DIY Gas Fitting

[Dan]

DIY Gas fitting is not recommending. This includes the installation of Gas appliances such as cookers and fires etc.

Always use a gas safe registered plumber for all your Gas plumbing requirements.

[stuart010378]

DIY Gas fitting is also Illegal, and unless you are CORGI regestered you would even be able to buy the parts.

[fuzzy]

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

[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?

[fuzzy]

The regs state that to do any work on gas you must be competent to do so.

work on your own home is illeagal unless you are competent
work in someone elses for no gain - competent but not corgi
work for gain - corgi

competent =ACS qual

[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

[dennis.bailey]

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

this isnt strictly true, you would actually be reported to CORGI.. the only reason i personally would report back to the HSE (RIDDOR is the form you fill out) is if the work, be it by someone who was qualified or not is deemed unsafe, and as such is a danger to people. i.e someone who is completly uncompetent.

I have actually heard of people working illegally being caught by CORGI and just been given the chance to change there ways and join up to CORGI...

[wj12]

Originally Posted by dennis.bailey

this isnt strictly true, you would actually be reported to CORGI.. the only reason i personally would report back to the HSE (RIDDOR is the form you fill out) is if the work, be it by someone who was qualified or not is deemed unsafe, and as such is a danger to people. i.e someone who is completly uncompetent.

I have actually heard of people working illegally being caught by CORGI and just been given the chance to change there ways and join up to CORGI...

If you moved a gas pipe in your own house and you did that job by the book you can not be prosecuted by the HSE because the installation would not be dangerous. The law says you have to be competent and I do not recall anybody being prosecuted for doing a job in their own home only in incidents where there has being gas leaks ect. DIY work is a grey area
DIY gas work?
Also how can you prove when a particular job was completed or who completed it.
Corgi are more interested in catching people who do gas work for payment and are not registered corgi installers. The problem with corgi is that the cost to installers to qualify and keep qualified encourages the public to employ cowboys who do the job cheaper, and as long as nothing goes wrong they will get away with it.

[fuzzy]

you can be prosecuted by HSE through the gas regs as opposed to the RIDDOR regs.
the gas regs say you must be competent to work for no money ie. your own home, i agree, if the job is done well youd be unlucky to be prosecuted as you can claim you are competent and they are unlikely to chance it going to court. if the job was dodgy but a dangrous occurance hasnt happened you could still be prosectued under gas regs, say, no ventilation, no sleeve, incorrect fle termination, speed fit joints etc etc

[365drills]

I agree with all the above but was told that for DIY the term competent was the legal term.

And apparently it is really hard to define competent in court because it means different things to different people.

I guess the bottom line would be that if a DIY person moved a gas pipe and as a direct result of the work the house blew up at a later date and people died, then that person would have a difficult task proving he or she were competent.

However if the same person did the work and there was no incident and the work was neat and tidy and met all requirements then it would be difficult for a court to prove the person was incompetent.

However I would still advise using Corgi qualified people to do the work because gas is so dangerous.