Fire Alarms

[Harni]

If your just getting into alarms, you do not want to do a Gent course to start with. Gent kit is some of the best in the business but they have made up their own dictionary of terminology in comparison to all other manufacturers. Also, when it goes wrong it generally goes big time wrong!
Gent won't even entertain a phone call with you unless you are Gent24 registered and last time i had a chat about that, you had to spend 100k a year with them to be gent 24 registered!

Protec as well will not give training unless you are a registered company with them i believe. No where near as difficult as Gent to get in with them but they aren't like the likes of Kentec or Morley where you can just phone up and book your self on a course.

 

[uksparks]

Hmm I see...

 

[Harni]

C-TEC Training Courses

C-Tec are in Wigan but then thats just as far north for you as it is south for some of the big companies.

Cant think of any others up your way!

 

[ayjay]

hi all ayjay here -61 , started my apprentiship at 15 , meggitt marsh bmth
all this talk about 3 day courses/ 5wwonders is an absolute joke
it took me 4 years then another as an "inprover"
a " short course" what a joke

 

[davesparks]

Then why on earth were you openly advocating a 3 day course in post #18?

 

[uksparks]

hi all ayjay here -61 , started my apprentiship at 15 , meggitt marsh bmth
all this talk about 3 day courses/ 5wwonders is an absolute joke
it took me 4 fu----g years then another as an "inprover"
a " short course" what a joke

Its rude to swear

 

[Poult12]

hi all ayjay here -61 , started my apprentiship at 15 , meggitt marsh bmth
all this talk about 3 day courses/ 5wwonders is an absolute joke
it took me 4 years then another as an "inprover"
a " short course" what a joke

3 day course a joke?

Fail to see how its a joke if you have No clue on what you're getting into; its a great starting point. Contradicting yourself is the biggest joke on this subject which is now getting away from the point Uksparks is looking for.

Tazz is pretty much top of you're list with such info mate; as is a fair few others.

 

[uksparks]

These 1 day courses for each module are not designed to make you an official installer or qualified professional, they are solely designed to give people a basic understanding or certain areas and that they can use that as a starting point. They are not a joke, they are the most widely recognized industry standard courses to do with fire alarms.

 

[ayjay]

the last f/a system i installed was at b&q castlelpoint i didn,t get the knowlege from a 3 day course
post 18 was a take btw

 

[tazz]

Ayjay, I edit your post yet again....last warning on obvious language on a public forum.

 

[Poult12]

the last f/a system i installed was at b&q castlelpoint i didn,t get the knowlege from a 3 day course
post 18 was a take btw

So you're telling all of us that you would have known where to place a detector, call point and sounder without even bothering to go to a FIA course? (Without being told)

 

[ayjay]

yes trainee
the site plan& specification that is used has all of the positions of the tecs and the type of tecs/ zones/ e/lts/ door magnets/ holders too velux window openers -----ect

 

[Poult12]

yes trainee
the site plan& specification that is used has all of the positions of the tecs and the type of tecs/ zones/ e/lts/ door magnets/ holders too velux window openers -----ect

Again would point out that i stated - 'without being told'

 

[ayjay]

just puruse the plans and ask your local fire brigade as we in north korea do

 

[uksparks]

yes trainee
the site plan& specification that is used has all of the positions of the tecs and the type of tecs/ zones/ e/lts/ door magnets/ holders too velux window openers -----ect

Im not saying its mandatory or that you have to have fia training, but personally being new to alarms and having never touched them, even if I was just following plans, I think it's possibly a good idea to get some form of recognised industry training however basic you say it is as its going to help.

Did you wire your first consumer unit from plans or rewire a house just from plans then without any prior training?