I didn’t suppose how crucial the heating system room was when my apprentice and I showed up to work on a heating system… The last time I was at this house, I remembered it was a bit cramped, but my apprentice was petite and I didn’t know the two of us would have a difficult time working there together! Either I remembered wrong, or they had shrunk the amount of space they had for the heating system; I had a difficult time getting in the area, and although the HVAC tech was barely 5 feet tall, and weighed less 100 pounds, I didn’t know she would fit in there with me; She told me she would do the work as long as I was there to guide her if needed, but it was her first time working since getting her certification.
I hesitantly agreed, and let her in the heating system room.
She asked a couple questions, but it had nothing to do with the task. They all pertained to wondering if all heating system rooms were this tight? All of us talked while she was working, and she was doing a superb task, then by the time she was done with the heating system, I was ready to provide her the go-ahead to work on her own. The only thing holding me back was that the two of us insisted they had at least many weeks training with a professor, before going on HVAC task by themselves. I told her what I was thinking when the two of us got into the HVAC maintenance van. She thanked me for my confidence in her, although she said she wanted a little more training before going out on her own.