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Specialist
training program for the Solid Fuel Installer and Chimney
Engineer
Ensure your work complies with the
regulations and is carried out safely |
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Sure Fire's 10th Birthday Special Offer
In April 2010 Sure Fire will have its 10th Birthday and as a celebration
it is making a special offer to those wishing to go on a HETAS training
course. Sure
Fire were one of the first companies to offer the HETAS two and
three day courses and now they are offering a limited number of
places (16) on courses in April at the original price of the first
ever courses they ran:
* 2 day
Awareness Course - Special offer price is £190.00+vat (currently
£330+vat)
* 3 day Engineers Course - Special offer price is £265.00+vat,
(currently £495+vat)
The 16 places available on the two day course are on the
21st and 22nd of April and the 16 three day places are for the course
dates 7th, 8th and 9th of April.
Sure
Fire would like to thank all its customers and suppliers for their
support over the past ten years and look forward to a continued
support in the future. |
HETAS
Approved Solid Biomass Training -
£580 + vat
The course provides background information to enable the engineer
to carry out feasibility studies, professionally advise the client,
consider fuel type and storage options as well as design systems
and installation to suit the varying site circumstances ....
more info & booking form here |
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NEW COURSES * -
Our new courses are:
Factory Made Metal Chimney Course -
£160 + vat
Bpec Unvented domestic hot water storage systems (part G3)
(£160.00 +vat)
Bpec
– Solar Course (£300.00 +vat)
Working
at Heights (£180.00 +vat)
Appliance
installation courses - Practical:
Open Fire (£199.00 +vat);Freestanding
stoves (£199.00 +vat)
Flexible stainless steel flue lining for solid fuels (£199.00
+vat)
For more information see below or download
our prospectus here |
With
the changes to the building regulations and the Health and Safety
regulations it is difficult for a company director/manager or
a self employed tradesman to keep pace with their responsibilities.
Did
you know?
Following the changes to health and safety law
it is now the companies’ responsibility to ensure they make
themselves aware of the safety regulations and follow them!
Statutory instrument 440 means the installer
must be registered with HETAS as a competent person or ensure
that building control approval is in place before any work on
solid fuel chimneys, fireplaces or appliance installation is carried
out!
All personnel working at heights must be trained
to do so before they commence work!
Approved document J of the Building Regulations requires
testing and reporting on chimneys prior to them being put into,
or brought back into, use!
In this day and age, can you afford
not to ensure the safety of yourself, your employees and your
customers?
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Sure Fire Technical Services,
as specialist consultants in solid fuel and heating, have put
together a series of training courses and services especially
for you, utilising some of the recognised experts in their field.
Each course will provide a full certificate that is recognised
by the appropriate body such as: HETAS ( Heating Equipment Testing
and Approvals scheme); NACE (National Association of Chimney Engineers);
HSE and Wöhler (CCTV equipment manufacturers).
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engineers training course |
A
majority of the courses are held centrally on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire
border just a few minutes from the M1, but, in an attempt to make
it easier for the delegates, agreements have been reached with some
of the leading solid fuel appliance manufacturers to use their training
facilities to spread the courses further afield.
TESTIMONIAL
- Yesterday my colleague
and myself completed a HETAS awareness course at Villager
Stoves in Axminster. I would like to take the opportunity
to complement your company on the course content and the way
the course was run. The tuition material was more than adequate
for the completion of the course, and will serve as very useful
reference material in future for the conduct of our company’s
business.
The course tutor, Melvyn Bull, was clearly an expert in the
field of solid fuel and proved an excellent instructor. I
am, at this time, unsure of result of the examination but
hopeful for success.
Terry Wakenshaw - Southwest Woodburners |
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DOWNLOAD OUR PROSPECTUS & APPLICATION
FORM here
(.pdf 364KB)
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Solid Fuel Competent Persons Courses |
The
following HETAS courses are all designed
and approved by HETAS and available from Sure Fire Technical
Services, either pre-arranged or specially provided for a
group or company at any location throughout the UK. The courses
will be for a maximum of 16 delegates to ensure each delegate
has the opportunity to ask questions and gain the most out
of each course, while enabling a wide range of delegate experience
and knowledge to be present on each course.
