DIY Gas Fitting

[mcmoby69]

if you are moving a gas pipe you need to be competent to
a. solder it or know when and where a compression fitting can be used
b carry out a letby and tightness test

to fit a boiler you need both of the above+
pipesizing+gas rating+flue analasis(FGA)

for a gas fire you also need flue flow test experience etc etc
so just because people can solder a joint does not make them competent.

[HTB]

Just out of curiosity, could sosmeone tell me the name or title of the legal document/act of parliament/statutory instrument/building reg or whatever it is that specifies and lays down the law in this area.

Been a "wet" plumber for 4 years now and I am thinking of doing my gas ticket, (I've been assessed by and registered with Corgi under Part G for what it's worth), and I am now considering doing the fast track course early next year. I suppose reading up on the source of the regs wouldn/t be a bad place to start.

[Mike Jackson]

Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2451

[HTB]

Thanks Mike.

[copperspropper]

Originally Posted by buster

Hi, If you carry out any work on gas in your own home or anywhere else and you are not competent to do so you face being reported to RIDDOR by your gas supplier or a competent person you have working after you, and you will be prosecuted under U.K. laws

Buster

im all corgi gsf and the laws a fckuin joke the only way it will stop is any gas critical parts have to be bought through registered engineers we might as well use gas council numbers and bar codes do you agree

[grahamep]

Some of the horrors I have come across since I became an RGI suggests that sadly 'competence' can be more about a piece of paper than a standard of workmanship! Still at least if you have employed a registered operative you can be blown up in the happy knowledge that someone else's insurance will pay your funeral costs.

The most common to date seems to be the installed gas fire where the feed is not properly tightened and gas is escaping up the flue. No-one smells anything except the slightest whiff under adverse air movement conditions and the soundness test drops like a stone. (Presumably the installer overlooked this small detail.) In one property it came to light when the main was relaid in the street. After it was repaired their gas bill dropped by 1/3 (and they had full gas CH). Been like that a good few years. Good job they never employed a roofer. If the guy had sat on the stack for a smoke he could have had a short and bitter lesson in rocket propulsion technology.

About six years ago I heard of a gas examiner who would get you through any assessment if you crossed his palm. I trust there are none out there now, but you can never be sure can you? Power corrupts!

[HTB]

and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[jobsrus]

Originally Posted by fuzzy

you dont have to be corgi registerted to buy parts????

you do at reputable trade outlets, i.e.Plumb center, but yes boilers and any fittings can be purchased at most big retail D I Y stores

Originally Posted by fizzput

Thought you could do something your appliance in your own home but doing anything to appliances in any other property was classed as 'work' paid or not and thatis what you need corgi reg for?

thats partly true but if your house blows up and takes next doors you would be looking at a posible jail sentance if they proved you had not done it to corgi standards

[feltham]

right so tell me how i stand. i have just done the gas core and boiler corse and passed both but my registration is to where i work but i want to install a new heating system in my house would i be compentent to do so or am i ment to still get a corgi (gas safe) plumber in to install the boiler?

[danielp]

well being passed your competent just ask the company if you can use there number really they should trust you ? !!