Plumbing Courses

YTA offer a 5 and 10 day level 1 plumbing course including nationally accredited and recognised level 1 in plumbing. Bathroom fitting courses and domestic heating system courses also on offer.

4 Day Intensive Weekend Plumbing Course

Currently Not Running The 4 day intensive weekend plumbing course is a very hands-on practical

10 Day Intensive Plumbing Course (optional level 1 add-on)

10 Day Intensive Plumbing Course with or without level 1 £1800 including vat (with qualification)

5 Day Advanced Plumbing Course (optional level 1 add-on)

5 Day Advanced Plumbing Course = £700 including vat 5 Day Advanced Level 1 Plumbing

5 Day Intensive Plumbing Course

£700 inc vat The 5-day intensive plumbing course is a very hands-on practical course aimed

YTA Plumbing Taster Course - 1 Day

Full Day Taster Course 9am to 4pm = £165 inc vat Spend a day at

Currently Not Running

The 4 day intensive weekend plumbing course is a very hands-on practical course aimed at arming you with the knowledge and understanding to confidently take on plumbing jobs around the home or start up as a plumber offering a variety of plumbing services to your local area. Our 5-day plumbing course is more in-depth but only runs during the week.

The plumbing course is suitable for total beginners with no previous experience or tradespersons such as tilers, plasterers, joiners, kitchen fitters etc who wish to undertake plumbing tasks from changing taps, plumbing in a kitchen sink including a washing machine to full bathroom replacements including fitting of radiators in order to gain more work and income. In the current climate the tradesperson who can do the whole job to a customer tends to get the more jobs leaving the customer without the headache of finding multiple trades to complete a home project.

This plumbing course is aimed to give you enough skills to develop your expertise to a career in plumbing as many of our former plumbing candidates have or just to give you the confidence to take on plumbing projects around the house however small or large.

Our 4-day plumbing course will provide you with a great insight and understanding of the plumbing trade whether you are a total beginner or have some previous plumbing experience.

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the plumbing course or just give YTA a call and we will be more than happy to discuss the course in more detail.

4 Day Intensive Weekend Plumbing Course Content.

First Weekend (Saturday & Sunday)

Working with and using 15mm and 22mm copper pipe and fixings, fitting isolation valves and pipe bending.
Using a variety of fittings and tools to produce pipework.

Plan and install a bathroom (bath, taps, toilet, basin and all wastes). Installation of the bathroom will be with copper pipe and fittings and the use of a pipe bender and soldering ‘end feed’ joints to create a neat customer standard job.
1st and 2nd fix installations explained and planned before bathroom installing proceeds. Bathroom will be tested up to mains pressure and should there be any leaks, they will need fixing!

Before the toilet is installed a full strip down and full explanation of internal cistern fittings and different types of flush mechanisms you will come across. Fault finding, diagnosis of toilet flush problems and how to repair different faults.

How to fix faults and repair valves etc. Common plumbing call out jobs explained including an pricing projects, call outs and emergency call out work including hourly rates and plumbing day rates.

Second Weekend (Saturday & Sunday)

Install a small 2 radiator system (3 radiators if your skills / timeframe allows) using copper pipe and fittings and again using the pipe bender to create a professional job keeping pipework neat and hopefully leak free!

Fill radiator system up to pressure and bleed air. Check for leaks and then undergo a common fault finding and valve replacement.

Drain down techniques and heating systems explained.

For those that have picked up the skills quickly with some time to spare, we will touch on the following either through explanation or practical training on the Sunday afternoon:

Plumbing up a kitchen sink, hot and cold pipework and a tee off for washing machine / dishwasher.
Kitchen is again plumbed in using copper pipe and solder fittings including end feed tap connectors!
Then a strip down the taps and complete a tap washer replacement, tap washer reseat and o ring replacement. Servicing a tap and fault-finding common repairs.
Kitchen sink wastes, traps and all the varieties available will be explained and you can choose which to fit. You will have a working kitchen sink both supply pipework and waste pipework so confidence will be really growing by this stage!
Next you will get your first job add a garden tap to your completed kitchen pipework just like a real job! Then make sure it works.

Throughout the course the instructor will be going through how to tackle problems, real life solutions, replacement parts and fault finding and repairs. Pricing jobs, business start-up is also covered.

The course is aimed at you leaving us on Sunday afternoon and to start completing small plumbing jobs, either a tap washer replacement, change a radiator valve or install a bathroom.

