Premier Plumbing & Gas

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Plumbing

course

Qualifications package

& Gas

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Become a Gas Safe Registered

Professional Plumber &

Heating Engineer

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We guarantee that you will receive

comprehensive training at a state-of-the-art

facility, and upon successful completion of the

course you will receive professional

qualifications you need to become a fully

qualified Plumber and Heating Engineer.

It’s as simple as that.

The Premier Plumbing & Gas Course is designed for anyone wanting a career in both

the plumbing and domestic gas industries and is designed for anyone wanting a career

as a Plumber and Heating Engineer.

This flexible course will fit around your current job or lifestyle as we offer part-time as

well as full-time options where you can complete your training at a pace that suits you.

This method works well for most who rightly don’t want to leave their job to attend

their course until they have the confidence and skills to move into this potentially

lucrative industry, following the completion of their studies.

Read on and you will find out how one individual completed his training, gained all

these qualifications and went on to work for himself by forming a success company,

all in a time frame that will inspire you for sure...

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1. The C&G 6035 Level 2 Plumbing

Teaches you how to install external guttering, waste pipes, fit radiators and bathroom

suites, plus you will install hot & cold water storage tanks.

2. C&G 6189-57 Level 2 NVQ Diploma in

Plumbing and Heating

This ‘assessed in the workplace’ part of the course results in ‘fully qualified Plumber’

status. You could be assessed on various ‘live’ scenarios that could include installing

bathroom suites and carrying out repair, installation and maintenance tasks.

3. Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems

Certificate

Qualifies you to hold an ID card certifying your competence when installing or

maintaining energy efficient unvented hot water storage systems.

4. The WRAS Certificate

(Water Regulations Advisory Scheme)

This allows you to progress and qualify to inspect and test a new circuit on an

existing Domestic, Commercial or Industrial installation.

5. Elementary Gas Certificate

Teaches you gas safety legislation and standards, emergency actions & procedures,

ventilation, pipework, re-establishing gas supplies, central heating boilers, carbon

monoxide/dioxide sampling, cookers, water heaters, gas meters and much more

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6. The ACS Gas Certificate

This course allows you to progress and become Gas Safe Registered to legally install,

maintain and test domestic gas appliances. You can also carry out safety checks and

property maintenance tasks for Estate and Letting Agents or Local Authorities.

City & Guilds qualifications

gained on this course

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NVQ Level 2 Work Based

Assessment and Gas Placement

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The plumbing element of the course results in

the achievement of your NVQ Level 2

Qualification whilst being assessed in a place

of work. You will also attend a gas

placement to complete a portfolio of work

which is organised and supervised by our

team of experts.

You can be assessed on various ‘live’ scenarios that including tasks such as

installing bathroom suites and carrying out repair, installation and maintenance tasks,

all depending on the tasks you are performing at the time.

Both the NVQ Level 2 qualification and the gas placement are necessary for new

entrants to the industry, as they provide you with the skills and experience you

will need.

These elements are formed around the City & Guilds 6129 plumbing element and the

Logic certified gas element that teaches you the skills you need and the

knowledge required to successfully complete the work placement. As an example, it

is the Logic certified gas course that teaches how to install and maintain central

heating boilers, cookers, gas fires and water heaters prior to your placement.

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From the frontline in Afghanistan to

Self-Employed Plumber & Heating

Engineer in less than 12 months.

Deciding to leave the Army after 14 years of

service was a relatively easy decision for Justin

Crocker. He now wanted a new challenge and

set down firm roots with his wife and family.

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Planning a New Career

Having witnessed many ex-colleagues leave the Army without firm plans, Justin

started to plot his exit two year before he his finishing date. On the advice of a

close ex-Army friend who had trained as a gas engineer, Justin researched

options for a career in a trade. As he enjoyed working with his hands, he

realised that plumbing and heating may also suit him.

Not wanting to leave the Army, lose his income and then start training, Justin

arranged to save up most of his leave to be used in one long period towards

the end of his commission. By doing so, he could train whilst being on paid

leave and not eat into his savings.

Choosing a Training Company

On the advice of the Army Resettlement Office, he contacted one of our

Course Advisors who specialise in helping ex-Service personnel. After confirming

that he was suitable candidate, Justin visited our training centre and spoke with

our instructors.

