Corgi registration

[namsag]

Totally agree with you bamber Corgi registration is a complete joke.

Most manufacturers dont give a dam whether boiler been registered .In 7 years i have been asked twice by customers whether i am registered.

Boiler can be quite easily registered through mates with corgi with no come back..... Some of biggest rip off bodge jobs i have seen have been done by so called registered people..

Mates how have done job for 30/40 years not registered and have forgot more than any newly qualified numpty will ever know.

 

[Bambergaspipe]

Totally agree with you bamber Corgi registration is a complete joke.

Most manufacturers dont give a dam whether boiler been registered .In 7 years i have been asked twice by customers whether i am registered.

Boiler can be quite easily registered through mates with corgi with no come back..... Some of biggest rip off bodge jobs i have seen have been done by so called registered people..

Mates how have done job for 30/40 years not registered and have forgot more than any newly qualified numpty will ever know.

Hurrah, a man with some ** sense. This is what it is all about. Let`s have some people with ** commenting on this subject, not the usual ** from Bg & suchlike. Definitely not ** with vested interests: Assessors.
Keep them opinions rolling & keep this post alive, then we will make a difference.

( Rambo steps down from a burnt out Vietnamese hut, then enters left of stage).

 

[ChrisR]

heatingman wrote:

General question, what exactly is it about corgi, or being corgi registered that causes the problem. please dont say the cost, the annual fees are peanuts in relation to earning potential.

The annual inspection perhaps?

Agree entirely. It's trivial. I haven't been inspected for about 3 years, and I find it quite pleasant when I am.

No Bambi you'll not make a difference to anything.
You'll probably just get deleted.
And I've already answered your questions.

 

[heatingman]

[quote="Corgigrouch";p="836767
The annual inspection perhaps?[/quote]

What annual inspection?

 

[namsag]

With every appliance now meant to be registered Corgi only ask the dodgy people to turn up so they can be quizzed everyone else is done without them knowing unless customer tells them

 

[heatingman]

Bamber, what is your gripe about corgi.

Namsag, do you get your mates to sign of work then?

The industry/business does require some form of control/regulation, its gas and can kill.

Anybody got any suggestions how, other than corgi. Or is the general opinion that it should be a totally uncontrolled industry.

 

[namsag]

Dont know answer to how to regulate industry but after sitting ACOPSand ACS several times these are not the answer .. Public think corgi is GOD when in reality its a F ing joke .
I have mates who could do a job ten times better than any Corgi guy but because they are are not independently registered they are deemed not qualified..
Pi#s myself laughing several times a week listening to SO called qualified CORGI guys in local merchants talking pile of sh#te //
ACS is peace of pi#s to pass . Real world is far different..

 

[heatingman]

Namsag, can I assume that you agree with regulation in principal, but reckon it should have more stringent assessment and management.

 

[Nixt]

Anybody got any suggestions how, other than corgi. Or is the general opinion that it should be a totally uncontrolled industry.

It's not just CORGI, they're in the firing line as the only gas body. It's now all the others as well who are even worse. Now with them competing against each other, the competency/registration scheme sector is becoming bigger than the business itself. CORGI, OFTEC, NAPIT, NICEIC, APHC, HVAC, HETAS, before you even start on the assessment bodies BPEC, ERS, CITB etc..etc...

You'd think with all these overpaid t***ers on the scene there wouldn't be a non-regd. left.

On the contrary the grey installation market is growing faster than ever.

 

[namsag]

Want to work on gas do a proper 3/4 year city and guilds apprenticeship have to work on and install every single type of appliance and every bit of it from maintap to flue guard.
Look on this site when a question is raised about gas fires /open flued appliances JUST about all shi#e themselves and answer they should be banned.
This is because they have not got a clue and in reality are dangerous because they have a little knowledge of how they should be fitted. Could Train a monkey to fit pipes and boiler repairs are soon learnt. Fing scary what so called CORGI people do out there but HEY they have a badge

 

[numpty1]

i am with bamber and namsag on this one $orgi are nothing but a money grabbing monopoly,when i joined it was a voluntary organisation that did promote safety and help raise standards.
nowadays five days trainning and you can become a member of a class of person deemed competent to work with gas.TESTICLES.
yes we do need a register, yes we do need regulation, yes it needs to be enforced but not by the toothless bald barstewards that hold it at the moment

 

[heatingman]

I agree there, its possible for someone to do a 12 wk course and get a badge. I did a 5 year C&G and have worked on most things. I'm friends with the head honcho for BG training, his attitude is that there engineers are specialised and spend 1 year training in a particular area, ie install or service/repair.

 

[numpty1]

I agree there, its possible for someone to do a 12 wk course and get a badge. I did a 5 year C&G and have worked on most things. I'm friends with the head honcho for BG training, his attitude is that there engineers are specialised and spend 1 year training in a particular area, ie install or service/repair.

two planks that work alongside me no experience no trainng went away for a full week and came back with acs.a few pound lighter and a few weeks both registered in their own right

 

[namsag]

As a second year apprentice i had worked on more appliances than most on here will do in a lifetime... At a reasonable count i have done or been trained on approx 40,000 jobs and don`t anyone try and say about BG telegan shi#e i never done it and always did and still do full strip down service

There needs to be proper training out there where it comes from i honestly dont know but when you have qualified corgi guys on here asking basics of how to install a copex or how do i adjust elbow on a hob this is wrong. Amazes me how the basics are missed by so many by the replies on here when half of it are in manufacturers instructions

 

[namsag]

Heatingman BG training is sh#te now not anywhere near the standard it was and hardly anyone left who can give it