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Subject Topic: 17 th edition wiring
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23/2/2015 at 2:13pm
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Can any electricians help. My husband is looking in to doing I wiring course. I've looked online to see if they do mock exams , just to practise before making a commitment . local college does a night course but it's not 17 th. Thank you for any replies.


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The 17th Edition course is to keep qualified electricians up to date with the latest regulations, it's not a basic wiring course.


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Yep, my Son was looking into becoming an electrician a couple of years back, at 28 then was not eligible for any of the apprenticeship schemes.

Unfortunately he was contacted by one of the scam merchant's, that promise the earth, but deliver nothing.

One of those were you stay in your current dead end job, with, with a view to becoming an electrician via online courses.

All it turned out to be, was a scheme to land the applicant with a big fat loan, at extreme interests rates.

Luckily, Son walked away from it all, without getting burned.

You have to be so careful these days, with this kind of stuff.


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As far as I'm aware the proper course is 3 years with the third year completed on the job.

There are other courses which will give you a bit of paper and tell you are an electrician but not much cop if you walk on a building site. The best thing to do is decide where he wants to work after getting a qualification then ring around various electrician jobs that are advertised and see what they want.

If he did a short course and worked for himself he could in theory trade but would lack a lot of knowledge a 3 year course person would have.

I have a mate who has done the short course and 2 others who have the 3 year C&G and I know who I trust working on my house.

Go on the ultimate handyman forums for advice from time honoured sparks.



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Thank you all. Some usefully information that neither of us knew. We did see the financed ones. Glad we avoided those.



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