Fitting of tap connectors including flexi ‘WC assembly including all internal fittings’ Fault finding and repair ‘Bathroom taps and wastes fitted and explained’.

Plumbing in a complete bathroom and water testing under pressure!!

Fitting of kitchen sink taps and waste ‘Strip down a kitchen tap, repair washer and re-test’ Plumbing in a kitchen sink with hot and cold outlets for a washing machine, then water test everything under pressure.

Fitting of radiators ‘Fault finding and repair’ Plumbing up and filling up until under full pressure ‘THEN under pressure and full of water, change a radiator and valve !!’

Extra content covered on every YTA plumbing course.

• Tricks of the trade throughout the plumbing course
• Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full-size kitchens and bathrooms.
• Marketing Techniques
• Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
• Insurance, TAX, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
• Plumbing Business Start Up
• Course progression and NVQ’s

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the plumbing course.

4 Day Intensive Weekend Plumbing Course Overview

• Plumbing with copper pipe
• Using plumbing fixings such as compression, end feed (solder) and push fit
• Plumbing in a bathroom
• Plumbing in a kitchen sink – time permitting on weekends.
• Plumbing in a radiator system
• Plumbing tools explained
• Plumbing Business start up
• £600 inc vat

 Tel: 01274682199

YTA is the UK’s premier training centre for construction training and assessment backed up by outstanding independent customer reviews on www.reveiws.co.uk (5 out of 5!)

10 Day Intensive Plumbing Course with or without level 1

£1800 including vat (with qualification) = Level 1 Award in Plumbing Operations

£1400 including vat  (without qualification)

PLEASE NOTE: The qualification is optional. The training will still be the same whether you opt for the level 1 or not.

This is our 10-day plumbing course and consists of the first week being the 5-day level 1 intensive plumbing course and the 5-day advanced plumbing course both rolled together over a 10-day period.

If opting for the level 1. This is our 10-day level 1 intensive plumbing course including a level 1 nationally recognised qualification.

• Level 1 Award in Preparation for Plumbing Operations

You will be trained and assessed on the following 2 units:

• Introduction to construction work
• Carrying out plumbing operations

When both the above units are achieved you will achieve the full level 1 qualification ‘Level 1 Award in Preparation for Plumbing Operations’.

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The level 1 plumbing qualification is accredited by Ascentis Awarding Organisation. Ascentis is both recognised by Ofqual and the Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education).

The level 1 Award in Preparation for Plumbing Operations qualification is on the Qualification and Credit Framework, which allows credit accumulation and transfer, and it requires no prior knowledge, attainment or experience.

The 5-day intensive level 1 plumbing course is a very hands-on practical course aimed at arming individuals with the knowledge and understanding to confidently take on plumbing jobs around the home or start up as a plumber offering a variety of plumbing services to your local area.

The level 1 plumbing course is suitable for total beginners with no previous experience or tradespersons such as tilers, plasterers, joiners, kitchen fitters etc who wish to undertake plumbing tasks from changing taps, plumbing in a kitchen sink including a washing machine to full bathroom replacements including fitting of radiators in order to gain more work and income. In the current climate the tradesperson who can do the whole job to a customer tends to gets the more jobs leaving the customer without the headache of finding multiple trades to complete a home project.

This plumbing course is aimed to give you enough skills to develop your expertise to a career in plumbing as many of our former plumbing candidates have or just to give you the confidence to take on plumbing projects around the house however small or large.

Our 5 day level 1 plumbing course will provide you with a great insight and understanding of the plumbing trade whether you are a total beginner or have some previous plumbing experience.

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the plumbing course or just give YTA a call and we will be more than happy to discuss the course in more detail.

Intensive Level 1 Plumbing Course Content.

Monday

Working with and using 15mm and 22mm copper pipe and fixings, fitting isolation valves and pipe bending.

Using a variety of fittings and tools to produce pipework.

Tuesday

Plan and install a bathroom (bath, taps, toilet, basin and all wastes)
Installation of bathroom will be with copper pipe and fittings and you will use a pipe bender and soldering fittings to create a neat customer standard job.
1st and 2nd fix installations explained and planned before bathroom installing proceeds.
Bathroom will be tested up to mains working pressure and should there be any leaks, they will need fixing!

Wednesday

Before the toilet is installed a full strip down and explanation of internal cistern fittings and different types of flush mechanisms you will come across. Fault finding, diagnosis of toilet flush problems and how to repair different faults.

How to fix faults and repair valves etc. Common plumbing call out jobs explained including an pricing projects, call outs and emergency call out work including hourly rates and plumbing day rates.

