why choose us?

• We are one of the few City & Guilds approved centres that offer intensive plumbing courses.
• We are the No 1 choice in training students to become Self-Employed / Employed plumbers.
• BPEC British Plumbing Employers Council use VIY training facilities for training teachers as well as students.
• We specialize in Domestic plumbing, as this is the area where the shortage of plumbers is evident.
• We price every job you would do in domestic premises.
• Approx 50% of plumbers who attend college for 2 to 3 years, finally leave employment to become self employed. You can do the same in weeks at our training centre.
• We have NVQ Assessors who teach the practical and theoretical side of plumbing. We also have Tutors who have been self employed (for over 20 years) and can show you how to set-up your own business and maximise your earning potential. You will gain all their experience to quickly build up a customer base.
• We are a fully approved City and Guilds Training Centre
• All our assessors are NVQ qualified and all have over 20 years plumbing experience
• At the end of the training you will receive nationally recognised City & Guilds qualifications
• We teach 'self employed' domestic plumbing and tell you how much to charge for every job in domestic premises

Some of the areas covered in setting up your own business include:

• Setting up your business
• Advertising and marketing
• Planning work
• Procedures at customers' premises
• What to charge customers for all domestic work
• List of materials required for specific jobs
• Insurance

Our Courses are intensive and cover the full range of topics and enable our students to become self-employed or employed domestic plumbers.

 

We teach domestic plumbing and gas (the type of work you would normally call a plumber in to do at your own home). You will be taught the whole range of plumbing and gas, from the mains coming into your home from the road, all the appliances throughout the house, stop taps, kitchen sinks, washing machines, dishwashers, outside taps, Baths, Showers, Basins, Toilets (close coupled, low level and high level w/c's), Bidets, Copper Cylinders, Emmersion Heaters, Storage Cisterns (in lofts), Gravity and combi central heating systems, Maintenance of all the installations, Copper pipe installation, to the rainwater and waste water being taken from your home down rainwater and soil pipes into the drainage systems. Plus all the technical side of the business. Lectures in Heat Loss, Backflow Prevention, Pipe sizing (how to calculate what size pipe is needed to feed e.g. three bathrooms etc.), and many more lectures.

Our training centre has been featured many times in the Daily Mirror education and courses section.