The City & Guilds Textbook: Plumbing

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About your qualification
Acknowledgements
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1 Health and safety practices and systems
	Health, safety and welfare legislation and regulation
	Recognising and responding to hazardous situations at work
	Personal protection
	Responding to accidents
	Electrical safety in the workplace
	Working safely with heat-producing equipment
	Working safely with access equipment
	Working safely in excavations and confined spaces
2 Common processes and techniques
	Using hand and power tools
	Types of pipework, bending and jointing techniques
	Preparation techniques
	Using pipe clips and pipe brackets
	Pipework installation techniques
3 Scientific principles
	Units of measurement used in the plumbing and heating industry: the SI system
	The properties of materials
	The relationship between energy, heat and power
	The principles of force and pressure, and their application in the plumbing and heating industry
	The mechanical principles in the plumbing and heating industry
	The principles of electricity in the plumbing and heating industry
4 Planning and supervision
	The role of the construction team within the plumbing and heating industry
	Information sources in the building services industry
	Communicating with others
	The responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry
	Work programmes in the plumbing and heating industry
	Risk assessments and method statements for the plumbing and heating industry
5 Cold water systems
	Sources and properties of water
	The types of water supply to dwellings
	The water treatment process and distribution of water
	Sources of information relating to cold water systems
	The water service pipework to dwellings
	Selecting cold water systems
	The system layout features of cold water systems fed from private water supplies
	The components used in boosted (pumped) cold water supply systems from private sources for single-occupancy dwellings
	The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999
	Backflow protection
	Installing cold water systems and components
	Replacing or repairing defective components: planned and unplanned maintenance
	Decommissioning of systems
6 Hot water systems
	Sources of information relating to work on hot water systems
	Hot water systems and components
	System safety and efficiency
	Prepare for the installation of systems and components
	Install and test systems and components
	Decommission systems and components
	Replace defective components
7 Central heating systems
	Understand central heating systems and their layouts
	Install central heating systems and components
	Understand the decommissioning requirements of central heating systems and their components
8 Rainwater systems
	Understand layouts of gravity rainwater systems
	Installation of gravity rainwater systems
	The maintenance and service requirements of gravity rainwater systems
	Decommission rainwater and gutter systems and components
	Perform a soundness test, and commission rainwater and gutter systems and components
9 Sanitation systems
	Sanitary pipework and appliances used in dwellings
	Install sanitary appliances and connecting pipework systems
	Service and maintenance requirements for sanitary appliances and connecting pipework systems
	The principles of grey water recycling
10 Domestic fuel systems
	Identify the types of fuels used in appliances
	Factors that affect the selection of fuels
	Sources of information for fuel supply installation
	Regulatory bodies that govern the installation of fuel systems
	Storage requirements for fuels
	Considerations that could affect the storage requirements of fuels
11 Working with electricity
	Electrical principles
	Conductors and insulators
	Resistances in series and parallel
	Protection against electric shock
	Electrical supply systems
	Protective devices
	Working on electrical systems
	Installing wiring systems
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