Boiler servicing

gas4you

If someone is a member of the CIPHE, it doesn't mean they know what they are doing, or anything about gas, just the same as being on the Gas Safe Register doesn't guarantee that those on it know what they are doing, or are thorough with gas!

All it means is they have another bit of paper to wave.

Canucklehead

Pincher wrote: »

The IPHE guy was alright, but like all independents, there's only so much he can fit into a van. The first manual valve he fitted trickled,
but fortunately there was a spare.

Found a Gas Safe guy last year, huge Transit, young and intelligent. Left his apprentice to do the powerflush, and then brought in a Gas Safe trainee to do the welding. Comes back to inspect, no pump in floor standing boiler, and he had to get a Grundfos and redo some of the pipework. Commissioned, boiler sounds good. A few days later, when doing the invoice, I asked about the inhibitor: he forgot! Two months later, gas smell, called Heat Team under warranty: a valve was loose, probably not closed completely during commissioning test. I made sure I saw the Gas Safe ID before he started. Knowledge ansd skill wise, nothing wrong, but he was just too busy being a business man to do the job properly.



I doubt the public sector has 99.98% availability outside the military.
It costs a lot of money to get to 99.98%, which is two hours down time a year. There is no such thing as down for maintenance: you have another system running when you fix the broken one, and you have a third standing by in case that one goes down. We had five.

Chatted to a HMRC computer programmer once, it's hopeless.
If they farm out the software to a third party, every change request will cost millions, and there are also data protection implications. So they develop the software in-house. Because they suffer from the delusion that programmers are menial labourers, they get low grades and low pays. So if you are good, you can make more in the private sector. Personally, the ever changing tax rules, with legacy effects will drive any programmer crazy.

Hi: unfortunately Gas Safe registration is no guarantee of competence...the industry is rife with quick course merchants/career change cowboys (many who spend countless hours on internet forums spouting their tripe...guess they don't have much work on).

Bring on 5 year gas apprenticeships.

Canucklehead

Pincher

Canucklehead wrote: »

Bring on 5 year gas apprenticeships.

England won two world wars to avoid becoming Germans!

Love the old timers, but they don't advertise, too busy dealing with old customers. Rare pleasure to come across one.

bengasman

Canucklehead wrote: »

....membership fees aren't onerous and the CIPHE plays a significant role in the industry.

Ciphe has virtually no influence in the gas industry, and rightly so; no club that has payment of a fee as number one amongst their criteria should have any influence.

Sweey_as_a_nut

You can go on the Gas safe registry on the net, you will find a lot on there for your area. It's what I done 4 years ago, picked one fairly near. Stopped with him for awhile talking as he attempted to do the service. He did not have a clue he had no measuring instruments he said I don't need them I can work it out on paper and look at the flame. After 20 minutes I told him to hop it. So some of them are not really all they should be.