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hi i am looking to buy some plumbing books and was womdering what books would be best for a new person starting plumbing city and guilds book or nvq level two book
 
There's plenty of people keen to put you off, if you want to do gas, you will be taken more seriously if you do basic plumbing first. Starting with the city and guilds plumbing 6035, buy it :)
 
Dougie2019 said:
The training company gets you 7 weeks work placement to complete the portfolio
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Doing what - Fires, cookers, meters, pipework installations not just putting a boilers on a wall, I hope?
Do you honestly think this will provide you with enough practical experience to be able to work as a gas engineer, we don't just do the gas on a boiler as you seem to understand, so I would start the other way round like most do, learn the plumbing / heating side first before moving onto gas.
It is not the training centre you are paying that you have to convince but GasSafe or more importantly the people you will be expecting to part with their hard cash!!

You might also want to take a look at some more posts relating to gas on here, there was a guy on here posting this very morning, he is doing 10 jobs a day, 5 to 6 days aweek for £20K a year, it might not quite be the job you have been lead to believe it is ??
 
Rob876 said:
There's plenty of people keen to put you off, if you want to do gas, you will be taken more seriously if you do basic plumbing first. Starting with the city and guilds plumbing 6035, buy it :)
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No employer I know Rob will take him seriously with anything other than a 6189 NVQ, they have been taken too many times by persons posing as a Plumber cos they hold a piece of paper, when the reality is that onsite they can't put a piece of pipe in & earn the employer any money.

You imply I am keen to put the OP off, on the contrary, I want more people to join the trade, just so long as they have the skills, knowledge & passion to be a professional & not someone who is learning as they go, taking money from unsuspecting customers & dragging down rates to a point where those who are pro's (& want to continue to act as one) are struggling to maintain standards & make ends meet.
 
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chris watkins said:
Doing what - Fires, cookers, meters, pipework installations not just putting a boilers on a wall, I hope?
Do you honestly think this will provide you with enough practical experience to be able to work as a gas engineer, we don't just do the gas on a boiler as you seem to understand, so I would start the other way round like most do, learn the plumbing / heating side first before moving onto gas.
It is not the training centre you are paying that you have to convince but GasSafe or more importantly the people you will be expecting to part with their hard cash!!

You might also want to take a look at some more posts relating to gas on here, there was a guy on here posting this very morning, he is doing 10 jobs a day, 5 to 6 days aweek for £20K a year, it might not quite be the job you have been lead to believe it is ??
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Of course I know it’s more than boilers am not under the impression after the 6 months course you know everything be a gas engineer and
Be confident enough to do gas work my idea was to do the course work along side a plumber get a couple years of experience then go for nvq
 
If the course you sign up to doesn't offer you a work placement (they can promise one thing and deliver another) then without doubt the hardest part of your plan will be getting to work alongside an engineer. I spoke to a gas engineer who did qualify late in life, but worked for free for 2 years to get there.
 
Rob876 said:
If the course you sign up to doesn't offer you a work placement (they can promise one thing and deliver another) then without doubt the hardest part of your plan will be getting to work alongside an engineer. I spoke to a gas engineer who did qualify late in life, but worked for free for 2 years to get there.
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I think that’s why this course is a wee big dearer as they guarantee a work placement
 
Dougie2019 said:
Of course I know it’s more than boilers am not under the impression after the 6 months course you know everything be a gas engineer and
Be confident enough to do gas work my idea was to do the course work along side a plumber get a couple years of experience then go for nvq
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Try finding that plumber first, you may get an idea of just how hard even that can be unless you have family in the trade.
Use the search box for previous posts just like yours.
 
Dougie2019 said:
Of course I know it’s more than boilers am not under the impression after the 6 months course you know everything be a gas engineer and
Be confident enough to do gas work my idea was to do the course work along side a plumber get a couple years of experience then go for nvq
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Thats the way to do it.
Have you got a gas person lined up to work with?
 
Listen to what some of the guys are saying.
I don’t see how you can work as a gas engineer without a sound plumbing/heating knowledge.
It’s not all roses, I can speak from experience. Whilst ‘on the books’ I was expected to complete eight landlord and services daily and that’s fairly common. Sorry but I don’t agree with these short
direct access courses.
 

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