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nick penfold · 03-02-2008

HI all.

Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction here.

I currently work in the family plumbing business and im doing my NVQ2 etc. My father never bothered with corgi registration so stopped working with gas years ago.

I will be taking over the business in the next two years when he retires and im interested on how to get CORGI registered.

I understand that i'll need to do the ACS course which my college implements alongside the NVQ3. I can't seem to find a way of doing this or getting registered with CORGI without leaving the family self employed business and taking a job with a local CORGI registered plumbing company.

Is there any way around this?

Do i need to be working in the gas field to even start my ACS course etc?

Any help would be greatly recieved

Nick

**uug197h** · 03-02-2008

you can study for the acs but to get registard for gas you will need to do 60 hours gas work per year with a corgi engineer this looks ok on paper but if you look in to it its not that easy

**ProffesorPlumb** · 04-02-2008

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Originally Posted by nick penfold

HI all.

Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction here.

I currently work in the family plumbing business and im doing my NVQ2 etc. My father never bothered with corgi registration so stopped working with gas years ago.

I will be taking over the business in the next two years when he retires and im interested on how to get CORGI registered.

I understand that i'll need to do the ACS course which my college implements alongside the NVQ3. I can't seem to find a way of doing this or getting registered with CORGI without leaving the family self employed business and taking a job with a local CORGI registered plumbing company.

Is there any way around this?

Do i need to be working in the gas field to even start my ACS course etc?

Any help would be greatly recieved

Nick

Your absolutely correct there Re: Work Experience. The only way to get your Level 3 is to go and be somebod'ys skivvy for 60 hours. You can stay self employed but work as a sub contractor for the 60 hours (lets say 8 hours per week for 8 weeks). Then that should do it.

Only problem there is finding somebody that will take you on. Hell would freeze over first.......

nick penfold · 04-02-2008

Thanks guys.

Maybe i'll take a job as a time served plumber with one of the bigger companies in a year or two and hope my father will keep workin lol.

**ProffesorPlumb** · 06-02-2008

Lol, good luck and keep us posted

nick penfold · 06-02-2008

well, my father is a star. He has a number of friends in the gas industry who run a couple of largish companies. He says when the time comes, i will at the very least get voluntary work time with them.

Now just gotta hope my ol man holds some naughty pics of the C.E.O of OFTEC !!!!!!!

**ProffesorPlumb** · 09-02-2008

Lol, nothing better than blackmail in times of need!!