as above, been a plumber for abt 12 yrs on and off, and on site trained, but now need to be CORGI... anyone now how/where ???

 

speak to Tff

 

cool. taxing ur car ina min ginge!

 

coolio

 

taxed. any one else??

 

yes iam you need to find out where your nearest training / assessment centre is, then you will need to get your cn1 about 2 days then you can get some elements so you can work on central heating cen1, cookers ckr1, heaters htr1, water heater wat1, meters met all them are 1 day assessments but you might need some training first ????? phone 0870 401 2200 for gorgi general enquiries and they will be able to tell you all, hope this helps

 

cheers mate doing that right now!!

 

As Dunc has said

Oh, and it is a HARD course TBH

But worth it as ALOT of Plumbers are now not re-doing there Gas as its too hard/expensive.

Which is good for the likes of Me and Dunc as our prices can go up a little

 

The only thing Tiffany knows about corgi are in his toy car cabinet

 

There Minichamps mate

 

 

fooking hell!! they want £2500 for the course!!!!( and thats before i become corgi!!!)

 

Aye mate, it is VERY expensive

And people wonder why us Plumbers charge what we do

 

No Tiffany - your just a robbin coooont

 

 

Tiff, that lil guy in your sig looks a bit like Dick Turpin... any connection?? lol

 

Rich

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£2500 it doesnt stop there mate then you have £180 a year for corgi membership, then after 5 years you have to do it all again !!! also public liability about 1k, unvented, offtec for oil the list goes on, i have been plumbing for 20 years and in that time the money i have to pay out each year before i can evern start to earn it back is loads and it gets worse each year,thats why the hourly rate for a fully quallified plumber/ heating enginer is what it is.

 

 

at least dick turpin wore a mask

 

i packed up the corgi side of things a couple of yrs back,couldnt be arsed with the tests all the time,it wasnt too bad when it first started but now its just getting more and more complicated all the time,where i work if youre corgi reg you get £7 a week extra!!!!!!!!! WOW

 

O dear radman £7 a week extra i know what i would have done










































GOT A NEW JOB MATE OR START ON YOUR OWN EVERN BETTER

 

at least i dont have to go boiler servicing anymore,lol , i bloody hate bbu's

 

My son got Corgi regestration via British Gas cost nowt, now runs his own Company.
NVQ3 gas services & full ACS.
Rod

 

Rod

Fair play to him

He will have to pay it though when the 5 years is up

 

I use to wrk at a assessment centre Gastec @CRE anyone been there.think its moved now

But when i got made redundant they said I could go on the course to be come CORGI registered...Wish i did now ..as i told em where to go at the time

 

the prices for plumbers/builders/electricians is ridiculous, and as for the layouts each year , your no where near the costs of what it is to become / keep upto date as a fully trained technician for a dealership, yet we get payed fook all

the job as plumbers isnt exactly a hard job either , i wished id done it when i left school ( school fault - wank careers advice). so i chose the hardest job inline with fookin brain surgerey that pays the least

 

not all plumbing is easy mate and people that think it is have no real idea, you need to come with me for a week and see what you think after that, look at most builders and the like that have done it for 20 /30 + years most of them suffer one way or another

 

never seen a poor plumber though


so about this 2500 quid course, can i pay that and i get trained up and then im a corgi plumer or have i gotta be a cowboy plummber first as i wouldnt mind doing pluming as a job , i dont mind feeding a horse and wearing a mask

 

ill sawp jobs with you for a week m8

i know that your a plumber , i diagnose and repair vehicle running/operating problems, i work with multiple computerised onboard vehicle systems, controllers and the likes, control units for , comfort, conveniance, saftey, steering, braking electronics, traction control, electronic stability programs, electro pnuematic actuating systems, pulse width control, duty cycle control, high speed controller area networks, local area networks, supplimentary restraint systems, and general complete looms and repairs for teh volkswagen group !!
















oh and inmy spare time ,
ive fit full central heating systems, combi boilers, pumped shower systems, full bathrooms, diverter systems, storage systems ( and a bit of gas ......shssssssss)






and i bet i get paid more than you after a week !!!!

 

So basically you plug it into a computer and it tells you whats wrong

I will swap you

Cracks me up when people say Plumbing is easy

 

i was thining that, if the computer cant tell ya whats wring its the wiring

 

aint the whole priciple of plumbing easyn though, water pipe not working , look for stop cock, is there water there then look for the wet patch and theres the leak, gas leak give a smell when theres a issue and if the boiler dont work start it with a match

when long john silver fitted my boiler the fooker never even noticed the gas supply was comming thorugh at too higher a rate and causing the boiler to shut down

i tried everything to get him backj and at one point was gonna take his horse as hostage, but trigger leged it home

no means to offend but im sure that after ya get the training ect and have a bit of experinece then plumbing does get slightly easier, its more experience aint it

 

Its like everything Ginge, once you know how to do it, it is easy.

Oh yes, so it is

Fuck me, i wondered what i was doing at College for 5 years

 

ok not that easy but ya get what i mean

its the fault finding thats the hard part i always thought ( again though the water and the smell of gas is a help )

i thinm the bigest theives are soliciters and funeral directors !!!!!

there prices are fooking unreal and the soliciters then charge you for there time to look for similer cases , bit like you tiff reading abook on how that type of boiler works in ya own time and charging by the hour
then charging 30 quid to write a invoice THEN charging you even more to send a barrister to court and then cthe barister charging you 250 quid a day and theres no garantee you actually win the case but they get payed either way

whats there charges per hours, my solicitor charged me 125 quid per hour !!!!!
3500 quid loand for fook all and they never even represented me in court the final time as i ran out of money

3500 quid in a month they got for nothing

not gonna start on the funeral charges as thats a tricky subject, its a rip off though


or old peoples homes, ya gotta sell ya parents place that they bought for them to go into a home, mmmmmmm but if they never had one then they would get in FOC

im very bitter can ya tell

 

i wish it was so easy m8 , i really do ,


so you find a leak then seal it
you need water , ill put you a pipe in - same as same as ???



i;ll swap ya , and im being serious , ill organise for you to spend a week doing my job ????

ill book a weeks holiday and come and do your job ???? week about ? you work with me and ill work with you ??? hows that ???


you send me a schematic and ill send you one og each of our occupations with items marked on , ill tell you what yours mean/are and you tell me about mine ???

are you up for it ??

 

WHAT ABOUT A WIFE SWAP aswell

 

right c'mon post ya pics !!

tiff , i wanna see your missus - house for house ??? have you got any kids ? if so , its all off , i wanna get away for a rest !!

 

@markk

 

looking at this thread a mate taxi hackney driver just passed his test
2 days a week for bout a year and a half i think,he worked night coller, is there a
intensive course you can go on. ie pay for it and how much. imm really bored with
the same job for 12 years mundane boring.same thing every week.
did the spanners for 3 years but never got my quals due to a argumment with
the boss now drive a £500k plant machine so im not daft
just so fooking bored any ideas welcome cheers