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Bernie2
Hmm!
Gas fitting is part of Plumbing and always has been. Contrary to what people may say it is not a specialist trade at all. The gas fitters started doing domestic central heating not the other way around. The Plumber was installing central heating virtually soon after its invention and a supply of heating component parts where readily available on the market.
The term "central heating engineer" refers to the time when an engineer would have to measure up a job and then go back and cast the parts in iron at the foundry hence the "engineer" and not just heating fitter.
Obviously a Plumber could not make the parts, but shared the same technology and had a bit more specialised Plumbing technology as well. However when parts became freely available the Plumber started to do central heating usually biased more to the standardised parts for domestic heating market than the commercial/industrial both of which sides as well as domestic I have worked on with other Plumbers.
In modern times the "central heating engineer" is usually associated as being the person who does commercial/industrial and only a bit of domestic heating work, the rest of the domestic work is usually done by a Plumber or sometimes specialist heating only company's.
The confusion comes from BG wanting to expand into all kinds of new markets and don't forget their heating engineers fix washing machines and dishwashers as well. I suppose their gas fitters could be called multi skilled.
The reality is everybody is looking toward what ever they can do to earn a crust. The idea you can stick to just one specialist trade is now out dated. That is partly why it all needs opening up.
Gas fitting is part of Plumbing and always has been. Contrary to what people may say it is not a specialist trade at all. The gas fitters started doing domestic central heating not the other way around. The Plumber was installing central heating virtually soon after its invention and a supply of heating component parts where readily available on the market.
The term "central heating engineer" refers to the time when an engineer would have to measure up a job and then go back and cast the parts in iron at the foundry hence the "engineer" and not just heating fitter.
Obviously a Plumber could not make the parts, but shared the same technology and had a bit more specialised Plumbing technology as well. However when parts became freely available the Plumber started to do central heating usually biased more to the standardised parts for domestic heating market than the commercial/industrial both of which sides as well as domestic I have worked on with other Plumbers.
In modern times the "central heating engineer" is usually associated as being the person who does commercial/industrial and only a bit of domestic heating work, the rest of the domestic work is usually done by a Plumber or sometimes specialist heating only company's.
The confusion comes from BG wanting to expand into all kinds of new markets and don't forget their heating engineers fix washing machines and dishwashers as well. I suppose their gas fitters could be called multi skilled.
The reality is everybody is looking toward what ever they can do to earn a crust. The idea you can stick to just one specialist trade is now out dated. That is partly why it all needs opening up.