apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

[admin]

According to The Director of Technical Development and Stakeholder Relations, John Byrne (Corgi) thats how much the qualifications cost.

Fair enough, whilst I think he’s living on another planet, based on how much it cost my company DAR to get one engineer through those courses, I’d like to ask you what it cost you.

Is there anyone out there who got these two qualifications for £600.00?

Until these people in postition of authority join the rest of us, we’ll never resolve this.

This bloke might be ok, good at what he does, but he doesn’t have a clue when it comes to common sense and the restrictive workings of Corgi, as far as a whitegoods engineer is concerned.

Kevin

[kwatt]

Re: apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

The cheapest I could get, from memory, was about twice that price.

Then there’s the ten days of no work from the person on the course. Then there’s the overtime etc. to catch up after the event, even if it is spread across a few weeks on day release it’s still major hassle.

Alternatively you have to pay staff to attend courses out of hours, cost with no immediate return and a big negative on cashflow regardless of how it’s done.

So no, I don’t think that £600 is even close to realistic. Try multiplying severalfold and you’re getting there.

And on top of that there’s the annual registration fee, the paperwork you have to have, the admin time for notifications and the downtime when CORGI wants to inspect some of your work which of course you have to arrange at your time and expense.

If it were £600 per gas operative I don’t think anyone would be complaining too much.

K.

[johnmac11]

Re: apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

I put an engineer through reassesment last year and it cost £850+VAT and as Ken says the hidden cost was the two weeks the engineer was off the road.

The major problem I had was finding somewhere that would do CKR1 and LAU1

[Lawrence]

Re: apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

Where does he make this stupid comment ?
Lawrence

[admin]

Re: apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

In an email reply to UKW, were trying to get them to see the light 😉

Kevin

[cookerfit]

Re: apparently the average cost for CCN1 and CkR1 is £600.00

I took ACS RE-ASSESSMENT in April this year for Core, Cookers & LPG – Total cost paid to the ACS centre at SGAS in Blackpool was £585.00 + VAT + £40.00 certification fee. 😮

The re-assessment took 3.5 days off work but included no training.

I purchased Viper books for the subjects to do and downloaded all relevant BS’s at my local library, all time but no extra time off the road for training.

Regards
Cookerfit

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