City & Guilds Plumbing Assessment – 2 Days – £300
This City & Guilds assessment is available to anyone who has completed a plumbing course with us. You can complete...
The Advanced Plumbing Course covers installing two bathroom suites, performing repairs on taps, toilets, and damaged pipes, fitting showers, exploring various heating systems, installing a sealed system, adding a radiator to a system, and balancing a system.
This advanced plumbing course includes installing two bathroom suites, completing repairs on taps, toilets and damaged pipes, installing showers, understanding different heating systems and how to install a sealed system, you will hang a radiator and connect to a boiler jig, remove and replace a radiator and add a radiator to a heating system and also learn how to correctly balance a system. You will also cover pricing jobs and dealing with customers.
Our 9-day advanced plumbing course is specifically designed for beginners or those with little to no previous plumbing experience. Whether you’re looking to start a new career, are a tradesperson wanting to add new skills to their portfolio or wish to gain practical skills for your own projects, this course provides the hands-on plumbing skills and knowledge you need.
Learn Plumbing in Realistic Training Bays
From day one, you’ll begin learning essential plumbing techniques. You’ll start by practicing soldering copper pipes and using speed fit pipe and fitting, then quickly progress to installing a full bathroom suite from day two onwards. Training takes place in purpose-built, realistic plumbing bays—so you gain practical, job-ready experience from the start.
During this hands-on plumbing course, each student is provided with their own individual training bay to complete full bathroom installations. During the course you will install 2 bathroom suites and all pipework yourself.
This course is delivered by a Gas Safe registered plumbing and heating engineer who has over 25 years experience in the trade, ensuring you learn industry-standard techniques and best practices from a qualified professional.
Unlike some training providers, we don’t use benches and vices for soldering practice—because in the real world of bathroom installations, they’re not used. From the start, you’ll be working in realistic conditions to prepare you for real jobs.
This course strikes the perfect balance between practical plumbing skills and theoretical knowledge. You’ll not only learn how to physically install plumbing systems, but also understand the underlying concepts to avoid costly mistakes or callbacks. That means doing the job right, the first time.
Upon completing the course, you will receive an attendance certificate detailing the skills and training you have undertaken.
You also have the option to obtain an accredited Level 3 unit certificate in “Plumbing Skills”, issued by AIM Qualifications as part of their multi-skilled qualification framework. Please note that this is a unit certificate, not a full qualification, as it covers only one trade. To earn a full qualification, training in two or more trades would be required.
Additionally, during this course, you can achieve a City & Guilds Level 1 unit certificate in “Bending and Jointing Copper Pipes”. This unit is part of the City & Guilds Level 1 Award in Construction Skills (Plumbing).
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During the course you will:
Ongoing Tutor Support:
Even after you’ve completed the course, we offer ongoing support. You can reach out to your tutor by phone, email, or WhatsApp, or arrange to visit the training centre in person. There’s no limit on how many times you can get in touch—our support is continuous and included in your course fee.
The course is taught by a highly experienced, Gas Safe registered engineer with a passion for the trade. You’re encouraged to ask questions at any time—nothing is off-limits, and we ensure every topic you need is covered thoroughly.
The course is 9 days in duration, delivered over 2 consecutive weeks.
The cost of this plumbing course is £1,150 INC VAT.
If you wish to add the Level 3 unit certificate, the cost is £100.
Our centre based in Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 2DJ.
We ask for a deposit of £150 to secure your place on this course and full payment four weeks before your course start date. Payment can be made by card payment or bank transfer or PayPal.
We ask all learners to complete a feedback form and the results are published on our website along with comments made by the students.
The following page shows feedback results from previous students. Link to Student Feedback
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Choosing the right training centre is key to reaching your goals. At Construction Skills College, we provide expert instructors, practical hands-on training, and tailored support to boost your success. When you compare our course content with others, you’ll see we cover more in the same or less time. We achieve this by minimizing classroom sessions and focusing on real-world practical work—not small, low-value projects that don’t prepare you for actual job sites.
Choosing A Training CentreNo prior experience is required for our 5, 9, or 10-day training courses, as they are specifically designed for individuals with little to no previous experience.
For NVQ assessments, you must be actively working in the trade, as assessments are conducted in the workplace.
There a couple of training centres who offer similar courses and qualifications which are cheaper than ours, but compare what is covered during the course. You will find these centres teach you what you need to pass an assessment rather than also teach you the skills needed to complete work in the real world. If unsure please contact us and we can discuss the course content of both centres and advice what is best for your future aims.
