gas appliances

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not just a case of being trained just to fit appliances adv,you will need to first pass your ccn1 which is a core to all other areas of gas work,without this you cannot gain further qualifications or perform any work,once you have passed you have to go back to school every 5 years to resit each individual qualification,bit of a pain really and pay a yearly subsciptio to gas safe :rolls: as for being worth it,well it just depends if you can get the work,i do boilers,fires,cookers and pipework so not stuck to just one area really which can help in these turbulent times,competition is just the same as in the whitegoods sector,people coming in with quotes lower than you could ever do,not trying to put you off adv,its there if you want to do it.dont know about training centers in midlothian,pls avoid these so called fasttrack courses,total waste of time and your money.HTH 8)

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ccn1 bud,try your local college 8)

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adv wrote:wer can a do a con 1?ta 😆

I did my CCN1 AND CKR1 at a place in Blanyre, Lanarkshire it was called GASCERT i think.
The website was http://www.gascert.co.uk, you get a free key for opening gas boxes really handy for remembering website 😆

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adv wrote:yeh robbin bs 😳 meens its only a srew fit for fitting new hob wat ajoke a monkey cud to it .maybe a wee test if ther was any leaks an pressure test. but geese a break 2 grand an have to work for someone else wat a joke 😳

Its a bit more complex than that I’m afraid,

-Pipe sizing
-pressure loss
-ventilation requirements
-working pressure
-siteing requirements
-requirements of other appliances in the room you are working in or may notice while working in the house.

Remember if you have to relight a boiler and it has blatant faults on it that you dont notice, you were the last gas engineer to see it if anything goes badly wrong before any other gas engineers visit, whether you worked on it or not.

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wsts wrote:

electrofix wrote:
this is not better than corgi

another monopoloy extracting money under the guise of safety
Its ALOT better than Corgi, the qualifying standards as mentioned in this thread are exactly the same as before gas safe but gas safe arent making money by selling my details to third party suppliers (as corgi are still doing) or forcing me to register new installs with them as Corgi were, only yesterday I was sent a “unsafe procedures manual” for free (£19 from Corgi), The gas safe register also has a maximum profit amount set so they cant become a cash cow like Corgi did.

I have to disagree . Despite working with gas, domestic and commercial for over 27 years, because I have started up on my own, i am treated by gas safe as if i just left college.
i am on probation for 3 months ( just been extended further 3 months ), have to notify every piece of gas equipment i work on, regardless of wether the gas is disturbed ;and for the privelege i have to pay something like an extra £200 this year on top of the ridiculous fee they charge already because i am “new ”
i have had to put their e mail addy in spam as i am sick to the back teeth of getting constant selling from them, and now they have started ringing me to do the same.
i thought corgi were bad – this lot leave them standing !