Illegal heating engineer

[CMairiD]

For me, the pertinent question is why didn't you ask for the Gas Safe card before work commenced? Asking for it afterwards is a bit like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. And if there were no installation faults, would you have asked for the card at all?

By all means report them, but next time: no card, no work.

 

[shorticus]

no need for xenophobia, lets not forget we went to war for our Polish brothers lol )

 

[metaldust9]

shorticus if you had been through the questions av ad to do this week and the tests it makes me wonder why gas safe arnt more stringent and heavier with fines for illiegal work ive earned half what i should this yr just to get thro it and yet someone can do it no questions asked no comebacks etc

ps only got by cos the wife done her bit

 

[shorticus]

shorticus if you had been through the questions av ad to do this week and the tests it makes me wonder why gas safe arnt more stringent and heavier with fines for illiegal work ive earned half what i should this yr just to get thro it and yet someone can do it no questions asked no comebacks etc

ps only got by cos the wife done her bit

I agree that the penalties fall far short of what they should be. If you go back to the begining of this thread you'll see that I was trying to encourage the reporting of these people. I've just returned to gas work after some absense and have had to go through the re-training and assesments and am still on 'probation' (lovely term, not!) with gas safe. This is regardless of the fact that I was CORGI registered for many years including way back when it was the 'Confederation' for the Registration of Gas Installers i.e. when it was voluntary not compulsary. I have always been an advocat of safe gas work and I loathe those that break the rules and risk peoples lives. I'm having a tough time too but we joined the eu for better or worse and I can't agree with having a pop at someone for their nationality, if they're unsafe and breaking the law sure, but not just 'cause they're from another country.

 

[quality]

I have been on a training course this week at a local center and it was easy for me to get there apart from the last 1/2 mile or so cause we had to walk down the industrial estate due to the obvious.

there was supposed to be 8 candidates but ended with just 2 and that was me and a Polish kid the other 6 were English and did not bother for one reason or another.

I think I traveled 5 miles in total but the other Polish lad had drove 30 odd mile and found the place with his sat nav in his hand and had walked much further in the snow than I had.

I have never been racist and have no reason to be but its this sort of effort which a lot of employed British folk are lacking

 

[metaldust9]

yep defo agree with ye ,hard to report people tho unless its something really silly and dangerous when ive been working with my m8 we,ve tended to just fix it altho woundnt let dangerous stuff go in my own rite i just double check everything and what am not sure of id ask gas safe or read my corgi book ,you see and here them talking in the plumbing shops

 

[metaldust9]

i agree its not about being polish its about being safe its just the person who first wrote the thread said they were polish who fitted it so why go foreign when there not much work here

 

[quality]

One lad who works for me is jokingly called "polystyrene" because his dad is polish and his mum a Pakistani.
He is British born and bread gets paid well and works hard
bonus is he don`t eat pork so one less bacon roll each morning

 

[metaldust9]

like i said in an earleir post ave spent £8000 this yr whiich is all my savings and credit cards to get by and get regestered am on the last leg and hopefully i,ll get sorted av had to be told to go away politley by engineers who dont want to help cos they think your taking business off them ive been lucky i cos i bumped in to a great gsr bloke who for the last yr has helped me i owe him a lot i dont wana risk my business that ive built up over the last 3 yrs by being ilegal only takes one person to be unhappy and ye knackered its been a struggle but fingers crossed

 

[Centralheatking]

hrp - heating replacement parts dont sell any gas gear to anybody without a gas card - shame
more arnt like it - mind you it stops me buying the boys gear cause i only manage the business now.

centralheatking