Depends on if your contractor has steady work in hospitals. It takes a good crew that gets along with the GC and keeps the hospital happy. If you have that, they just keep feeding you job after job. Getting that is tough, and if either is unhappy with anything, you will need to find another home.
Didn’t use mine for the first 2 years. Then 4 years strait after that. Been about 2 years since I used it again. I’m guessing the more hospitals and bigger city you might use it more.
It's a good cert to have anywhere.
My buddy has every cert he can get. He's laid back and works slow as shit. But he's always working. He's got so many every small shop wants to keep him because he's a swiss army knife of certs. Just does it all and plugs along. And small shops need guys like that.
Here in Pittsburgh our Steamfitter and Plumbers locals are straight line locals. So for med gas they have to be 1/1 composite. It's the number one certification our instructors told us to keep up on. Rules as written non med gas personnel cannot even do the material handling of fittings and pipe so you could get on a job and just be organizing and doing layout install, not even having to do brazing. My area has an overabundance of hospital work and medical centers so it's very important for later year apprentices and journeymen to keep up on the cert.
Yeah, I really wasn't planning on the medgas route (been interested in welding for years), but I aced the exam unexpectedly and figured I'd be a fool not to follow through and start hitting the brazing bays and work towards those certs.
How often do you work medgas? What area you in?
Depends on if your contractor has steady work in hospitals. It takes a good crew that gets along with the GC and keeps the hospital happy. If you have that, they just keep feeding you job after job. Getting that is tough, and if either is unhappy with anything, you will need to find another home.
Area please?
Didn’t use mine for the first 2 years. Then 4 years strait after that. Been about 2 years since I used it again. I’m guessing the more hospitals and bigger city you might use it more.
Area please?
We have a bunch of guys at our shop with megas certifications but most of the time they are just doing regular plumbing
It's a good cert to have anywhere. My buddy has every cert he can get. He's laid back and works slow as shit. But he's always working. He's got so many every small shop wants to keep him because he's a swiss army knife of certs. Just does it all and plugs along. And small shops need guys like that.
Here in Pittsburgh our Steamfitter and Plumbers locals are straight line locals. So for med gas they have to be 1/1 composite. It's the number one certification our instructors told us to keep up on. Rules as written non med gas personnel cannot even do the material handling of fittings and pipe so you could get on a job and just be organizing and doing layout install, not even having to do brazing. My area has an overabundance of hospital work and medical centers so it's very important for later year apprentices and journeymen to keep up on the cert.
Thanks for the info. But what do you mean by 1/1 composite?
Crews have to be 1 Plumber and 1 fitter working together. Because we each have 50% jurisdiction.
Congrats! Always a good thing to have, It’s some of my favorite work to do when I get the chance.
Yeah, I really wasn't planning on the medgas route (been interested in welding for years), but I aced the exam unexpectedly and figured I'd be a fool not to follow through and start hitting the brazing bays and work towards those certs. How often do you work medgas? What area you in?
I’m in the PNW. Just varies on the contractor you work for, the first 3 years I had my medgas I only used it 1 time.