I have recently completed my gas assessment's and found it quite light on the knowledge were expected to know, i mean for c/heating core all i was asked to answer were question's on a open flued combi(find fault which was the o/h stat cut off) and on the condenser find faults and tell if its positive or negative air intake. I thought it would be far harder and to be honest was quite nervous beforehand but the practical took less tha a day and the theory 1/2 a day. Is this the norm and i couldnt believe the two fellas who obviousley didnt know much in our group and i mean struggled on the metre testing,then didnt find the faults on the boilers were passed and great if there making a living but surely its not very safe letting people pass who arent upto scratch or am i being harsh?
Gas course is it any use?
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Welcome to the world of ACS centres. Where some of them allow anyone through and then Corgi take their 400 quid and say they are qualified and guess what the public fall for it. 
I can't comment on today's gas training in ACS centres. Because there isn't any! Where I work we don't take the raw beginner category anyway. All we (and many others I think) do is some "refresher" training. It's OK for reminding a guy who only ever fits modern boilers what a thermocouple is, but not a lot actually seems to go into people's heads.
I must say the dangerous guys are not the young ones who have to look a lot of things up, its the farts like me and older, who won't be told they're wrong! I had one 55 year old tell me I shouldn't be asking some questions....
Hob burner all yellow:
"What's wrong with that"
"needs cleaning"
"ok but why exactly"
"it doesn't matter"
"It does because I want to see what you know about combustion"
"But it doesn't matter, you just clean it"
"Show me how and where you'd clean it then"
" I don't do cookers"..............
I've decided that there isn't all that much point doing training. Drew this some time ago:
If 70% are in one of the red, blue or yellow areas, the chance of someone NOT being in one is 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3, which is 2.7%.
Of those, half would be fine if you just gave them the book and the instructions, and told them to work it out, so something like 1.3% benefit from training. Cynical, moi?
I must say the dangerous guys are not the young ones who have to look a lot of things up, its the farts like me and older, who won't be told they're wrong! I had one 55 year old tell me I shouldn't be asking some questions....
Hob burner all yellow:
"What's wrong with that"
"needs cleaning"
"ok but why exactly"
"it doesn't matter"
"It does because I want to see what you know about combustion"
"But it doesn't matter, you just clean it"
"Show me how and where you'd clean it then"
" I don't do cookers"..............
I've decided that there isn't all that much point doing training. Drew this some time ago:
If 70% are in one of the red, blue or yellow areas, the chance of someone NOT being in one is 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3, which is 2.7%.
Of those, half would be fine if you just gave them the book and the instructions, and told them to work it out, so something like 1.3% benefit from training. Cynical, moi?
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