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Causing Death or serious injury is an offence, no matter what the method used.
HSE will not investigate anyone working on their own boiler in their own house not unless they set fire to the place.
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Causing Death or serious injury is an offence, no matter what the method used.
All well and good , but it wont stop Mr average looking up how to fix his boiler or whatever they want to mess around with, the information is out there, the necessary parts are sold to whoever has the cash no questions asked, Its all well and good quoting this rule and that but most people don't know or care ! We all know quite a few people that do gas repairs, install there own boilers/fires or whatever and has long has they can buy what they want it will never be stopped, go into any DIY outlet, Plumbers, merchants, internet sites, gas products are available to everyone, no one askes what experience or qualifications do you have , just give me your money ! and to repeat it will never be stopped, because they say it would be restrictive practice,
It is written in the Gas Safety (installation and use) Regulations 1998.
Part 1, section 3(1) - No person shall carry out work in relation to a gas fitting unless they are competent to do so. In England only a gas safe registered engineer is deemed as competent.
So to take off a boiler case you would be breaching these regulations as most boiler casings have a gas tight seal on them and upon replacement it has to checked to make sure it is back on correctly with no leakage. Hope this clears it up for you.
All well and good ! what % of the general public have a copy of the gas regs, have read them or even give a toss, whenever money is involved common sense goes out the window, if they can fiddle with it they will have a go , how meny members of the public have been prosecuted for messing with there own gas appliances ??
Totally agree mate, But the question was "can someone show me where it is written in law that it is illegal for a homeowner to remove the case of their own boiler unless they are gsr?" so I have tried to show where it is written. As long as any gas related product is easily available to any Tom, Dick or harry then we will never stop the Home owner or anyone else from DIYing.
The fact is the HSE have no power to go onto private land so if a homeowner decides to be an idiot and tamper with an appliance their is nothing the HSE can do. The minute a contractor becomes involved completely different matter.
As Joe says we basically pay to prosecute ourselves, the majority around here don't care a toss if your GSR if they can save 100 quid by getting a plumber they will do exactly that. I have phoned gas safe about illegal installers and all they said if the customer complains then we will take action . However who will complain if they are saving money??
I had a job last year where the house had a large gas leak under the floor however it was all laminate flooring , i said i need to disconnect meter she moaned like hell about it but agreed.
Got a call couple weeks later can i run a new main , turned up she had reconnected everything!!! More concerned about here shower in the morning than blowing the neighbourhood up.
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