[tritron]

Does the hvac schools offer hands on training ? When you go to hvac school does the school setups installation that students go and perform? I wonder how they teach how to braze ac unit? Many other trade schools involve customers. You can get haircut from barber school or you can have teeth fixed cleaned at dental school.
Do hvac schools offer installs done by student. Not sure how many times you can braze ac compressor coil and disconnect pipes so all students can learn how to braze correctly?

 

[rider77]

No, an HVAC school isn’t going to send students to peoples houses to install equipment.
Not near the same liability concerns of getting your hair cut or teeth cleaned.

 

[pecmsg]

UA Locals offer on the job as well as schooling!

 

[ss120396]

Yes, there is hands on training in on all the things you mention in HVAC school - but in a lab, not at people's houses. You get experience with that on the job, starting out as a helper - either after you're done with school, or in lieu of school. Many techs don't have any formal training, and learned everything on the job.

 

[BBeerme]

I remember when I was in HVAC school. One of their A/C's went down. A lot of techs wanted to go on the roof and see if they could fix it. Instructors said, no, we have a contractor for those repairs.

 

[shellkamp]

I remember when I was in HVAC school. One of their A/C's went down. A lot of techs wanted to go on the roof and see if they could fix it. Instructors said, no, we have a contractor for those repairs.

We do the work for a "tech school" with an HVAC class. Years ago they would have the instructors and students go up on the roof and "take a look" at things, sometimes just to look at things while they were working and other times to see if they could diagnose/fix what's wrong.

We'd go out and they'd have left the filter access doors off, electrical panels off, drain line traps removed causing a water leak; one time one of the instructors was up there when I was sent there and they said "you'll never believe this; 3 units with bad circuit boards!" And it would just be a broken wire connection or faulty economizer not allowing the compressors to come on.

The director of the school banned them from going on the roof thankfully.



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[firecontrol]

The tech school I went to had a lab full of all different kinds of equipment so you could get your hands on things running. The instructor would put faults/problems into each type of equipment so we could diagnose what was wrong. They also had a welding lab where that instructor would teach you how to solder, braze and weld. They had a fully functional sheet metal shop also where that instructor taught you how to build fittings. Sadly that shop and the welding shop were discontinued the second year so the school could use the spaces to teach CNC machine skills.

The main thing you need to find in a school is one that will teach you what all the different components of any HVAC system are, how they work, what can go wrong with them and how they're used to make things do what the equipment is designed to do. In other words the basics and the theory of why HVAC is a very complicated and ever changing career. Hopefully they give you the knowledge and the background so that you can spend a long career always learning because they taught you how to think your way through things and figure out what you're looking at.