Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 3
EAL Level 3 Diploma in Plumbing and Heating
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits54
- Guided learning468 hours
- Units in this qualification7
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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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.
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 apply domestic sanitation system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of sanitation system and their layout requirements
- Know the design techniques for sanitation and rainwater systems
- Apply design techniques for sanitation and rainwater systems
- Understand the installation requirements of sanitation system components
- Know the fault diagnosis and rectification procedures for sanitary pipework systems and components
- Diagnose and rectify faults in sanitary pipework systems and components
- Know the commissioning requirements of sanitary pipework systems and components
- Commission sanitary pipework systems and comp
Understand core gas safety principles for natural gas within domestic building services engineeringReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the gas legislation that applies to the domestic mechanical services industry
- Know how domestic NG and LPG supplies are metreed, regulated and controlled
- Take pressure readings in domestic gas systems and check metre regulators
- Know the operating principles of appliance gas safety devices and controls
- Install NG and LPG gas pipework and fittings
- Test for tightness of a gas pipework system and purge the system
- Know the characteristics, combustion process and the types of burners used with natural gas and LPG
- Know the ventilation requirements of ga
Understand how to apply environmental protection measures within Building Services EngineeringReal 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 methods of reducing waste and conserving energy while working in the building services industry
Understand how to organise resources within BSEReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry
- Oversee building services work
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the building services industry
- Plan work programmes for work tasks in the building services industry
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.
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 Plumbing and Heating
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Understand and apply domestic central heating system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques
- Understand and apply domestic cold water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques
- Understand and apply domestic hot water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques
- Understand and apply domestic sanitation system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques
- Understand core gas safety principles for natural gas within domestic building services engineering
- Understand how to apply environmental protection measures within Building Services Engineering
and 1 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.