Thursday

Install a small 2 radiator system (3 radiators if your skills / timeframe allows) using copper pipe and fittings and again using the pipe bender to create a professional job keeping pipework neat and hopefully leak free!

Fill your radiator system up to pressure and bleed the air out. Check for leaks and then undergo a common fault finding and valve replacement.

Drain down techniques and heating systems explained. You will also remove a radiator with water inside and learn how to hang and refit radiators.

Friday

Plumbing up a kitchen sink, hot and cold pipework and a tee off for washing machine / dishwasher.
Kitchen is again plumbed in using copper pipe and solder fittings including end feed tap connectors!
Then a strip down the taps and complete a tap washer replacement, tap washer reseat and o ring replacement. Servicing a tap and fault finding common repairs.
Kitchen sink wastes, traps and all the varieties available will be explained and you can choose which to fit. You will have a working kitchen sink both supply pipework and waste pipework so confidence will be really growing by this stage!
Next you will get your first job – add a garden tap to your completed kitchen pipework just like a real job! Then make sure it works. We then explain how to install a shower (thermostatic bar mixer and electric shower).
We finish off with plastic push fit pipework and fittings and we will complete a small project such as a radiator, kitchen or if you really want to go for it we can re-do the bathroom in plastic pipe!

Throughout the course the instructor will be going through how to tackle problems, real life solutions, replacement parts and fault finding and repairs. Pricing jobs, business start up is also covered.

The course is aimed at you leaving on Friday afternoon and starting a plumbing job first thing Monday morning, either a tap washer replacement, change a radiator valve or install a bathroom.

Fitting of tap connectors including flexi WC assembly including all internal fittings Fault finding and repair Bathroom taps and wastes fitted and explained.

Plumbing in a complete bathroom and water testing under pressure !!

Fitting of kitchen sink taps and waste ‘Strip down a kitchen tap, repair washer and re-test’ Plumbing in a kitchen sink with hot and cold outlets for a washing machine, then water test everything under pressure.

Fitting of radiators’ Fault finding and repair ‘Plumbing up and filling up until under full pressure’

2nd week of the 10 Day Level 1 Intensive Plumbing Course

This 2nd week of the 10 day plumbing course is aimed at expanding on the first week and developing your knowledge of what the first week courses leave you with. Although we do cover heating systems and installing a 2 or 3 radiator system on the first week, on the advanced plumbing course you will complete a fitting of a domestic hot water storage system. The course will also expand on the bathroom side and a full suite including thermostatic mixer shower and all traps, waste pipes including soil pipe and stack will be fitted. Rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage will also be covered.

Some of the plumbing tools we use on the course and/or recommend can be found HERE.

Topics covered in the advanced plumbing course:

• Install a domestic hot water storage system
• Fit a indirect cylinder
• Understand central heating plans and different cylinders used
• Fit header tanks and gate valves
• Use copper pipe, plastic pipe, compression fittings, end feed & solder ring fittings
• Fit radiators including TRV’s (thermostatic radiator valves)
• Central heating fault finding
• Fit a shower pump
• Fit a thermostatic mixer shower
• Fit a bathroom and commission under water pressure
• Fit all bathroom traps, wastes and soil pipes and commission with water
• Install and understand rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage

The 10 Day Level 1 Intensive Plumbing Courses is one of our most popular courses.

Extra content covered on 10 Day Level 1 Intensive Plumbing Course.

• Tricks of the trade throughout the plumbing course
• Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full-size kitchens and bathrooms.

YTA is the UK’s premier training centre for construction training and assessment backed up by outstanding independent customer reviews on www.reveiws.co.uk (5 out of 5!)

***** More dates are available and split week dates are available by calling 01274682199. *****

This course runs every week.

Unit 12a Factory Street, Dudley Hill, Bradford, BD4 9NW, West Yorkshire.

Tel: 01274682199

For more information please phone or fill in the enquiry form on the contact page

Courses are held every week Monday to Friday.

All Course Times are: 9.00am – 16.00pm

Centre opening times are 8:30am to 5pm

5 Day Advanced Plumbing Course = £700 including vat

5 Day Advanced Level 1 Plumbing Course = £1100 including vat

(Please note: You may only attend/book the 5 day advanced plumbing course with or without the optional level 1 if you have already completed the 5 day plumbing course or completed a telephone ‘skills check’ with our plumbing tutor to determine your plumbing experience and knowledge. This advanced plumbing course will NOT teach you the foundation plumbing skills required to start this course, those skills are taught on the first week 5 day plumbing course.

