Gas cooker disconnected - will buyer accept the certificate?

20122013

I would like to check this certificate will suffice:

I have sold my property as  the buyer does not want the gas cooker, so I had it disconnected and capped by a gas safe engineer. As no testing was carried out on the cooker before disconnecting etc. almost everything on the gas certificate states N/A. It only says the gas cooker had been disconnected and capped. Will this be acceptable to the buyer's solicitors? 

grumpy_codger

I bought my house with gas pipe capped and electric cooker installed. There was no any certificate for this. 

And why do you think that something may need testing on a disconnected cooker?

MysteryMe

You have a Gas Safe certificate that confirms a qualified person has disconnected the supply and capped the pipe.  That's all they need. 

20122013

grumpy_codger said:

I bought my house with gas pipe capped and electric cooker installed. There was no any certificate for this. 

And why do you think that something may need testing on a disconnected cooker?

Because the engineer knew I needed a certificate and still disconnected the gas cooker. He then said that the cooker s/n cannot be seen so no certificate. He then said there will be an additional cost for the certificate and commented that he has not tested the gas etc.   I want to check with the Forum so if I need to do anything else. 

MysteryMe

The state of the gas cooker is irrelevant because the buyer wont be using it, it will be gone before they move in presumably? A scrappy will gladly take it for free, see your local facebook page, What the buyer wants to know is that the gas supply has been properly disconnected and you have a bit of paper to confirm that.