Light At The End Of The Tunnel

I mentioned in my previous post that I am on to the level 3 course work with Train 4 Trades now even though I have not yet completed the level 2 practical’s well the latest news is good as I will be attending ATL Featherstone from the 12^th September for my final 2 weeks practical training for level 2 plumbing City & Guilds certificate, at that point I will no longer be a plumbing student and become a plumber who is extending his qualifications. This to me is the light at the end of the tunnel as I will be able to bring my plans to fruition, that’s as much as I am willing to say for now as I don’t want to jump the gun.

Also when I have completed level 2 I am going to rename this Blog ********* again it’s a secret for now and I will only re-launch when I have my results from my GOLA (Global Online Assessment) end exam, But as always my regular readers will be the first to know how things are going as I will be writing a diary blog for weeks 5&6 the first of which you can expect on the 18^th September with the follow up a week later on the following Sunday.

Another little project that I have been working on was the installation of a wood burning stove for my mother to hopefully reduce her heating costs and will improving the overall temperature in her home especially now we have a 17% hike in gas prices to look forward to this winter “Robbing F*****S”. Earlier this year we replaced the glass in the old double glazing for the latest A+ rated triple glazed units and added more loft insulation so hopefully she will be toasty warm this winter without making the fat-cats any fatter. Next year Solar photovoltaic panels on the roof will deal with the electricity bills too.

That about wraps it up for this week, thanks for taking the time to read my blog, Regards Cliff.

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Electricity, Continuity Bonding & Scenario's

This weeks post is on  module 26 Electricity, some of which we covered earlier in module 4 Key Plumbing Principles, I completed this module without much difficulty as it was more of a recap and when we covered this subject in module 4 i went to the trubble of getting a copy of the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations and part P of the building regulations, thrilling reading as you can imagine. Also my Brother is an electrician so i was able to pick his brains on the subject and as the majority of the module was dealing with domestic electrical installaion, earth continuity, testing and decommissioning it was very useful to have someone with the amount of experience that my brother has. Not only that but he has all the testing equipment so i got to have a go at the real thing under his watchfull eyes which is the way i learn best. 
What i am struggling with is the electrical scenario cd which i find very frustrating, maybe because i am useing quite an old laptop and the software runs very slowly but not only that, it's the way it makes you start right from the beggining each time you attempt the senario, anyway a wise man once said perceverance is prefferable so i will battle on with it until i get it cracked. I have three scenario's to complete before i move on to module 27 so it might be some time before i get to that, on the other hand it may just become apparent and i'll finnish all three in a few hours.
Here's were i'm at after attempt 4


As you can see i have still two faults to find and three fault codes to rectify so i am going to sign off for now i might do an update during the week when i complete all three.

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