Recognised plumbing certificates
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I was thinking about a course to cover the basics or intermeidate level, so that I might be able to earn a bit of money on the side...
I have used this site and the knowledge of all the members (
) when plumbing in my toilet earlier this year, but I guess to be able to offer my services i'm going to need a good foundation..
I have used this site and the knowledge of all the members (
) when plumbing in my toilet earlier this year, but I guess to be able to offer my services i'm going to need a good foundation..This site is just about the best educational resource available. There are also sites that give more of a text book approach, and of course there are actual text books. The only other thing is practical experience for which there are no short cuts. Try doing things for free for friends and relations at first to build up confidence (that's what I did ).
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Firstly, there are already too many IT people going into plumbing!
Secondly, there are too many CORGI registered people in leafy Surrey already. Just look at the locations shown and use an IT data transfer statement "Antartica=Surrey".
In spite of what you have wrongly been advised above, the equivalent of "CORGI" for gas work is ( surprisingly ) also the same data statement as "CORGI" for plumbing work !
Tony
Secondly, there are too many CORGI registered people in leafy Surrey already. Just look at the locations shown and use an IT data transfer statement "Antartica=Surrey".
In spite of what you have wrongly been advised above, the equivalent of "CORGI" for gas work is ( surprisingly ) also the same data statement as "CORGI" for plumbing work !
Tony
Well i got my NVQ level 2 in 2001 at the grand ol age of 47..after 25 years doing something else mostly car bound in a suit. I got apprenticed half way through the course..then did my ACS in 2003 and now i've been with the outfit (40+gas engineers, builders, sparkies, oil guys and solid fuel wallers) for exactly five years now..must go..time for work
Before that I used the Sainsbury's Homebase guide no6 to central heating by david barker which cost 35p in 1982...all 32 pages of it. I've got the book in my hand now and how I laugh at it!!! but you have to start somewhere.
Alfredo
Before that I used the Sainsbury's Homebase guide no6 to central heating by david barker which cost 35p in 1982...all 32 pages of it. I've got the book in my hand now and how I laugh at it!!! but you have to start somewhere.
Alfredo
you sure do have to start somewhere.
Problem is tho there are too many rumours that gas engerneers/ plumbers are on £70k a year . So there are lots of 40 year old or so people leaving well paid engerneering jobs to go plumbing..... So off they pop to local college the following monday. get on a course and ring round lots of plumbing & heating companys for a job. Things is tho you are only worth what a 16 year old is worth. As the only extra knowlege you have than a 16 year old, is LIFE. There is now way i would pay a middle aged, mortgage up man/women a livable wage because i would have to send 2 men on the job, 1 being a quallified man to keep an eye on the new apprentice to make sure he does the job correctly. So as you can see if you are starting out in the plumbing game you are only worth as much as a 16 year old apprentice. So just make sure you are ready to take 5 steps back to take 6 forward.
Problem is tho there are too many rumours that gas engerneers/ plumbers are on £70k a year
. So there are lots of 40 year old or so people leaving well paid engerneering jobs to go plumbing..... So off they pop to local college the following monday. get on a course and ring round lots of plumbing & heating companys for a job. Things is tho you are only worth what a 16 year old is worth. As the only extra knowlege you have than a 16 year old, is LIFE. There is now way i would pay a middle aged, mortgage up man/women a livable wage because i would have to send 2 men on the job, 1 being a quallified man to keep an eye on the new apprentice to make sure he does the job correctly. So as you can see if you are starting out in the plumbing game you are only worth as much as a 16 year old apprentice. So just make sure you are ready to take 5 steps back to take 6 forward.There is the 6129 Plumbing certificate which is the starting point City & Guilds qualification for Plumbing..If you do this then the next step is the nvq 2 "work based " qualification ...which if you have this defines you as a "Competant person" to carry out most plumbing jobs...my understanding is that new regs are going to come in shortly that means you will need to be a "competant person" to legally carry out plumbing jobs (similar to CORGI gas) ..where this leaves plumbers who are brilliant at what they do with years of experience that have been to the university of life i'm not sure...obviously it will hae to be handled sensibly in some way...
p.s as someone who is midway through college training and a mature student I have to say I think the whole City and Guilds training is a joke and completely out of touch with the realities of the real world..For the next 6 week i will be lead bashing and lead welding in order to do lead flashing on roofing jobs....yes thats right the sort of job you would get a roofing company in for and not a plumber...Total waste of time...
p.s as someone who is midway through college training and a mature student I have to say I think the whole City and Guilds training is a joke and completely out of touch with the realities of the real world..For the next 6 week i will be lead bashing and lead welding in order to do lead flashing on roofing jobs....yes thats right the sort of job you would get a roofing company in for and not a plumber...Total waste of time...
I know exactly what you mean about lead..I have all my college 'pieces' which took months of pain and grief..and you can't really master it at all in that time, unless you are very special, and as with so many plumbers I havn't installed a piece of lead since.....and if another old geezer comes up to me and says "In my day we wiped joints lad" in a kind of superior condescending manner I swear I will bop him one with the lead gas pipe I have just removed this morning.
I ventured the opinion that lead should be an option for people who want to be roofing specialists, and indeed one of our part time lecturers was a lead roofing man, and very good he was too..I was politedly told to p*ss off. There is the work out there for specialists, but for the rest of us its mostly a waste of time.
Bear in mind too that after the Uppark fire (National Trust) caused by sparks from lead welding on the roof the NT and other suchbodies will only allow cold lead work..so its even more specialist than before.
If you want to see REAL lead work..nip up onto the roof of Ely Cathedral. The lead work there is truly wonderful, and its an art/skill I greatly admire..but its just not relevant to ME.
Alfredo
I ventured the opinion that lead should be an option for people who want to be roofing specialists, and indeed one of our part time lecturers was a lead roofing man, and very good he was too..I was politedly told to p*ss off. There is the work out there for specialists, but for the rest of us its mostly a waste of time.
Bear in mind too that after the Uppark fire (National Trust) caused by sparks from lead welding on the roof the NT and other suchbodies will only allow cold lead work..so its even more specialist than before.
If you want to see REAL lead work..nip up onto the roof of Ely Cathedral. The lead work there is truly wonderful, and its an art/skill I greatly admire..but its just not relevant to ME.
Alfredo
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