Nate Question

Posted by on February 10, 2008, 12:57 pm

I've been doing residential service for three and a half years now. I
plan on getting Nate certified in gas and heat pump service. Is there
really any benefit to being certified? Can I/should I ask for more
money?

Posted by Noon-Air on February 10, 2008, 1:59 pm

<hvac tech> wrote in message
> I've been doing residential service for three and a half years now. I
> plan on getting Nate certified in gas and heat pump service. Is there
> really any benefit to being certified? Can I/should I ask for more
> money?

yes

Posted by on February 10, 2008, 2:36 pm

wrote:

>yes

Thanks for your detailed, elaborate and informative response.

Posted by Sid on February 10, 2008, 10:03 pm

wrote:

> I've been doing residential service for three and a half years now. I
> plan on getting Nate certified in gas and heat pump service. Is there
> really any benefit to being certified?

> Can I/should I ask for more money?

Yes

Your company has to decide to pay you more based on it. Most don't. They
find it easier to feed you a line of bullshit.
Its to help weed out the totally clueless and is used as a marketing
differentiator for some companys/manufacturers.
They might even sucker you into using your money to pay for it.
Then you have to keep X hours of continuing training. $$$
For most guys a $1.50 and NATE gets them a cup of coffee.

Until homeowners know what NATE is and companies pay you to be
certified. It's a steaming pile.

You want to see where you really stack up. Take a RSES CMS test.

Posted by tterb coshtawort on May 20, 2009, 3:47 pm

tterb coshtawort had written this in response to
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/hvac/Re-Nate-Question-30625-.htm :

Sid wrote:

> wrote:

>> I've been doing residential service for three and a half years
>> now. I
>> plan on getting Nate certified in gas and heat pump service. Is
>> there
>> really any benefit to being certified?
>> No

>> Can I/should I ask for more money?
>> Yes

> If you are a nate certified technician and you do start up on a unit such as

a carrier, who from my knowledge is the only company backing nate, they will
give you an extended warranty on units, compressors, and other major system
components, if you can use that to help sell work to your customers then that
is your benefit of being nate certified.

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