purchasing property with wood burner - no HETAS certificate or service history

Clutterfree

Oh you also get a certificate when you have the chimney swept now.
We provided ours to our buyer to show it had been swept recently.

G_M

Clutterfree wrote: »

Oh you also get a certificate when you have the chimney swept now.
We provided ours to our buyer to show it had been swept recently.

My Lithuaniun cleaner now apparantly has to give me a certificate when she completes the hoovering....

:shocked:

Davesnave

Clutterfree wrote: »

Oh you also get a certificate when you have the chimney swept now.
We provided ours to our buyer to show it had been swept recently.

I got one of those from my local sweep. Six weeks later, the chimney he'd cleaned so well stopped working, because it was clogged-up.

Since then, I've cleaned my own chimney, saving £45 a time.

kinger101

Davesnave wrote: »

I got one of those from my local sweep. Six weeks later, the chimney he'd cleaned so well stopped working, because it was clogged-up.

Since then, I've cleaned my own chimney, saving £45 a time.

It's a shame there aren't any small Victorian children around anymore. They'd do it for a bowl of watery porridge.

Pete9501

G_M wrote: »

My Lithuaniun cleaner now apparently has to give me a certificate when she completes the hoovering....
:shocked:

Presumably you give her a copy of the risk assessment ready for next weeks cleaning in return. Oh a copy of the pension contributions you have made on her behalf too.

lincroft1710

G_M wrote: »

My Lithuaniun cleaner now apparantly has to give me a certificate when she completes the hoovering....

:shocked:

Is this because she is Lithuanian? Would Latvian or Estonian cleaners be exempt from this?

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"Tested by a HETAS engineer" :rotfl:

Set a nice roaring fire away in it and if the smoke goes up the chimney then you're good. If not get a registered chimney sweep in who will give you a certificate.

I grew up in a house with a solid fuel Parkray back boiler and it was never once serviced or even had the chimney swept. How did people manage before the days of gas and combi boilers I do not know.

G_M

Pete9501 wrote: »

Presumably you give her a copy of the risk assessment ready for next weeks cleaning in return. Oh a copy of the pension contributions you have made on her behalf too.

Of course. What kind of exploitative employer do you take me for?

Is this because she is Lithuanian? Would Latvian or Estonian cleaners be exempt from this?

I've never had a Latvian or Estonian cleaner so have never checked.

If anyone knows I'd be grateful for the infomation as Giedre is pregant so I may have to sack her if she can't clean the srairs any more, and might try a Latvian for a change.

Stripeybat

Davesnave wrote: »

I got one of those from my local sweep. Six weeks later, the chimney he'd cleaned so well stopped working, because it was clogged-up.

Since then, I've cleaned my own chimney, saving £45 a time.

The certificates given by chimney sweeps are for your home insurance, some of which seem to demand its done twice a year by a professional. Apparently not having this documentation could invalidate your insurance - I could be very wrong on that one, but this is what i've always been led to believe.

Davesnave

Stripeybat wrote: »

The certificates given by chimney sweeps are for your home insurance, some of which seem to demand its done twice a year by a professional. Apparently not having this documentation could invalidate your insurance - I could be very wrong on that one, but this is what i've always been led to believe.

If I had a cob and thatch property like some of my friends, I believe it could well be a condition of insurance, but for my more modern box.....no.

And as I've proved to my own satisfaction, it doesn't seem to matter too much who sticks the rods up a bungalow's 6m flue.