hello!
Found this site purely by accident and i am happy i did, what a great helpful site !
I passed my acs in january of this year and i am wondering about approaching Corgi and becoming registered. Did my training at Leeds college of building for over 2 years under the C.I.T.B scheme, achieving water regs cert, unventing cert, nvq level 3 and a.c.s ( domestic natural gas safety, cooking appliances, fires and wall heaters, water heating appliances and heating boilers < 70kw.
I am not a stupid person i have 17 years garage experience with some qualificatios. Also a qualified computer engineer and have cisco networking qualifications.
Some will think if you have qual's in computing then use the search tool, well i've tried but found no one with same set of circumstances as myself.
My question is How hard is it to get Corgi registered? simple as that. Been told (looking for more opinions) that it's harder than all the exams i have sat. I would have thought nothing could be harder than the PAWS book that i endured doing the acs. lol.
I am not working full time at the moment, and rightly or wrongly i have fitted a few central heating systems and had the installations certified by a Corgi plumber ( i say rightly or wrongly because there seems to be a wide varied point of view from many rgi's on here about this kind of activity ) I would consider myself as competent ( having done the 2 years at college and got my qualifications ) rather than a d.i.y er.
I went to college to do plumbing so that i could learn how to fit my own cenal heating system (simple as) because having seen contracters in other properties running pipes down the walls in living rooms and seeing shelves drilled to run pipes through them put me off getting it done by anyone else, i was also intrigued as to how it worked i.e water density affected by heat and pressure as i now know,lol.
I learnt that in no time but i enjoyed the course and got on with the guys on the course that i decided to stay.
I would say that with alot of common sense and been able to use your hands that it's not rocket science to pass the exams but you can't buy experience, so far i have used my gas regs books to the letter and the Corgi guy has never faulted my work. I wouldn't dream of touching a gas fire,open flued water heater or gas cooker without more experience. Only fitted room sealed combi boilers and have had them certified after installation before use. My tutor worked for BG as an engineer that was called upon when serious incidents occur, he told stories of having to walk across dead bodies to get to a defective water heater. Don't fancy that kind of s**t happening due to my lack of experience.
Sorry for the essay guys but got used to writing em now since leaving college!
Respect
Andy.
Found this site purely by accident and i am happy i did, what a great helpful site !
I passed my acs in january of this year and i am wondering about approaching Corgi and becoming registered. Did my training at Leeds college of building for over 2 years under the C.I.T.B scheme, achieving water regs cert, unventing cert, nvq level 3 and a.c.s ( domestic natural gas safety, cooking appliances, fires and wall heaters, water heating appliances and heating boilers < 70kw.
I am not a stupid person i have 17 years garage experience with some qualificatios. Also a qualified computer engineer and have cisco networking qualifications.
Some will think if you have qual's in computing then use the search tool, well i've tried but found no one with same set of circumstances as myself.
My question is How hard is it to get Corgi registered? simple as that. Been told (looking for more opinions) that it's harder than all the exams i have sat. I would have thought nothing could be harder than the PAWS book that i endured doing the acs. lol.
I am not working full time at the moment, and rightly or wrongly i have fitted a few central heating systems and had the installations certified by a Corgi plumber ( i say rightly or wrongly because there seems to be a wide varied point of view from many rgi's on here about this kind of activity ) I would consider myself as competent ( having done the 2 years at college and got my qualifications ) rather than a d.i.y er.
I went to college to do plumbing so that i could learn how to fit my own cenal heating system (simple as) because having seen contracters in other properties running pipes down the walls in living rooms and seeing shelves drilled to run pipes through them put me off getting it done by anyone else, i was also intrigued as to how it worked i.e water density affected by heat and pressure as i now know,lol.
I learnt that in no time but i enjoyed the course and got on with the guys on the course that i decided to stay.
I would say that with alot of common sense and been able to use your hands that it's not rocket science to pass the exams but you can't buy experience, so far i have used my gas regs books to the letter and the Corgi guy has never faulted my work. I wouldn't dream of touching a gas fire,open flued water heater or gas cooker without more experience. Only fitted room sealed combi boilers and have had them certified after installation before use. My tutor worked for BG as an engineer that was called upon when serious incidents occur, he told stories of having to walk across dead bodies to get to a defective water heater. Don't fancy that kind of s**t happening due to my lack of experience.
Sorry for the essay guys but got used to writing em now since leaving college!
Respect
Andy.
