Plumbing
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Syllabus
What you’ll cover in Plumbing.
The complete topic outline G3N teaches, mapped to the CTVET curriculum.
Form 1 (Grade 10)
22 topicsIntroduction to Gas Supply
- Demonstrate knowledge in purging and testing
- (a) Explain the term purging
- (b) Explain the process of purging gas pipeline
- (c) State the importance of purging
- (d) State the process of testing gas pipeline for soundness
- Range:
- The range is fully expressed in the PCs (a) – (d)
- Demonstrate skill in laying gas supply pipe
- (a) Interpret drawing
- (b) Lay pipes
- (c) Support pipes
- (d) Clean working environment
- (e) Test for soundness
Introduction to gas supply
- Demonstrates knowledge of the core concepts in gas; Liquefied
- a) Explain the sources of gas
- b) Explain the methods of producing LPG and Natural gas
- c) State the characteristics of LPG and Natural gas
- d) Outline safety precautions in storage of gas
- Demonstrate knowledge in Gas supply installations
- a) State the principles of gas installation
- b) identify gas installations components
- c) State the functions of the components used in gas pipelines installation
- d) State the materials used in gas supply
Sanitary Appliances 1
- Demonstrate knowledge in water closet
- • State types of water closets
- a) Identify types of water closet
- b) State the operational differences between water closets
- (d) State the designs of water closet
- (e) State the advantages and disadvantages of wash down water closet
- (f) State the advantage and disadvantages of siphonic water closet
Introduction to sanitary appliances
- Demonstrate knowledge in the materials used for sanitary appliances
- a) State the materials used for sanitary appliances
- b) Identify the materials used for sanitary appliance
- c) Explain the properties of materials used for sanitary appliances
- d) State how sanitary appliance are maintained
- Demonstrate skill in the installation of close couple water closet
- a) Interpret working drawing
- b) Install close couple water closet
- c) Clean the working environment
- d) Test for leakage
Introduction to Sanitary Appliance
Sanitary appliances 1
- Demonstrate knowledge in BIDET
- a) Explain bidet
- b) State types of bidet
- c) State the advantages of over rim over the submersible type
- d) State the materials use for bidet
- Demonstrate skill in the installation of bidet
- (a) Interpret working drawings
- (b) Fix BIDET
- (c) Test BIDET
- (d) Clean working environment
- (e) Adhere to safe practices
Sanitary Appliance 1
Mortar and concrete
- Demonstrate knowledge in preparation of mortar
- a) Explain Mortar
- b) State tools used for mortar preparation
- c) State the materials for mortar preparation
- d) State cement sand ratio
- Demonstrate knowledge in concrete mixing
- a) Explain concrete
- b) State the aggregates of concrete
- c) State ratios for plain concrete
- Demonstrate skill in patching
- (a) Select tools for mixing mortar
- (b) Select materials for mixing mortar
- (c) Batch sand and cement
- (d) Mix mortar
- (e) Patch the chiseled wall
Mortar and Concrete
Sanitary Appliances 3
- Demonstrate knowledge in Basin
- a) Explain types of basin
- b) Identify types of basin
- c) State the waste fitting and supply
- (d) State the standard fixing height of basin
- (e) State the materials used for basins
Sanitary appliances 3
- Demonstrate knowledge in Kitchen sink
- a) State the types of Kitchen sink
- b) Identify the types of Kitchen sink
- c) State the supply and waste fitting sizes
- d) State the standard fixing height of kitchen sink
- e) State the materials used for kitchen sink
- Demonstrate knowledge in bath tub
- (a) State the types of bath tub
- (b) Identify types of bath tub
- (c) State the waste and supply fitting sizes
- (d) State materials used for bath
- Demonstrate skill in fixing bath tub
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Fix bath tub
- (c) Test the appliance for leakage
- (d) Clean working environment
Sanitary Appliance 3
Sanitary Pipe work
- Demonstrate knowledge in sanitary pipe work
- a) Explain sanitary pipe work
- b) State terms used in sanitary pipe work
- c) State the materials used for sanitary pipe work
- d) State joints used in sanitary pipe work
Sanitary pipe work
- Demonstrate knowledge in sanitary pipe work system
- a) Explain sanitary pipe systems
- b) State the types of sanitary pipe systems
- c) Explain two pipe system
- d) State the advantages and disadvantages of two pipe system
