Heating engineers
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I'm being anal but....Heating engineer = Thermodynamicist
What you want is a plumber that specialises in boilers
I'll be even more anal and say that, generally speaking, a plumber won't have a Corgi registration and thus won't deal with boilers.
What you want is a Corgi registered central heating engineer or a "gas fitter"
I'll be even more anal and say that, generally speaking, a plumber won't have a Corgi registration and thus won't deal with boilers.
What you want is a Corgi registered central heating engineer or a "gas fitter"
Make that a corgi registered central heating installer, he is no more an engineer than the bt man up a pole outside my house. Please don't insult those of us who stayed in education past the age of 16!
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Thank god some people on this forum realise what the word engineer actually means
Thank god some people on this forum realise what the word engineer actually means
Agreed, it ****** me off that all sort of professions get engineer tagged on the end...the man who comes round to fit my sky is not a ****ing engineer!!
I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
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I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
No it doesnt.The ability to use a calculator does not make you a 'engineer'.
If you designed the boiler or the electronics et all, then you would be an engineer.
I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
I done all the same stuff and i forgot most of the calculations. haha
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I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
You are joking right?
I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
Argh. No.
he used a smiley at the end of his post. i doubt hes really looking for an arguement.
People say and advertise for heating engineers, yes i know.. its not engineering. no doubt the people who are complaining about this mis-use of the word are university engineering geeks
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Um no, Technician at best imo.I spent years training for my job and I've got a shed load of qualifications for it. Planning a heating job, including doing all the calculations required to gain the correct water flow rates, gas flow rates, gas pressures etc and then having the skill to install it more than qualifies me as an engineer thank you very much
I think "technician" is the word he's looking for.
edit: yeah I'm a "university engineering geek". Mock me.
I think "technician" is the word he's looking for.
edit: yeah I'm a "university engineering geek". Mock me.
No need to mock you matey. but student engineer was the instant impression i got
theres a lot of theory and technical aspects regarding domestic and commercial gas work. Pipe sizing, flow rates, heat input/output, burner pressures, fluing etc.
I understand its not what "real" engineers would be impressed by, but it does require studying to become good.
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No need to mock you matey. but student engineer was the instant impression i got
theres a lot of theory and technical aspects regarding domestic and commercial gas work. Pipe sizing, flow rates, heat input/output, burner pressures, fluing etc.
I understand its not what "real" engineers would be impressed by, but it does require studying to become good.
More to the point, do you think this technical role deserves the title of engineer?
Because if you do, you really have no idea what engineering is