Is it difficult to get CORGI?

[Agile]

Good, I am glad that you agree with me now that you have had it from the Dog's mouth!

The problem is that CORGI only police its own RGIs. If a non RGI installs a boiler and you sign it off then they will strike YOU off and do nothing about the main culprit who installed it.

Tony

 

[ollski]

If a non RGI installs a boiler and you sign it off then they will strike YOU off and do nothing about the main culprit who installed it.

Tony

Not ever going to happen though is it tony?, you would simply say it was installed under your supervision....what a totally pointless rule.

 

[corgiman]

Good, I am glad that you agree with me now that you have had it from the Dog's mouth!

The problem is that CORGI only police its own RGIs. If a non RGI installs a boiler and you sign it off then they will strike YOU off and do nothing about the main culprit who installed it.

Tony

thats not what corgi said, they said that you must issue a RIDDOR if you are aware that an non RGI installed it.

If you sign it off and make a mistake, well thats your look out thats why we get the big bucks

I agreed anyway but I liked the talk

 

[Paul Barker]

How come there is so much unemployment when nobody ever takes me up on my reasonable offers?

 

[paul69uk]

I don't know whether it is illegal or not to install gas boilers and pipes not being CORGI registered. I really don't care as the outcome is the same - the boiler is properly installed as CORGI plumber would never sign off an appliance which is not installed according to CORGI regulations. As simple as that. If you are afraid my friend, the plumber we are talking about, does not posses enough skills, then he would be stupid to do the job he has not clue about. The worst that could happen is blowing the boiler up, hurting himself and causing damage which would ruin him as a plumber.

Anyway, he's got more experience than many of British CORGI registered plumbers - 12 years in Poland and 2 in the UK. Isn't that enough? Even laying new gas installations in new UK developments for large companies didn't require CORGI as there were CORGI plumbers who checked everything is alright.

What if I buy a boiler and install it myself according to the manual?

Common sense, that's what we should stick to.

 

[Beans-on-Toast]

Piece of p isssssssssssssss.........................!

 

[CastlePlumbingandHeating]

WTF is a CORGI plumber?

If you mean a plumber daft enough to sign up to one of CORGIs new schemes then WTF has that got to do with gas?

 

[geoff@cetltd]

an unfit fitter ?

 

[corgiman]

you cant better than un fit fitter

 

[geoff@cetltd]

That's where I was coming from, yes

 

[ollski]

Anyway, he's got more experience than many of British CORGI registered plumbers - 12 years in Poland and 2 in the UK. Isn't that enough?

If he can't read the english books and answer the English questions then unfortunately it isn't enough Paul, no. Common sense has no place in the registration of gas operatives unfortunately.

 

[paul69uk]

Well, he can read and understand manuals as well as communicate with a customer, but not to such extent that it is as easy for him as for British to pass test. He hasn't taken any yet but will in the nearest future.

And my question was, where to seek information on how to pass the test, what it includes, look like etc. Wthat is the best way to pass it? Where to learn from?

But no one answered to that yet, unfortunately.

 

[ollski]

The initial acs involves a day of question papers, from memory there are 10 questions which you must know without reference the next couple of hundred are open book and the reference documents are given to you. They are also split into seperate sections like fluing or ventilation etc. If you have not read and digested most of the information already though you will run out of time....you need to know where in the book the information is to reference it in time. Pass rate is 100% but you get 2 chances before your knowledge is assessed with a verbal question.

Pass that and then you can go onto the practical side where you will be asked to identify defects and show current safe procedures.....this is the hard part, have to be spot on they don't give you second chances out there.

There is also an issue as to the experience he must have before he will be allowed to take the acs exam in the first place which you would need to discuss with the test centre.

 

[ChrisR]

And my question was, where to seek information on how to pass the test, what it includes, look like etc. Wthat is the best way to pass it? Where to learn from?

If you came from Poland with all that experience, and spoke pefect English, and took the test, you'd fail miserably. You need training, which answers all the questions you're asking. Google will show you where to get training.

 

[ChrisR]

What if I buy a boiler and install it myself according to the manual?
Common sense, that's what we should stick to.

There's far more to it than is covered in the manual.
You aren't talking common sense, you're talking rubbish.

Sounds to me like you and your mate are stupid, ignorant and likely to be dangerous, so should stay away from boilers.