(Please note: You may only attend/book the 5 day advanced plumbing course with or without the optional level 1 if you have already completed the 5 day plumbing course or completed a telephone ‘skills check’ with our plumbing tutor to determine your plumbing experience and knowledge. This advanced plumbing course will NOT teach you the foundation plumbing skills required to start this course, those skills are taught on the first week 5 day plumbing course.
This is our advanced plumbing course and ideally sits as a second week course following on from our 5 day intensive plumbing course.
Students who attend this course should already have an understanding in the following areas:
- Installing a basic 3 piece bathroom suite
- Fitting and commissioning a radiator including removal
- Working with copper pipe, plastic pipe, soldering joints including plastic and compression fittings
- Pipe bending
- Plumbing in a kitchen sink including waste
- All the above is included on the 1st week plumbing course we offer (5 day intensive plumbing course)
This advanced plumbing course is aimed at expanding on the first week and developing your knowledge of what the first week courses leave you with. Although we do cover heating systems and installing a 2 or 3 radiator system on the first week, on the advanced plumbing course you will complete a fitting of a domestic hot water storage system. The course will also expand on the bathroom side and a full suite including thermostatic mixer shower and all traps, waste pipes including soil pipe and stack will be fitted. Rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage will also be covered.
Topics covered in the advanced plumbing course:
- Install a domestic hot water storage system
- Fit a indirect cylinder
- Understand central heating plans and different cylinders used
- Fit header tanks and gate valves
- Use copper pipe, plastic pipe, compression fittings, end feed & solder ring fittings
- Fit radiators including TRV’s (thermostatic radiator valves)
- Central heating fault finding
- Fit a shower pump
- Fit a thermostatic mixer shower
- Fit a bathroom and commission under water pressure
- Fit all bathroom traps, wastes and soil pipes and commission with water
- Install and understand rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage
The advanced plumbing course is £650 including vat and runs approximately every other week. The course has a maximum of 8 students per course. If you have already completed the 5 day plumbing course then you can then complete this advanced 5 day plumbing course and gain the level 1 qualification too.