Video for Dafty & any other Gas DIY’er!!

Love the wording that comes up “Examples of gas work that are not suitable for a DIY enthusiast”

Now if that was replaced by “ Examples of gas work that are illegal for a DIY enthusiast “ 
Id be more impressed. 😉😉

The point being JJ, if you’re not ‘Competent’, Which means not trained.  So you’re not competent to do Gas Work in your own Home.
If you blow up your home or take the entire Street out & end up in front of the Court Beak, he asks you if you’re ‘competent’ & you say no.  Then you’re someone’s Cell Bitch for some considerable time!!

What proves competence was a question that I was once asked on a course.
"Paying out money every three years to be asked a selection of questions on a subject and getting a percentage correct to pass an assessment" came my rather smart reply.

"Doesn't prove anything" came the reply. "It depends on a persons SEKTUA".

S being Skills (not really a test of skills is it?)
E being Experience (you can only gain this over time)
K being knowledge  (we are all learning all the time)
T being Training (are there any checks on these assessments if the candidate has had the correct training)
U ?? I don't remember this one
A being Having a good attitude (take it from me many many gas-safe registers have a bad one)
My conclusion to all this was a gas-safe assessment pass gives you the legal right to do certain aspects of gas fitting in the UK but it does not really prove competence.

NB On my last ever gas assessment another assessor came into our room looking very dejected saying that "he's got more wrong on his second attempt than his first, I don't know what to do with him".
"I'd tell him to have another good look at his book before attempting the paper again" was the reply that he got from our assessor (who seemed to be his boss).
Hardly proving ones competence is it?

Was it the correct thing to do to split the trades in 1992/96?
No doubt the arrival of combination boilers in the UK from the continent was a big step up in boiler tech' from what the plumbers/gas engineers had been dealing with previously.
So perhaps something extra was needed to be safe with gas from the time when I was at college (I can remember being taught about bi-metallic strips at college in 74 whilst at work things had already progressed onto thermocouples) I just don't think the gas-safe club was the correct answer.

A lot of gas-safe members including Mr Tomcat have got the job stuck well up their own arse holes (in a previous video he actually condemns his own boiler) which I find very annoying, but then again he is protecting the exclusiveness of what has become his lively-hood and you can't blame him for that! 


U =  I've remembered stands for "understanding" of ones own level of limitations on what jobs you can do!

 

I’ve too much respect & adoration(in a manly way) to comment on our hosts video.

From every course that I attended I always tried to take at least one item into my long term memory before the silly tick the correct (one in four) box exercise at the end.
To take in everything from these courses into ones long term memory would certainly take some doing unless you have a photographic memory. 
Perhaps the future is a basic plumbing qualification with just a couple of specialists addons?

Before I retired I could see a qualification/assessment in water hygiene rapidly becoming another item required to enhance a plumbers skill set (after all unlicenced work on plumbing could pollute the water main!) 
Perhaps we're drifting back to the we were plumbers "to a certain generation of plumbing" again?

That guy missed his vocation, he needs a bit more fresh air in his life and would benefit from a new roll in life as a traffic warden!