There
is a HETAS provided examination on each course and the successful
completion of this will be a major component in the delegates’
application for HETAS competent persons status under the
building regulations. |
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NEW COURSE * - Factory
Made Metal Chimney Course -
£160 + vat
This course is held in the fully independent, purpose built,
Sure Fire Training Centre ensuring that it is not biased towards
any single product and is intended to enable the delegate
to assess all products and their installation instructions
in relation to Building Regulations and the new standards.
In recent times the original British Standards on the manufacture
and installation of this type off chimney have been withdrawn
and replaced by new European Normative Standards. BS 4543
– 1990 (1996) part 2 has been replaced by BS EN 1856-1:2003
(this is regarding the manufacture and testing of the chimney)
while the British Standard on the installation of these chimneys
- BS 7566 – 1992 parts 1-4 have been replaced with the
new BS EN 15287-1:2007 Chimney – Design installation
and commissioning of chimneys - for non-roomsealed heating
appliances. These new standards change the way we consider
this type of chimney and this new course is designed to inform
the delegate of the changes, give advice on their implementation
and some practical design exercises. In the new training centre
there are chimney and chimney components that allow the illustration
of the principles as well as enable the delegate to identify
possible faults and improvements. |
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NEW COURSE * - Bpec
Unvented domestic hot water storage systems (part G3) (£160.00
+vat)
The training consists of a one-day course which covers both
training and assessments. There are two
different courses on offer, covering the Regulations in England/Wales
and Scotland, respectively.
The cost of the training materials will cover both the training
manual, the assessments and the BPEC
Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems certificate and competency
card (photo ID).
The training course is aimed at practising plumbers and heating
engineers who already have a
knowledge of the fundamental requirements of hot and cold
water systems and central heating systems,
or students who are nearing completion of a plumbing and heating
vocational qualification at Level 3.
By undertaking training in Unvested Hot Water Storage Systems,
you no longer need to contact your
local Building Control Officer to approve your work. You will
be recognised as being competent to
design, install, service and maintain Unvested Systems and
can therefore self-certify your work. |
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NEW COURSE * - Bpec –
Solar Course (£300.00 +vat)
The BPEC course has been developed in conjunction with the
Solar Trade Association (STA), the UK trade
association for solar water heating systems. The course is
aimed at already qualified or experienced
domestic heating engineers and plumbers. The course usually
takes approximately 2-3 days to complete including theory,
practical and assessment. The course provides the knowledge
on how to install a solar
domestic hot water system. The course takes into consideration
the majority of systems installed in the UK investigating
the different system configurations, components and operating
characteristics. The course targets aspects which are particular
to solar domestic hot water systems giving operatives the
confidence to select, install and maintain systems. The course
is not intended for those without any experience of heating
or plumbing installation experience. |
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NEW COURSE * - Working
at Heights (£180.00 +vat)
Since May 2005 any one that works of ground must have a ticket
to say they have been trained to do so and can use all the
equipment they need safely. With this in Mind Sure Fire Technical
Services Ltd have teamed up with Ability International (a
major supplier of ladder, scaffold and harnesses etc. to provide
a full training course that is geared to those engineers who
work at heights.
The course covers: Ladders and steps; Tower scaffold; Roof
access platforms; Specialist chimney access platforms; Fall
arrest equipment.
The company provide a full range of equipment to see and use
on the day and with the new facilities, which includes a full
8m eaves height, this can all be done indoors. |
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NEW COURSES * - Appliance
installation courses - Practical.
These courses are held in the fully independent, purpose built,
Sure Fire Training Centre ensuring that it is not biased towards
any single product and is intended to enable the delegate
to gain experience in a safe and supervised environment before
going into the field and fitting appliances in some ones house.
It is not possible to ensure all “in the field situations”
are covered but with experienced supervisors on site, additional
information can be given during the day. Each course will
include a preliminary discussion of the aims and objectives
of the course, the regulations that apply to the work being
undertaken, the testing of the flues and on the health and
safety implications of the work. It has been agreed with HETAS
that any installation carried out on this course can be used
to form a part of the delegates’ portfolio for their
HETAS registration (a certificate of completion will be issued
to enable proof to be provided to HETAS) |
Open
Fire (£199.00 +vat)
In this instance, the installation of a British Standard fire
back and fire surround is carried out in one of the two chimneys
and fireplace recess that have been constructed in the training
centre. This not only gets the delegate used to handling the
materials and equipment but also enables them to gain insight
into the mixes used and the work involved The work will be
carried out in no more than paired teams (though up to four
delegates can be on each course. Additional discussions will
take place regarding the other types of open fires on the
market to extend the delegates knowledge and experience. |
Freestanding
stoves (£199.00 +vat)
There are a number of stoves on site, any of which can be
installed either top out let or rear outlet, and can be fitted
into one of the two chimneys built on site with the intension
of assessing the chimney suitability for any of the appliances
chosen to fit.