- e) State the design requirements of two pipe system
- Demonstrate skills in the installation of two pipe system
- (a) Interpret working drawings
- (b) Install two pipe system
- (c ) Support the pipes
- (d ) Test pipes for leakage
- (e ) Clean working environment
Introduction to Gas Welding
- Demonstrate knowledge in gas welding
- a) Explain gas welding
- b) State the uses of gas welding
- c) State the process of oxygen production
- d) State the process of acetylene production
- e) State the precautions in setting up gas welding
Introduction to gas welding
- Demonstrate knowledge in gas welding equipment
- a) State components of gas welding equipment
- b) State the functions of various components of gas welding equipment
- c) Differentiate between oxygen and acetylene welding equipment
- d) State the processes of assembling gas welding equipment
- Demonstrate knowledge in oxy-acetylene welding
- (a) Explain Oxy-acetylene welding flames
- (b) Explain types of flames
- (c) State the uses of flames
- (d) State the process of setting up flames
- (e) State the methods of gas welding
- Demonstrate skill in fusion welding
- (a) Set up gas welding equipment
- (b) Test for leakage
- (c) Light the blow torch
- (d) Weld a butt joint
- (e) Clean the environment
Gas welding 1
- Demonstrate knowledge in soldering
- a) Explain soldering
- b) State the types of soldering
- c) State types of solder
- Demonstrate knowledge in flux used in welding
- a) Explain flux
- b) State the types of flux
- c) State the purpose of flux
- Demonstrate skill in bronze welding
- (a) Set up equipment
- (b) Select the material to be soldered
- (c) Select type of solder for work
- (d) Select flux for work
- (e ) make a soldered joint
- (f ) Adhere to safety practices
Analogue Circuits
Introduction to trade drawing
- Demonstrate knowledge in trade drawing lines
- a) Explain the importance of trade drawings
- b) State the types of lines
- c) Identify the types of lines
- d) State the uses of drawing lines
- Demonstrate knowledge in knowledge pictorial drawing
- a) Explain pictorial drawing
- b) Explain isometric drawing
- c) State steps of drawing objects in isometric
- d) Explain oblique drawing
- e) Explain perspective drawing
- f) State steps of drawing objects in perspective
Introduction to trade drawings
- Demonstrate knowledge in orthographic projection
- (a) Explain orthographic projection
- ( b) Explain the methods of drawing objects in orthographic
- projections (c) Identify orthographic projection (b was swap to c)
- (d) Draw the orthographic view of a given object
- Demonstrate skill in pictorial drawing
- (a) Draw a rectangular storage cistern in isometric projection
- (b) Draw a rectangular storage cistern in oblique projection
- (c) Draw a rectangular storage cistern in perspective projection
Introduction to Trade Drawing
Valves
- Demonstrate knowledge in ball valves
- a) Explain ball valves
- b) List materials used for ball valves
- c) State types of ball valves
- d) Identify types of ball valves
- e) Identify parts of ball valves
- Demonstrate knowledge in faults on ball valves
- a) Identify faults on ball valves
- b) State the causes of faults on ball valves
- c) State the remedies of the various faults on ball valves
- Demonstrate skill in fixing ball valves
- (a) Select appropriate ball valve
- (b) Fix ball valve
- (c) Adhere to safe practices
- (d) Maintain clean working environment
Form 2 (Grade 11)
22 topicsIntroduction to Sources of Water Supply and Treatment
Introduction to Sources of water supply and treatment
- Demonstrate knowledge in sources of water
- a) Explain sources of water
- b) Classify sources of water
- c) Identify types of sources of water
- d) Explain the types of sources of water
- Demonstrate knowledge in water mains
- a) Explain water mains
- b) State types of water mains
- c) State water mains fittings
- d) State types of water mains distribution
- e) State types of tapping mains
Introduction to sources of water Supply and treatment
- Demonstrate knowledge in water treatment
- a) Explain water treatment
- b) Explain water as a universal solvent
- c) State the stages of water treatment
- d) Explain terminologies in water treatment
- Demonstrate knowledge in cold water supply
- a) Explain direct system of cold water supply
- b) Explain indirect system of cold water supply
- c) Explain service pipes
- d) State the advantages and disadvantages direct and indirect
- system of cold water supply.
