Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 3
EAL Level 3 Diploma In Gas Utilisation Installation and Maintenance: Cookers, Tumble Dryers, Leisure, Domestic Space Heating, Water Heating and Wet Central Heating (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits275
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Install and Maintain domestic heating systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare sites for the installation of domestic heating and hot water systems and components in the workplace
- Install domestic heating and hot water systems and components in the workplace
- Soundness test domestic heating and hot water systems and components in the workplace
- Decommission domestic heating and hot water systems in the workplace
- Maintain domestic heating and hot water components in the workplace
Install domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Design gas systems for installing domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- Plan and prepare work activities for installing domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- De-commission domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- Install, exchange, and remove domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers, and leisure appliances
- Pre-commission and Commission domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, installation and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affec
Install domestic gas space heating appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Design gas systems for installing domestic gas space heating appliances
- Plan and prepare work activities for installing domestic gas space heating appliances
- De-commission domestic gas space heating appliances
- Install, exchange, and remove domestic gas space heating appliances
- Pre-commission and Commission domestic gas space heating appliances
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, installation and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affect the de-commissioning, installation and commissioning process
- Install domestic gas space heating applian
Install domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Design gas systems for installing domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Plan and prepare work activities for installing domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- De-commission domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Install, exchange, and remove domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Pre-commission and Commission domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, installation and commissioning work
- Resolve problems whi
Install, commission and de-commission gas pipework up to 35mm 1¼ diameter in domestic and small commercial premisesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Design gas systems for installing gas pipework
- Plan and prepare work activities for installing domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- De-commission domestic gas pipework to industry standards
- Install, exchange, and remove gas pipework to industry standards
- Pre-commission and Commission gas pipework to industry standards
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, installation and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affect the de-commissioning, installation and commissioning process
- Install, commission and de-commission gas pipe
Install, commission, service and maintain domestic heating systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Select domestic heating and hot water systems and components for application in the workplace
- Prepare work sites for the installation of domestic heating and hot water systems and components in the workplace
- Install domestic heating and hot water systems and components in the workplace
- Commission domestic heating and hot water systems in the workplace
- Diagnose faults in domestic heating and hot water components in the workplace
- Rectify faults in domestic heating and hot water components in the workplace
Maintain domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare work activities for maintaining domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- De-commission domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances to industry standards
- Maintain domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers, and leisure appliances to industry standards
- Pre-commission and Commission domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances to industry standards
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, maintenance and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affect the de-commissioning, maintenance and commissio
Maintain domestic gas space heating appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare work activities for maintaining domestic gas fires and wall heaters
- De-commission domestic gas fires and wall heaters to industry standards
- Maintain domestic gas fires and wall heaters appliances to industry standards
- Pre-commission and Commission domestic gas fires and wall heaters to industry standards
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, maintenance and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affect the de-commissioning, maintenance and commissioning process
- Maintain domestic gas space heating appliances
Maintain gas water heating and wet central heating appliancesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare work activities for maintaining water heating and wet central heating appliances
- De-commission water heating and wet central heating appliances to industry standards
- Maintain domestic water heating and wet central heating appliances to industry standards
- Pre-commission and Commission water heating and wet central heating appliances to industry standards
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, maintenance and commissioning work
- Resolve problems which could affect the de-commissioning, maintenance and commissioning process
- Maintain water hea
Specific Core Installation & MaintenanceReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the use of common tools used in the gas utilisation industry
- Demonstrate that gas safety controls are operating correctly and explain the actions required when unsafe or ineffective operation is found
- Know the construction and operation of chimneys used for domestic gas appliances
- Demonstrate how to carry out chimney performance checks
- Identify and complete the correct notices, forms and labels used in domestic gas utilisation
- Demonstrate how to work correctly and safely with electrical systems and components used in domestic gas utilisation
- Demonstrate the correct use of co
Tightness test, purge, commission and de-commission gas pipework up to 35mm 1¼ diameter in small natural gas installations.Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare work activities for tightness testing and direct purging
- De-commission gas systems and components to industry standards
- Tightness testing and direct purging of gas systems and components
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out de-commissioning, tightness testing and direct purging
- Resolve problems which could affect de-commissioning, tightness testing and direct purging
- Understand how to tightness test, purge, commission and de-commission gas pipework up to 35mm 1¼ diametre in small natural gas installations
Understand and apply domestic central heating system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of central heating system and their layout requirements
- Know the design techniques for central heating systems
- Apply design techniques for central heating systems
- Know the installation requirements of central heating systems and components
- Install central heating systems and components
- Know the fault diagnosis and rectification procedures for central heating systems and components
- Diagnose and rectify faults in central heating systems and components
- Know the commissioning requirements of central heating systems and components
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Understand and apply domestic cold water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation relating to the installation and maintenance of cold water supplied for domestic purposes
- Know the types of cold water system layout used in multi-storey dwellings
- Know the types of cold water system layout used with single occupancy dwellings fed by private water supplies
- Know the requirements for backflow protection in plumbing systems
- Know the uses of specialist components in cold water systems
- Know the design techniques for cold water systems
- Apply design techniques for cold water systems
- Know the fault diagnosis and rectification procedures for cold
Understand and apply domestic hot water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of hot water system and their layout requirements
- Know the uses of specialist components in hot water systems
- Know the design techniques for hot water systems
- Apply design techniques for hot water systems
- Know the installation requirements of hot water systems and components
- Install hot water systems and components
- Know the fault diagnosis and rectification procedures for hot water systems and components
- Diagnose and rectify faults in hot water systems and components
- Know the commissioning requirements of hot water systems and components
Understand and carry out electrical work on domestic plumbing and heating systems and componentsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the electrical standards that apply to the mechanical services industry
- Know the principles of electricity supply to dwellings
- Know the layout features of electrical circuits in dwellings
- Understand the electrical industry safe isolation procedure
- Carry out the electrical industry safe isolation procedure
- Know the site preparation techniques for the electrical connection of mechanical services components in dwellings
- Apply site preparation techniques for the electrical connection of mechanical services components in dwellings
- Understand the installation and co
Water Compulsory Core UnitReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the energy conservation legislation that applies to the building services industry
- Know the applications of energy sources used in the building services industry
- Know the importance of energy conservation when commissioning building services systems
- Know the methods of reducing waste and conserving energy while working in the building services industry
- Safely dispose of materials used in the building services industry
- Know the methods of conserving and reducing wastage of water within the building services industry
- Know the principles of plumbing science and how to app
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Carry out domestic gas heating and hot water system design
- Carry out work on unvented hot water storage operations
- Commission new and existing gas systems, installations and components in industrial properties
- De-commission gas systems, installations and components in commercial properties and leisure accommodation
- De-commission gas systems, installations and components in industrial properties
- Design domestic gas systems for the installation of appliances or components
- Electrical Fault Finding on Domestic Gas Appliances
- Install Gas Water Heating and Wet Central Heating Appliances Legacy
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EAL Level 3 Diploma In Gas Utilisation Installation and Maintenance: Cookers, Tumble Dryers, Leisure, Domestic Space Heating, Water Heating and Wet Central Heating (QCF)
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Install and Maintain domestic heating systems
- Install domestic gas cookers, tumble dryers and leisure appliances
- Install domestic gas space heating appliances
- Install domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Install, commission and de-commission gas pipework up to 35mm 1¼ diameter in domestic and small commercial premises
- Install, commission, service and maintain domestic heating systems
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.