Replacing old gas cooker with new one

cherry76

Do I need to get a safe gas engineer to just disconnect cooker and replace with new one? My friend told me it s just a matter of disconnecting the hose and fitting it on the new gas cooker. It is very simple but I think we are not allowed to do this any more? Thanks

gas4you

Yes. Get gas safe engineer who is qualified to fit cookers. There is more than just connecting the cooker hose to check

shaun_from_Africa

If it is your house and it is not being used for any business purposes (including letting it or any part of it out), then yes, you can legally do the gas work yourself.
Although I wouldn't recommend this, there is nothing in law to stop you doing this.
(although I now guarantee that there will be plenty of posts stating that I'm talking total sh**)

The regulations (The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998) simply state that a person who who works on gas or gas fittings must be competent to do so. (and nowhere in the regulations is the word competent defined).
There are far more stringent requirements for people employed to carry out gas work, and people working on property that is not their own, but the gas-safe requirement does not, and has never applied (when it was CORGI) to people working on their own property.

Your insurance company may have a stipulation that only gas-safe registered people can do the work or your insurance may be invalidated, and even if they don't, in the event of a fire you may be required to prove that any work you carried out was safe. (hard to do if the house has burnt down).

I am not qualified to work on gas pipework or appliances, but I have connected up gas hobs and cookers in my house and previous house with no problems.
I've spent 35 years working on aircraft systems, some parts of which have extremely high pressure hydraulic fittings (15,000 psi), lots of high pressure air and oxygen fittings, and plenty of work on pressurised fuel systems, so I feel more than competent to do this work.

chester_builder

Why take the risk, if may be able to do it yourself, but we have all just seen what happens when gas leaks, the recent explosion in Manchester!!!!

For the sake of £50 get a local gas safe man out,


Jamie
Chester building Services