- e) State the minimum storage capacity of cisterns
Introduction to Blue Print Reading
- Demonstrate knowledge in specifications of blue print
- a) Explain blue print reading
- b) Explain specifications in blue print reading
- c) Identify specifications in blue print reading
- d) Explain scale reading
Introduction to Blue print reading
- Demonstrate knowledge in types of drawing in blue print
- a) Explain types of drawing in blue print reading
- b) Identify types of drawing in blue print reading
- c) Explain plumbing graphical symbols
- d) Illustrate types of drawings
- e) Explain floor plan
Introduction to blue print reading
- Demonstrate knowledge in Side plan
- (a) Explain site plan
- (b) Identify features on site plan
- (c) Explain scale reading on site plan
Plumbing Calculation
Plumbing calculations
- Demonstrate knowledge in plumbing calculations
- a) Explain measurement
- b) Explain the importance of plumbing calculations
- c) Explain the rules in calculations
- Demonstrate knowledge in measurement
- a) State types of measuring tools
- b) Identify types of measuring tools
- c) State systems of measurements
- d) State types of units in measurement
- e) Identify the SI units of measurement
- f) Convert measurement
plumbing calculations
- Demonstrate knowledge in calculating area formula and
- (a) Identify types of objects that are measured
- (b) State types of formulas
- (c) Calculate the area of a given objects
- (d) Calculate the volume of a given objects
plumbing calculation
Introduction to Estimation and Budgeting
- Demonstrate knowledge in cost estimates
- (a) Explain cost estimation
- (b) State tools and techniques for cost estimation
- (c) Explain tools and techniques for cost estimation
- (b) Identify tools and techniques for cost estimation
Introduction to estimation and budgeting
- Demonstrate knowledge in Budgeting and estimation
- a) Explain project cost management
- b) Explain budgeting and estimation
- c) State the components of project cost
Introduction to Estimation and budgeting
- Demonstrate knowledge in resource planning
- a) Explain resource planning in project cost management
- b) state tools and techniques for resource planning
- c) Explain tools and techniques for resource planning
introduction to estimation and budgeting
- Demonstrate knowledge in cost budgeting
- (a) Explain cost budgeting
- (b) State the components of cost budgeting
- (c) Explain tools and techniques for cost budgeting
Introduction to Budgeting and Estimation
Introduction to drainage and vent system
Introduction to drain and vent systems
- Demonstrate knowledge in drainage and vent systems
- a) Explain the term drainage and vent systems
- b) Explain the classification of drainage and vent systems
- c) Identify drainage and vent system
- d) state the principles of drainage and vent systems
- Demonstrate knowledge in drainage and vent materials
- a) State materials used for drainage and vent
- b) Identify drainage and vent materials
- c) State the characteristics of drainage and vent material.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the types of drainage and vent
- (a) Identify types of drainage and vent systems
- (b) Explain the types of drainage and vent systems
- (c) Identify fittings for drainage systems
- Demonstrate knowledge in the methods of laying drains
- (a) State methods of laying drains
- (b) Explain drainage fittings
- (c) Explain sizing of drains
- Demonstrate skill in laying drains
- (d) Interpret working drawings
- (e) Lay drains
- (f) Support drains
- (g) Clean working environment
- (h) Test for gradients and leakage
Introduction to drainage and vent system.
