1st year apprentice here. I'm looking for instructional videos and other material to try to improve my progress in my job. I'm adept at waters and installing fixtures. I have recently started doing pvc for the 2 plumbers I work for. "2 separate companies" ones a filler when the others slow. I would say the thing I would like to improve on is wet venting and venting code going up and out the roof. I reside in south dakota. I just want to expand my overall knowledge. Also. Any general tips or advice for work would be awesome. We run pex us wirsbo fittings. I want to hear experiences that you guys wish you knew before hand or things that would have saved you Grief if known before hand. Thanks.
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Does you state offer code classes, in mass there are state run classes and other companies that run state approved classes with hands on classes also,does you state have a code book or is it the UPC, inass we have our own state code,you should also be able to ask questions to the people you work with, they should be guiding you
I will find that out. I just want to have something to do in my free time.
Some of the schools here in mass are in person 4 nites a week get a code book and just start reading and underlining I used to have a code book on the job and one at home, the code book I have has a section just for diagrams for anything plumbing related
Buy a current code book and learn it from front to back. When you think you know it, read it 50 more times.
Simple concept, but so few actually will put in the time.
The fastest way, is to literally read the current code book, and illustrations of the installation of it. And when you're working, cite the code to start getting a visual of what it properly looks like. Wet venting, You need to learn the code of it, and see some illustrations. Majority of you knowing will come from the reading.
And reReading, and reading. It actually never ends the reading.
I wish I would've known before hand to read the code book after a journeyman tells me this is the correct way, we must listen as an apprentice, but VERIFY on your time!
What good is 20 years experience, if a person was doing what the last journeyman taught him incorrectly!
