looking to do my oftec

[Dotty]

Me. I'm older!

 

[julesverne]

how different is an oil boiler compared to a gas boiler?

 

[Dannypipe]

Quite a bit different actually! But easy to pick up the basics.

 

[Millsy 82]

I did my oftec without ever touching an oil boiler before ( I had installed a few a couple of years before but never fired them up that was the bloke commisioning) I havnt struggled too much in the past 1.5 years I had to make a few phone calls to the burner manufacturers on the first couple of jobs but I soon got it. If you can work on gas competently you should not have a problem working out an oil burner as the boiler is just another boiler.

 

[Best]

Oftec is mostly a load of nonsense. At least half the questions are about things nobody needs to know. I have a friend who did the 101 & 105 course without any experience of heating systems or boilers.

 

[Orry Clayton]

Anyone got any details on the whole assessment process?
Questions etc...

 

[Best]

Anyone got any details on the whole assessment process?
Questions etc...

Multiple choice questions mainly. Open book for a lot of it.

 

[Orry Clayton]

is there a practical assessment, as with gas?

 

[Best]

Practical is part of the 101 course & I wasn't impressed with it. Still a bit nerve wrecking though! Electric safety (isolating & testing supply), fault finding & combustion setting. Not teach you much.
If you work at gas boilers & heating systems, most of the basics you will already know.

 

[on31ll]

how much is the oil course at leeds ?

 

[Barry98]

do you have avalid passport to cross the Pennines ?

 

[RGII79]

Anyone got any details on the whole assessment process?
Questions etc...

yeah just open your mouth wide and they will spoon feed the answers

 

[RGII79]

your paying for the books mainly and you wont learn alot if you dont have a good foundation in heating and boiler/burners
saying that few carpenters and butchers bus drivers doing one i was on and they got through

 

[Dotty]

yeah just open your mouth wide and they will spoon feed the answers

Harsh. But accurately summed up!

 

[RGII79]

the regulation from oftec is pony anyway it just a money spinner for an organisation that is doing nothiing to protect the customers or the engineers in the oil industry letting anyone sit these courses and then certify that they are engineers , also next to no regulatory system in place to spot check engineers and boiler passports what are they lol im talking about rep of ireland here i dont know how they operate in the uk maybe better .how do u find it croppie

 

[Dotty]

To be honest never ever had an oftec inspection, religiously filled in boiler passports only for the householder to bin them, and you don't get passports on commercial anyway.

Was in Terenure today, working in Clondalkin tomorrow. Anywhere near you?

 

[RGII79]

yeah im all over dublin louth out that direction myself today in clondalkin im based out past balbriggan

 

[Orry Clayton]

Was on my first oily job yesterday, definitely going to give course a go.
Messy, but I liked it. Boiler suit to be purchased.

 

[SimonG]

Was on my first oily job yesterday, definitely going to give course a go.
Messy, but I liked it. Boiler suit to be purchased.

Can't beat the smell of kerosene in the morning..............afternoon, evening and when you first get up

 

[Barry98]

sounds like its what gets you out of bed in a morning

 

[Dannypipe]

Too true Si, it's a smell that just doesn't give up. Hate it!

 

[SimonG]

You really need a seperate set of tools cos they end up smelling as well

 

[Barry98]

defo get the overalls , your van seat gets a right mess when you get back in if you dont

 

[Orry Clayton]

You really need a seperate set of tools cos they end up smelling as well

just tools... need a separate van, clothes and shower.

 

[Lou]

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