Scaffolds and Ladders
- Demonstrate knowledge in scaffolds
- a) Explain scaffolds
- b) State types of scaffolds
- c) State the parts of scaffolds
- d) Identify the parts of scaffolds
- e) State the uses of scaffolds
- Demonstrate knowledge in the use of scaffolds
- a) State the uses of each type of scaffolds
- b) State the safe use of scaffolds
- c) State the importance of inspecting before using a scaffold
- Demonstrate knowledge of Ladders
- (a) Explain ladders
- (b) Identify the parts of ladders
- (c) Explain the method of poisoning a ladder
- (d) Explain storage of ladders
- (e) Explain types of ladders
- (f) State the safe uses of ladders
Scaffolds SND Ladder
Threads
- Demonstrate knowledge in threads
- a) Explain threads
- b) State types of threads
- c) State the uses of threads
- d) State the parts of threads
- Demonstrate knowledge in threading
- a) Identify threading tools
- b) State the sequence in cutting internal threads
- c) State the sequence in cutting external threads
- Demonstrate skill in cutting external threads
- (a) Select the appropriate tools for cutting external threads
- (b) Cut threads on a given material
- (c) Cut threads to a given specification
- (d) Adhere to safety practices
Thread
Form 3 (Grade 12)
22 topicsTrade drawing 2
Trade Drawing 2
- Demonstrate skills in drawing orthographic views of sanitary
- (a) Draw the orthographic view of a Close Couple WC pot
- (b) Draw the orthographic view of a wash hand basin
- (c) Show the necessary dimensions of the drawing
- Demonstrate skills in drawing sectional views of sanitary
- (a) Draw the vertical sectional view of a wash hand basin
- (b) Draw the vertical sectional view of the close couple water closet
- (c) Show the dimension of the drawing
- (d) Indicate depth of water seal in trap
Excavation of trenches
- Demonstrate knowledge in excavation of trenches
- (a) Explain excavation
- (b) State methods of excavation
- (c) State the purpose of excavation
- (d) State tools and equipment used in excavation
- Demonstrate knowledge in timbering to trenches
- (a) Explain timbering to trenches
- (b) State the purpose of timbering to trenches
- (c) State the types of timbering to trenches
- (d) Identify the members of timbering to trenches
- Demonstrate skills in excavation of trenches
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Excavate trench
- (c) Adhere to safe practices
- (d) Maintain clean environment
Gas Burners
- Demonstrate knowledge in gas burners
- (a) Explain Gas burner
- (b) State the type of burners
- (c) Outline the characteristics of burners
- (d) Explain the operation of gas burners
- Demonstrate knowledge in Gas flames
- (a) Explain Gas flames
- (b) State the types gas flames
- (c) State the uses of flames
- Demonstrate knowledge in burner faults
- (a) Explain burner faults
- (b) State faults on Gas burners
- (c) State causes of faults
- (d) State remedies of various faults
- Demonstrate skills in rectifying faults on Gas burner
- (a) Identify faults on a burner
- (b) Determine the causes of the faults
- (c) Rectify fault
- (d) Adhere to safe practices
Gas supply 2
- Demonstrate knowledge in control valves and safety devices
- (a) Explain control valves and safety devices
- (b) Identify Gas control valves and safety devices
- (c) Explain the functions of control valves and safety devices
- Demonstrate knowledge in Flue
- (a) Explain Flue
- (b) State the types of Flue
- (c) Explain the design principle of Flue
- (d) State the parts of a conventional Flue
- Demonstrate skills in installing a gas governor (Regulator) on a
- (a) Install governor (Regulator)
- (b) Test for soundness
- (c) Adhere to safe practices
Gas Supply 2
Gas Welding 2
- Demonstrate knowledge in welding technique
- (a) Explain welding technique
- (b) Explain rightward welding technique
- (c) Explain leftward welding technique
- (d) State the types of metal plates thickness on which techniques
- are used
- Demonstrate knowledge in welding joints
- (a) State types of welded joints
- (b) Explain backing bars and strips
- (c) State the steps in setting out welded joints
- Demonstrate knowledge in defects in welding
- (a) State types of defects in welding
