Weekend DIY & Home Improvement Electrical Training Course

This weekend course is designed for someone who has no knowledge or qualifications in electrical installation but wants to work safely on the electrics found in the home. Normally you would need to have your Part P building regulations, but here are areas that you can work on legally and safely that can help to improve and maintain your home or a property you are thinking of improving and selling on. There are many jobs where there is no need to call an experienced professional, we will show you on this course what you can do both legally and safely with the current Part P of the Building Regulations. This course is for anyone. It is designed for adults who want to undertake electrical DIY jobs around their home, but do not have the knowledge, experience or confidence to work safely, with current Part P Building Regulations. It isn’t common knowledge, but you can perform many electrical tasks around the home yourself, (see list below) and make those home improvements that you didn’t think you could. The tutors delivering this course will share with you their knowledge from many years experience so you can learn the necessary skills to take on these jobs safely and correctly. All candidates will receive a certificate to conform their attendance and completion of the course. It is also an option for individuals to sit an examination covering the aspects they have covered on the course, even though this course is non-accredited. This can be provided for delegates as an optional examination that can help those students who intend to progress onto other courses. However, delegates will receive a certificate accredited by Access Training. (ATW Certificate, any of the following aspects can be covered on the course)

• Calculating the size of cable for replacing existing cable
• Identifying typical faults found on domestic properties and how rectify them
• Understanding when you need to call in a professional and what work you can’t undertake
• How to use test equipment and how to employ safe working practices.
• How to go about replacing electrical fittings
• Replacing socket outlets
• Replacing switches
• Replacing ceiling roses
• Replacing like for like cables, for 1 single circuit only for example, when damaged by fire or rodent or impact
• Replacing the component boxes of existing components
• Adding light fittings and switches to an existing circuit.
• Adding socket outlets and fused spurs to an existing ring or radial circuit
• Installing or upgrading supplementary bonding
• Installing or upgrading main bonding

Guided Learning: 2 days After this course some students decide to go further and undertake the EAL Part P Domestic Installers qualification and go on to qualify to install new domestic installations. We recommend that completing both these courses as a complete package ensures that the student has the practical experience as well as theoretical knowledge of electrical work. This provides students who successfully complete both courses with a good grounding and the ability to carry our domestic installations safely and within the regulations.

Our electrical courses provide a clear progression route, helping learners to achieve the career goals they aspire to. Successful candidates can progress to higher level work and progress onto the City & Guilds Inspection & Testing (Level 3) which provides candidates with a route to becoming certified to test and inspect other people’s existing electrical installations and issue safety certificates, to a landlord for example.

• Professional Electrical Course
• Domestic Electrical Course
• Green Energy Electrical Course

Access Training is committed to the highest standards of customer focus and technical expertise, with a host of benefits including:

• Specialist, professionally qualified teaching staff with a wealth of industry experience.
• Enhanced Online Assessments, allowing students to sit exams with flexibility to fit around their speed of learning.
• 24hr online support for all student questions and queries when studying away from the training centre.

The main areas include:

• South Wales
  (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bridgend)
• South of England
  (Bristol, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon, Oxford, Reading, Slough, London)
• The Midlands
  (Birmingham, Hereford, Worcester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester)
• The South West
  (Devon, Cornwall, Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton)

Information regarding our electrical courses is available from our Course Advice Team. Please call for advice or leave your details and we’ll contact you!