Boilermaking Contractors

Boilermakers are tradespeople who create and maintain boilers. Boilers are used for heating water or other fluids under high pressure to generate electric power and provide heat. Various buildings, factories and ships using large boilers, tanks and vats. In these containers, the chemicals, beer, oil and other products are stored and processed. Boilers are usually made out of steel, stainless steel, copper or iron. Manufacturers have also increasingly automated the production of boilers to improve its quality. Boilermaker welders are responsible for not only making boilers but also repairing them.

Boilermaker work includes helping erect and repair blast furnaces, air pollution equipment, water treatment plants, smokestacks, and storage and process tanks. They also install heat-resistant materials in fireboxes or pressure vessels such as refractory bricks and more. Even the installation and maintenance of huge pipes used in dams in sending water to and from hydroelectric power generation turbines are the responsibility of boilermaker welders.

Boilermaker work involves boilers. These boilers are found in buildings, factories and ships and are used to heat liquids under high pressure to create energy. While welders can be found in various industries since the welding of metal parts has many applications such as manufacturing goods. In order to easily determine the difference between a boilermaker and a welder, here is a list of their responsibilities:

Boilermaker -

• Analysing blueprints
• Installing boilers
• Evaluating the performance of boiler systems
• Repairing boilers

Welder -

• Using electricity to generate heat
• Following safety processes for dealing with materials at high temperatures
• Inspecting welding materials
• Preventing overheating during welding

A boilermaker must have theoretical and practical training. You must work toward a certificate or degree in engineering, specifically 'fabrication trade'. Most courses will involve an apprenticeship to help you become a qualified boilermaker. It will take you around three to four years to become a qualified boilermaker.

Skills you'll need to learn to become a boilermaker include forging, structural steel erection, founding, electroplating, metal polishing, sheet metal work, metal fabrication, metal spinning, welding and using related computer-controlled equipment.

Here are a few other skills and experience that a boilermaker must have:

• Welding
• Working at heights
• Heavy fabrication
• Structural steel
• Boilermaking
• High-risk work licence
• Forklift licence