Gas hob installation

EssexExile

I never find legal documents the easiest to read & understand, can you specify where in that it says it's ok to work on your own appliances?

ryder72

I am not sure its as easy as its made out to be.

It says the person has to be competent to carry out the work. The competent person register is effectively GasSafe AFAIK so unless you either have to be registered yourself or get someone who is Gas Safe registered to sign it off.

This is like the electrical installation situation. You can wire your own house but it needs to be checked and signed off by someone on a competent persons register which is effectively the 6 bodies that regulate the industry.

Will an insurer not have clause requiring gas installation to be installed/certified by a competent person?

terryw

Ruski wrote: »

Hobs aren't connected by hoses... hard piped.

HTH

Russ

Thanks for that Russ. Are you aware of any logical reason why this? A free standing cooker (which it is quite easy to move) is connected with a hose, but a hob (which remains static) must be hardpiped. Just curious.

Thanks

Gloomendoom

Probably because hoses can deteriorate and their condition would be difficult to inspect if they were sealed up inside a kitchen unit.

JP08

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Probably because hoses can deteriorate and their condition would be difficult to inspect if they were sealed up inside a kitchen unit.

As opposed to being behind a cooker that isn't moved from it's location in years, is poorly stabilized and rubbing against the hose ...

Not saying you're wrong, just that the rules might be a bit "half cooked".;)

gt568

Cheers dudes, food for thought.

gingerdad

Just don't expect any come back from the gas safe register if they do a crap job or try to rip you off. total waste of time trying to report someone

Ectophile

EssexExile wrote: »

I never find legal documents the easiest to read & understand, can you specify where in that it says it's ok to work on your own appliances?

It doesn't say it's legal. But, more importantly, it doesn't say it's illegal. In general, you can do anything you want unless there's a law to say you can't. There's no law that says you can eat cheese on Thursdays. But until the government passes a law banning it, you can carry on eating cheese quite legally.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 say that anyone doing the work must be competent.

Paragraph 3 sets out the requirement that anyone employed to do gas fitting, including anyone self-employed, must be registered. It says nothing about people who are not employed - so DIY work isn't covered by that paragraph.

Gloomendoom

JP08 wrote: »

As opposed to being behind a cooker that isn't moved from it's location in years, is poorly stabilized and rubbing against the hose ...

Not saying you're wrong, just that the rules might be a bit "half cooked".;)

There are very good reasons for using a flexible connection for a free-standing cooker that probably outweigh the problems of hose deterioration. There won't be the same issues with an immovable, rigidly fixed hob.

terryw

Gloomendoom wrote: »

There are very good reasons for using a flexible connection for a free-standing cooker that probably outweigh the problems of hose deterioration. There won't be the same issues with an immovable, rigidly fixed hob.

Thanks for that. What are these good reasons. I am curious and genuinely interested.

Thanks