There are also some training centres offering courses which are longer in duration than ours and cost more than ours, but they don’t actually cover more than we do. They spend more time talking than doing.
We have designed our courses to be intensive and comprehensive with what is covered. We appreciate time is precious and so ensure we fit as much as we can into each course and give you after course support as well.
The courses are fairly priced, taking into account the amount of materials used on the courses and the high level of teaching by experienced trades people.
You are investing time and money to learn and develop your skill set and we are here to help you succeed. We have been helping people change careers and complete projects on their own properties for over 20 years.
Yes, you’re welcome to arrange a visit to our training centre whilst a course is running. If possible, visiting near the end of a course is ideal, as you’ll see the quality of work produced by people on the course. Whilst at the centre we can explain what is completed during the course and answer any questions you may have.
After completing your course you could progress into employment or self-employment. A number of our learners are now working for a company completing work related to trades they studies at our training centre.
Many more have progressed into self-employment, either in a trade specific role such as a plasterer or a plumber, or combining their skills to become a bathroom installer, a kitchen installer, property developer or working in property maintenance.
Others have progressed into further education to gain gas-safe qualifications, further electrical qualifications and NVQs.
Please feel free to contact us to discuss your aims after completing your course.
Support provided when choosing a course
We will provide you with as much information, advice and guidance as we possibly can and if we are not able to offer you the course that best suits your needs or give you the information you require we will signpost you to somewhere that is able to. We do not pressure you to book onto any course and if we feel that you would be better suited to a course we do not offer then we will give you the contact information of a college that does.
Hopefully the majority of the information you require is available on this website but if you have any questions at all then please contact us and we will help in any way we can.
We would like to invite you to attend the training centre to view the facilities and discuss the course with both the tutors and current learners. We suggest if possible that you visit our centre towards the end of a course as people in general are always happy at the beginning of training and you want to make sure that they are as happy at the end of the course. When you visit you will be free to discuss the course with current learners on a 1-to-1 basis, if someone has paid good money or used limited funding to attend a course and they are not happy they will definitely tell you. If you visit towards the end of a course you will also be able to see the standard that everyone on the course has achieved.
One of the most popular comments we receive on questionnaires is that people did not expect to reach the high standard that they do on a course, it is also one of the most popular negative comments that we receive by people who are not aware of what we offer as they will say ‘you won’t be any good after 10 days’, if you yourself are unsure then why not pop down for a pressure free look around.
During Training
During your time with us every member of staff will do their best to help you achieve your aims. You will be provided with supporting literature relating to your trade and have access to further reading to research the trade further in your own time.
If you struggle on any element of the course then we will provide additional training at no extra cost to ensure that you reach the required standard.
If you have any learning difficulties or disabilities or have any physical difficulties or disabilities then we will support you throughout and this additional support will remain between the centre and the individual. The majority of the training courses are practical based but if you do have any concerns then please contact the centre.
We will also provide you with additional information, advice and guidance relating to progression routes available after completing the course including further training, finding employment and starting to work for yourself. Whilst on a course please contact a member of staff if you require any further in information. Whilst you are at the centre there may be other courses running so if you have any questions relating to another trade please feel free to speak to the relevant tutor – they are all here to help you.
After Training
We will continue supporting you after you have completed a course with us and you can contact us either by email, phone, WhatsApp or in person to discuss any aspects that you covered on your course. For example you may wish to contact us to clarify how to complete a job or how to price a job or maybe to ask for information on writing a business plan.
Your tutors will give you their contact telephone numbers and email address so if you have any questions at all you can give them a call. It is invaluable to have this continuous support available and will give you the confidence to complete work away from the centre.
If you have access to ELC funding, we are an approved ELC learning provider.
Funding is currently available for our 6-week plastering course—please contact us for details.
Unfortunately, we do not offer funding for our other courses at this time.
Absolutely, our courses are hands-on and focused on equipping you with the practical skills needed to perform jobs independently outside our training centre. While there is some theory included, it’s kept minimal and directly relevant to the trade you’re learning—not theory for its own sake. The only entirely theory-based course is the Level 1 Health and Safety in a Construction Environment, which is an online course completed at your own pace.
We have one training centre located in Stoke-on-Trent. We are not affiliated with any other training centres in the UK.
We are honestly worth travelling too. Nearby there are hotels, B&Bs, Airbnb, campsites, etc. You can stay from £125 a week.
You can enrol by contacting us directly at 01782 837007, emailing us at enquiries@tradeteacher.co.uk, or using the “Book Now” option on our website.
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