ACS exams

[bob the plumber]

I start my gas exams tomorrow being a CAT 2 entrant with 3-4 years experience in plumbing and gas/lpg/oil under a qualified guy. Any of you gents got any tips or knowledge of what to expect or what i really need to be up to scratch with apart from the obvious answer of everything. Feel free to throw a few questions my way aswell, lets call it a mock exam written by the guys doing it day in day out.

cheers

bob

 

[SimonG]

Sorry Bob, don't do gas, but all the best for tomorrow. 🙂

 

[BLOD]

read the questions twice, I found some questions a bit ambiguous.

 

[Davinder]

Good luck for tomorrow.

When talking to otherGSR engineers they (for the most part) always say that they struggledwith the ventilation questions:

So here's a practiceone for you:

A bedsitting roommeasures 2.75m x 3.25m x 2.4m, has a cooker plus an instantaneousflueless sink water heater rated at 5Kw(net), plus to be installednext week a flueless space heater rated at 5Kw(net).

What are theventilation requirements?

Oh, and again good luckfor tomorrow (not that you need it........ right :book🙂.

 

[blackcat]

i cant remember but its bugging me now, is it something like

heat input - 7 x 5?

 

[blackcat]

i cant remember but its bugging me now, is it something like

heat input - 7 x 5?

 

[Davinder]

i cant remember but its bugging me now, is it something like

heat input - 7 x 5?

No, sorry.
Thats the formula for open flued appliances.

 

[CMairiD]

Good luck for tomorrow.

When talking to otherGSR engineers they (for the most part) always say that they struggledwith the ventilation questions:

So here's a practiceone for you:

A bedsitting roommeasures 2.75m x 3.25m x 2.4m, has a cooker plus an instantaneousflueless sink water heater rated at 5Kw(net), plus to be installednext week a flueless space heater rated at 5Kw(net).

What are theventilation requirements?

Oh, and again good luckfor tomorrow (not that you need it........ right :book🙂.

Define the 'cooker'.

 

[Davinder]

Cooker:- domestic oven, hot plate, grill or any combination thereof.

If your asking me the Kw rating of the appliance. Then for the purposes of this question it's not needed.

 

[kirkgas]

my advice would be to read the question, (not intended to be rude or state the obvious, but the amount of candidates who waste valuable time, mis reading, or completely changing what they think the question says is unbelievable) relax, concentrate on safety as that is all ACS is about, try to apply common sense and logic to the ones you dont know and you wont be far away, surely the centre you are in have you tuned in to what the exam will be about by now, the last couple of days training is about fine tuning bits and pieces to get you into exam mode

 

[Ian10261]

I start my gas exams tomorrow being a CAT 2 entrant with 3-4 years experience in plumbing and gas/lpg/oil under a qualified guy. Any of you gents got any tips or knowledge of what to expect or what i really need to be up to scratch with apart from the obvious answer of everything. Feel free to throw a few questions my way aswell, lets call it a mock exam written by the guys doing it day in day out.

cheers

bob

The answers are multi-choice. When i took mine there were generally two answers that were plainly B/S but the other two were so close that it was pretty hard to make the call.
Having said that, everything you need will be provided, it's just finding it. They'll give you a pile of normative documents and the answer is in there somewhere but they are indexed which makes things somewhat easier. I must admit i wasn't looking forward to doing mine and i make no bones about it, i came away from there mentally drained but dont let that put you off, as i said all the answers ARE there. Good luck mate.

 

[blackcat]

No, sorry.
Thats the formula for open flued appliances.

Don't leave me in limbo man! Tell me the answer!!

 

[REDSAW]

Don't leave me in limbo man! Tell me the answer!!

not allowed

 

[bob the plumber]

Good luck for tomorrow.

When talking to otherGSR engineers they (for the most part) always say that they struggledwith the ventilation questions:

So here's a practiceone for you:

A bedsitting roommeasures 2.75m x 3.25m x 2.4m, has a cooker plus an instantaneousflueless sink water heater rated at 5Kw(net), plus to be installednext week a flueless space heater rated at 5Kw(net).

What are theventilation requirements?

Oh, and again good luckfor tomorrow (not that you need it........ right :book🙂.

baer in mind im doing exams tomorrow and going by my answer you guys might think im in trouble but here goes!

2.75 x 3.25 x 2.4 = 21.45m3 appliances permissable in space
based on there being openable window or door to outside
cooker room larger than 10m3 no ventilation required if door or window to outside
sink heater room larger than 20m3 no ventilation required window required
space heater requires 100cm2 min + 55cm2 for over 2.7kw output

so venilation required for the above would be 265cm2 for the above

am i miles out or kind of there lol

 

[AlexGas]

Not right.
Location, location, location...

 

[bob the plumber]

baer in mind im doing exams tomorrow and going by my answer you guys might think im in trouble but here goes!

2.75 x 3.25 x 2.4 = 21.45m3 appliances permissable in space
based on there being openable window or door to outside
cooker room larger than 10m3 no ventilation required if door or window to outside
sink heater room larger than 20m3 no ventilation required window required
space heater requires 100cm2 min + (55cm2 PER EXTRA KW over 2.7kw output!!!!)!!!!!!!1

so venilation required for the above would be 265cm2 for the above

am i miles out or kind of there lol

.......

 

[bob the plumber]

Not right.
Location, location, location...

The bedsitting room is over 20m3 though so permissable with correct ventilation??

 

[bob the plumber]

not allowed

not allowed to tell the answer or not allowed the appliances? my book says otherwise unless im totally off?? :cry_smile:

 

[AlexGas]

What book is that?

 

[CMairiD]

Cooker:- domestic oven, hot plate, grill or any combination thereof.

Nevermind, my clumsy fingers got under 20m3 the first time I did room vol; hence the request for more info on the cooker.