Discuss Must you be Gas Safe Registered to do Gas installation? Read HSE's response. in the Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board area at PlumbersForums.net
First observations of the scene, Consideration, Look at the flue terminal on the chimney and where it is located. This indicates that it had now or at some point a back boiler and fire in the lounge. Look at the main damage. It appears to be first floor which has blown out. So what gas would be upstairs? Gas fire may be, But doubt it. Gas pipes under floor been tagged may be. So first impression is it may not be gas work, Let the investigators come to an educated conclusion.
I suggest open the gates for every qualified person to have their own GSR / RGII registration if they wish to comply with the rules of registration, at least that makes them and their installations legal and subject to all of the rules and responsibilities a registered party must follow...
I am off on a tangent - I just wrote a blog that might interest you.
Is DIY gas work against the law? Or is it ok in my own home? | Mrs Tara Plumbing
I have been writing the blog for years it is read by "normal" people - lol - not construction industry guys.
I intended to write this for a long time and I was waiting for the ACOP to come out as I did hope it would make the situation clearer.
Resa - doesn't like the ACOP - we all know that!
But it is so so so much better than all the older versions of the same document - they never defined competency.
I hear of loads and loads of gas work done by people who are NOT gas engineers and NOT plumbers at all. The ones I hear about are done by guys who are in other construction trades.
This is also correct, it certainly isn't limited to just builders.Perhaps my impression is not representative of the whole picture.
Education won't work when the cost of living has gone up 10-fold. More and more DIYers are having a go at mending their boilers. This is a fact.I think some people (DIY at home ) don't realise what they are doing is wrong - so better education - labels on products, Adverts etc could help.
But the general builders should know better - so they are deliberately breaking the law.
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