When we first started on the City and Guilds Plumbing and Electrical course at Dunstable College we didn’t have any knowledge of what to do or what to expect. We were the only ladies on the course.
In the first term we learnt about the basics of electrics and how to rewire circuits and the difference in voltage power. ‘We even learnt how to change a light bulb’. Having had a taster of this part of the course our enthusiasm began to grow for the second part ‘Plumbing’. We started with the basics of Plumbing and we learnt how to solder capillary fittings and learnt about compression fittings and how to fit indirect systems. We learnt how to source and measure materials needed for the task accurately. We had to adhere to health and safety regulations, maintaining safe working practice. All the work we had done, had to be documented into a portfolio and it had to be assessed and verified both internally and externally.
The highlight of the course for us was ‘fitting a bathroom suite’ from start to finish and making sure that it worked. This task was challenging but we did it!!
It is now the end of the course and we have achieved City and Guilds Level I in Plumbing and we will be progressing onto Level 2 in September. After all the hard work we are now looking forward to relaxing for a well earned summer break before the next level. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Roy Graham and all the tutors for believing in us and encouraging us to keep going when things got difficult. We would also like to thank our Connexions Personal Adviser, Therese, for her continued support.
Who said that ‘Women couldn’t be Plumbers’? Well we guess they were wrong.
Ashleigh Lemmon and Leah Peach, aged 17.
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