Resitting tickets

[Deleted member 32524]

I am beginning to think that this gas safe stuff it pretty rubbish. I have another 2 years on my tickets and I am really starting to begrudge having to fork out on these things every 5 years. I might not mind as much if I was employed. But I am not and it is me who has to find the money and time to do these things.
What are your thoughts?

 

[Last Plumber]

I am beginning to think that this gas safe stuff it pretty rubbish. I have another 2 years on my tickets and I am really starting to begrudge having to fork out on these things every 5 years. I might not mind as much if I was employed. But I am not and it is me who has to find the money and time to do these things.
What are your thoughts?

I have thought the same thing since it came into effect. I think most people have, you are not alone.
Although the system is nothing but a farce, in theory have completed the necessaries and been deemed competent in the eyes of those who govern.
It is difficult to prove competence after the fact.

 

[Dan]

I think if it helps stop plonkers touching gas who haven't resat their certificates, then it surely increases your business and incomings if you do resit them. So it's just a case of getting it done and out of the way each 5 years. And keeping clued up during the 4 and a half you're not thinking about it......?

I guess the aim is, to stop people messing with your job. The one you're really skilled in doing. And can't balls up.

So I can see the reasoning in doing it. Be thankful it's not annual. We have some sparkys from America in some states that have to reapply for their 'license' each year. A bit like our taxi system. And some people don't get it renewed when the cap has been hit.

Thank god it's not over-regulated like that! Imagine building a business up, and customers, only to then need to get your competitor in to sign it all off!!!!

That'd annoy you! And it'd be open to abuse and fixing and brown paper bag payments and whatnot.

 

[Deleted member 32524]

It does not keep plonkers off equipment,
It let's them loose on them with 10 days experience!!?? Small licence fee, annually we pay for gas safe registration every year too. A cap per capita per head is a good idea. Means everyone makes a good living. Against your human rights here to stop someone from making a living.

 

[hammers4spanner]

Its an absolute sham and farce, recently done mine same stuff as 5 year ago.
Funny thing is had 1 lad on the course who had no idea and they passed him

 

[Last Plumber]

There were 2 on my last re-sit doing Commercial and neither of them had the slightest clue.
In fact, every time I go there are people with no idea, leaving the classroom with certificates saying they are competent.

It needs revamping entirely. One individual had been sent back for re-sit after his company found he had been using Kos fire cement on threaded gas joints because "it looked the same as the other paste"!!

Best way, full apprenticeship from the start and beginning with the basics. You cannot crop vital information and short cut knowledge as they do now.

They even do (at my local test centre) a 'shortened' commercial gas qualification for folk who want to work 'just in hospital kitchens', for God's sake.

I am all for removing the 'un-qualified' or educating them to the right level but this system does not work as it should. There standards of work can reflect on the industry as a whole.