He looked at other training options before deciding to choose Access. In

Justin's own words, “I found Access ten times more professional than its

competitors. You have the best training layout with individual bays and your

training is much better organised.”

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Plenty of Work

No one is permitted to install or repair domestic gas appliances (boilers, heaters,

hobs, ovens) without first becoming Gas Safe qualified. This can only be done

by compiling a portfolio of installation and repair evidence, performed whilst

working under the supervision of a fully-qualified Gas Safe engineer.

So we then arranged a work placement for Justin which started as soon as his

initial training completed. After four months, he completed his portfolio of

evidence and received his Gas Safe registration.

Getting Trained

We arranged a training programme to enable Justin to first complete and pass

a City & Guilds Plumbing Course, immediately followed by a Gas Engineer

Course. With an aim to start his own business, these training courses provided

him with the skills and initial qualifications to become a plumbing and heating

engineer.

On the advice of the Army Resettlement Office, he contacted one of our

Course Advisors who specialise in helping ex-Service personnel. After confirming

that he was suitable candidate, Justin visited our training centre and spoke with

our instructors.

He looked at other training options before deciding to choose Access. In

Justin's own words, “I found Access ten times more professional than its

competitors. You have the best training layout with individual bays and your

training is much better organised.”

Starting a New Business

Through diligently following our training programme and his own hard work,

Justin started his own registered plumbing and heating business just 9 months

after his first day of training. Using our advice and signposting to business

support services, he quickly put in place a simple marketing programme and,

due to the ongoing demand for plumbing and heating engineers, his phone

quickly began ringing.

Being There for His Family

For the first time since marriage, Justin and his family now have a house they

can truly call home. He looks forward to seeing his wife and children every day

and, with his future under his own control, knows he is set up to provide them

with the quality of life he had only ever dreamt.

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“It’s hard to believe I’ve just celebrated the first three months of my plumbing and

heating business, which is already more successful than I could have planned.

Whilst it’s me who runs the show, I know this only happened as a result the great

training, excellent advice and continued support I receive from

the team at Access Training Academies. I chose to

train with Access because you were far more

professional than other companies I contacted.

You’ve repaid this decision by going above and

beyond my expectations many times.

Not only did you help me plan my training

but you also arranged a work placement

so I could complete my portfolio of

evidence of gas installations

and repairs.

This made the transition

from training to experience

to qualification completely

seamless and allowed me to

launch my business much sooner

than I had imagined.”

Justin Crocker

JDC Plumbing & Heating

Blackwood, Gwent

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You will be able to test, inspect and install domestic gas boilers, cookers and fires, learn about modern, energy efficient appliances, how they are maintained and the correct procedures for exchanging components. You will also be able fit complete bathrooms, central and heating pipe work & radiators and carry out plumbing

emergencies. Rest assured, you will gain all the skills you’ll need.

Learn the Skills of a Professional Plumbing & Heating Engineer

You can choose to attend full time or part time. This recommended course is designed so that you can fit your studies around your current working circumstances or lifestyle which means that you learn at a pace to suit. After gaining your qualifications you can become employed within a plumbing firm working on lucrative contracts.

Have the Flexibility to Train When it Suits You

You could choose to set up your own Plumbing & Heating business and become self-employed working as your own boss, which is something most people can only aspire to. You could provide services to inspect and test Fires, Cookers and Boilers and service all domestic gas appliances for landlords and estate agents as well as carrying out various plumbing tasks. The choice is yours as the options are endless!

Become Your Own Boss

Health & Safety

• Identify hazards • Manual handling

• Manual handling using lifting aids • Ladders • Stand Steps • Scaffold • Safety Signs Electrical • Identification • Safe Isolation • Wiring Processes

• Clipping and drilling • Tool identification • Joist notching • Fitting identification • Copper tube bending 1 • Copper tube bending 2 • LCS Pipe bending • Copper frame • LCS frame • Plastic frame • Waste pipe frame • Combined frame 1 • Combined frame 2

6035 Level 2 Diploma in Domestic Plumbing

Central Heating

• LCS pipe radiator installation • Plastic pipe radiator installation

Drainage

• Rainwater guttering • Soil stack installation

Sanitation

• Appliance identification

Cloakroom

• Cold/hot water cloakroom layout • Cold/hot water cloakroom installation

Cylinder cupboard

• Cold water storage cistern • Hot water cylinder

Bathroom installation • Cold water • Hot water • Central heating • Drainage • Sanitation Maintenance • Cold water • Hot water • Central heating

