Gas Safe portfolio questions, answered straight.

Yes. A completely blank portfolio is fine and it is where plenty of people start. What we need to see is the requirements you are working to, so we know what evidence and job types to plan around. Being 0% complete is not a problem; not being on a recognised training route is a different matter, and we will tell you if that is the case.

You send your details, your training centre or provider, the programme you are working toward and any paperwork you have. We look at whether our service suits your route and requirements, and tell you if it does not. There is no payment at this stage and no obligation.

We read your portfolio, checklist and requirements properly, identify the evidence and tasks still outstanding, work out which job types your placement needs to cover, agree the milestones that trigger the later payments, and set out the proposed on-site plan.

The £50 pays for the detailed review. Once that review has been carried out, the fee is not refundable, subject to your statutory rights.

No. £450 is the total including VAT, paid in four stages: £50 for the detailed review, £150 at the agreed halfway milestone, £150 when the remaining agreed on-site milestone is complete, and £100 for compiling the portfolio and the applicable engineer evidence and sign-off.

Yes. Every price shown on this site includes VAT.

During the £50 detailed review, against your actual requirements. They are written down, so you know exactly what has to be completed before the next stage becomes due.

Approximately two weeks on site. The exact length depends on what your review identifies that you still need.

We aim for around three to five suitable jobs a day. Our engineers carry out a high volume of live domestic work, so there is a broad mix of job types to schedule your portfolio work around.

These are live customer jobs, so the exact order changes from day to day. We do not send you out randomly: your requirements are reviewed first and your placement is planned around the evidence you need. Because of the volume and range of domestic work our engineers carry out, the relevant job types come through and we schedule your portfolio work around them.

On live customer jobs in and around London. You make your own way to site and meet the engineer at the job — your travel is not included in the price.

Yes. Gas Track Academy is three Gas Safe registered engineers, all of whom went through the new-entrant route themselves relatively recently.

Where the required work has been completed under the appropriate supervision and the applicable requirements are satisfied, the relevant Gas Safe registered engineer completes the appropriate evidence and sign-off. It follows the work — it is not a signature that can be issued for jobs that were not done.

If they identify a legitimate problem with evidence, organisation or applicable sign-off that we provided as part of your agreed support, we work with you to correct that part at no additional charge.

No, and nobody can honestly promise that. Your assessment sits with the relevant assessment and training process, not with us. We provide the supervised on-site experience, the evidence and the portfolio support.

Your travel to and from jobs, accommodation, any fees charged by your training provider or training centre, ACS assessment fees, and Gas Safe registration fees.

Your portfolio folder, or whatever your training centre has given you setting out the requirements. Bring it even if it is incomplete or you are not sure what half of it means.