- (b) State the causes of defects in welding
- (c) Identify the defects in welding
- Demonstrate knowledge in gas cutting
- (a) Explain gas cutting
- (b) State the principles of gas cutting
- (c ) State the purpose of blow pipes in gas cutting
- (d) State the types of blow pipes used in gas cutting
Gas welding 2
Sewage Disposal System
- Demonstrate knowledge in sewage disposal systems
- (a) Explain sewage disposal system
- (b) State the terms used in sewage disposal system
- (c) State the importance of sewage disposal system
- (d) State the locations of sewage disposal system
Sewage disposal system
- Demonstrate knowledge in types of sewage disposal system
- (a) State the types of sewage disposal system
- (b) Explain the types of sewage disposal system
- (c) Explain the principles of constructing septic tank
- (d) Explain the principles of constructing soakaway
- (e) Explain the principles of constructing a bio fill digester
- (f) Explain the principles of constructing a cesspool
- Demonstrate skill in the construction of biofill digester
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Construct biofill digester
- (c) Maintain clean environment
- (d) Adhere to safety practices
Reservoirs
- Demonstrate knowledge in reservoirs
- a) Explain reservoir
- b) State the materials use for reservoirs
- c) State the design principles of reservoirs
- Demonstrate knowledge in types of reservoirs
- a) State types of reservoirs
- b) Explain service reservoirs
- c) Explain overhead reservoirs
- d) Explain underground reservoirs
- Demonstrate knowledge in cisterns
- (a) Explain cistern and capacity
- (b) Explain citing of cistern
- Explain operation of cisterns
Rain water harvesting system
- Demonstrate knowledge in rain water harvesting
- a) Explain rain water harvesting system
- b) Explain the terms used in rain water harvesting system
- c) State the materials used in rain water harvesting system
- d) State the design principles of rain water harvesting system
- Demonstrate knowledge in the installation of rain water gutter
- a) Explain rain water gutter
- b) Explain rain water pipe
- c) Explain the supporting system for rain water pipe
- d) State the types of fittings used in rain water harvesting system
- Demonstrate skill in the installation of rain water pipes and
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Install gutter and pipes
- (c ) Adhere to safety practices
- (d ) Maintain clean working environment
Pumps
- Demonstrate knowledge in pumps
- a) Explain pumps
- b) State the uses of pumps
- c) State the components of pumps
- d) Identify faults in pumps
- Demonstrate knowledge in classification of pumps
- a) State the classification of pumps
- b) Explain the types of pumps under each classification
- c) State the materials use in the manufacturing of pumps
- d) State the characteristics of the materials used in the
- manufacturing of pumps
- Demonstrate skills in the installation of pumps
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Install Surface pump
- (c )
- Adhere to safety practices
- (d ) Maintain clean working environment
Swimming Pool Construction (plumbing installation)
- Demonstrate knowledge in swimming pool
- a) Explain swimming pool
- b) State the uses of swimming pool
- c) State the types of swimming pool
- Demonstrate knowledge in swimming pool materials and
- a) State the materials used for swimming pool construction
- b) State the components of a swimming pool
- c) Identify the components of a swimming pool
- d) Explain the design principles of swimming pool
- Demonstrate knowledge in swimming pool maintenance
- (a) Explain swimming pool maintenance
- (b) State the purpose of maintaining swimming pool
- (c) State the chemicals used in maintaining swimming pool
- (d ) State the tools used in maintaining swimming pool
- Demonstrate skill in the installation of swimming pool
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Install swimming pool fittings
- (c) Test for leakage and circulation
- (d) Clean working environment
- (e) Adhere to safe practice
Fire Fighting
- Demonstrate knowledge in Firefighting
- (a) Explain firefighting
