Water regs

[jase158]

What can you do once you get the water regs certificate that you cant do already?

I spoke to tutor and he said you shouldnt be putting kitchen taps in or working on any mains supply until you have the certificate.

But how much more can you do? Like water meters? supplies to houses etc

 

[anz]

For water supplies and mains work, you need to WIAPS registered.

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[jase158]

but can you install new stop taps? can you dig up the road without having to call water board out? can you ring water board and find out where to turn whole street off? (provided you give whole street enough notice)

 

[tamz]

I spoke to tutor and he said you shouldnt be putting kitchen taps in or working on any mains supply until you have the certificate.

Jase i really have serious reservations about your so called tutors going on posts you have made in the past while. Don't recommend them to anyone.

To answer your question.
You can do exactly what you did before. There is no regulation on general plumbing works.
However
If you pay out a subscription fee to a recognised body you can self cert some things.

It is all bullshyt

 

[Mike Jackson]

If you're not a WIAPS approved plumber technically you should be giving the local water undertaking notice before carrying certain things like connecting a new main, laying a new underground service, fitting an outside tap etc. In practice no one does because like a lot of this sort of legislation it is very rarely enforced. The selling point of being a WIAP is the fact that if a breach of the water regs is found and prosecuted both the custard and the plumber are held jointly liable unless the plumber is a WIAP when the customer will be absolved of all blame. There has been talk of improving enforcement of the water regs and the water ombudsman has been pushing the water companies to do more about it but it remains to be seen whether anything comes of it. There is a new Water Safe register being launched which will supposedly help but that remains to be seen. The good thing about Water Safe is that membership is free for WIAPS plumbers which is in turn free if you have your water regs qualification. I've signed up for it as it may give you an edge over another plumber. I've picked up a few jobs because of being a WIAP but most custards are ignorant of the scheme so unless there is more money spent on publicity I can't see it taking off in a big way.

 

[Leo21]

What laugh. I've been in the trade for twenty nine years. I didn't get my plumbing certs, but have the gas city and guild. So I'm not qualified or competent to do water.Utter pish

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

:stupid: Couldnt agree more

 

[Mike Jackson]

What laugh. I've been in the trade for twenty nine years. I didn't get my plumbing certs, but have the gas city and guild. So I'm not qualified or competent to do water.Utter pish

You may not be. Judging by the number pf people on the unvented course on Tuesday that didn't know the basics of the water regs.

 

[Leo21]

Thanks Mike. That was the boost I needed.

 

[kirkgas]

Leo you could work in gas for 49 years and not know anything about plumbing, just as some of the idiots we get through the colleges who have been plumbers for donkeys years now trying to get their gas cert, some have been doing gas for 15 yrs plus and can't get through the basic ACS, and I know better than most that some of the ACS could be better/more realistic but these fuds come in telling us "look mate I just need to get my ticket, I'm ok doing gas I've been fitting heating for 15 years" haha then you start the theory and procedures like testing and purging, all tricky stuff, and they haven't got a scooby do, so trust me cause someone has done one doesn't make them competent in the other
And even a load of time served plumbers who come through the unvented etc haven't a clue about actual good working practice