Hello, I'm James, 24, currently beginning a slow journey to a career change as a domestic electrical installer. I have very little expierience in electrics, but my plan is to study electrics now, I'm going through the buildering regs, on site guide and inspecting and testing G3 books right now...
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I was wondering if anyone knew whether i could do the first city and guilds qualification(2330) as a distance learning course? does this include a practical element?
I am about to be working abroad (not sparky-ing) and would like to spend my spare time getting qualified as an electrician...
Im a joiner/builder at the moment and looking into renovationing properties and want to legaly do all the electrical work myself aswell as testing and certifying others work, and in the future hopefully the gas too.
After a lot of thought distant learning is the best option for me. Ive...
I just found this on youtube.. It was at Glade festival this summer after we played one of our best gigs ever..
After the gig we went straight to the bar, sunk a ton of stella then someone gave me a wonky bike.
YouTube - Colin learns to ride a bike
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Just to introduce myself!
I'm trying to learn again what it is to be a sparky. I spent 16 years in the RN electrocuting myself and others then went out into the big wide world to work in a factory building machines. I moved into the office side and took up health & safety when they...
hello every one im looking at doing my 17th edition update exam the courses available seem to be 1 night a week for ten weeks or 3 days both ending in the multi choice exam . both these options seem to cost around 400 to 500 pound . ive seen distant learning packages available where you work...
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Been looking for a few weeks regarding re-training as a Domestic Electrician. Looked at various courses for vast amounts of money(Qualified in 3-5mths Don't think so) and have been reading this forum for a few weeks and decided against going down that route.
I work in the Fire Industry...
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I’m considering retraining as an electrician and have been contacted by a company called Tradecareers.co.uk, does anyone know anything about them ? Has anyone used their distance learning system. How much support do you get – any information welcomed!
One of the problems is that their...
Hi Folks,
I hope some of you good people can give me some advice, I'm trying to decide which training programe to follow.
While there's lots of comment here about the cram type courses I was wondering if anyone has any experience of the distance learning route and if there are any...
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i am thinking of applying to do the hnc via open learning and just wondering if any of you guys have done it this way and can give it the thumbs up/down, and what sort of timescales you were able to complete it in.
i will probably have to also do the maths bridging course which i have been...
As I can not find someone willing to take me on as an apprentice, I have opted to learn privately. Anyone done this before? I'm applying through a company called "Access Trade Careers" www.career-electrician.co.uk/glasgow They say they are highly recognized, this true?
Basically I get sent...
Has anyone used this service, look really good.
i watched a trail video on youtube.
I have my niceic assesment in a few weeks just wanted to get on learning lounge and get up to speed with the regs and testing.
niceic say once on the learning lounge site enter centre code but don't tell you the...
Hi there im hoping some one could give me some advise on a life choice im trying to make.
well here goes i am 24 years old and working as an administrator and i live in south London, i fell its time for a change. i have come to the dession that office work is not the place for me and the...
Doing, Industrial work at the moment, everything is new to me. I was looking to see how I could go about improving my industrial side of electrics, so wondering if anyone knows of any decent books? websites etc Get abit confused when it comes to contacts with overload protection, wiring motors...
Hiya, Just started out as an electrician a couple of months back, didnt really know anything to start with. Now am wondering, i'm now in a job which does industrial and commercial work. I was applying for a domestic job and this other one came round so i took that one up.
Just out of interest...
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