EAL
Level 3
QN: 603/4028/9
Curriculum Active
EAL Level 3 Diploma in Plumbing and Domestic Heating
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by EAL. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2799 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
EAL
Syllabus Units
22 Units
Guided Hours
2799 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Air Source Heat Pump Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Health and safety risks and legislation associated with air source heat pump systems.2. Different types of air source heat pump systems
- Design air source heat pump systems
- Install air source heat pump systems
- Service and maintenance of air source heat pump systems
- Carry out fault diagnosis and rectification of defects and malfunctions on air source heat pump systems
- Perform a test
- commission and handover of air source heat pump systems
2
Central Heating Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Install central heating systems
- commission central heating systems
- Size and select central heating systems and components for dwellings for dwellings
- Perform a soundness test and commission central heating systems and components
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures on central heating systems
- Carry out service and maintenance of central heating systems
3
Cold Water Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand cold water supply route to dwellings
- Install cold water systems
- commission cold water systems
- Size and select cold water systems and components for dwellings
- Perform a soundness test and commission cold water systems and components
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures on cold water systems
- Carry out service and maintenance of cold water systems
4
Common Processes and Techniques
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Use hand and power tools in domestic plumbing and heating work
- Know types of domestic plumbing and heating pipe
- work and their jointing principles
- Understand site preparation techniques for plumbing and heating work
- Use clips and brackets to support domestic plumbing and heating pipe
- work and components
- Install domestic plumbing and heating pipe
5
Core principles of oil fuel systems for dwellings (safety and efficiency)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the health and safety risks and safe systems of work associated with oil storage, appliances and heating systems installation work
- Demonstrate the procedure to be followed in the case of oil spills
- Know the oil supply legislation, regulations and guidance
- Understand actual and potential risks relating to oil tanks and associated pipe
- Select domestic oil storage tanks and associated fittings to meet installation requirements
- Know the requirements for the installation of non domestic oil storage tanks
- Install oil storage tanks
- Install oil supply pipelines
- Test oil pipe
- work for soundness
- Diagnose and rectify faults for oil supply systems
- Know how to Safely de
- commission oil storage tanks
6
Domestic Fuel Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand factors affecting fuel selection.2.
- Know combustion processes of fuel supply systems
- Know principles of chimney/ flue systems
7
Electrical Work and the Control of Plumbing and Domestic Heating Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Perform pre-installation activity prior to undertaking electrical work on plumbing and domestic heating systems
- Apply industry standard safe isolation procedures
- Carry out the safe installation, testing and decommissioning of electrical systems
- Carry out the identification of faults and safe repair of electrical work
8
Environmental Technology Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the basic operating principles of micro- renewable energy and water conservation technologies.2.
- Understand requirements to install micro-renewable energy and water conservation systems to existing systems
9
Health and safety systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know health and safety legislation that applies to the building services industry
- Understand hazardous situations working in the building services industry
- Apply personal protection measures
- Understand how to respond to accidents
- Apply procedures for electrical safety
- Understand how work safely with heat producing equipment
- Safely use access equipment
- Understand working safety in excavations and confined spaces
10
Hot Water Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Install hot water systems
- commission hot water systems
- Size and select hot water systems and components for dwellings
- Perform a soundness test and commission hot water systems and components
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures on hot water systems
- Carry out service and maintenance of hot water systems
11
Install and maintain gas water heating and wet central heating appliances
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the uses of gas water heating and wet central heating appliances in dwellings.2.
- Know the types of gas water heating and wet central heating appliances and their layout requirements.3.
- Plan gas systems for installing domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Prepare work activities for installing, maintainingdomestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances.5.
