Advance Your Career with Specialized Skills
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
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
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
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
Learn how to identify cross-connections that could cause the normal flow of water to be reversed.- Go into detail about backflow assemblies and containment assemblies.
- Learn which types of systems need to be protected with a backflow preventer.
- Practice conducting backflow assembly tests for commercial and residential plumbing systems.
- Get certified quickly and affordably.
Backflow recertification course
- Renew your backflow testing certification.
- Get up-to-date on the latest techniques and equipment used in backflow testing.
- Practice conducting backflow tests.
Enhance your plumbing skills. Contact us today to register and advance your career!
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.