Get Into Plumbing - Short Plumbing course

Short Plumbing course

The Get Into Plumbing programme has been designed as an introduction to the world of plumbing by following a bespoke 10-day Bathroom Design & Installation programme.

Upon completion of the training the candidate will have real skills that can be put into use in the real world as a bathroom fitter.

In addition all training undertaken at this stage will count as credits towards a recognised plumbing technical certificate if you choose to continue with your training at a later stage.

Course Programme

The 10-day programme is predominantly work-shop based and will cover the following practical training program:

• Safe use of propane bottle
• Manual handling
• Cutting copper tube to pre set dimensions
• Jointing copper tube by soldering
• Jointing copper tube with compression fittings
• Bending copper tube using pipe benders
• Jointing plastic pipe with push fit fittings
• Installing and hanging radiators
• Copper tube to radiator circuit
• Isolate radiator to remove from heating circuit
• Maintenance of radiator valves
• Copper tube to sanitaryware
• Installation of bathroom suite to include all pipework for hot and cold installation
• All waste pipe and traps from sanitaryware
• Correct commissioning of bathroom installation
• Decommissioning of bathroom installation
• Maintenance for taps, traps, and toilet cisterns, fixing leaks on hot and cold water supply's and waste systems

The bathroom assessment and copper pipework assessments can be used as evidence towards a technical certificate.