Gas Certificate required? New Central Heating System

economiser

Canucklehead wrote: »

Good evening: The OH always does all of the installation as he is a qualified plumber as well as an RGI: he wouldn't leave one of his installations to the mercy of a third party as callbacks for a boiler problem are often caused by plumbing faults of the CH system not the gas work (he hasn't had a call-back on a CH installation since he started out in the 1970s...let's hope the record holds;))

HTH

Canucklehead

Just that some people may be under the impression that all CH work needs a Corgi fitter. After all a competent DIY person might well wish do most of the work themselves. Employing people to do things you can do yourself is expensive and there is always the governments cut of VAT to pay.

You can perhaps understand why having worked on iron, lead, copper, stainless and plastic piping with gas, water, steam and compressed air with welded, flanged, screwed, solvent, soldered and wiped joints over the years why I resent the prospect of having to employ someone to put in a simple domestic gas installation just because I am retired and not Corgi registered.

Canucklehead

economiser wrote: »

Just that some people may be under the impression that all CH work needs a Corgi fitter. After all a competent DIY person might well wish do most of the work themselves. Employing people to do things you can do yourself is expensive and there is always the governments cut of VAT to pay.

You can perhaps understand why having worked on iron, lead, copper, stainless and plastic piping with gas, water, steam and compressed air with welded, flanged, screwed, solvent, soldered and wiped joints over the years why I resent the prospect of having to employ someone to put in a simple domestic gas installation just because I am retired and not Corgi registered.

Good evening: The OH ( and other RGIs) aren't too keen on paying the annual registration fee as well as re-certifying for each competency every 5 years either but that is the nature of the beast...for example the OH has CCN1 – Core Gas Safety ,WAT1 – Water Heaters and CEN1 – Boiler installation and maintenance but legally can't fit cookers because he hasn't completed a half day course I suspect that gas regulations/enforcement of building regulations will tighten up over the next decade...in fact the government will be introducing an updated Part G in 2009.

Canucklehead

economiser

Canucklehead wrote: »

Good evening: The OH ( and other RGIs) aren't too keen on paying the annual registration fee as well as re-certifying for each competency every 5 years either but that is the nature of the beast...for example the OH has CCN1 – Core Gas Safety ,WAT1 – Water Heaters and CEN1 – Boiler installation and maintenance but legally can't fit cookers because he hasn't completed a half day course I suspect that gas regulations/enforcement of building regulations will tighten up over the next decade...in fact the government will be introducing an updated Part G in 2009.

Canucklehead

It certainly is getting out of hand. No common sense anymore. It's not just gas either. I just had to have my electricity meter moved. The meter was moved but I was told I had to employ a registered electrician to fit the meter tails into my ELCB and that he should provide a wiring certificate. Just to insert two cables and tighten the screws, it could hardly be simpler could it? I suppose you could have got them the wrong way round but that's about it. These rules just make even simple jobs expensive and tempt untrained folk to try to DIY to save money. I'll shut up now before I blow a fuse and except that the country is going regulation mad.