Installing a gas cooker.

gardner1

tacpot12 wrote: »

Just make sure your dad tests the appliance and its connection for leaks after fitting.

Is that the test with a lighter;)
In all seriousness any competent person can reatach a gas cooker bayonet hose

bris

No, your dad can't fit it (hose to cooker), when they say competent person they mean competent by gas safe registration.


If the bayonet hose is already attached and it's just being relocated from one place to another bayonet fitting then yes you can plug it in yourself.


If the hose isn't fitted then you need a gas engineer. Once fitted the cooker will then need to be re commissioned, this includes tightness testing and gas rating, not anyone can do that.


If your dad fits it and it turns out to be faulty, hes in big trouble, but he will already know that.

EssexExile

bris wrote: »

Once fitted the cooker will then need to be re commissioned, this includes tightness testing and gas rating, not anyone can do that.

One would assume dad, being a retired gas engineer, would know how to do that.

shaun_from_Africa

bris wrote: »

No, your dad can't fit it (hose to cooker), when they say competent person they mean competent by gas safe registration.

No they don't.
If they meant competent by being Gas Safe registered then they would have stated this.
The regulations (The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998) clearly state that you only have to be registered when carrying out the work as part of your employment or at any place of work.

Qualification and supervision

3.!!!8212;(1) No person shall carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or gas storage vessel unless he is competent to do so.
(2) The employer of any person carrying out such work for that employer, every other employer and self-employed person who has control to any extent of such work and every employer and self-employed person who has required such work to be carried out at any place of work under his control shall ensure that paragraph (1) above is complied with in relation to such work.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) and (2) above and subject to paragraph (4) below, no employer shall allow any of his employees to carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or service pipework and no self-employed person shall carry out any such work, unless the employer or self-employed person, as the case may be, is a member of a class of persons approved for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of this paragraph.

This is further confirmed by the UK Health and safety executive (The body that is responsible for enforcing this.)

http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/disdocs/dde14b.pdf
Although this link is a dated from 2000, the same legislation shown above was in force then and is in force today.

While current law does not prohibit DIY gas work provided that the person is competent to do it safely, DIY is strongly discouraged in HSE guidance and the use of a CORGI registered gas installer is advised for all gas work.

And an up to date one here:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic/faqownerocc.htm

Anyone employed to work on gas appliances in domestic premises must be a Gas Safe registered engineer and competent in that area of gas work.