Plumbing and heating engineer
Discussion
Sorry, cant really help with your question directly but imho you want to avoid the short courses where possible and go the traditional route of apprenticeship/working with or for an experienced plumbing/heating engineer.
Short courses are all well and good for getting you 'certified' but again imho, and this is mainly speaking from an electrical point of view, the people cannot do the work to a high enough standard or have enough experience to be let loose on their own in peoples property after a 5 day wonder course.
If possible I would try and get taken on as previously said and then self fund any training if you can - at a guess nvq3 type stuff.
Also, another decent feather in your bow would be to get your HETAS certification and get in on the log burner installation and certification - most semi reasonable sized outfits of plumbers/heating engineers locally to me do all.
Hope the above is of some help, and good luck for the future
Short courses are all well and good for getting you 'certified' but again imho, and this is mainly speaking from an electrical point of view, the people cannot do the work to a high enough standard or have enough experience to be let loose on their own in peoples property after a 5 day wonder course.
If possible I would try and get taken on as previously said and then self fund any training if you can - at a guess nvq3 type stuff.
Also, another decent feather in your bow would be to get your HETAS certification and get in on the log burner installation and certification - most semi reasonable sized outfits of plumbers/heating engineers locally to me do all.
Hope the above is of some help, and good luck for the future
ghamer said:
Starfighter said:
Engineer?
Calm down dear its just a word.Obviously your a proper engineer who went to uni and all that jazz but really has,nt done anything useful with it.At least heating ENGINEERS are quite useful to society,not like you lot!
I've recently come out my time as A plumbing apprentice. I can safely say you're talking 4 years minimum full time work/study. There is no way around gaining experience in this field, you can't just do a year or two on a part time course (or worse; on some quick intensive course) and a couple weeks with a plumber and then go out on your own and make it as a self employed plumber and heating engineer. The qualifications will cost £K's too. So like I said, it is a job you really have to know and have confidence with as you are mostly working directly for your client and they need confidence in you. I'm not saying it's impossible but you'll have to put a lot into it to make it worthwhile.
pitbull turbo said:
how about combustion engineers then? rebuilding and setting up and installing 70kw to 3mw forced draft buners on boilers bigger than your house and all the mechanical grubbings to get said heat to where its going? guess im not classed as an engineer either then lol.
It depends. An engineer would have been the person who designed the thing and a technician/fitter the person who installed, fixes, commissions, runs it etc.Which are you?
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