Bathroom fitting Page: 2

[felix]

Hi guys,

I have been giving some thought recently to doing a plumbing course in order to offer a bathroom fitting service as well as tiling. Does anybody else do this? If so is it worth doing? Where is the best place to do a course?

Any help much appreciated

Andy.

 

[CLAYS TILES]

i've done a basic plumbing course so i too can do bathroom refits!
but remember you need to do a water regs course otherwise you can only do plumbing work in your own home,otherwise you need to pay a plumber to sign the work off! if your planning on doing site work you'll need a cscs card!

 

[CLAYS TILES]

i use to do full bathroom refurbs with a plumber mate of mine sadly cancer took him from us this time last year he was only 39 god i miss him

sorry to hear that m8,i know exactly how you feel,cancer has taken half my family away from me! :35: somethings just aint fair in life and cancer is top of the lot! if they give out awards for disease that would win hands down! oh i'm ranting again,i'm sorry!

 

[necro777]

Taking a plumbing course is a start but wont help if you get a really awkward bathroom to do. Only the experience of working with a time served veteran plumber can get you round some of the little nasties that can catch you out same as any trade. But to get started buy the Plumbing NVQ and Technical Certificate: Level 2 book by JTL. Amason link. Amazon.co.uk: Plumbing NVQ and Technical Certificate: Level 2: JTL: Books

As this is the book used on most college courses.

 

[DHTiling]

Good book....... check my amazon store link to see that book and the cd-roms as well.....

 

[robbo]

Good book....... check my amazon store link to see that book and the cd-roms as well.....

Never one to miss a sales opportunity eh Dave...:lol:

 

[pjtiler]

thanks for your kind words lads

 

[uug197h]

i've done a basic plumbing course so i too can do bathroom refits!
but remember you need to do a water regs course otherwise you can only do plumbing work in your own home,otherwise you need to pay a plumber to sign the work off! if your planning on doing site work you'll need a cscs card!

Clay you do not need water regs you can get registered by the local water company if you have the water regs but no one bothers, there are no reg for plumbers yet so work dose not need to be signed off and to do site work you must have NVQ2 and cscs card, there are a lot of courses out there that will tell you a two week course is all you need with the water regs but i'm sorry there full of s**t you are best of with C & G for domestic and C & G + NVQ2 for sitework, but at the moment plumbers do not need to be registered but it will not be long before they do just like Part p for electrics, then if you have done a 2 week course you will need retraining and it will cost you again

PS Clay i'm not saying you have done a two week course this is so others think before paying out for somthing thats not worth the paper its on

 

[cam_low]

Its what I do, bathroom start to finish !

my plumber mate helps me out no end til I can learn it all myself !

 

[CLAYS TILES]

too late m8,i did it back in april,course + regs + cscs card scheme =£700:whatchutalkingabout
does this mean i was conned or not???? i was told you need water regs b4 you can go into customers etc!
i only went with what i was told as i didn't want to be another cowboy plumber out for wot he can make! oh by the way i'm not going anywhere near gas! you can kill people if you make a mistake!
atleast the wet side only floods them!!!!:lol:

 

[uug197h]

Clay if you haven't got nvq2 you can not do plumbing on sites, as there are no regulations for plumbers yet you can do plumbing without doing a course the two week courses are for d.i.yers they will only show you the basic things mainly how to change a bathroom suite (like for like) you have to find out how to do the rest in your customers houses, all i can say is work things out before you start if your not sure ask someone