- (b) State the type of firefighting systems
- (c) State firefighting components
- Demonstrate knowledge in fire pumps and alarm systems
- (a) Explain fire alarm systems
- (b) State the types of fire alarm systems and their working principles
- (c) Explain the fire pumps
- (d) State types of fuels for fire pumps
- (e) Explain the working principles of fire pumps
- Demonstrate knowledge in hose reels
- (a) Explain hose reel
- (b) State types of hose reels
- (c) Explain the working principles of hose reels
- Demonstrate knowledge in fire suppression systems
- (a) Explain fire suppression system
- (b) State types of fire suppression systems
- (c) Explain the working principles of fire suppression systems
- Demonstrate skills in the installation of hose reel
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Install hose reel
- (c) Maintain clean environment
Plumbing calculations
- Demonstrate knowledge in cistern capacity (Storage tanks)
- (a) Explain capacity
- (b) State the importance of capacity
- (c) State the types of cistern capacity
- (d) State the formula for calculating capacity
Plumbing Calculation
- Demonstrate knowledge in calculating pressure
- (a) Explain pressure
- (b) State the types of pressure
- (c) State the formula for calculating pressure
- Demonstrate skills in estimation
- (a) Prepare take off list
- (b) Prepare estimate using a given price list
- (c) Prepare labour cost
Hot water supply
- Demonstrate knowledge in hot water supply
- a) Explain hot water
- b) State the uses of hot water
- c) State the types of hot water system
- d) State types of fuel for heating water
- e) State the advantages of fuel used in heating water
- f) State the disadvantages of fuel used in heating water
- Demonstrate knowledge in centralized hot water system
- a) Explain centralized hot water system
- b) Explain direct and indirect hot water systems
- c) Explain the components of direct and indirect hot water system
- d) Identify the circuit in the direct and indirect hot water system
- e) State the advantages and disadvantages of both direct and
- indirect hot water system
- Demonstrate knowledge localized hot water supply
- (a) Explain localized hot water supply
- (b) State the advantages of localized hot water supply
- (c) State the disadvantages of localized hot water supply
- Demonstrate knowledge types of localized hot water heaters
- (a) State the types of hot water heaters
- (b) Explain open outlet water heater
- (c) Explain two in one pressure type water heater
- (d) Explain cistern type water heater
- (e) Explain instantaneous hot water heater
- Demonstrate skills in the installation of instantaneous hot
- (a) Interpret working drawings
- (b) Install instantaneous hot water heater
- (c) Test for leakage
- (d) Adhere to safety practices
- (e) Maintain clean working environment
Sanitary pipe work 2
Sanitary Pipework 2
- Demonstrate knowledge in single stack system
- (a) Explain single stack system
- (b) State the design principles of single stack system
- (c) State the advantages of single stack system
- (d) State the disadvantages of single stack system
- Demonstrate skills in installing single stack system
- (a) Interpret working drawings
- (b) Install single stack system
- (c) Support pipes
- (d) Test pipe for leakage
- (e) Maintain clean work environment
- (f) Adhere to safe practices
Access in drains
Access in Drains
- Demonstrate knowledge in access in drains
- (a) Explain access in drains
- (b) State the importance of access in drains
- (c) State the location of access in drain
- Demonstrate knowledge in the types of access in drains
- (a) State the types of access in drains
- (b) Explain the types of access in drains
- (c) Explain the principles of constructing inspection chamber
- (d) Explain the principles of providing rodding point
- (e) Explain the principles of constructing backdrop manhole
- (f ) Explain the principles of constructing tumbling bay
- Demonstrate skills in the installation of rodding point
- (a) Interpret working drawing
- (b) Install rodding point
- (c) Adhere to safety precautions
- (d) Maintain clean environment
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