This is our advanced plumbing course and ideally sits as a second week course following on from our 5 day intensive plumbing course.

Students who attend this course should already have an understanding in the following areas:

• Installing a basic 3 piece bathroom suite
• Fitting and commissioning a radiator including removal
• Working with copper pipe, plastic pipe, soldering joints including plastic and compression fittings
• Pipe bending
• Plumbing in a kitchen sink including waste
• All the above is included on the 1st week plumbing course we offer (5 day intensive plumbing course)

This advanced plumbing course is aimed at expanding on the first week and developing your knowledge of what the first week courses leave you with. Although we do cover heating systems and installing a 2 or 3 radiator system on the first week, on the advanced plumbing course you will complete a fitting of a domestic hot water storage system. The course will also expand on the bathroom side and a full suite including thermostatic mixer shower and all traps, waste pipes including soil pipe and stack will be fitted. Rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage will also be covered.

*******PLEASE SEE OUR SPECIAL OFFERS HERE*******

Topics covered in the advanced plumbing course:

• Install a domestic hot water storage system
• Fit a indirect cylinder
• Understand central heating plans and different cylinders used
• Fit header tanks and gate valves
• Use copper pipe, plastic pipe, compression fittings, end feed & solder ring fittings
• Fit radiators including TRV’s (thermostatic radiator valves)
• Central heating fault finding
• Fit a shower pump
• Fit a thermostatic mixer shower
• Fit a bathroom and commission under water pressure
• Fit all bathroom traps, wastes and soil pipes and commission with water
• Install and understand rainwater guttering, hoppers and drainage

The advanced plumbing course is £700 including vat and runs approximately every other week. The course has a maximum of 8 students per course. If you have already completed the 5 day plumbing course then you can then complete this advanced 5 day plumbing course and gain the level 1 qualification too.

The 10 day level 1 plumbing course is £1800 inc vat. YTA is the UK’s premier training centre for construction training and assessment backed up by outstanding independent customer reviews on www.reveiws.co.uk (5 out of 5!)

Please call to book!

To book this course we require payment in full. 

Unit 12a Factory Street, Dudley Hill, Bradford, BD4 9NW, West Yorkshire.

Tel: 01274682199

For more information please phone or fill in the enquiry form on the contact page

Courses are held every week Monday to Friday.

All Course Times are: 9.00am – 16.00pm

£700 inc vat

The 5-day intensive plumbing course is a very hands-on practical course aimed at arming you with the knowledge and understanding to confidently take on plumbing jobs around the home or start up as a plumber offering a variety of plumbing services to your local area.

The plumbing course is suitable for total beginners with no previous experience or tradespersons such as tillers, plasterers, joiners, kitchen fitters etc who wish to undertake plumbing tasks from changing taps, plumbing in a kitchen sink including a washing machine to full bathroom replacements including fitting of radiators in order to gain more work and income. In the current climate the tradesperson who can do the whole job to a customer tends to get the more jobs leaving the customer without the headache of finding multiple trades to complete a home project.

This plumbing course is aimed to give you enough skills to develop your expertise to a career in plumbing as many of our former plumbing candidates have or just to give you the confidence to take on plumbing projects around the house however small or large.

Our 5-day plumbing course will provide you with a great insight and understanding of the plumbing trade whether you are a total beginner or have some previous plumbing experience.

If you would then like to expand your plumbing skills following the 5 day intensive plumbing course we offer a second week 5 day Advanced Plumbing Course with the option of level 1 accreditation.

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the plumbing course or just give YTA a call and we will be more than happy to discuss the course in more detail.

*******PLEASE SEE OUR SPECIAL OFFERS HERE*******

Intensive Plumbing Course Content.

Monday

Working with and using 15mm and 22mm copper pipe and fixings, fitting isolation valves and pipe bending.
Using a variety of fittings and tools to produce pipework.

Tuesday

Plan and install a bathroom (bath, taps, toilet, basin and all wastes). Installation of the bathroom will be with copper pipe and fittings and the use of a pipe bender and soldering ‘end feed’ joints to create a neat customer standard job.
1st and 2nd fix installations explained and planned before bathroom installing proceeds. Bathroom will be tested up to mains pressure and should there be any leaks, they will need fixing!

Wednesday

Before the toilet is installed a full strip down and full explanation of internal cistern fittings and different types of flush mechanisms you will come across. Fault finding, diagnosis of toilet flush problems and how to repair different faults.