NOTE: This course does not cover the lining of flues with
flexiblestainless steel liners, as this is a separate course. |
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NEW COURSE * - Flexible
stainless steel flue lining for solid fuels (£199.00
+vat)
This is the first time in the UK that a practical course on
the subject will include the actual installation
of the flue lining into a brick chimney. This course will
include looking at varying makes of flue liner and their installation
instructions to assess the variations that exist. The delegates
will install a 5 m length of lining into a brick chimney that
has been constructed with a corbelled offset. The front of
the chimney has been left exposed to enable the installer
to see if any damage has been done during the installation
and the final lining will be tested with a pressure tester
to ensure its full compliance. It has been agreed with HETAS
that any installation carried out on this course can be used
to form a part of the delegates’ portfolio for their
HETAS registration (a certificate of completion will be issued
to enable proof to be provided to HETAS) |
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HETAS Approved Solid Biomass Training
- £580 + vat
The
course provides background information to enable the engineer to
carry out feasibility studies, professionally advise the client,
consider fuel type and storage options as well as design systems
and installation to suit the varying site circumstances
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more info & booking form here |
HETAS
Awareness - £330.00 + vat (Special
offer price on 21-22 April 2010 - £190.00+vat)
This includes the full two-day awareness course, all training manuals,
HETAS- Guide to approved solid fuel products and service and examination
and certification fees. This Course has been recognised by the industry
and The Health & Safety Executive as the standard against which
competency for the installation of none boiler models of solid fuel
appliances is to be judged. This qualification is the one required
by HETAS to register for the categories of (2) dry systems, (3)
Service and maintenance and (4) Chimney relining (twin wall flexible
only. This is also a good background qualification for those working
in showrooms or surveying for quotations. |
HETAS
Heating Engineers - £495.00 + vat (Special
offer price on 7-8-9 April 2010 - £265.00 +vat)
This
is the complete three-day course that includes the awareness course
and the engineers supplement all in the one attendance. This has
the advantage of taking only one examination as well as achieving
the higher level of qualification all on the one occasion. This
Qualification is the one required by HETAS to register for the
categories (1) Full systems (the installation of solid fuel central
heating systems and boiler model appliances) as well as categories
2, 3 and 4 as above. |
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Heating Engineers Supplement - £165.00 + vat This
is an additional day for those who have the Awareness Course to
enable the delegate to upgrades this to the Heating Engineers qualification.
This day include the special requirements of heating systems and
appliance choice for solid fuel heating as well as commissioning
the appliance and fault diagnosis. All the HETAS courses run by
Sure Fire Technical Services have Mick Waumsley as the course director,
Mick is a HETAS approved consultant and Training Director as well
as one of the HETAS inspectors. |
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| Wöhler
Chimney Surveying, Testing & CCTV Course -
£160.00 + vat |
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Wöhler
is Germanys No1 producer of chimney testing, surveying and
maintenance equipment and it is now available in the UK. Mick
Waumsley is a Director of Wöhler UK and this course has
been put together for those who use this or any other CCTV
equipment to survey chimneys or who are considering adding
this to the services they offer. The course covers all types
of surveying from a simple visual examination through to full
certification testing and covers all the issues from insurance
to equipment. It gives the opportunity to use the equipment
in an actual chimney and actually carry out the tests. The
delegate will be asked to study some CCTV tapes of actual
chimneys and identify the faults (or lack of them) and decide
weather they would pass or fail the chimney based on what
they see. This is intended as a practical course but in a
clean and warm environment! |
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Additional
Courses
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us for more information) |
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Installation of prefabricated chimney
systems for solid fuel appliances, including stainless
steel flues and chimney block systems.
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NACE Cast-in-Situ Code of Practice Awareness
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Training slide / Example of good practice in the reports of cooker
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Training
slide / Example of good practice in the reports of stove inspections.
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