Plumbing Courses

All of our plumbing courses are very well structured and straight to the point for maximum learning, dont be fooled in thinking that you need a longer courses where the content is drawn out and the pace is slow. We could easily extend the lenght of our courses, pad out the training and charge more money, Instead we offer great value so as you get the correct training in the shortest time. We have successfully delivered training this way for over 5 years now and have helped thousands of people start a new career, check out the testimonials left by former learners

4 Day Plumbing Course

Dont be fooled by the length of this course, it delivers the goods, This intensive fast track comprehensive bathroom plumbing course is a fantastic addition and a must for any Tiler or Plasterer or a great way to start a plumbing career, take away the problems of relying on other tradesmen to work with you. This course simply makes life easier for you with a bonus of making more money.

We will teach you the easiest methods to shut off the hot and cold water inside a domestic house, drain down, take out and replace sanitary ware, wash basins, baths, showers and toilet using all push fittings, compression fittings and soldered yorkshire fittings along with copper and flexible pipes that can be easily connected in any situation. No prior plumbing skills are necessary for this course, as with all our courses they are extensively backed up with pre typed up note information handouts for you to take home with you after you leave the course. We will teach you copper pipe bending and soldering with heat flame guns, until you have a solid sealed fitting all tested as well under water pressure.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Course contents:

  • Understanding plumbing tools
  • Remove/replace radiators
  • Explanation and fitting of all push fittings
  • Explanation and fitting of all compression fittings
  • Explanation and fitting of soldered yorkshire fittings
  • Explanation and fitting of trap waste fittings
  • Removal and replacement of sanitary ware
  • How to turn off water and drain down system
  • Repairs to leaking taps
  • Fitting outside taps
  • Dealing with air locks in systems
  • Repairing burst pipes
  • Offset pan connectors
  • Pipe freezing kits
  • Fitting isolator valves
  • Copper pipe bending
  • Fitting and removing showers
  • Fitting of sinks
  • Fitting outside Taps
  • Plumbing in washing machines and dishwashers
  • Mini bore pipe fittings explained
  • Repairs to dripping taps
  • Install taps on a wash basin/bath
  • Diagrams of full domestic hot water systems
  • How they work Different types of boiler
  • Replacing radiator valves
  • Cutting and removing/replacing floor boards
  • Radiators that do not heat up properly explained
  • Install pipe fittings
  • Re route pipework
  • Dealing with toilet soil waste pipes
  • Connecting flexi hose waste pipes
  • Fully explained pre typed up course handout for you to take away

You will be working from your own bay and have to install a full bathroom suite, connect it up to the live mains and under water pressure turn on and check for any leaks.

This course makes the tilers life a little easier as it removes the need to cut around the sanitary ware or employ someone else to do it.

Courses Running weekly


1 Day Common Plumbing Problem Solver

This great course is all about problems that you will face out in the real world of plumbing. It is a great way to follow on from the 4 day course which will teach you how to sort out the bathroom; however not all bathrooms are the same and some older houses come with their challenges. This course teaches you all the tricks of the trade on how to get yourself out of these tricky situations.

Deal with problems like

  • Perished Floors
  • Lead Pipework
  • Badly positioned feeds and wastes
  • Leaking feeds and wastes
  • Perished wastes
  • Redundant Bidet
  • Blind Estimating
  • Seized stop taps and valves
  • Cast Iron baths
  • No stop taps
  • No earth bonding
  • Walls not square
  • No fixings
  • Metal baths
  • Repositioning of suites
  • Different sizes of existing wastes
  • Different sizes of feeds
  • No water
  • Air locks
  • One pipe systems
  • Sticky ball cocks
  • Sticking pumps
  • Brown water

This 1 day course runs on a Friday following the 4 day plumbing course.


9 Day Plumbing course

This is an in depth fast track comprehensive plumbing course covering all the information above that is on the other two courses, you will work hard on this course as there is a lot of practical and theory content to get through, all the information that you will receive on the course will be backed up with pre typed up manuals and diagrams of what you have learned. There is a back up service as well after you leave the course

This course does not cover gas installations

Course contents

Above 4 day course plus 1 day plumbing problem solver plus 4 days extra info below

  • Water supply regulations
  • Plenty hands on practical work
  • Connections to water mains
  • Types of systems cold water
  • Domestic hot water systems
  • Heating Systems
  • Altering / installing radiators to self venting cylinders / sealed systems
  • Altering and Installing pipework for power showers
  • Moving storage cistern for hot water system in lofts
  • Moving feed and expansion tank for indirect heating system
  • Installing installation pipework under floors, notching joists/ drilling joists
  • Protecting installation pipework against corrosion
  • Above ground discharge pipework
  • Sanitisation Systems
  • Installing electric showers to indirect hot water systems

Give yourself a great start to a plumbing career or add to your existing trades and be multi skilled

If you need any further information or advice about any of our courses please ring

Tel. 0191 4274529 or 0191 4547733

Credit and Debit Cards can now be taken for the payment of your training and tiling tools.

2% charge for all credit card transactions
No charge for all debit card transactions.

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