Disconnecting domestic gas supply - what qualification will i need?

phill99

No. But an associated electrical work may require Part P Certification. But then you friend will already know this.

patman99

If the electrical engineer is 17th edition qualified, then he will self-certify any Part P work.

Btw, it takes around 4 years to complete 17th edition from scratch with no prior experience. It takes around 2 weeks to become Gas Safe certified. How do I know this ?. Because I have a friend who, up until they were offered a very lucrative job last year, taught new gas engineers at a College.

If I were you, I'd look at another line of work whilst undertaking part-time courses in plumbing and gas installation and your mate should do the same whilst doing courses for electrical installations.

Bare in mind though that you can still undertake any plumbing or electrical work for which you have the skills and competancy to undertake.

For instance, I'm not electricaly qualified, but can legally undertake paid work replacing light switches, electrical sockets and anything else that I feel competant enough to do, but I cannot undertake any work that involves upgrading or extending any part part of the electrical system (i.e I can replace a single socket with a single socket, but not replace it with a double socket).

Owain_Moneysaver

DandelionPatrol wrote: »

All that is required is to cut and cap the gas pipe to the boiler.

Including purging the gas pipework, testing the cap and meter side for gas tightness, checking for main equipotential bonding, checking the operation of the control valve, and signing the work off and taking responsibility for the job.

There's a little more to a Meters and Pipework gas ticket than how to use a spanner.

harryfrombarry_2

tomtontom wrote: »

What support can you offer the customer if the service goes wrong?

If the service goes wrong then they'll be dead from gas explosion so nothing to really concern themselves with there...

DandelionPatrol

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Including purging the gas pipework, testing the cap and meter side for gas tightness, checking for main equipotential bonding, checking the operation of the control valve, and signing the work off and taking responsibility for the job.

There's a little more to a Meters and Pipework gas ticket than how to use a spanner.

You are leaving out getting the tools out of the van and putting them back ....

You idiot, read what I said in context. I was actually making the argument that OP should not be worrying about the cost of getting a registered person in to do the gas safe registered bit and that he could do the rest. I was not suggesting that he did the gas safe bit.