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Advance Your Career with Specialized Skills

Advance Your Career with Specialized Skills

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Advance further with our career development programs

Keep adding to your skills. For experienced plumbers, we offer valuable certification programs. For property managers or maintenance technicians, we offer short courses to improve your skills and keep you updated on the latest techniques and equipment. 

For Experienced Plumbers

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Backflow Certification and Recertification 

There’s a constant demand for certified backflow inspectors. 
Earn or renew your certification through focused, affordable courses.

For Property 
Managers or Maintenance Technicians

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Water heater 
installation

Learn the basics of water heater (both tank and tankless) installation through this 
one-evening course.

Toilet and sink installation 
and maintenance

Learn the basics of toilet and sink installation and maintenance through this 
four-hour, one-evening course.

Custom 
programs 
available

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Please contact us if you are interested in a code class, blueprint reading class or estimating class. We can design a one- or two-evening class for your employees, helping them become more efficient while reducing your outside costs.

Backflow certification and recertification courses

Get certified or recertified in Durham, NC

Becoming a certified backflow tester gives you additional, in-demand plumbing skills.

Cities throughout North Carolina require certain plumbing systems to be tested every year to prevent backflow, and only certified inspectors can do the testing. That means there’s a constant demand for certified backflow inspectors. 

What certified backflow testers do

Backflow inspectors make sure the clean water supply stays clean. They also help prevent costly damage to plumbing systems. They need to know how to use special equipment and techniques to do their jobs, and they need to get recertified on a regular basis.

We work in partnership with NC Rural Water to offer both initial certification and recertification (renewal) courses.

Backflow certification course

  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsLearn how to identify cross-connections that could cause the normal flow of water to be reversed.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsGo into detail about backflow assemblies and containment assemblies.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsLearn which types of systems need to be protected with a backflow preventer.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsPractice conducting backflow assembly tests for commercial and residential plumbing systems.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsGet certified quickly and affordably.

Backflow recertification course

  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsRenew your backflow testing certification.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsGet up-to-date on the latest techniques and equipment used in backflow testing.
  • School of Skilled Trades blue gear bullet pointsPractice conducting backflow tests.

Enhance your plumbing skills. Contact us today to register and advance your career!

Continued Education Form

By submitting this form, I consent to be contacted by the School of Skilled Trades representatives and agents via email, text messages, and/or phone calls (including through automated systems or pre-recorded messages) at any phone numbers I have provided. This contact may include marketing messages and other school-related communications. I affirm that I have read and agree to the School’s Privacy Policy. I understand that providing this consent is not required to request information or enroll at the School of Skilled Trades and I can request information by calling 919.892.8989 instead. I understand that I may revoke my consent at any time. Standard text message and data rates may apply.

The School of Skilled Trades is a non-profit school, meaning we invest in helping you learn, not in making a profit. We’re licensed by the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges, so you learn valuable skills from qualified instructors with years of field experience.

Contact us to learn more about your options

Start Your Career Today

By submitting this form, I consent to be contacted by the School of Skilled Trades representatives and agents via email, text messages, and/or phone calls (including through automated systems or pre-recorded messages) at any phone numbers I have provided. This contact may include marketing messages and other school-related communications. I affirm that I have read and agree to the School’s Privacy Policy. I understand that providing this consent is not required to request information or enroll at the School of Skilled Trades and I can request information by calling 919.892.8989 instead. I understand that I may revoke my consent at any time. Standard text message and data rates may apply.

Enhance your plumbing skills. Contact us today to register and advance your career!

Continued Education Form

By submitting this form, I consent to be contacted by the School of Skilled Trades representatives and agents via email, text messages, and/or phone calls (including through automated systems or pre-recorded messages) at any phone numbers I have provided. This contact may include marketing messages and other school-related communications. I affirm that I have read and agree to the School’s Privacy Policy. I understand that providing this consent is not required to request information or enroll at the School of Skilled Trades and I can request information by calling 919.892.8989 instead. I understand that I may revoke my consent at any time. Standard text message and data rates may apply.