Gas boiler completion certificate

Wwillow123

Hi all
I’m in the process of dealing with solicitor forms after selling my property and having an offer accepted on another. I had a new boiler fitted in 2014 so need to provide a completion certificate. I’ve looked through my paper work for the installation and can only find the gas boiler commissioning checklist. I registered the boiler online but don’t remember anything coming through from that. I’ve emailed the installer to see if he can help but just wanted to know if the checklist is enough or do I have to come up with the completion certificate?

Many thanks for any help

Smodlet

Hi. I'm fairly sure BG did ours as part of the installation and registered it with the local council so I would think they would be the place to start. You may be able to do that online as I think most councils have websites these days.

P.S. Welcome.

Wwillow123

I’ve checked on the gas safe register and it seems it was not notified so it says to contact my installer and get him to do that. I’ve emailed him again. I hope this isn’t going to be difficult, selling and buying is stressful enough

Smodlet

Do you still have the contract or was it all done by word of mouth? It is not the installer's responsibility to register combi boilers (no idea about other kinds) It is just something BG and, I think, any worthwhile installer does.

Wwillow123

I’m just going by what I searched online, I’m hoping my installer will be able to sort this out. I don’t have a contract, just the installlation pack with commissioning checklist filled in which is a legal requirement for it to be valid. I’m not really sure what you mean Smodlet, it wasn’t registered with my local council.

G_M

A boiler has to conform to Building Regulations and be certified by the council.

A gasSafe registered engineer would be an 'Approved Person' (I forget the exact term) authorised by the council to do this on their behalf. He should then notify the council so they keep a record hat it's been certified.

If it was not done, there are 3 options

1) try to get it done retrospectively.
2) offer your buyer an 'indemnity insurance policy' that would pay out if the council ever forced the buyer to remove/replace the boiler if it did not conform
3) offer the buyer copies of maintenance service records. I assume it has been serviced since installation (usually a condition of any warranty)? If so, that actually provides the buyer with much better evidence of the boiler's current condition

bigstevex

You should have received an A4 gas safe certificate, check here



https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/notifications/search-for-a-notification/

Smodlet

Combi boilers, as I understand it, have to be registered with the local council because the water they discharge is slightly acidic. Why this is the council's business rather than the water authority's is beyond me; I do not claim to understand it, I know only that it is so. Whether other, older, traditional types of boiler also have this requirement, I know not as no-one wants to sell you anything other than a combi these days. I think that is because they do not last five minutes so are the most lucrative kind to install.