Recently signed up for a Domestic Electrical Installer course, need help.

[BrianM]

Well Brian, a bit of a conundrum. I suppose you have a male name, so suggest you get a real beard, it would be more convincing, joking aside, from what you say, can I ask, have you tried enrolling with a CPS such as NIC or Napit? You may not be very far off what is required to sign off your own work. As to feeling as a female it is harder to get in the trade, can I point you to NICEIC and their initiative to get more female electricians. They offer funding to assist in courses/equipment. I have had two female trainees who sadly did not last long. But then they were probably younger than you? I found that bottom line they did not have the physical strength to do certain tasks. I also found that about 2 p.m. they had run out of energy and could not complete a days work. Maybe that is something that could be built up in time but they felt discouraged (not by me!) Having said that, I am absolutely all for female electricians.

Ah I was watching a documentary about Queen when I signed up. Hence the nod to Mr May.

Yeah physical strength is definitely a thing. It depends on the individual really. I do TES for festival stages so carrying scaffolding, trussing, lights, amps and speakers, hoists... box pushing and rigging have made me pretty strong but it does take time. Even I struggle with wall chasers on occasion.

I'm definitely not far off but I also don't know enough about domestic work to be confident in just going for it and getting a CPS in to evaluate.

I should probably answer the OP and say that I think no matter what the more training you have the better. It all adds to the CV.

I'll stop hijacking now ?

 

[Pete999]

I'm 32 and on a Level 2 jangb2000 and would recommend it and go from there; from level to, to level 3, then your I&T and PAT additional courses, then the NVQ and AM2. At your age, you would likely benefit from the electrotechnical apprenticeship program

Whichever route you take, join the Trainees section, there's some good content there that might help, the mentors are ok too ?

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Why waste time and Money doing the PAT course? a waste of time, as you don't need to be qualified to do PAT get hold of the CoP for ISITEE and study it

 

[DPG]

Why waste time and Money doing the PAT course? a waste of time, as you don't need to be qualified to do PAT get hold of the CoP for ISITEE and study it

Whilst I agree you don't strictly need the course, it may well be useful to him. I've seen people performing ISITEE on several occasions where they have gaps in their knowledge. Things like testing figure 8 mains leads for instance, where they obviously don't realise that the Tester connects line and neutral together. And many more as they say.

 

[Pete999]

Whilst I agree you don't strictly need the course, it may well be useful to him. I've seen people performing ISITEE on several occasions where they have gaps in their knowledge. Things like testing figure 8 mains leads for instance, where they obviously don't realise that the Tester connects line and neutral together. And many more as they say.

Competence is the requirement Mate, and if they are doing you describe, the obviously aint Competent are they?

 

[DPG]

Competence is the requirement Mate, and if they are doing you describe, the obviously aint Competent are they?

Indeed, and so they need training.

 

[Pete999]

Indeed, and so they need training.

Nah just read the CoP

 

[Thought leader]

around £2000 it's £180 a month

I think you have been misled, the full course is £7800, you have been given £2000 worth of training due credit issues, total scammers

 

[C19rta]

I'm a bit confused as to what this course is actually offering. At 19 you might as well go to college you get 2365 (2/3) free I think

Ideally you want 2365 (2/3) but it seems you still have to do this after the course you just paid for? How much was it out of interest?