10-week and 11-week course content

All our plumbing courses cover the City & Guilds 6129 level 2 and also the NVQ level 2 plumbing course 6089.

If you decide to take the 11-week (option 2) course you will also gain the Part P electrical qualification.

10-week full time plumbing course

Your course consists of 10 weeks full time tutor lead instruction. After this you can either, start work straight away as a self employed plumber, or be employed by a plumbing company.

The training course is a 10 week full time course that covers the City & Guilds 6129 level 2 certificate and 6089 NVQ level 2 certificate in basic plumbing skills.

Study times are 9:00am – 6:00pm Monday to Friday for 10 consecutive weeks.

The course is split approximately 50/50 between workshop and classroom based training. The subjects covered are as follows:

• Customer Relations
• Health and Safety
• Cold Water Supply
• Environmental Awareness
• General Plumbing Principles
• Drainage
• Safety
• Key principles
• Common plumbing processes
• Cold water systems
• Domestic hot water systems
• Sanitation systems
• Central heating systems (pipework only)
• Electrical supply and earth continuity
• Sheet weatherings
• Effective working relationships
• Environmental awareness

 

During your 10 weeks training, you will start with the basics and lead up to the standard of domestic plumbing (listed below). City & Guilds qualified assessors will undertake all assessments throughout the course; this also includes photographic evidence for you to include in your completed Portfolio.

• Safe use of ladders/steps/scaffolds
• Assembly and safe use of LPG equipment
• Kinetic lifting/lifting equipment
• Fire fighting
• Working safely with hand/power tools
• Hazardous materials lead/asbestos/solvents
• Copper tube positioning/fixing/dimensions
• Copper tube marketing/cutting/bending
• Copper tube jointing and testing
• Copper tube fabrication and installation
• Rainwater systems
• Soil and waste pipe dimensions fabrication and installation
• Pressure pipe fitting and dimensions
• Air test soil pipe
• Low Carbon Steel Pipe (LCS) fitting requirements
• LCS positions, fixing, marking and cutting
• LCS machine bending jointing, testing
• LCS fabrication and installation
• Maintenance radiator valve
• Maintenance WC siphon
• Maintenance pillar tap and float valve
• Maintenance shower mixer valve
• Economic use of materials
• Application of temporary earth bonding

City & Guilds 6129 assessments

The City & Guilds level 2 6129 technical certificate consists of the following assessments:

• Sheet lead identifying and measuring
• Cutting lead, forming components and lead slate
• Chimney weathering and basic maintenance
• Bathroom WC suite
• Bathroom bath
• Bathroom radiator
• Bathroom combi jig
• Decommissioning hot and cold water system
• Decommissioning sanitation system
• Airing cupboard storage cistern
• Airing cupboard hot water cylinder
• Any outstanding phase tests

After successful completion of this phase (which includes passing all assessments and exams) you will have gained your City & Guilds level 2 Technical Certificate in Basic Plumbing Skills. You will also have completed 90% of the NVQ level 2.

NVQ level 2

The final 10% of the NVQ level 2 is work-based. Therefore you need to be working as a plumber – either for a plumbing company or self-employed.

On average, you will have to be assessed on 3 separate on-site visits. Most plumbers complete their NVQ 2 within 6 months of leaving the 10 week course - it is entirely up to you when these visits take place. Once completed you will then be awarded the NVQ 2.

There is a cost for on-site visits. Please ask for details.

Up to this point, both 10-week and 11-week course students will have achieved the above. The following electrical course content only applies to students on an 11-week (option 2) course.

PART P ELECTRICAL COURSE CONTENT

Modules

1. Basic electrical Principals and Therory
2. Legislation and Regulations
3. Electrical Safety
4. Domestic installations Theory 1
5. Domestic installations Theory 2
6. Domestic installations Theory 3
7. Testing and Documentation
8. Domestic Installation Best Practice

Once the course is completed the student will be qualified to certify his / her own installation. You may, if you wish, check and certify other persons work.