Domestic Plumbing and Heating Installer

This course is specifically designed for people with little or no previous experience who would like to start a new career as a domestic plumbing and heating installer and gain recognised UK qualifications.

This course is split into 3 key areas: Practical training (at a training centre close to you), Theory (within a class-room environment) & Home- Study. It is divided into sections to help you absorb the theory you need with ease - designed to present the content in a logical sequence so you can build your knowledge and skills progressively. Each training centre is accredited and staffed by expert tutors with many years’ industry experience.

Uniquely, our training providers also run their own construction projects so they can provide on-site experience and assessments which are vital in gaining your NVQ.

Course Benefits

• Fully equipped state of the art training centres with workshop and classroom facilities
• NVQ on site: Rapid NVQ certification – convert your technical certification to a full NVQ in 3 weeks
• Continue in your current job and earn money until you are ready to start work in your new career
• Learn at your own pace and take breaks between modules as and when you require
• Access to expert tutors to help with any queries, both at the centre when you do your practical workshops, and by phone, email and dedicated intranet

Run in the following locations

• Medway
• Stoke on Trent
• Derby
• Leeds
• Newcastle upon Tyne
• Chester
• Manchester
• Bristol
• Doncaster
• Milton Keynes
• Northampton
• Portsmouth

This course can take you from a complete beginner to a fully qualified domestic plumbing and heating installer. It provides you with a thorough grounding in plumbing principles and technologies and covers a number of City & Guilds qualifications and BPEC Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999.

The objective of this course is for you to become fully qualified and equipped with the knowledge, skills and competency that meet the real world’s demands.

Throughout the training you will learn a range of practical skills, all backed up by a requisite underpinning knowledge and hands on experience in one of the state of the art training centres with full tutor support. Training allows you to experience real-life plumbing problems in a variety of scenarios by using fully interactive 3D virtual reality simulation software – a powerful tool where you can apply the theory you have learnt and practise to enhance and reinforce your practical skills.

The successful completion of a Domestic Plumbing and Heating course, the theory and practical training, lead to City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma 6035 in Plumbing Studies. The class based training, examinations and assessments for this course are conducted by an external training organisation which holds the accreditation to carry out the qualifications.

Practical training and assessments relate to plumbing and domestic heating, components, installation and maintenance and in compliance with City & Guilds these knowledge units are covered:

• Unit 1 - Understand and carry out safe working practices in Building Services Engineering
• Unit 2 - Understand how to communicate with others within Building Services Engineering
• Unit 3 - Understand how to apply environmental protection measures within BSE
• Unit 4 - Understand how to apply scientific principles within mechanical services engineering
• Unit 5 - Understand and carry out site preparation, and pipework fabrication techniques for domestic plumbing and heating systems
• Unit 6 - Understand and apply domestic cold water system installation and maintenance techniques
• Unit 7 - Understand and apply domestic hot water system installation and maintenance techniques
• Unit 8 - Understand and apply domestic central heating system installation and maintenance techniques
• Unit 9 - Understand and apply domestic rainwater system installation and maintenance techniques
• Unit 10 - Understand and apply domestic above the ground drainage system installation and maintenance techniques

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to work, legally and safely, as a qualified domestic plumbing and heating installer, either in your own business or for a company.

Your next step to move up will be achieving an NVQ qualification, which cannot be achieved at a training centre or without any underpinning knowledge. Our recommended training providers offering this course run their own construction projects which presents a unique opportunity for you to achieve an NVQ with them in a reasonably short period of time.

Minimum age requirement is from 19 years.

Anyone who wants to start a new career as a domestic plumbing and heating installer.