• Sanitation and drainage

Teaching & Assessment Specification

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• Background and Legislation • The Regulations

• Materials and substances in contact with water

• Requirements for water fittings • Water System design and installation • Commissioning

• Prevention of cross connection to unwholesome water

• Backflow prevention • Cold water services • Hot water services

• WCs flushing devices and urinals

• Sanitary appliances and water for outside use

• Unvented hot water storage systems and their operating principles

• Design and installation of unvented hot water storage systems

• Maintenance of unvented hot water storage systems

• Meeting the requirements of the Building Regulations Part L 1 – Conservation of Fuel and Power

• Sealed central heating systems

Domestic Unvented Hot Water

Storage Systems certificate

WRAS Certificate

• Gas safety legislation and standards • Gas emergency actions and procedures • Combustion and Flue Gas analysis • Ventilation

• Pipework

• Tightness testing and purging • Checking and setting regulators

• Gas industry unsafe situations procedures • Gas rate & heat output

• Safety devices & controls • Flueing/Chimney standards • Re-establishing gas supplies • Central heating boilers

• Carbon monoxide/dioxide atmosphere sampling • Cookers

• Water heaters • Gas meters

• Emergency service provider operative and meter installer

• 10-12 CCN1 (Core Safety) jobs

• 10-12 CEN/WAT boiler and water heater jobs • 10-12 CKR1 Cooker jobs

• 10-12 HTR1 Gas fire & room heater jobs

• Carry out a tightness test on the installation, record the pressure and durations at which the tightness test was carried out. • Describe what would happen to the manometer if the ECV was letting by. Describe the method of how you traced and repaired any gas escape.

• Record the result of the tightness test, state Pass or Fail.

• Carry out a tightness test on the medium pressure meter installation (No Meter Inlet Valve (MIV) fitted), record the tightness test pressure.

• Inspect the installation and determine the volume of gas required to safely purge the installation. Record in either m³ for metric reading meters or ft³ for imperial reading meters.

• Briefly note the precautions taken to ensure the purge could be carried out safely in the comments box. • Check the standing pressure at the meter and record your findings

• Check the operating pressure at the meter and record your findings. • Is the operating pressure correct, please state.

• State the acceptable minimum and maximum range for operating pressure at the meter (e.g. 15mbar-18mbar). • If the operating pressure was outside the acceptable range, briefly record what action would you

take in the comments box.

• Inspect chimney and chimney outlet, installed and located correctly.

• Heck the appliances operating correctly, including safety devices and user controls, • Check the appliance safe to use.

• Check flame is picture satisfactory.

• Use of The Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedures with respect to ‘Dangerous Appliances’, ‘At risk Situations’ and ‘Not To Current Standards’.

Elementary Gas Certificate

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Apply safe working practices in building services engineering working environment

• Demonstrating personal health and safety precautions in the workplace

• Preparing and using access equipment in the workplace

• Check that the work area is safe in order to carry our work

• Liaising with those responsible for health and safety in the workplace

Install and maintain domestic plumbing and heating systems

• Preparing work sites, install and soundness test - evidence provided of work carried out on at least three of the following five system types;

- Cold water system - Hot water system - Central Heating system - Sanitation system - Gravity rainwater system

Plumbing NVQ 2

• Decommissioning – evidence provided of work carried out on at least two of the following four system types;

- Cold water system - Hot water system - Central heating system - Sanitation system

• Component repair or replacement – evidence provided of work carried out on four of the following non electrical components; - Taps – mixer or pillar - Float valve

- Shower mixer valve - Stop valve

- Gate valve (or similar service valve) - Drain valve

- Radiator valve

- Thermostatic radiator valve - WC siphon/drop valve - Sanitary appliance trap

• System maintenance – evidence provided of work carried out on two of the following faults; - Leaks in system pipework

- Noise in systems

- Corrosion of system components - Inadequate supply pressure at discharge points

- Loose pipework - Trap seal loss - Blockages in system

components/pipework • Gas safety legislation and standards

• Gas emergency actions and procedures • Combustion and Flue Gas analysis • Ventilation