gas engineer as a career

[tallboy]

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum and to this idea to learn to be gas safe. How good is this idea to pay lot of fees to these private institutions and try to enter in land of unknown. Please advice.

 

[kay-jay]

not good at all! there are numerous threads about this just do a search

 

[sparra1100]

personally i would try something else unless your gunner go to college for few yrs doing plumbing then do the gas as they go hand in hand, if your doing a fast track like it sounds like your are ,you,ll pay loads out find it very hard to get thro with no experience and nobody to help you also theres getting help with the portfolio, they will say they will help you with it but they usually dont theres loads come on here for help and its just not there as there just to many trying it thinking its easy money high earnings which believe me its not its awkward customers,hard work, long hours it carnt leak it has to look good if your prepered for all that then go to college or do it part time while working
a lad i no has paid £4500 just for plumbing and has 2 yrs left and is fed up already cos he,s not making the money he thought he would he,s working another job to pay it and carnt get out of it cos he,s paid for it and he,s not done the gas yet so i would have a long hard think about it
good luck

 

[gasmarc]

Good Advice ,I am self employed and am having my third day of no work this week

 

[DJNelsonHeating]

It is slow to pick up, and I am fortunate to have a paid day job whilst I build up the self-employed gas engineer side of house. I have a year in the paid job to see if I can get it to work (weekends/evenings) self-employed and build a large enough client-base on servicing, etc, to see if viable. But yes, it's expensive, and the work isn't as forthcoming as the hype would lead you to believe.

That said, I did my ACS with GasTec in Milton Keynes, and they provide (at a fee) a work experience/portfolio building week which has been signed off as acceptable by ACS and GSR, though a week is nowhere near enough to learn all you need. Every day's a school day!

 

[proelitegas]

Look into something else pal these fast track training centres
Have flooded the market with newly qualified engineers they
Will tell you you will cash it in but truth is market is saturated
Guy round here doing landlord checks £35.00

 

[gasmarc]

I agree with above ,I suppose I am lucky as I mainly do boiler breakdowns and the odd install etc . But this week is pretty dead so far , My mate earned £70 last week and he has been established for year ,Fortunately he has started a 10k shower room so that will keep him busy for a good few weeks

 

[Jonwells]

Gas registered is rubbish, and from 2016, all new build properties will have no gas meters fitted, bummer, try part P electrics. Add to this, a recession, not good. Jon

 

[yo1]

will they still have gas tho in new builds, after 2016?

 

[kay-jay]

not without a meter!

its all about renewables instead

 

[quality]

Gas will be installed in new builds for the masses for all of our forum members lifetimes (at least 50 years )except for a minority which claim to be carbon neutral code 5 or some other rubbish grading.
Unless electricity prices remain as they are and the price of the renewable comes down gas is king.
I have been installing heat pumps for years and they are still far to expensive to install and run when compared with gas (property dependent)

Some installs I have done have been that remote that it would not be possible to drive an oil or gas tanker/supplier or deliver the fuel they need.

Don`t get me wrong heat pumps are the future as the main source of providing heating for homes but not for a good few decades when considering the domestic masses

 

[fuzzy]

there aint much money in it anymore

 

[quality]

there aint much money in it anymore

? in what

 

[nysk2008]

sex drugs and rock and roll, and heating?

 

[quality]

There is loads of money in heat pumps ( I hate to call them renewables)
Be it air source or ground source
The technology is not new and is being installed in more property's than most folk don't know of
But it is a bit like the recent PV thing and that everyone want some thing for nothing.

I have said before and will say again Heat pumps will out perform any LPG or Oil boiler install, not just on running cost but reliability
also cheaper to run

 

[kay-jay]

? in what

i think he's responding to op, talking about the gas trade generally.

 

[quality]

I see now and the fuzz as always is spot on

 

[wazzer]

I am gas safe and also have my f gas 2079 for heat pumps and ac if It wasnt for my ac work I would have gone bust ages ago

 

[danielp]

Get into solar its looking to be the way forward my company has and they put me on the bpec course get plenty of servicing out of it also i would say become an electrician because we get more pv jobs over thermal

 

[sheff paul]

Get into solar its looking to be the way forward my company has and they put me on the bpec course get plenty of servicing out of it also i would say become an electrician because we get more pv jobs over thermal[/QU

Having lived in a country with endless sun for 4 years,returning to the UK and finding everyman and his dog are putting their future in solar is quite worrying.Having crunched the numbers for payback on solar hwt,and now the pv tariff looks to be halved,doing a search on line about the 1000 complaints about mis selling solar systems.Solar has its place,but its not gonna be a saviour,better to start digging coal again,get nuclear sorted.Then you can have a warm shower on a winters nite.Or has the UK politicians brainwashed a genneration with the ''green police'' while China,America,Australia burn coal to their hearts content,while we bath in lukewarm water because the sun wasnt out today

 

[johnnyplumb]

As we all know solar works best when the sun shines but the solar pv feedback tariff is being halved from December so they can stick there solar where the sun dont shine.

 

[tamz]

There is lots of air source installs going on up here. All the major energy suppliers are getting into it in a big way. They are way to expensive for your average person so as usual it is the councils who are spending (our) money for the "fuel impoverished".

 

[sheff paul]

,Well said my son,Roll on 10 years we are all sat here freezing our nuts off.In France nuclear and tidal are buzzing nicely,China,India ,USA are chomping coal happily.We in the UK pat ourselves on the back for saving the planet,the government sends another 12 billion abroad ''to coal burning''countries.We have 300 years of high quality coal ,but darnt dig it up in case it up sets tree huggers.No wonder the lads north of the border want independence,the idiots in London couldnt run a bath

 

[warrington]

on solar panels it takes 15 yo 20 years to get your money back on energy savings depends on system and amount of sun,this does not include any servicing costs or anything goes wrong,in medeterian sun i was, i was charging my boat batteries with big solar panels and to be honest, energy was not even enough on small batteries.
On gas course especially fast tracks you need to be carefull. BTSC Europe in Manchester gone administration and many students lost thousands of pounds, and also they promise you job replacement to help you for portfolio's, big liars, don't believe anything sounds too good to be true!

 

[chrisg1]

Re: Scammers

Hiya all

Ive just recieved this letter today ,so beware of the scammers as it looks like they are back for a xmas bonus.This is the 2nd offer i have had this yr but didnt think 1st time so lost over 2k, with GEC also i have done work for G3 and not been paid
Sorry had to cut loads of this letter out.

Hope this helps


Chrisg1





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