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Christmas Spirit?
Christmas Spirit comes out of a bottle. Marvo, I don’t know how you have the gall to put this up. Sat at a range of 1000 miles in a country that by your own admission doesn’t have the problem of Electrical Trainee’s. Some of us are fiercely defensive of our trade that took years for us to qualify. We have...- Knobhead
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- christmas experience pir trade
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Returning to trade
Hello, I have 236 1 and 2 and wish to return to doing domestic work, after a gap of about 10 years. I realise I need to do a 17th course, but what about testing? has 2391 been replaced? From what I can see a regs course is £500, and I'm guessing a test course would be the same? Then I need to...- Suede Ed
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- course domestic might returning testing trade years
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Returning to trade
Hello, thanks for accepting me. Returning to the trade after doing something else for 10 years. Will need advice!- Suede Ed
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- returning trade
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Starting a charity for elderly who need small jobs doing by tradesmen.
I often work closely within the construction industry and have many contacts in the way of business owners and highly skilled tradesmen. For a while now I have been a little bothered about how aged vulnerable people, sometimes disabled are paying out money they can ill afford to have small jobs...- grumpygit
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- charity doing electrical work jobs small starting trade tradesmen
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Started the Trade Center self learning course and would like to speak to somone
Hi every one. I just joined the site ........ I've just started the Trade Center self learning course and would like to speak to someone in the same position just starting out. Hope all is going well. :tree:James- james13475
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- center course doing james learning self started trade
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Trades Gateway - any feedback good or bad?
HI Does anyone know anything - good or bad - about Trades Gateway training provider? Electrics - Trades GatewayTrades Gateway I cant see anything awful about them on google apart from people not being able to get their money back quickly if they want to cancel (which although not good...- monkeymagic
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- feedback trade trades
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- Forum: Electrician Courses : Electrical Quals
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Check A Trade ...getting slated on WatchDog as we type lol
Been accused of refusing to allow negative reviews for bad workmanship and refusing to put up reviews relating to failure to turn up...., where they explain its to allow both sides to be heard and the tradesman to rectify their work ....well sorry if a trademan has to return to rectify poor...- Darkwood
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- check their trade type
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how the trade has fallen
A friend of ours was telling us the other day how well her grandaughter is doing since she met her new boyfriend,I really had to bite my tongue when she came out with the following statement." he's a lovelly chap,fully quallified electrician,fully quallified plumber and he's just done his gas...- Guest111
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- fully times trade years
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Thinking of a change to supply side our trade... Advice??
Hi this is my first post, browsed a few times and seems to be the place for quires answered. I'm an approved electrician plenty of domestic experience rewiring, basic bread and butter sparky stuff. I'm now working as a foreman at the moment but thinking of a change and fancy getting into the...- Bonga
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- advice after change company power scottish supply thinking trade
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- Forum: Electrical Wiring, Theories and Regulations
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Trade Test
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum. To start off, I live in Glasgow and I am currently in my fourth year of my apprenticeship and my boss wants me to to sit my trade test. Long story short, During my first 2 and a half years I worked for a big company in Glasgow who where through the SJIB and...- Petemc93
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- apprenticeship glasgow still test testing trade
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New to the trade, New to the Forum
Hi Everyone!! Hows it going? As the title says, I am new to the forum and hopefully will be getting trained in the trade very soon!! I am looking to start the 2365 course, to be able to gain a basic knowledge of the area to then be able to get a job as a mate or something then go on and do the...- Dominic Platt
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- new the forum trade
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Tradecareers.co.uk
Hey, I've recently been in contact with tradecareers.co.uk about doing a 2 year course to become a Domestic Renewable Energy Engineer. Has anyone heard of their company and could shed a little light as to if they are good/trustworthy? would like to start studying in this field but don't want to...- wellen33
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- anyone course doing trade
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Limited company or sole trader
What have most lads gone for when setting up there own bussines sole trader or limited company and what has been your pros and cons of either- Farmelectrics
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- company house limited trade trader
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Check-a-Trade
Is it worth it? Does it work?- yellowvanman
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- another better check rated spend trade
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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All things Renewable
Ground source heat pumps, solar panels, inverters, LEDs & more. Question for you lads in this part of the industry- do you buy off a wholesaler, or do you go direct to the manufacture. Brief background- I've just finished wiring a large factory and part of the deal was that I got one of the...- sjhall
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- renewable supplier their things trade
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- Forum: Renewable Energy and Power Storage
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Rogue trader posing as electrician pleads guilty to fraud
I found this article in the local rag: Rogue trader posing as electrician pleads guilty to fraud (From Bournemouth Echo) It says he claimed to be 'approved' to satisfy building control, but it doesn't quantify whose definition of 'approved' - JIB, scheme, or if he was just trading as Steve from...- Adam W
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- electric electrical electrician fraud trade trader
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What do you think is the easiest trade
I know this is quite a broad question eg bricklaying quite physically deamaning but not that mentally demanding no offence to any brickies. I'm not elitist. But had someone ask me and answered and said they are all hard in differnt ways. what do yo guys think the "easiest" trade is.- irn-brue
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- maybe paint trade
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check a trade is it worth it
check a trade is it worth it? is it waste of 500 quid, do u have to bid on jobs or as you listed you get them, asgot person coming round next thursday to pressure sale to get us to join- tonto33
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- check customers liability their trade worth
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Just another Trainee
Hey everyone, i just signed up after finding the site through a random google trawl. I've just competed level 2 C&G 2365 (one year, part time) as I attempt to move across from the motor trade where I work as a general fitter and have done so for most of my life. I was hoping to enter the trade...- Pete1981
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- another college finding level trade trainee
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Trade skills 4u - city & guilds 2365 14 week course - worth doing?
Hi, I am currently looking into enrolling with Trade Skills 4U on there 14 week level 2 & 3 diploma (city & guilds 2365) I have managed to source work with an electrician so I will be able to get some hands on experience. The course is 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, during my 2 weeks off i'll be...- hass55
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- 2365 city city & guilds course doing guilds skills trade worth
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- Forum: The Welcome Forum
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