Info on Plumbing courses wanted

[dane_stone]

Hi I'm thinking of a carear change and for some time now been seriously considering plumbing. I'm 26 and been in the engineering buiness for 10 year a welder/fabricator for 5 years and a design engineer for the rest. I've found some short courses on the net that can be done round work. so I was wondering if any plumbers/anyone could recomend any courses or give any advice or offer me a job .

 

Thanks Dean

[peter richards]

check out the local job centre see if they have any courses going , theres been a lot of plumbing adds on the telly and that lately , just like the driving courses touting 30k.

which is bollocks .

as you have a fabricating background should help , what sort of fabing did you do ?.

before i did my back in i was a pipe fabricator by trade , so plumbing was easy to pick up for me

[Conrad]

It depends how you want to become qualified.

 

I went to night College a few years back to do a 2 year Electrician course. 2 nights a week, 3 hours practical and 3 hours math/theory.

 

Personally I found this a little pointless. As I wasn't practicing day in day out what I had learnt at college I'd forget most of it. This is why a 17 year old YTS on day release to college will learn quicker, they're practicing everything they learn at college on the job.

 

And that's the catch 22 - how can an adult take a wage cut to YTS standard? They can't.

 

IMO the best thing to do is what my mate is doing.

 

He starts a 4 month intensive Plumbing course next week, 40 hours a week at a dedicated college. At the end you're fully Corgi qualified - but it costs £4200.

[dannypunto]

im a plumber, well more gas engineer than plumber but i ahve all me plumbing nvq's and like any experianced plumber/gas man will tell u its not paper work that counts, its experiance! so best thing u can do is try find somebody who u can be a dogs body for , pick up the experiance that way and work from there, also if u want the change for the money then its the gas u need which is very expensive to get if u have to pay for the courses out your own pocket.

[dane_stone]

It depends how you want to become qualified.

 

I went to night College a few years back to do a 2 year Electrician course. 2 nights a week, 3 hours practical and 3 hours math/theory.

 

Personally I found this a little pointless. As I wasn't practicing day in day out what I had learnt at college I'd forget most of it. This is why a 17 year old YTS on day release to college will learn quicker, they're practicing everything they learn at college on the job.

 

And that's the catch 22 - how can an adult take a wage cut to YTS standard? They can't.

 

IMO the best thing to do is what my mate is doing.

 

He starts a 4 month intensive Plumbing course next week, 40 hours a week at a dedicated college. At the end you're fully Corgi qualified - but it costs £4200.

 

do u know what college it's at?

[dane_stone]

check out the local job centre see if they have any courses going , theres been a lot of plumbing adds on the telly and that lately , just like the driving courses touting 30k.

which is bollocks .

as you have a fabricating background should help , what sort of fabing did you do ?.

before i did my back in i was a pipe fabricator by trade , so plumbing was easy to pick up for me

 

It was mainly sheet metal fab I have designed pipe layouts on cad for machines so got a little knologe.

[Conrad]

do u know what college it's at?

 

It's in Wolverhampton, West Mids.

 

Not sure how far from you that is, either way I'm sure these kind of colleges where you pay are all over the country.

[Jamesy W]

Hi mate its also worth looking into an Adult Apprenticeship, A few companies up here started doing them a while back. Companies like British Gas. The gas is where the money is.