Retraining as gas safe engineer

[wondergasman]

Hi
Any recommendation of good training courses I want to retrain as gas safe engineer

 

[misterdubya]

McDonalds do a good one. You'll earn more too. (And get cheap big-macs).

Oh, and with a usermane like that do you really need training. Most car mechanics know our job 'better than we do'.

Mr. W.

 

[45yearsagasman]

Whats your background?.........It is relevant.

 

[wondergasman]

Been a bathroom/ kitchen fitter for last 25 year, now planning on doing heating and boiler installation, I get so many customers asking if I can install new condensing combi boilers, I thought I may as well train up to do the installition as well.
Always assumed there would be resentment when posting this question, think gas safe engineers fear any compettition, user names are irrelivent does not affect your ability to do the job

 

[wondergasman]

McDonalds do a good one. You'll earn more too. (And get cheap big-macs).

Oh, and with a usermane like that do you really need training. Most car mechanics know our job 'better than we do'.

Mr. W.

Try using the spell checker,

 

[Mark Br]

Before you waste any time and money training, make sure you have an RGI you can go out with to get the experience and to build your portfolio of jobs. If you don't already have someone finding someone will be tough

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

I never see the point in helping someone to rob me of my work and customers the minute they finish training, where's my incentive ?

Recession, work not prolific, working for the same money and less than I was 3 years ago, Warmfront robbing me of local installations by fitting for "free", difficult to compete with that, cowboys, foreigners working for peanuts, and I want to help bring more into the trade who will work for stupid money to start with, before realising that to survive you have to charge proper prices, but but by then how much work has been taken from you, so tell me, whats my incentive ?

 

[wondergasman]

Hi
Thanks for the advice one of my mates is a RGI, so there's no problem building a portfolio, i'm not planning on doing any cheap rates on work I do, but looking at the quallity of some of the pipe work installed by gas safe installers I think maybe some should do basic plumbing course's never mind gas installations, no disrespect meant to all the professional gas safe engineers who do I fantastic job. but there are to many cowboys out there.

 

[misterdubya]

Hi
Thanks for the advice one of my mates is a RGI, so there's no problem building a portfolio, i'm not planning on doing any cheap rates on work I do, but looking at the quallity of some of the pipe work installed by gas safe installers I think maybe some should do basic plumbing course's never mind gas installations, no disrespect meant to all the professional gas safe engineers who do I fantastic job. but there are to many cowboys out there.

When this site is renamed www.iwannaretrain.com I'll help help a bullshitter like you. Im sorry my spelling is not up to scratch, and you can visit www.misterdubyacantspell.co.uk to voice your concern there.

I have no interest in helping you on a site designed to help people with genuine plumbing & heating problems.

Sorry, your another competitor who thinks the big money is with boiler installs, and your very misinformed.

How many of your lot do we see on this site...... lots. Your RGI can point you in the right direction. Do ya get it yet?

Mr. W.

 

[John506]

Why everyone is giving this guy a load off sh!t I don't know..

I don't know what experience you have and I'm sure you will know alot of the Level 2, but there is more than fitting kitchens and bathrooms, but.....

I would recommend starting off on a City & Guilds course in basic plumbing, then work your way through the first 2 years to get your C&G 6129 Level 2 qualification.

After you got the experience go in for the NVQ 6089 conversion as self employed and get together a portfolio of your work to receive the NVQ Level 2 qualification.

Next you will move onto your NVQ Level 3, and with your RGI friend you will be able to gather the evidence for the portfolio along with taking your gas exams and assessments.

 

[wondergasman]

Why everyone is giving this guy a load off **** I don't know..

I don't know what experience you have and I'm sure you will know alot of the Level 2, but there is more than fitting kitchens and bathrooms, but.....

I would recommend starting off on a City & Guilds course in basic plumbing, then work your way through the first 2 years to get your C&G 6129 Level 2 qualification.

After you got the experience go in for the NVQ 6089 conversion as self employed and get together a portfolio of your work to receive the NVQ Level 2 qualification.

Next you will move onto your NVQ Level 3, and with your RGI friend you will be able to gather the evidence for the portfolio along with taking your gas exams and assessments.

Hi

Thanks for your help As I already said I've been in the plumbing trade since leaving school, and happen to be a very good joiner, hence the kitchen fitting, being gas safe just makes it easier to do the full install including heating myself and knowing the job this been done to the required standard.
All I was looking for was some advice to get trained to do the gas work, ie gas safe, but everybody seems to take offence to having more compitition, Good tradesmen are always in work maybe the people making a fuss are the cowboys who do poor work and therefore get no recommendation therefore fear competition.

 

[bengasman]

Hi
Any recommendation of good training courses I want to retrain as gas safe engineer

I am looking to retrain to be able to do something else than gaswork. The whole building industry is in dire straits, and the gas side of it is no different from the rest.
Your chances of getting a job as newly registered entrant are extremely low.

 

[htgeng]

[quote="bengasman";p="1824091Your chances of getting a job as newly registered entrant are extremely low.[/quote]
He said hes already got his fingers in other pies. Just having gas would allow him to do boiler jobs as and when? If thats the story then fine. Everyone I know is fighting over the limited number of jobs available and doing installs for silly money. If you can rely on other work then fill your boots. Gas/plumbing is a flooded market atm, if you pardon the pun.

 

[Wangerman]

Get in to Sparkying


seriously though I can do most trades (except gas) and it does come in handy to be multi skilled and you really need to diversify in this current climate if you can.

Most trades are easy enough to learn but notoriously difficult to master

 

[bobthebender]

Take no notice of them.
Most of them have only done a six week course themselves.
I done Bangor in North Wales when ACOPS came out in the Nineties and can recomend.Is that near you ?
Best of luck.