Whats involved with changing over to commercial?

[acecharly]

Just a few questions...is there much involved with it...ie exams etc.....secondly can you be both or is it one or the other an lastly is it worth it?

 

[hammers4spanner]

some nice paperwork awaits you at the test centre

 

[Linkyplumb]

To change over you can do the dom to comm changeover, which means as long as your dom tickets are valid, then so are your comm.

With regards to is it worth it... have you ever needed to/ had chance to work on commercial stuff? If yes then it would be an added bonus, but to be fair it is a whole new learning curve from domestic.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

about 3k to swap to commercial

 

[gasmanrob]

3K you sure.. did mine for £1200 which admittedly was cheap think the nearest one after that was £1600 plus time of work so guess maybe 3k isnt far off the mark.

if your head is screwed on its easy enough, but the exams really are the easy part. once you're working on it all thats when the learning begins but remember people aren't paying you to learn they are paying you to know what to do and how to fix it. its a big scary world out there and everything carrys an expensive price tag there is no room for mis diagnosis or we'll take both just to be sure

 

[ShaunCorbs]

3K you sure.. did mine for £1200 which admittedly was cheap think the nearest one after that was £1600 plus time of work so guess maybe 3k isnt far off the mark.

if your head is screwed on its easy enough, but the exams really are the easy part. once you're working on it all thats when the learning begins but remember people aren't paying you to learn they are paying you to know what to do and how to fix it. its a big scary world out there and everything carrys an expensive price tag there is no room for mis diagnosis or we'll take both just to be sure

Core commercial £600
Installation First Fix £300
Testing and purging (1) £500
Testing and purging (1A) £500
Commission , repair and maintenance of indirect fired heating appliances £300
Commission , repair and maintenance of direct fired heating appliance £300

+ time off

 

[acecharly]

Think il give it a miss for now cheers for the info.

 

[JCplumb]

I'm not sure but I think Croppie 'may' be commercial ?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

i'm not sure but i think croppie 'may' be commercial ?

Think he is

 

[acecharly]

Although i now run an entirely different business, i was a pipefitter/plumber on commercial projects for 15 years so i have a good idea how the systems side works i just never had my gas. My idea was more based around small businesses like pizza shops chippys etc but as ive only just retook my ccn1 il start to build that up a bit first just wanted some idea on costs etc for now.

 

[on31ll]

The main bit is gettin work. It is rare that commercial jobs look through adverts etc to find a plumber its normally reconmended. I know two lads that are commercial and dont get much if any work from it and thats with them paying to advertise in places. Whereas for me they ring me up "oh andy from x place told ne to ring you"

 

[acecharly]

Yeah definately nothing beats recomendation best form of advertising

 

[village idiot]

I'm not sure but I think Croppie 'may' be commercial ?

You think? The bloke has COMMERCIAL written all over him If it's commercial he knows the answer.

 

[julesverne]

Mine cost £1700.00 including catering

 

[so-solar]

Rad training smethwick

Offers the full commercial package £780

It's far from easy though