Commissioning a Boiler

EliteHeat

What is the point of being legally obliged to notify gas installs then? oh I see, illegal work is exempt.

thommy

vaio wrote: »

It looks like the law covering this is The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) regulations 1998.

By my reading it’s basically the same as the old rules which said that:

1. Only competent people may do gas work
2. Anyone who does gas work for money must be registered.

i.e. competent DIY is allowed, so as long as the work was done properly you don’t have a problem.

I don’t think you NEED a certificate of any sort to sell a house but if do need one then get a Gas Safe person to do a gas safety check like landlords need every year.

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all correct. it's basically so we don't kill ourselves - would you get a lollipop lady to change your brakes?

sorry need to correct myself and point 1. -

'By law, anyone carrying out work on gas installations and appliances in your home must be on the Gas Safe Register. Be gas safe – always use a Gas Safe registered engineer. Always ask to see their Gas Safe Register ID card.' new from april09 but not retrospective

thommy

EliteHeat wrote: »

What is the point of being legally obliged to notify gas installs then? oh I see, illegal work is exempt.

you're not legally obliged

thommy

should cost anything from £60 - 100 to get it certified

vaio

thommy wrote: »

all correct. it's basically so we don't kill ourselves - would you get a lollipop lady to change your brakes?

sorry need to correct myself and point 1. -

'By law, anyone carrying out work on gas installations and appliances in your home must be on the Gas Safe Register. Be gas safe – always use a Gas Safe registered engineer. Always ask to see their Gas Safe Register ID card.' new from april09 but not retrospective

Got a link or actual law?

and I'd let anybody competent fix my brakes

It does strike me as strange that electrical works come under the building regs and so have to be notified whereas gas (which is much more technically challenging and dangerous in the event of a mistake) doesn’t.

thommy

vaio wrote: »

Got a link or actual law?

and I'd let anybody competent fix my brakes

It does strike me as strange that electrical works come under the building regs and so have to be notified whereas gas (which is much more technically challenging and dangerous in the event of a mistake) doesn’t.

http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/about.aspx

all taken from here.....as per previous post.it replaced corgi april 1

re the brakes - how would you know they were competent?that's the point of the gas register.

vaio

thommy wrote: »

http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/about.aspx

all taken from here.....as per previous post. it replaced corgi april 1

re the brakes - how would you know they were competent? that's the point of the gas register.

Yep, but it doesn’t quote any law, The SI in my previous post is clear, anybody doing gas must be competent and anybody doing it for money must be competent AND must be registered. If you are doing DIY you just have to be competent.

Registration is one way of demonstrating competence but not the only way.

thommy

vaio wrote: »

Yep, but it doesn’t quote any law, The SI in my previous post is clear, anybody doing gas must be competent and anybody doing it for money must be competent AND must be registered. If you are doing DIY you just have to be competent.

Registration is one way of demonstrating competence but not the only way.

it seems convoluted but then this was a government initiative and then farmed out to a company to oversee it. it works in conjunction with the following


edit link - http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic/gas_law.htm
it does say 'Anyone employed to work on gas appliances in domestic premises must be a Gas Safe Registered engineer and competent in that area of gas work.' you may be on to something!
happy bedtime reading!

vaio

thommy wrote: »

it seems convoluted but then this was a government initiative and then farmed out to a company to oversee it. it works in conjunction with the following

edit link - http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic/gas_law.htm

happy bedtime reading!

Yep, that is the law I’m taking about and it says that everybody must be competent but only people who do it for money need to be registered

thommy

vaio wrote: »

Yep, that is the law I’m taking about and it says that everybody must be competent but only people who do it for money need to be registered

you posted too quick - i edited my last post in agreement:beer: