Crap day

Steve wibbled forthrightly:

I think the thing is, not all people are compentent. Having a rule like
this stops people from blowing themelves up.

 

Why do you want to become a registered gas installer?

Or gassafe as its now known

It's illegal to work on a gas appliance for financial gain without being
gassafe registered

working on your own appliance you only have to be competent

I replaced my cooker last weekend, took me 15 minutes including finding
the tools

If you do it yourself, make sure you use gas PTFE tape (the yellow reel
not the white one) when you connect the flexible hose to the cooker

you should use the proper bubbly liquid to test for leaks although a lot
of people use a bit of diluted washing up liquid

 

Break a speed limit - OK. Blow up a block of flats because you didn't
connect a gas pipe properly- definitely not OK.

 

£40 - £75. Possibly more if they have no morals and think they can get
away with it.
Firstly, is it connect a new bayonet fitting to the cooker, or simply
unplug/refit?

Then there are fixed appliances that need a copper pipe conection rather
than the flexible pipe.

Either way, the gas man will (or should) do a gas leak test before and
after installation. He is then responsible for all of the gas pipes in
your house, so they make sure they are covered by charging £75 for half
an hours work.
They also have to check to see if there is adequate ventilation in the
room, and the cooker is not in a place that is contrary to building regs
(the cooker/hob should not be directly in front of the only window etc),
as well as checking the earthing of the gas pipes.

Of course, it is pretty easy to do it yourself, I always do mine, but I
woudl never do anyone elses gas appliances as there is a lot that could
go wrong.

Alan.

 

Does this include plumbing in an entire new 'circuit' so to speak? Not
that I have any intention of doing so, BTW.

 

Whilst I don't disagree, good luck with that one.

You haven't met many roofers then.

 

On 27/04/2010 07:09, The Older Gentleman wrote:

Agreed.

 

There's nothing to stop you doing anything you like in your own home.
However, if you choose to bring in Building Control for one aspect of a
build they may go over the rest of the place too at which point all bets
are off. This can include any previous work unaffected by the scope of
the approval.

As I learnt the hard way when rebuilding our new place, it's the luck of
the draw on the inspector you get and the Local Authority in general.

"Legally" you'd also need to declare major work of this type if you sell up.

What a lot of people do is plumb the whole thing themselves then get a
registered fitter to connect to mains and sign off.

 

Jesus, so long as it's the right colour (and by colour I mean magnolia)
who gives a ****?

 

£50. Then he'll take a look at your gas supply pipework, tell you it's
undersized and quote £500 to replace it.

 

NO.
The Corgi/GasSafe bullshitters would have you believe they are the only
ones to do it. The law says - a competent person may install their own
cooker, boiler, gas piping, etc. To get it inspected and approved to get
connected up by the gas company will take a Corgi/GS bloke.
A simple cooker connection is well within the realms of competence of
anyone with half a clue.

 

On 26/04/2010 22:02, Andy Bonwick wrote:
snip

Most people on here have a certificate from the Sheriff Court for
exceeding the statutory speed limit on a public road. Can't get more
qualified than that ;-)

 

Heheheh.

 

If you can find one

Many CH fitters (for they are not normally plumbers) are not very happy
signing off someone else's work, they are, in effect taking on
responsibility for it

 

ogden took a blunt brush and painted...

So you would be happy with a wall that had the texture of tarmac / really
obviously badly filled in holes that hadn't been sanded down?

So long as it was magnolia?