Fit bathrooms like these.Keep the money an agency would take.
Rosebourne is Will Gaze and an apprentice, working out of Wootton Rivers near Marlborough. The next hire is a bathroom fitter who wants to run their own jobs. Message Will and you will hear back from him, not a recruiter.
The work, not a stock photo
These are Rosebourne jobs. Most of what the business does is bathrooms and shower rooms in period cottages, farmhouses and the estates around Andover, Marlborough and Pewsey. One job at a time, fixed price agreed before it starts, finished properly.
Straight answers before you message
The things an agency advert leaves out, because the agency does not know them.
- Who you would work for
- Will Gaze, the owner. He is on the tools every day and answers his own phone.
- How big the team is
- Two: Will and Harry, the apprentice. You would be the third.
- What the work is
- Bathrooms and shower rooms first, unvented hot water cylinders second. No gas or oil work today: the heating engineer role is the person who brings it, and the business registers with Gas Safe and OFTEC when they join.
- Where
- Andover, Marlborough, Hungerford and the villages between, from Wootton Rivers near Marlborough. Home most nights.
- The hours
- Monday to Friday. The odd Saturday morning by arrangement. There is no 24-hour emergency rota, because Rosebourne does not run one.
- The van
- Company van and fuel card. Power tools and specialist kit provided. You bring your hand tools.
- Where it goes
- The plan is you running your own bathroom installs with Harry inside a year, while Will surveys and quotes. That is the job the business is built around.
- The customers
- 2,500+ jobs and a 4.8 Google rating. Nobody you visit will have been sold a job they did not want.
Why not go through an agency?
Agencies are quick to reply and easy to apply to. Fine. Here is where they cannot compete.
| Through an agency | Direct with Will | |
|---|---|---|
| Who reads your message | A recruiter who has never fitted a bathroom | Will, who has |
| Where the fee goes | Typically 15–25% of first-year salary to the agency, out of the same budget as your pay | There is no agency, so the budget goes on your pay and your kit |
| When you meet the boss | Interview three, if you get there | The first WhatsApp |
| Seeing the actual work | A job spec | A day on a live bathroom with Will before either of you commits |
| After you start | Placed, then silence | You are hire number one. The role gets shaped around what you are good at |
The 15–25% figure is the typical UK permanent-placement fee charged to employers. It is what the agency charges, not what Rosebourne has paid.
The roles
Listed in the order the business needs them. Every one would be a first for Rosebourne. The heating engineer is paid at the top of the local market on purpose, and it will be expected to show.
The first hire. A qualified plumber who fits bathrooms and shower rooms start to finish, and within a year is running their own jobs with Harry while Will surveys and quotes.
Qualified plumber to work alongside Will and his apprentice on domestic installs, cylinders and repairs across the villages around Andover, Marlborough and Hungerford.
Gas Safe and OFTEC registered engineer to start the heating side of Rosebourne. The business registers with Gas Safe and OFTEC when you join; until then it does no gas or oil work, and says so.
Air source heat pump engineer to lead Rosebourne into MCS-certified installs. The business is not MCS certified today and pursues it when you join; the cylinder and wet-side work is already here.
Wall and floor tiler for bathroom and shower room installs. Porcelain, large format and natural stone, wet room tanking, and the time to get the setting-out right.
Multi-trade handyman for the jobs around a bathroom install and the small repairs customers ask for after one: carpentry, boxing-in, decorating, fixings, minor non-gas plumbing.
Start your plumbing career learning from Will Gaze (22+ years on the tools) on real bathrooms and hot water jobs, with college day release and NVQ Level 2 and 3 paid for.
Three steps, one week
No portal, no five-stage process, no practical test in a training centre. The test is a real job.
WhatsApp or call Will
Your name, what you have fitted, what you want next. Thirty seconds. No CV needed to start the conversation, no login, no portal.
A phone call, same or next working day
Will rings you. Twenty minutes on what you have done, what the jobs are like, and the money. If it is not a fit, he says so on that call.
A day on the tools together
A real job, a real customer, Will alongside. You see the standard and the pace. He sees how you work. A decision from both sides by the end of the week.
What this is not
If you want a big firm's badge on your chest, this is the wrong page, and better you know now than after a day in the van.
- No gas or oil work today. Rosebourne is wet-side only and sends boiler work to a Gas Safe engineer it trusts. The heating engineer advert is honest about that: the business registers with Gas Safe and OFTEC when that person joins, not before.
- No 24-hour emergency rota and no call centre. Emergencies are by arrangement, in working hours.
- No “team of engineers”. It is two people and a van, and you would make three.
- What there is: 22 years of Will's experience to learn from, bathrooms you would be proud of, and a say in how the business grows.
Thirty seconds to start
WhatsApp Will, ring him, or use the short form. Every message gets a personal reply from Will within two working days.