- Know how to install gas pipe
- work in domestic and small commercial premises
- Install, exchange, and remove gas pipe
- work to industry standards
- Tightness testing and direct purging of gas systems and components
- Install domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
- Maintain domestic water heating and wet central heating appliances
- Diagnose and rectify faults on domestic water heating and wet central heating appliances
- Commission domestic gas water heaters and wet central heating appliances
12
Install, commission, maintain and service oil systems and appliances in the work place
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the combustion process and the types of burners used in oil fired appliances
- Know ventilation requirements of oil fired appliances
- Know the standards of chimneys and flue systems to be used with oil fired appliances
- Test oil fired appliance flue systems for effective operation
- Know how to identify and respond to unsafe situations relating to oil systems and appliances
- Know the types of pressure jet oil fired appliances
- Know condensate disposal requirements of condensing oil fired appliances
- Know energy efficiency legislation applicable to pressure jet oil fired appliances
- Size and select pressure jet oil fired appliances to meet customers’ needs
- Install pressure jet oil fired appliances
- Commission pressure jet oil fired appliances
- Carry out service and maintenance of pressure jet oil fired systems and appliances
- Carry out fault diagnosis of pressure jet oil fired appliances
13
Install, commission, service and maintain domestic plumbing and heating systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Apply Health and Safety and welfare in the workplace
- Prepare for the installation of plumbing and heating systems and components
- Install plumbing and heating systems and components in the workplace
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures
- Commission plumbing and heating systems in the workplace
14
Plan, install, commission, service and maintain solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know types of solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances and their operating principles
- Know the energy efficiency legislation applicable to solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion
- Select solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances to meet customers’ needs
- Install solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances
- Commission solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances
- Carry out service, fault diagnosis and maintenance of solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances
15
Planning and Supervision
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the role of the construction team within the plumbing and heating industry
- Understand information sources in the building services industry
- Know how to communicate with others
- Understand responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the plumbing and heating industry
- Produce a work programme for tasks in the plumbing and heating industry
16
Rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Rainwater harvesting and greywater re
- Install rainwater harvesting and greywater re
- use system components
- commission and handover rainwater harvesting and greywater re
- Carry out fault diagnosis, rectification and maintenance on rainwater harvesting and greywater re
17
Rainwater Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Install rainwater systems
- commission rainwater systems
- Size and select rainwater systems and components for dwellings for dwellings
- Perform a soundness test and commission rainwater systems
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures on rainwater systems
18
Safety principles (solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion legislation that applies to work in dwellings
- Understand the types of solid fuels and the factors affecting fuel selection
- Understand the factors that affect the selection of solid fuel appliances
- Know the combustion process and the principles of safe combustion of solid fuels
- Apply ventilation requirements of solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances installed in dwellings
- Understand standards of chimneys and flue systems to be used with solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances in dwellings
- Understand methods of diagnosing problems with flue/chimney performance
- Understand the requirements for hearths and fireplace surrounds to solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances
- Understand how to test solid mineral fuel and biomass combustion appliances and associated flue systems in dwellings for effective operation
- Understand how to identify and respond to unsafe situations relating to flue systems and appliances in dwellings
19
Sanitation Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Install sanitary appliances and pipe
- work systems
- commission sanitary appliances, pipe
- work systems and components
- Size and select sanitary appliances pipe
- work systems and components for dwellings
- Perform a soundness test and commission sanitary appliances, pipe
- Perform fault diagnosis and rectification procedures on sanitary appliances and pipe
- Carry out service and maintenance of sanitary appliances and pipe
20
Scientific Principles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand units of measurement used in the plumbing and heating industry
- Understand properties of materials
- Understand the relationship between energy, heat and power
- Understand principles of force and pressure and their application in the plumbing and heating industry
- Understand mechanical principles in the plumbing and heating industry
- Understand principles of electricity in the plumbing and heating industry
21
Solar Thermal Hot Water Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Health and safety and relevant legislation, regulations and standards
- Fundamental design principles for solar thermal hot water systems
- Install solar thermal hot water systems
- commission and handover of solar thermal hot water systems
- Service and maintain, and diagnose and rectify faults of, a solar thermal hot water installation
22
Specific Domestic Core Safety for Natural Gas
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the natural gas supply net
- work and LPG supplies.2.
- Know the operation pressure regulators
- Know the characteristics, combustion process with natural gas
- Know the types of burners used with natural gas
- Know how to install gas pipe
- work in domestic and small commercial premises
- Know how domestic Natural Gas supplies are metered, regulated and controlled
- Know how take pressure readings and gas rates in domestic gas systems and check meter regulators
- Tightness test and purge gas pipe
- work in small natural gas installations
- Know how to re-establish gas supplies and relight appliances
- Know industry specific legislation and standards
- Demonstrate that gas safety controls are operating correctly and the actions required when unsafe or ineffective operation is found
- Know the ventilation requirements of gas appliances installed in dwellings
- Know the standards of chimneys and flue systems to be used with gas appliances
- Carry out chimney performance checks
- Use the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedures
- Know the gas emergency actions, responsibilities and procedures relevant to the industry
- Use of combustion and atmosphere sampling analysers
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/4028/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- EAL
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Feb 2019
- Operational End
- Jun 2026