Gas courses

[jbbs]

Hi, I'm a pipefitter/welder wanting to get into the domestic/commercial gas sector. Wanting to know if anyone can recommend any good training centres.

many thanks

jbbs

 

[kay-jay]

Hi, I'm a pipefitter/welder wanting to get into the domestic/commercial gas sector. Wanting to know if anyone can recommend any good training centres.

many thanks

jbbs

Most training centres dont offer a great deal of training and will be very expensive. Most will also sell you down the river when ut comes to completing a portfolio.

The best thing yiu can do is try to get a job with someone you can shadow and learn the ropes. Or uf you can spare 1 day a week offer your services as a mate to a local gas man.

After which you can go to a training centre and sit your assessments

 

[ckyens]

jbbs. Save your money and forget the gas courses, providers will tell you anything to get you to sign up and hand over thousands of pounds. The ACS lasts for 5 years then you have to sit the exam again. If you want to work on cookers , fires , combis , unvented cylinders ,meters , hand held cpa , lpg. You have to per extra per appliances , which again last 5 years. Your cpa and test device have to be calibrated yearly. To work in the gas industry you have to pay Gas Safe £400 for the first year and £200 thereafter to work legally.
Its a cut throat industry money money money, its a lot to fork out if your not earning.
If I knew what I know now I wouldnt have bothered.
Its the same for Oil firing (OFTEC) course to, only more expensive to go on their register if you want to be a registered installer. However you can service oil boilers without being on the oftec site.

 

[kay-jay]

Kay Jay. Save your money and forget the gas courses, providers will tell you anything to get you to sign up and hand over thousands of pounds. The ACS lasts for 5 years then you have to sit the exam again. If you want to work on cookers , fires , combis , unvented cylinders ,meters , hand held cpa , lpg. You have to per extra per appliances , which again last 5 years. Your cpa and test device have to be calibrated yearly. To work in the gas industry you have to pay Gas Safe £400 for the first year and £200 thereafter to work legally.
Its a cut throat industry money money money, its a lot to fork out if your not earning.
If I knew what I know now I wouldnt have bothered.
Its the same for Oil firing (OFTEC) course to, only more expensive to go on their register if you want to be a registered installer. However you can service oil boilers without being on the oftec site.

You appear to be under a misaprehension that im looking to enrol on a course.

I was not the original poster and i was offering my input.

 

[Dotty]

This is probably the funniest thing I've read in ages!

 

[Riley]

You'd think the gas Safe badge on Kay-Jays profile would be a dead giveaway ��

 

[ckyens]

Ammended accordingly.