richard Pougher from GE in 2001, have grown to become one of the UK’s largest one-stop emergency maintenance providers. They offer their customers a 24hour/365 day service and have attended over 135,000 same day domestic repairs in the last year.

The kind and caring staff of Birmingham based ReactFast recently raised £3000 for a local children’s charity at their annual Summer Ball.

Not only have we attended some 135,000 same day domestic repairs in the last year, but now we are delighted to announce that ReactFast has today joined the highly prized ranks of the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list for 2005!

Changes to the building regulations are expected to come in to force in 2006, which will propose to regulate the temperature of hot water at outlets in domestic bathrooms.

Plumbing has risen to the top of the maintenance trade's popularity charts. However, this has presented a problem in that there is a shortage of plumbers.