How to fix faults and repair valves etc. Common plumbing call out jobs explained including an pricing projects, call outs and emergency call out work including hourly rates and plumbing day rates.

Thursday

Install a small 2 radiator system (3 radiators if your skills / timeframe allows) using copper pipe and fittings and again using the pipe bender to create a professional job keeping pipework neat and hopefully leak free!

Fill radiator system up to pressure and bleed air. Check for leaks and then undergo a common fault finding and valve replacement.

Drain down techniques and heating systems explained.

Friday

Plumbing up a kitchen sink, hot and cold pipework and a tee off for washing machine / dishwasher.
Kitchen is again plumbed in using copper pipe and solder fittings including end feed tap connectors!
Then a strip down the taps and complete a tap washer replacement, tap washer reseat and o ring replacement. Servicing a tap and fault finding common repairs.
Kitchen sink wastes, traps and all the varieties available will be explained and you can choose which to fit. You will have a working kitchen sink both supply pipework and waste pipework so confidence will be really growing by this stage!
Next you will get your first job add a garden tap to your completed kitchen pipework just like a real job! Then make sure it works. We then explain how to install a shower (thermostatic bar mixer and electric shower).
We finish off with plastic push fit pipework and fittings and we will complete a small project such as a radiator, kitchen or if you really want to go for it we can re-do the bathroom in plastic pipe!

Throughout the course the instructor will be going through how to tackle problems, real life solutions, replacement parts and fault finding and repairs. Pricing jobs, business start up is also covered.

The course is aimed at you leaving on Friday afternoon and starting a plumbing job first thing Monday morning, either a tap washer replacement, change a radiator valve or install a bathroom.

Fitting of tap connectors including flexi ‘WC assembly including all internal fittings’ Fault finding and repair ‘Bathroom taps and wastes fitted and explained’.

Plumbing in a complete bathroom and water testing under pressure !!

Fitting of kitchen sink taps and waste ‘Strip down a kitchen tap, repair washer and re-test’ Plumbing in a kitchen sink with hot and cold outlets for a washing machine, then water test everything under pressure.

Fitting of radiators ‘Fault finding and repair’ Plumbing up and filling up until under full pressure ‘THEN under pressure and full of water, change a radiator and valve !!’

Some of the plumbing tools we use on the course and/or recommend can be found HERE.

Extra content covered on every YTA plumbing course.

• Tricks of the trade throughout the plumbing course
• Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full size kitchens and bathrooms.
• Marketing Techniques
• Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
• Insurance, TAX, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
• Plumbing Business Start Up
• Course progression and NVQ’s

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the plumbing course.

5 Day Plumbing Course Overview

• Plumbing with copper pipe
• Using plumbing fixings such as compression, end feed (solder) and push fit
• Plumbing in a bathroom
• Plumbing in a kitchen sink
• Plumbing in a radiator system
• Plumbing tools explained
• Plumbing Business start up
• £650 inc vat

Course price £700

YTA is the UK’s premier training centre for construction training and assessment backed up by outstanding independent customer reviews on www.reveiws.co.uk (5 out of 5!)

If you would then like to expand your plumbing skills following the 5 day intensive plumbing course we offer a second week 5 day Advanced Plumbing Course with the option of level 1 accreditation.

To book please phone or the YTA Team

YTA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT LTD

For more information please phone or fill in the enquiry form on the contact page

Courses are held every week Monday to Friday.

All Course Times are: 9.00am – 16.00pm

This link is for students who have previously been and completed the 1 day plumbing taster.

Full Day Taster Course 9am to 4pm = £165 inc vat

Spend a day at YTA on the 1 day plumbing taster course and get to grips with learning basic pipefitting skills to plumbing in a small project such as a radiator or a kitchen sink.

During the 1 day plumbing taster course you will cover the below topics:

• Use compression joints, end feed (soldering joints) and pipe bending techniques.
• Work with copper and plastic pipe
• Fit kitchen sink taps and waste
• Plumb in a kitchen sink and test up to full working pressure

The 1 day plumbing taster course can be suited to your requirements, if you would just like to ‘have a go’ at plumbing and see how you get on then we can devise a taster day. You can plumb in a kitchen sink or work with pipework and use professional tools and equipment.

Please phone for available start dates. The taster day can usually run on any day Mon – Fri.

Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the course.

Some of the plumbing tools we use on the course and/or recommend can be found HERE.