retrain to service and repair

[bigblue]

Hi guys. 1st post here. I am 30 years old and I have been a central heating installer for 10 years. I did my apprenticeship with bg, but left to work for myself after 5 years. I am wondering what the best course of action would be to change over from installation, to breakdown and repair. I have done various repairs over the years although I have never been taught to fault find with a multimeter. I live near Liverpool so if anyone has any information on good fault finding courses that would be much appreciated.

 

[newcastle phill]

Are you a gas safe engineer.
Many manufacturers run bespoke courses for their family of boilers which can be organised through a local rep conditional on being Gs reg.
Probably just have to state you have fitted tons of them (insert manufacturer name here lol) to secure a place.
Hope that helps

 

[shytalk]

Baxi courses are good, they've also got a training centre in warrington, which is a lot closer than most.

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

worcester offer good training days too, i have heard the baxi one is excellent

 

[thorn]

The vaillant course is good, thought the worcester one was a lot of trumpet blowing to be honest

 

[Ermintrude]

Baxi one for me. Ideal one would be good too as logic has sold in vast numbers

 

[buckley plumb]

break downs not what they used to be manufacturers doing fixed cost repairs that are hard to beat

 

[stevetheplumber]

the baxi 3 day course is excellent shows you how to fault find with a multi meter safely

 

[Ermintrude]

Also transferable skill to other boilers & systems

 

[kris]

Hi big blue, there are dvds you can buy which are not as beneficial as the manufacturers courses but are still a good insight and refresher to boiler sequencing n fault finding, its called the Mr combi fault finding dvd, he also does training at his centre and does a huge range of courses,